(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...
(Headline USA) Standing alone in center field of an empty Dodger Stadium, California Gov. Gavin Newsom cast himself as a bold if imperfect leader and his state as on the cusp of a new day.
Officially, it was the annual State of the State address, but the Tuesday night speech...
(Headline USA) A Congress riven along party lines approved a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 "relief bill" Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a triumph on a bill that marshals the government’s money-printing might against twin pandemic and economic crises that have upended a nation.
The House gave final congressional approval...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is currently staring down impeachment prospects for covering up an alleged nursing-home scandal, may not be the only one in hot water.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was one of four other Democrat governors who followed the same practice of forcing healthy nursing-home residents to...
(Headline USA) The Senate has confirmed Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general with a bipartisan vote, placing the veteran judge in the post as President Joe Biden's choice to lead the Justice Department.
The vote was 70-30.
Democrats have praised Garland, a federal appeals court judge who was snubbed...
The number of mail-in ballots returned as "undeliverable" in the Las Vegas area was nearly three times the margin of victory that President Joe Biden allegedly won the state of Nevada by, according to an election-integrity watchdog.
In a newly released research brief, the Public Interest Legal Foundation revealed that...