Texas House back in business as enough Democrats return to form quorum
By Caitlin McFall The Texas state House formed a quorum Thursday, following a six-week long break in business after more than 50 Democrats fled to Washington, D.C. in an attempt…
Black father tells board CRT keeps racism on ‘life support’, moments later they vote to ban it
By Emma Colton A father in Colorado Springs who is the descendant of slaves slammed critical race theory during a public school district’s board meeting, saying racism in America would…
GOP rift opens up over resettling Afghan refugees
Alex Gangitano and Cristina Marcos The plight of Afghan allies desperately trying to flee the Taliban is exposing divisions among Republicans, with some pressing the Biden administration to help resettle…
Biden’s eviction ban raises serious constitutional issues
by J. Kennerly Davis Jr On Aug. 3, the Biden administration reinstituted a nationwide eviction moratorium to extend the one that had expired on July 31. The administration took this…
House Democrats push voting bill that aims to upend Supreme Court decisions
by Sarah Westwood, House Democrats are poised to pass a sweeping election bill that would reestablish provisions of the Voting Rights Act the Supreme Court has already struck down in…
Texas Ban on Common 2nd-Trimester Abortion Method Upheld by Appeals Court
By Isabel van Brugen A Texas law effectively banning an abortion procedure commonly employed during second-trimester pregnancies in the United States was upheld by the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday, reversing…
NYC: 1,163 Shot so Far This Year, Two-Decade Record
By Petr Svab Rudy Giuliani was still the mayor the last time New York City saw so many people shot. By mid-August, 1,163 were shot in the Big Apple. That’s…
Biden Threatens Legal Action Against Governors Who Ban Forcing School Children to Wear Masks
By Zachary Stieber Governors who ban school mask mandates could face legal action from the federal government, President Joe Biden warned on Aug. 18. Biden stated that he was directing…
Top Gen. Mark Milley: Nobody Could Have Predicted Afghan Government Would Collapse in 11 Days
By Jack Phillips The top U.S. general, Mark Milley, said Wednesday there was no intelligence that indicated the Afghan army would collapse in just a matter of days. “There was…
School board recall attempts spike amid concerns about COVID closures, critical race theory
By Greg Piper School board recall efforts are sweeping the country, with many driven by parents claiming critical race theory (CRT) is infecting schools, demanding schools reopen in person, and…
Biden to direct nursing homes to have staffers vaccinated to continue to get Medicare and Medicaid
President Biden is set to officially announced the change Wednesday afternoon. The Biden administration will tell U.S. nursing homes they must require staffers be vaccinated for COVID-19 to continue to…
Afghanistan fiasco flips media against Biden – this should worry Dems
By Michael Goodwin For Joe Biden, bad is quickly turning to worse. A day after the president tried to defend his decision to wave the white flag in Afghanistan and…