UPDATE 3/11/21 3:00 PM EDT: President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law the $1.9 trillion relief package that he said will help the U.S. defeat the coronavirus and nurse the economy back to health.
The signing came hours before Biden delivers his first prime-time address since taking office.
“This historic legislation...
(Headline USA) The Senate voted on Thursday to advance President Joe Biden’s nominee for health secretary as Democrats muscled past Republican opposition using a new procedure put in place to avoid gridlock in the evenly divided Senate.
The Senate Finance Committee split along party lines, 14-14, earlier this month on the...
The banjoist and lead guitarist for the popular group Mumford & Sons has apologized on Twitter after members of the band asked him to leave.
His crime? Endorsing a book by conservative journalist and author, Andy Ngo.
Winston Marshall of Mumford & Sons sparked outrage on Sunday when he tweeted in...
The maker of Dove soap and other beauty products said it plans to drop the word normal from its advertising in order to push a "more inclusive definition of beauty."
Translation: A global mega-corporation that has long used niche marketing to promote unrealistic standards of beauty tooted its own horn...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Whether one calls it a crisis or a challenge, the U.S.--Mexico border has become a man-made disaster hand-crafted by President Joe Biden.
Candidate Biden promised illegal aliens the red-carpet treatment, amnesty and citizenship. Message: Received.
The Customs and Border Protection’s encounters with single adults on the southern...
(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday granted prosecutors’ request to add a third-degree murder charge against a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death, a move that offers jurors an additional option for conviction and finally resolves an issue that might have delayed his trial for months.
Hennepin County...
(Headline USA) Emboldened by their majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats are making a new push to enact the first major new gun control laws in more than two decades -- starting with stricter background checks.
The House passed legislation on Thursday to require background checks on all firearms sales...
(Headline USA) The massive, pork-filled COVID-19 "relief bill" Democrat progressives in Congress approved Wednesday will dump more than $150 billion of printed money into California, Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration said Wednesday, including a $26 billion windfall for the state's already burgeoning budget surplus.
Nearly half of the money will go to Californians directly...
Apple has refused to allow free speech social media platform Parler to return to its App Store, accusing the company of hosting hateful content.
“After having reviewed the new information, we do not believe these changes are sufficient to comply with App Store Review guidelines” Apple wrote to Parler. “There...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court said Thursday it has called off upcoming arguments over a Trump administration plan to remake Medicaid by requiring recipients to work, agreeing to a request from the Biden administration.
The court had been scheduled to take up the issue on March 29.
But the Biden administration already...
(Associated Press) An aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he groped her in the governor’s residence, a newspaper reported Wednesday, in the most serious allegation made yet by a series of women against the embattled Democrat.
The Times Union of Albany reported that the woman, who it did not...
(Headline USA) Attorneys in the trial of Derek Chauvin---the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death---questioned potential jurors Wednesday about their attitudes toward police.
The selection process largely hinged on whether would-be jurors were more inclined to believe testimony from law enforcement or evidence from other witnesses to...