Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed to oppose local school board candidates, including Republicans, who support the teaching of critical race theory in the state’s public schools.
“We’re not going to support any Republican candidate for school board who supports critical race theory in all 67 counties or who supports mandatory...
The U.S. along with other G7 nations have agreed to set up a global minimum on corporate taxes of 15% in order to stop corporations from getting a tax break by off-shoring corporate facilities, says an announcement following U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit to London for face-to-face talks...
UPDATE 10:15 AM 6/7/21 VIA AP: The Supreme Court on Monday said it won't take up a case that asked it to decide whether it's sex discrimination for the government to require only men to register for the draft when they turn 18.
In a statement, three justices said Congress is...
(Tim Gruver, The Center Square) Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is being sued by the Seattle Times for allegedly mishandling public records concerning the city's handling of last summer's protests against police brutality.
The lawsuit was filed in King County Superior Court on Thursday and concerns text messages sent from Durkan's city-issued iPhone between...
(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) California’s workplace safety department says workers must wear masks unless all employees are confirmed to have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board approved revised guidelines Thursday night, stressing it is likely to revisit them as the state’s anticipated June 15...
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., wrote in an op-ed on Sunday that he will oppose his own party's efforts to permanently infuse fraud into America's elections, The Epoch Times reported.
"I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will...
(Headline USA) U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, who recently won a leadership post in the House Republican caucus, announced on Twitter that she is expecting her first child.
The fourth-term Congress member from upstate New York tweeted Saturday, "We are absolutely overjoyed to announce that our small family of 2 will...
(Headline USA) El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced in a recorded message played at a Bitcoin conference in Miami that next week he will send proposed legislation to the country's congress that would make the cryptocurrency legal tender in the Central American nation.
The 39-year-old president, who has maintained approval...
(Associated Press) Donald Trump on Saturday pushed Republicans to support candidates who are loyal to him in next year's midterm elections as the former president launched a new more active phase of his post presidency.
Trump, 74, teased the prospect of another presidential bid of his own in 2024, but...
(Associated Press) Protesters faced off with officers in Minneapolis early Saturday over the shooting death of a Black man by members of a U.S. Marshals task force.
Photos from the scene following a vigil for Winston Boogie Smith Jr., 32, showed dumpster fires in the street and a line of...
(Headline USA) Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp drew jeers and boos at his state party’s annual convention Saturday, laying bare the bitterness that remains among Republicans over his role in certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential race without sufficiently addressing voluminous evidence of vote fraud in the 2020 election.
Kemp’s...
(Headline USA) A federal judge Friday overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on so-called "assault weapons," ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled that the state’s definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawfully deprives law-abiding Californians of weapons commonly allowed in most...