(Associated Press) As parents nationwide prepare to help their children with more distance learning, a small but quickly growing number are deciding to take matters entirely into their own hands and begin homeschooling.
Some are worried their districts are unable to offer a strong virtual learning program. For others who may...
(Associated Press) An Oregon city has joined Boise, Idaho, in eliciting a precedent-setting court ruling that could change how cities nationwide cite and fine people living outside.
A U.S. judge decided last week that Grants Pass, Oregon, violated its homeless residents’ Eighth Amendment rights by excluding them from parks without due...
(Associated Press) Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota survived a stiff Democratic primary challenge Tuesday from a well-funded opponent who tried to make an issue of her national celebrity, the latest in a string of victories by a new generation of emboldened progressive lawmakers.
Omar, seeking her second term in November, easily...
(Associated Press) Efforts to cut spending on police — a key demand of anti-racism demonstrators across the nation — have claimed an unlikely target: Seattle's first black police chief, who enjoyed deep support in its minority communities, is stepping down in protest.
Carmen Best announced her retirement Monday night, just hours...
(Headline USA) People who have been arrested since late May on non-violent misdemeanor charges during protests that have racked Oregon’s largest city for more than 70 days won't be prosecuted.
The new policy announced Tuesday dismisses the often violent protests in Portland as well as recognizing the more practical realities of...
(Headline USA) Conservative legal watchdog Judicial Watch is suing a Maryland police department for copies of any body camera videos of a fatal shooting of a man whose family says he was asleep in his bedroom when police opened fire.
The group filed its lawsuit against the Montgomery County Police...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump says he’s “a little surprised” that his presumptive Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, has selected Kamala Harris as his running mate.
Trump told reporters at a White House briefing that Harris “was very disrespectful to Joe Biden” during the Democratic primaries, and said “it’s hard to...
Preliminary reports from Politico on Tuesday signaled that Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., would be presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden's choice for a vice-presidential running mate.
Politico appeared to have the inside track on the nomination. Last week it had posted---apparently by accident---a list of the prospective running mates that identified...
Black Lives Matter activists defended the rioting and looting that took place in downtown Chicago over the weekend, arguing that the destruction is tantamount to “reparations.”
“I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,”...
Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx has been reportedly refusing to prosecute “minor” crimes connected to the ongoing protests and violent riots racking Chicago.
But the George Soros-backed prosecutor defended her office’s actions on Tuesday, arguing that her prosecutorial team “is not in the arresting business.”
Several Chicago officials have blamed...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court in Washington appeared inclined Tuesday to let a judge decide on his own whether to grant the Justice Department's request to dismiss the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Bill Clinton appointee, entered...
President Trump said he doesn’t want the upcoming NFL season to take place if players plan on kneeling for the national anthem.
"Well, they want to open, and they want to open badly, and they've been working with government," Trump told Fox Sports Radio on Tuesday. “And I would say...