Attorney General William P. Barr told federal prosecutors last week to charge violent demonstrators with a range of offenses, including sedition, a charge usually reserved for someone plotting to overthrow the government, according to a report Wednesday.
Millions of people are at risk from hazardous smoke as 79 wildfires continue to burn in 10 western states.
Calvary Chapel of Bangor Maine has resumed holding indoor services while also practicing social distancing and following sanitizing guidelines, despite threats of criminal charges, fines and imprisonment.
Counties in Pennsylvania were directed not to discard mail-in ballots where signatures don’t match ones in a voter’s file.
Extensive flooding and dozens of rescues were reported along the Gulf Coast on Wednesday morning after Hurricane Sally roared ashore in Alabama, bringing torrential rain that threatens to spread further inland.
A career nurse who worked at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia has registered an official complaint with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), alleging an extraordinarily high number of hysterectomies have been carried out on Spanish-speaking detainees at the facility, Forbes reports. Dawn Wooten’s complaint was filed with the DHS Office of the Inspector General by four Georgia advocacy groups on Monday.
In an effort to expand an existing ban on US federal funding for foreign groups that offer abortions, the Trump administration announced a new proposed rule Monday that would require foreign organizations receiving US health aid to agree not to provide or promote abortions, even if the abortions are funded through other sources, the Hill reports.
Portions of the northern Gulf Coast face “extreme life-threatening” and “historic” flooding through the middle of this week as Hurricane Sally has slowed to a crawl just offshore.
Several individuals accused of rioting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after the police shooting of Ricardo Munoz have had their bail set at $1 million.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed legislation granting judges the discretion to decide whether to immediately place a man who has anal or oral sex with a minor aged 14-17 years old on a sex offenders register, the Hill reports. The SB 145 bill expands on an existing law that already grants judges the discretion to decide whether a man who has vaginal intercourse with a minor aged 14-17 years old should be immediately placed on a sex offenders list.
A federal judge ruled that Gov. Tom Wolf’s business closures and gathering limits to decrease coronavirus transmission were unconstitutional.
The Los Angeles County sheriff on Monday criticized elected officials, sports figures and civic leaders for “fanning the flames of hatred” as America grapples with racism and police brutality, saying they instead should emphasize trust in the criminal justice system.
The latest burst of activity in the Atlantic Ocean marks only the second time in recorded history that five or more tropical cyclones have existed simultaneously in the Atlantic basin.
Protesters blocking the hospital entrance where two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies who were shot in an ambush are being treated is a “new low,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig said alongside a panel of other police chiefs from across the nation on “Fox & Friends” Monday.
A group that helped spark the Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011 has called for a siege on the White House from Thursday until Election Day.
Less than two months ahead of the presidential election – with concerns of foreign interference again at the forefront – a conservative political group is raising “serious concerns” about millions of donations reported by a major Democratic fundraising platform.
President Trump on Sunday signed an executive order moving Medicare one step closer to a “most favored nation” drug pricing system, instructing the government health care program for seniors to develop and test paying the same drug prices as other developed countries with cost controls.
The federal budget deficit swelled to a record of more than $3 trillion with one month left in the current fiscal year, the Treasury Department announced Friday.
Dozens of severe wildfires have killed at least 16 people as of Friday afternoon, and have burned down hundreds of homes in towns on the West Coast, the Epoch Times reports. Over 500,000 people are under evacuation orders in Oregon.
A publically known pro-life activist has said he was beaten up by a group of Portland rioters wearing Antifa-style “black bloc” clothing, the Christian Post reports. Tayler Hansen, who founded the “Baby Lives Matter” movement, tweeted on Wednesday that he had been attacked in Portland the night before during the ongoing unrest in the city.