The Delta coronavirus variant, which is highly transmissible and possibly more dangerous than current predominant variants, now makes up more than 20% of ...
June 22 (Reuters) - The Delta variant of the novel coronavirus that was first found in India is the greatest threat to the United States' effort to eradicate COVID-19 ...
The hashtag "#AbbottHatesDogs" is trending on Twitter after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) vetoed a measure on Friday that would have expanded animal cruelty ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) vetoed 20 bills passed by the GOP-controlled state Legislature, most of them announced Monday, The Texas Tribune reports. Abbott ...
Abbott's office did not specify what legislative priorities will be included on the special session agenda and said in an advisory that such items “will be ...
Senate Republicans on Tuesday were poised to block Democrats' landmark legislation on voting rights later in the day, but West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin ...
Keith Boykin writes that Stacey Abrams is open to considering Joe Manchin's provisions to the For the People Act for good reason. She is savvy political thinker ...
If and when Republicans refuse to allow any debate of the Democrats' voting rights legislation on Tuesday, there will be a hidden silver lining: It will finally force ...
New York prosecutors involved in a sweeping probe of the Trump Organization are investigating Matthew Calamari, the former Donald Trump bodyguard who's ...
The Trump Organization's chief financial officer is staring down a decision: whether to cooperate with prosecutors against former President Donald Trump and ...
Former President Donald Trump's company sued New York City Monday for allegedly wrongfully terminating contracts the Trump Organization had to operate ...
The Trump Organization sued New York City on Monday, saying the city had wrongly terminated a lucrative golf course contract for political reasons after the Jan ...
New York prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump's business have advised Trump's former bodyguard and current chief operating officer, ...
A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally demonstrating inside the US Capitol on January 6, becoming the fifth rioter to admit their guilt in the ...
A Bloomfield woman will plead guilty this week for her role in the U.S. Capitol riot after appealing to the court that she has learned from her participation from ...
A trio of lawmakers from Texas called on President Biden and Vice President Harris to travel to the Lone Star State and visit the southern border amid the ...
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday wore a new hat in the Biden administration – publicizing the expanded Child Tax Credit – while she has taken criticism ...
Vice President Kamala Harris made it clear Monday to a receptive audience on her first visit to Western Pennsylvania: there's a new sheriff in town as she touted ...
Thank you for the June 15 article about Vice President Kamala Harris' stop at the Greenville-Spartanburg airport. The article was informative on more than one ...
Thirteen Democrats and two Republicans engaged in a last effort to rally supporters Tuesday as voters cast their ballots in New York City's mayoral primary, the ...
Last week I wrote about why I thought Eric Adams is very marginally preferable to Andrew Yang in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary. Yang is likable ...
For a while, it looked like NYC was going to talk meaningfully about recovery after Covid — but then fearmongering about crime became the name of the game.
About 36 million American families on July 15 will start receiving monthly checks from the IRS, as part of the expanded Child Tax Credit. Eligible families will ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister Kim Yo Jong on Tuesday dismissed prospects for a breakthrough on nuclear talks with the US -- predicting ...
The latest shooting took place three months after a gunman killed 10 people, including a police officer, at a grocery store about 20 miles away in Boulder.
Three people, including a Colorado police officer, “Samaritan” and a suspect, were killed Monday in a shooting in a shopping district just outside of Denver, ...
DENVER (KDVR) — 2021 has already tied the record as the deadliest year for Colorado law enforcement. One more on-duty Colorado police officer killing will ...
A New Jersey school board has reversed plans to remove all holiday names from their school calendar after parents expressed outrage at an emergency ...
After a firestorm of controversy erupted when the names of holidays were removed from the calendar the Board of Education reversed their decision and ...
A New Jersey school board has voted to overturn a decision that took all holiday names off the district calendar, following conflict over an earlier decision to refer ...
A panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" could not contain their surprise following the results of a 2024 straw poll of conservative voters that put Republican Florida ...
DeSantis vowed to send law enforcement to help with border crisis. He's cracked down on Facebook, Twitter after they banned Trump. He's made it harder to ...
It's widely assumed that the 2024 Republican presidential nomination is Donald Trump's if he wants it. That may be, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's rapid rise ...
Ronnie Oneal III, who went viral for his fiery opening statements in a Florida courtroom while acting as his own defense attorney, has been found guilty of the ...
The Biden administration is reportedly considering extending the federal moratorium on evictions to allow more time for allocating emergency housing funds.
The Biden administration is said to be considering a one-month extension of the CDC's national eviction moratorium, according to a report in the New York ...
DETROIT – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer held a briefing Tuesday to officially lift the state's COVID restrictions and fully reopen for the first time in about 15 ...
Michigan's most notable COVID-19 restrictions are gone, but they're not all gone yet. The mask mandate for unvaccinated people as well as the 50% indoor ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — American authorities took down a range of Iran's state-linked news websites under unclear circumstances on Tuesday, the U.S. ...
The United States government has seized dozens of US website domains connected to Iran, linked to what the US says are disinformation efforts, a US national ...
Notices appeared on a number of Iran-affiliated websites saying they had been seized by the United States government as part of law enforcement action.
United States law enforcement seized control of the websites of two Iranian state-controlled news groups, Press TV and Al-Alam, and the Al-Masirah TV channel, ...
DUBAI, June 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday blocked some three dozen websites, many of them associated with Iranian disinformation ...
As Afghan President Ashraf Ghani prepares to visit the White House this week, Pentagon leaders are emphasizing that plans to withdraw U.S. military forces ...
The U.S. military mission in Afghanistan is coming to an end with one critical bit of urgent business to take care of: the thousands of Afghan citizens who aided ...
Longtime MLB player Ben Zobrist accused his pastor of carrying on an extramarital affair with his wife and dipping into his charity, the former Chicago Cubs star ...
Ezra Shaw/GettyOnetime Chicago Cubs baseball star Ben Zobrist is seeking millions in damages after accusing his former minister of having an affair with his ...
Former Chicago Cubs star Ben Zobrist filed a lawsuit last month accusing his former pastor of having an affair with his wife and defrauding his charity.
Ben Zobrist, who won the World Series in 2015 and 2016, filed a lawsuit against his pastor, claiming he had an affair with his wife, singer Julianna Zobrist, while ...
ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL)- According to documents from the Hawkins County Sheriff's Office, the father of missing five-year-old Summer Utah-Moon Wells ...
The mother of missing five-year-old. Summer Wells, filed for a protective order against her husband last year, stating in court documents that she was "afraid for ...
Officials with the Hawkins County Sherriff's Office said the father of missing 5-year-old Summer Wells was arrested in 2020 on domestic assault charges.
We are learning more details about the father of missing Hawkins County five-year-old Summer Wells. According to the Hawkins County Sheriff's Office, Donald ...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Always make sure to have multiple ways to receive life saving weather information. Tornadoes touched down in the Chicago suburbs late ...
Columnist Jerry Davich writes about severe storms that produced a tornado in the Chicago area. The most worrisome aspect of severe storms and tornado ...
The father of a Black man who was killed by a Virginia Beach police officer has filed a federal lawsuit, saying that his son was innocent and posed no threat ...
The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a federal judge's controversial ruling that overturned California's longtime ban on assault weapons, in which he ...
A federal appeals court on Monday blocked a judge's ruling that overturned California's 30-year assault weapons ban.Driving the news: U.S. District Judge ...
A controversial ruling overturning California's assault weapons ban has now been blocked. The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday issued a stay of the ...
Don Lemon has said America is racist but Fox News host Tucker Carlson pointed out that the CNN personality lives in "one of the whitest towns in America" and ...
Tucker Carlson might be a media insider, according to Ben Smith's latest New York Times column. Here's what to know about the Fox News host and the media ...
In the prologue of his 2020 book, “Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth,” CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter writes ...
The Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor has made his first public statement on the deadly shooting of two members of a prominent family with historic ties to the solicitor's ...
GOP Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) on Tuesday vocalized opposition to making Washington, D.C. the 51st state in the union, arguing that the nation's capital has ...
A U.S. Senate committee hearing will be held Tuesday on legislation that would make D.C. the 51st state, a rare event that statehood supporters hope will keep ...
In April, a Wall Street Journal editorial described the issue of Washington, D.C., statehood as a “dilemma” and the current push to make it happen as an ...
The Senate, for only the second time in its long history, took up the issue of statehood for Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, with a hearing where arguments for and ...
A backpacker experiencing heat illness while hiking in the Grand Canyon died, the National Parks *Service* says. The temperature that day was approximately ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new suspect has been has identified in the June 12 mass shooting on Sixth Street in Austin that killed one man and injured 14 others.
AUSTIN, Texas — Authorities are dropping charges against the teenagers arrested in connection to Austin's deadly mass shooting on Sixth Street as the ...
Prosecutors are dropping charges against two teenagers who police said were involved in a fight that led to a Sixth Street mass shooting earlier this month, and ...
A Connecticut state senator announced her resignation Tuesday and attributed her decision to a lengthy, bitter divorce battle with her husband who's an ...
Connecticut state Sen. Alex Kasser of Greenwich is resigning. She is embroiled in a contentious divorce with a top Morgan Stanley executive, Seth Bergstein.
Alex Kasser Announces Resignation From State Senate - Greenwich, CT - Kasser announced on Tuesday that she is resigning from her State Senate seat to ...
A popular state senator from Fairfield County has abruptly resigned after citing struggles with an ongoing divorce.State Sen. Alex Kasser, a Democrat from ...
Sen. Alex Kasser, D-Greenwich, who publicly came out as a gay woman after taking office in 2019, announced her resignation from the state Senate in an ...
A Umatilla County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a chimpanzee Sunday after it attacked a 50-year-old woman in Pendleton, officials said. The woman, who ...
Right-wing radio talker Michael Savage declared the obscure academic theory is akin to the Holocaust, prompting a supportive response from a Newsmax TV ...
Those who study the discipline say attacks on it are targeting any teachings that challenge and complicate dominant narratives about the country's history and ...
From the recent establishment of Juneteenth as a federal holiday to the backlash against critical race theory, many educators are now uncertain how to teach ...
The idea that, absent a critical-race-theory lens, most students would be taught American history through the prism of “Gone With the Wind” is preposterous.
