Police in Virginia said a woman has been charged after she claimed at a school board meeting she would show up with loaded guns if her children were required to wear masks at school. The board had been debating Covid-19 mitigation measures as the Omicron wave continues to cause...
Israeli Police Demolished a Palestinian Family’s Home at 3 a.m
Israeli police evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and bulldozed it during the early hours of Wednesday morning. Fifteen people were forcibly removed from the Salhiya family home, before it was demolished with a bulldozer at 3 a.m. in...
FBI Raid on House Democrat’s Home Related to Azerbaijan Probe, Source Says
The FBI this week raided Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar's home and campaign office in Texas as part of a wide-ranging federal probe relating to the former Soviet state of Azerbaijan and several U.S. businessmen, a source familiar with the matter told ABC News. Cuellar, who represents Texas' 28th Congressional...
The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr. has been his father’s chief emissary to MAGA world; he’s one of the most popular figures in the Republican Party; and he’s influential with Republicans in positions of power. He’s also attuned to what appeals to the base of the GOP. In a recent speech, Don...
Oklahoma Will Allow State Employees to Work as Substitute Teachers to Fight Shortages
Oklahoma will allow state employees to work as substitute teachers — while keeping their current jobs — as it attempts to keep schools open for in-person learning in the face of widespread staffing shortages. It's the latest state to float an unorthodox solution to the problem of teachers and...
NY AG Says Investigation Into Trump and His Business Found ‘Significant Evidence’ Suggesting Fraud
New York Attorney General Letitia James disclosed new details Tuesday night about her civil investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business, saying the probe has uncovered evidence suggesting the company put fraudulent values on multiple assets and misrepresented those values to financial institutions for economic benefit. James, who launched her investigation in 2019,...
Starbucks Scraps Vaccine Mandate — Here’s How Large Companies Are Responding to Supreme Court Ruling
Starbucks is reversing its vaccine mandate for employees following the Supreme Court decision halting President Joe Biden’s mandate for large employers, the company said in a message to employees, becoming one of the first major companies to walk back its plans to require shots. Other companies across various industries...
Omicron & the Undoing of China’s COVID Strategy
Omicron is here. The bad news is that it's more contagious. The good news is that mRNA vaccines work against death and hospitalization. COVID may soon become endemic in some parts of the world. But not in China, where Xi Jinping's zero-COVID approach faces its toughest test to date...
Zakaria: Politics Is Trumping Economics. It Might End Badly.
As inflation spikes to a pace not seen since the 1980s, experts are debating whether this phenomenon is worrying and long-term or benign and transitory. For decades in country after country, economics trumped politics, says Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria. But now, from China to Turkey to the United States,...
Are Republicans Becoming the Country’s Majority Party?
Are Republicans becoming the country’s majority party? Tantalizing new polling data from Gallup suggest they might. It could just be a blip, or it could be an early sign of an upheaval that would transform American politics. Gallup found that partisan identification has shifted by a massive 14 points since early...