The Biden administration notified the Supreme Court on Tuesday that it will no longer defend a government policy seeking to impose new limits on the admission of immigrants considered likely to become overly dependent on government benefits. The Department of Homeland Security announced in 2019 that it would expand the definition of “public charge” to […]
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said she would sign a bill limiting female teams and sports at public schools to students who are biologically female after the bill passed the South Dakota Senate 20-15 on Monday. “In South Dakota, we’re celebrating #InternationalWomensDay by defending women’s sports! I’m excited to sign this bill very soon,” Noem […]
Republicans in the New York State Assembly on Monday announced an impeachment resolution against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying they believe the Democratic governor has lost “credibility and trust” and has an “inability to lead” the state of New York amid sexual harassment allegations leveled against him and investigations into his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. […]
Books by Dr. Seuss have flooded Amazon’s U.S. bestseller list after it was announced that six of the author’s publications were being pulled over racist imagery. “The Cat in the Hat” is currently the bestselling book on Amazon’s U.S. store, closely followed by “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” and “Green Eggs and […]
MINNEAPOLIS — There’s the fenced-off government buildings downtown. Cars parked in the middle of the street where residents stand watch over George Floyd’s memorial on the city’s south side. Parts of east and north Minneapolis appear at times quiet and tense. Some businesses have boarded up or shut down. Nearly a year of peaceful protests, […]
Former President Trump Thursday evening fired back at longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove, who in an opinion piece this week criticized Trump’s address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as ringing “hollow” among his supporters. Trump in a statement shared by his PAC Save America called Rove a “pompous fool with bad advice” and […]
Former President Donald Trump on Friday tore into President Biden for what he described as a “spiraling tsunami” at the border, just as the administration faces a spike in migrant families and unaccompanied children. “Our border is now totally out of control thanks to the disastrous leadership of Joe Biden,” Trump said in a lengthy […]
The U.S. economy added 379,000 jobs in February, roundly beating economists’ estimates of 210,000, and indicating that one year into the pandemic, the labor market is finally showing signs of recovery. In the first full monthly employment report under President Joe Biden, the unemployment rate fell to 6.2 percent,from 6.3 percent in January, according to […]
Mississippi and Texas are ready to put the pandemic behind them and let the reopening begin. On Tuesday, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) ordered all statewide mask mandates to be lifted starting on Wednesday. However, mask mandates at K-12 schools are set to remain in effect. Reeves also announced businesses will be allowed to reopen […]
Michael Brown Sr. and Ferguson, Mo., activist Tory Russell, the founder of the International Black Freedom Alliance, demanded $20 million from Black Lives Matter after revelations that the organization brought in $90 million last year. Brown’s son, Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old Black teen, was killed in a police-involved shooting in the city in 2014, […]
A new national poll indicates that President Joe Biden’s approval rating has slipped during his first month in the White House. Biden holds a 51% approval rating in a Monmouth University survey released on Wednesday. That’s down slightly from the 54% of Americans who gave the new president a thumbs-up in late January, days after […]
The South Carolina Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that added a firing squad as an alternative execution method for those facing the death penalty. The Senate passed the bill 32-11, adding the firing squad option to the electric chair in case an inmate choose one of them over lethal injection, The Associated Press reported. […]
