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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) compared her “human rights campaign” of fighting aids to the “stigma” of transgenderism in a virtual conference with Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) to promote the newly passed the Equality Act.

Calvin E. Tyler Jr. quit college nearly 60 years ago because he could no longer afford it, but this week his school said he gave $20 million to a scholarship fund established in his name.

A woman appeared to use her thong as a mask while standing in line recently at a Pick n Pay supermarket in South Africa.

Feb. 25 (UPI) — Golf star Tiger Woods was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following the single-vehicle rollover crash Tuesday that left him with serious leg injuries.

A 23-year-old parolee is behind bars for allegedly attacking his wife and trying to bury her alive on Coronado Beach in California.

The Biden administration issued new marijuana guidelines on Friday to quickly “fill key White House positions.” Recreational marijuana use has been an unexpected hurdle for the White House’s personnel department. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called his state an “oasis of freedom” on Friday during his speech to CPAC.

Senior-level U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources report the Title 42 Centers for Disease Control emergency order will be vacated in as soon as one week, but a 7-day extension is under consideration.

Jérusalem (AFP) — Just over half of Israel’s population has had at least a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the health ministry said Friday in its latest update. It said that 4.65 million of the country’s 9.29 million

Angela Merkel claimed that there is a unanimous agreement within the European Union on implementing a coronavirus vaccine passport system.

Two U.S. Navy ships in the Middle East have been ordered into port as they combat outbreaks of COVID-19, the U.S. Navy said early Friday.

The Coronavirus package will fail to include the $15 minimum wage hike due to a parliamentarian decision, President Joe Biden announced on Thursday. 

Democrat senators rebuked Sen. Rand Paul, M.D., for questioning a medical nominee about the safety and wisdom of trying to change children’s sex via surgery and drugs.

A World War II veteran in Auburn, California, was awarded the Purple Heart this week more than 76 years after he was injured.

If enacted, the Equality Act would have a major impact on children and their parents, upending the culture as American families now know it.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott told reporters he is considering lifting the statewide coronavirus mask mandate. The governor said he is also considering other statewide COVID-19 related orders.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, dodged a question on whether he would push to provide United States taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits to illegal aliens. 

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) administration refused to answer questions from legislators Thursday about her coronavirus nursing home policy.

A snowplow driver in West Bend, Wisconsin, saved a little boy who wandered away from home in freezing temperatures.

Students at Wenatchee High School in Wenatchee, Washington, conducted band practice while standing inside of individual pop-up tents last week in an auditorium on campus. Comical images of the band practice, including a tuba player squeezed inside the small tents, have gone viral on social media.

After months of draconian coronavirus restrictions, school officials want to open two California Bay Area high schools for one hour a week.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) did not wear a mask Thursday afternoon on the floor of the House of Representatives in violation of House rules, set by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

At least 1,100 members of the Texas National Guard will give out vaccines to homebound senior citizens in rural and isolated areas of Texas to get the majority of Texans 65 and older vaccinated against the coronavirus by March, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday.

President Joe Biden’s transgender HHS nominee, Rachel Levine, would not denounce minors getting drugs or surgery to change their sex.

Vice President Kamala Harris had to remind President Joe Biden to re-don his mask Thursday after he left it at a podium during a speech at the White House.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) on Thursday expressed deep concern over Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, suggesting Becerra could do much more damage to the country than Neera Tanden, the president’s pick for director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) slammed teachers’ unions on Thursday during a confirmation hearing for Assistant Secretary for Health nominee Dr. Rachel Levine, saying that Democrats were doing the union’s bidding in keeping schools closed.

Actress Julia Roberts will be presenting an “Award of Courage” to the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci, who she calls her “personal hero.”

ROME — Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister, declared this week that efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus must respect basic human rights such as religious freedom.