California confirmed the first case of the COVID-19 omicron variant in the United States this week.According to reports, the recorded case came in a vaccinated traveler who had returned to California after a trip to South Africa.“We knew it was just a matter of time before the first case of omicron would be detected in…Continue Reading
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in Bible reading in 2020 that continued into 2021, according to new data from YouVersion, the popular Bible app that is available worldwide.Daily Bible engagement on the YouVersion app was up an average of 24 percent worldwide in 2021 compared to pre-pandemic numbers, according to new data from…Continue Reading
Olabinjo Osundairo testified Thursday in the trial of Jussie Smollett, the former star of the TV show Empire. Smollett is accused of conspiring with Oundairo and his brother to stage a hate crime against himself in 2019. (Cook County Courthouse Sketch Artist) Chicago, Ill. — The second brother accused of conspiring with former Empire star…Continue Reading
(Larry Downing/Reuters) The Senate voted 50–48 along party lines on Thursday night to reject legislation that would have banned the federal government from funding enforcement of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates. Senators Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Mike Lee (R., Utah), and John Marshall (R., Kan.) attempted to submit the law as an amendment to a…Continue Reading
Darrell Brooks appears in Waukesha County Court in Waukesha, Wis., November 23, 2021. (Mark Hoffman/Pool via Reuters) The Milwaukee County, Wis., district attorney said an assistant prosecutor set $1,000 bail for Darrell Brooks Jr., who allegedly drove his car into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, killing six and injuring over 60, because she didn’t have…Continue Reading
The entrance to a public school in the Queens borough of New York, July 8, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) The organization Parents Defending Education announced on Wednesday that it filed a civil rights complaint against New York City Public Schools, after one school said it would separate students into racial categories as part of a social…Continue Reading
The White House Christmas decorations include stockings for six of the Biden grandchildren, but not the seventh, Hunter Biden’s out-of-wedlock daughter. The six stockings hung over the fireplace show the names of the Biden grandchildren in the order of their birth: Naomi, 27; Finnegan, 21; Maisy, 20; Natalie, 17; Robert Hunter Biden III, or “Hunt,”…Continue Reading
MIAMI — A South Florida teen tried to get $5,000 from a state senator after threatening to release what he said were sexually explicit photos of her, authorities said. Jeremy Kamperveen, 19, of Plantation, was arrested last month and charged with extortion and cyberstalking, according to a Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest report. The arrest report…Continue Reading
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer averted a government shutdown on Thursday after all 50 Democrats stuck together to defeat a rebellion by GOP lawmakers over President Biden‘s national vaccine mandate. Mr. Schumer, New York Democrat, struck a deal with a cadre of conservative senators to expedite passage of a stop-gap funding measure to keep…Continue Reading
Nikki Haley, who served in the Trump administration as ambassador to the United Nations, said Thursday the Biden presidency has been “the greatest gift to America’s enemies since Jimmy Carter.” She advised Republicans to “hunker down, and focus on what matters” as the GOP looks to 2024. Mrs. Haley, considered a GOP presidential contender, made…Continue Reading