(Headline USA) The world must take decisive action to build resilience to the devastating effects of climate change, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told a global virtual summit Monday, pledging that Democrat Joe Biden's new regime would play its role.
In a video message to the Climate Adaptation Summit hosted...
(Headline USA) Democrat Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military.
The new order, which Biden signed in the Oval Office during a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, overturns a ban ordered by President Donald Trump...
(Headline USA) During the Trump administration's final weeks, the Department of Homeland Security quietly signed agreements with at least four states that threaten to temporarily derail Democrat Joe Biden's efforts to open America's borders.
The agreements say Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas are entitled to a 180-day consultation period before...
(Headline USA) The Senate on Monday approved President Joe Biden's nomination of Janet Yellen to be the nation's 78th Treasury Department secretary, making her the first woman to hold the job in the department's 232-year history.
Yellen, a former chair of the Federal Reserve, was approved by the Senate on...
(Headline USA) It was learned on Monday that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is not expected to preside at the impeachment trial of now-former President Donald Trump, potentially affecting the gravitas of the proceedings.
The shift is said to be in keeping with the U.S. Constitution, because Trump is no...
After state legislatures in swing states failed to ensure secure and constitutional elections in 2020, some Republican legislators are pushing for reform, Politico reported.
Arizona and Georgia --- with Republican governors and state legislatures --- have the best opportunity to outlaw mass mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, electronic voting, and other unconstitutional...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court on Monday brought an end to lawsuits over whether Donald Trump illegally profited off his presidency.
The justices threw out Trump’s challenge to lower court rulings that had allowed lawsuits to go forward alleging that he violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause by accepting payments from foreign...
(Headline USA) California lifted regional stay-at-home orders across the state Monday in response to allegedly improving coronavirus conditions, returning the state to a system of county-by-county restrictions, state health officials announced.
The order had been in place in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, covering the...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., confirmed he plans to play an active role in shaping the Biden administration’s agenda, and that he will use his powers as Senate Budget Committee chairman to push it through.
During an interview with CNN on Sunday, Sanders said he will not hesitate to use budget...
‘Squad’ Reps. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., joined by 35 other members of Congress, sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Friday demanding that he commute the sentences of everyone on federal death row.
“As members of Congress, we stand ready to work with you on your...
Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, on Monday for statements he made about the voting machine company while leading Trump’s post-election offensive against vote fraud.
The lawsuit alleges that Giuliani engaged in a “viral disinformation campaign” by accusing...
Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., and Greg Steube, R-Fla., denounced the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairwoman's "overtly partisan" demand that the FBI investigate Parler but not other social media platforms, according to a press release.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., made the request last week in a letter, citing as...