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Whitmer Admits Her COVID Restrictions Didn't 'Make a Lot of Sense'
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.) admitted Sunday that her COVID-19 lockdown orders—some of the strictest in the country—were excessive and "in retrospect don't make a lot of sense." → Read More
Jill Biden Gives International Women of Courage Award to Biological Man
First lady Jill Biden celebrated International Women's Day Wednesday by presenting an International Women Of Courage award to a biological male who identifies as a woman. → Read More
Biden Promises To Ban Assault Weapons 'Come Hell or High Water'
President Joe Biden in a speech Wednesday promised his fellow Democrats he would ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines "come hell or high water." → Read More
Mississippi Becomes Seventh State To Outlaw Sex Change Surgeries for Minors
Mississippi governor Tate Reeves (R.) signed a bill Tuesday that prohibits sex change procedures for minors, making his state the seventh to restrict such practices. → Read More
South Dakota Senate Passes Ban on Transgender Surgeries and Hormone Treatments for Minors
The South Dakota Senate on Thursday sent a bill that protects minors from gender transition surgeries and treatments to Gov. Kristi Noem's (R.) desk for her signature, passing the legislation in a 30-4 party-line vote. → Read More
'Trans Lives Matter' Protesters Storm Oklahoma Capitol
Transgender activists swarmed the Oklahoma State Capitol Monday to protest proposed bills that would prohibit gender reassignment surgeries for minors. → Read More
Utah Bans Puberty Blockers and Gender Transitioning Surgeries for Minors
Utah governor Spencer Cox (R.) signed a bill Saturday that prohibits gender transition surgeries and puberty blockers for minors in most cases. → Read More
Political Patronage: Chicago Mayor Offers School Credit for Students Who Help Her Campaign
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D.) is encouraging public school teachers to offer credit to students who volunteer for her reelection campaign. → Read More
House Republicans Vote To Cancel Biden's Billion-Dollar IRS Funding
House Republicans, in the first act of their tenure in the majority, voted on Monday to rescind nearly $71 billion of the $80 billion that the previously Democratic-controlled Congress allocated to the IRS through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. → Read More
Top Retailers Say Theft Has Reached Historic Highs
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon told CNBC Tuesday that theft is "higher than what it has historically been." Walmart is just one of several top retailers reporting concerning levels of retail theft. → Read More
Los Angeles Poised To Reinstate Indoor Mask Mandate
Los Angeles County is poised to reinstate indoor mask mandates if a recent surge in COVID-19 cases continues, county public health director Barbara Ferrer said Thursday. → Read More
Brittney Griner Faces 16-Hour Work Days in Russian Gulag
WNBA star Brittney Griner will face 16-hour work days and possible abuse as she serves her nine-year sentence for drug smuggling in one of Russia's harshest penal colonies, according to TMZ Sports. → Read More
Students Who Finished High School During COVID Lockdowns Are Failing College
Students whose last two years of high school were marred by school lockdowns and online learning are now falling behind at college, the New York Times reports. → Read More
'Another Day in the Neighborhood': Stray Bullet Hits Eight-Month Pregnant Woman in Manhattan
A stray bullet from a fight that broke out on a Manhattan, N.Y., street wounded a woman who is eight months pregnant as she sat in her parked car, police said Tuesday. → Read More
Pleas for Help From Stranded Afghan Allies Went Unread by Biden Admin, IG Report Reveals
Afghan allies' pleas for help amid President Joe Biden's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban's takeover of the country have gone unread by the Biden administration, a new report from the State Department's inspector general found. → Read More
Marco Rubio Canvasser Violently Attacked in Dem Neighborhood
A Florida Republican canvasser clad in a Marco Rubio T-shirt and a Ron DeSantis hat was brutally attacked in a Hialeah, Fla., neighborhood by Democratic residents, Rubio tweeted Monday morning. → Read More
Report: Math Scores Plummet in Nearly Every State After School Lockdowns
After two years of pandemic-disrupted learning, nearly every state saw fourth- and eighth-grade students' math scores plummet, the Education Department reported Monday. → Read More
US Deficit Soars 562 Percent Thanks to Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness
The monthly federal budget deficit was up 562 percent from September of last year, according to Treasury Department figures released Friday, mainly due to President Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan. → Read More
Cortez Masto’s Onetime Colleague Endorses GOP Challenger
A former Nevada deputy attorney general who served under both Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D.) and Republican Adam Laxalt when they were state attorneys general is endorsing Laxalt in his bid to unseat Masto in November. → Read More
Report: Missile Tech 'Funded by US Taxpayers, Through the US Government,' Ends Up in China
Research groups for China's hypersonics and missile program are buying specialized American technology produced by firms funded by the Pentagon, according to a Washington Post investigation released Monday. → Read More