A Florida school district began collecting federal funding on Thursday after Florida’s government withheld state funding to punish the school for implementing a mask mandate and other precautions aimed at reducing the spread of Covid-19. Alachua County Public Schools, the first district in the country to receive federal funds, is …
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has terminated two border wall contracts that were issued during the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Friday. In a statement, DHS said the canceled wall contracts—originally planned to cover the Laredo sector of Texas spanning approximately 31 miles—were not necessary …
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UPDATE: Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary. The Associated Press declared the Brooklyn borough president the winner on July 6th after the Board of Election released results that included over 120,000 absentee ballots that had been outstanding. The new tally put Adams ahead of Kathryn Garcia by just over …
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In the latest state-level swing at LGBTQ health care access, Ohio will now allow medical providers to refuse to administer any medical treatment that violates their moral, ethical, or religious beliefs. The language was buried in a 700-page document of last-minute amendments to the state’s two-year budget bill, which Ohio …
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the creation of a House select committee to investigate the deadly January 6th insurrection at the Capitol. Pelosi said Thursday that the House was moving forward with an investigation after holding out hope that Senate Republicans, who blocked a bill that would have created a bipartisan …
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In a speech, President Biden celebrated the U.S. reaching a milestone 300 million vaccinations in 150 days while warning communities with low vaccination rates that they “will be very hurt” by the Covid-19 variants that are spreading across the globe. “I see an important milestone that just didn’t happen on …
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While campaigning last year, then-candidate Joe Biden didn’t seem very enthusiastic about his prospective Justice Department prosecuting prospective civilian Donald Trump. It’s “a very, very unusual thing and probably not very … good for democracy, to be talking about prosecuting former presidents,” the future president said in August. But it …
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FBI Director Christopher Wray said the national security threat posed by ransomware attacks on the U.S. is akin to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Wray made the comparison in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal. “There are a lot of parallels, there’s a lot of importance, …
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In a last-ditch effort to prevent a restrictive voting bill from being passed in the state legislature, Texas Democrats walked out of the statehouse around midnight Sunday night before a final vote could be held. By walking out on the vote on Senate Bill 7 (S.B. 7), Democrats prevented a …
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The intra-party ramifications for lawmakers who’ve opposed Trump continue to reverberate as Sen. Mitt Romney was nearly booed off stage during a Republican convention speech in his home state of Utah on Saturday. “You can boo all you like,” Romney, who voted to impeach Trump twice, told the more than …
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