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…
Oil Industry Sues Biden Administration, Wants Resumption of Federal Leasing
By Zachary Stieber The Biden administration’s pause on the leasing of federal lands and waters for oil and natural gas drilling is illegal, a dozen oil industry groups argue in…
What’s Inside Democrats’ ‘For the People’ Bill
By Joseph Lord Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) indicated before Congress went on recess that Sen. Jeff Merkley’s (D-Ore.) election reform “For the People” Act would be the top priority for…
Strong Demand for Gas Vehicles Drives Detroit Production Plans, Clouds Biden’s 2030 Goal for EVs
By Tom Ozimek Automakers in North America plan to build more pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles than electric vehicles well into the late 2020s, with strong consumer demand for…
More Than 7 Million Americans Poised to Lose Unemployment Benefits
By Peter Malbin More than 7 million Americans are in jeopardy of losing their unemployment aid immediately after Labor Day. Gig workers and other unemployed Americans who qualified for pandemic…