On Thursday, Gov. Tate Reeves signed “the Mississippi Fairness Act” into law, requiring the state’s schools to designate teams by sex assigned at birth and prohibiting transgender student athletes from participating in school sports in accordance with their gender identity. In a March 4 tweet, Reeves said the law would “protect young girls from being […]
Although March is gradually coming to a close and we’re inching closer to springtime, parts of the U.S. are still enduring severe winter weather. The National Weather Service issued various winter storm warnings over the weekend, ranging from a Blizzard Warning in Colorado to Severe Weather across parts of the Southern U.S. as a low […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will help shelter and transfer a record number of child migrants showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Homeland Security secretary said Saturday, While the administration of President Joe Biden has avoided calling the situation a national emergency as former President Donald Trump declared in 2019 , it acknowledged a […]
President Biden is under increasing pressure to share the U.S. vaccine stockpile with the rest of the world. The federal government has been amassing doses, growing its supply into what will likely become a surplus, as the rest of the world struggles with shortages. The U.S. has purchased enough vaccines to immunize every adult in […]
The Alabama Republican Party on Saturday will present former President Donald Trump with a framed copy of a resolution, passed unanimously by the party, that declares him “one of the greatest and most effective” presidents in U.S. history. “The resolution, basically, it just talks about the greatness of Donald J. Trump, how he made America […]
The Internal Revenue Service announced Friday that the third round of federal stimulus checks would go out “over the next week.” The IRS confirmed to Fox Business on Saturday that March 17 is the official payment date, though some banks have started processing the checks, so payments may show up earlier in some accounts and […]
An investigation into the official response to Daniel Prude’s police suffocation death last year in Rochester, New York, is faulting the city’s mayor and former police chief for keeping critical details of the case secret for months and lying to the public about what they knew. The report, commissioned by Rochester’s city council and made […]
A video posted to social media shows hundreds of migrants waiting to cross the Rio Grande into Texas, even as the Biden administration insists that there is no “crisis” at the border. The video appeared on the TikTok account of “Tripwires & Triggers,” a service started by Jaeson Jones to keep the public informed about […]
The city of Minneapolis has settled a civil suit with the family of George Floyd for a record $27 million. The settlement was unanimously approved by the Minneapolis City Council on Friday. It’s the largest pre-trial settlement in a civil rights wrongful death case in American history. “When George Floyd was horrifically killed on May […]
Colorado’s governor is activating his state’s National Guard Friday for assistance in search-and-rescue missions as a major winter storm that some forecasters are describing as a potential “blockbuster blizzard” is set to dump feet of snow across the region. The oncoming blast of wintry weather is expected to last through Sunday and leave up to […]
The New York State Assembly is opening an investigation with full subpoena power, the first step in pursuing a potential impeachment of Gov. Andrew Cuomo amid sexual misconduct allegations. “The Democratic Conference is taking the first step toward impeachment by opening an investigation with full subpoena power to obtain facts and testimonies under oath,” Democratic […]
LOS ANGELES – A murder suspect was mistakenly released from custody in Southern California and remained at large Wednesday — despite a manhunt that shut down a major downtown Los Angeles freeway at rush hour — as prosecutors and two law enforcement agencies tried to deflect blame for the error. Steven Manzo, 23, was charged […]
