[ad_1] A Florida bar is closed under a state declaration to help curb the spread of coronavirus disease, in Key West, Florida, March 17, 2020. (Carol Tedesco/Florida Keys News Bureau/Handout via Reuters) Nevada governor Steve Sisolak on Thursday began to reverse the state’s reopening amid a surge in coronavirus cases, ordering bars in the Las

[ad_1] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to members of the media while making a stop to greet voters during the Democratic congressional primary election in the Queens, New York, June 23, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) The CEO of Goya Foods, which says it’s the country’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, has landed in hot water with Democrats

[ad_1] Imagine if pirates were sailing up and down America’s coasts, plundering treasure worth between 0.9 percent and 2.6 percent of U.S. GDP every year. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A mid the partisan rancor of today’s politics, any new consensus is notable. And if any new bipartisan consensus has recently emerged, it may be this: The

[ad_1] Sister Loraine McGuire with Little Sisters of the Poor speaks to the media in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2016. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The Bill of Rights be damned. The other day, in a virtual rally called “Fight Back for Fair Courts,” longtime Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer conceded that “the Supreme Court is the greatest obstacle

[ad_1] Michael Cohen arrives back at home after being released from prison during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in New York City, N.Y., May 21, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is back in federal custody, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons confirmed, less than a week after Cohen was photographed at

[ad_1] Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon departs after testifying in the criminal trial of Roger Stone at U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., November 8, 2019. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) Steve Bannon, architect of the 2016 Trump campaign, warned that former vice president Joe Biden’s new economic plan, which proposes a massive cash injection

[ad_1] (MRCTV via YouTube) Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn and Mike Lee joined conservative media figures and others to produce a collaborative video framed as an “answer to the mob” and a defense of the American founding and its heritage. Produced by the Media Research Center, a conservative institution, the video features Lee and Blackburn alongside

[ad_1] Former national security advisor Michael Flynn departs U.S. District Court in Washington, December 1, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The presiding judge in the case of former national-security adviser Michael Flynn refused to dismiss the case on Thursday, even after a federal appeals court ordered the judge to do so. U.S. District Court judge Emmet Sullivan

[ad_1] (Bill Chizek/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A New York prosecutor may pursue the president’s financial information. Congress, though, must relitigate its case in lower courts. The Supreme Court’s decisions Thursday on two separate cases involving subpoenas for the president’s personal financial information are legal defeats for the presidency. Politically, they are a win for Donald Trump.

[ad_1] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) wears a protective face mask during the coronavirus outbreak on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Thursday did not commit to attending the Republican presidential convention, currently scheduled to take place in Jacksonville, Fla., in late

[ad_1] A teacher washes her hands inside a classroom at Ysgol Hafan Y Mor school, as schools in Tenby, Wales, June 29, 2020. (Rebecca Naden/Reuters) A point to add to yesterday’s discussion about the complicated logistics of reopening schools in the autumn: Right now, across the country, school boards and school administrators are trying to

[ad_1] Hospital staff work at the United Memorial Medical Center’s intensive care unit amid the coronavirus pandemic in Houston, Texas, June 29, 2020. (Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters) Michael Hickson died after being refused potential curative treatment for COVID and being shuttled to hospice instead because — as a quadriplegic and cognitively disabled man — his doctor said

[ad_1] Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Miss., March 8, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden issued a statement Wednesday evening in which he said he is “disappointed in today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision” in the case Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania. “I will

[ad_1] NYPD officers investigate a crime scene in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 4, 2020. (Lloyd Mitchell/Reuters) George Floyd protests are not the only factor in the violent summer of 2020. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A weeks-long wave of shootings in major American cities continued over the Fourth of July weekend, with dozens of people shot in Chicago,

[ad_1] Soldiers assigned to First Battalion, 178th Infantry Regiment, Illinois Army National Guard, conduct security as part of an advise and assistance mission in southeastern Afghanistan, September 17, 2019. (Master Sergeant Alejandro Licea/US Army) The United States needs to keep a limited military presence in the country and the region as a check on the

[ad_1] Nuns of the Little Sisters of the Poor at the Supreme Court, March 2016. (File photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters) In a modest victory for freedom, the Supreme Court has upheld the Trump administration’s protections for employers who object to having to provide coverage for contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization. This mandate has been plaguing religious groups

[ad_1] U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media during the coronavirus outbreak, in Washington, March 22, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Republican senators are piecing together an additional coronavirus aid package to counter House Democrats’ phase-4 aid proposal. The GOP bill in its current form will provide an additional $1.3 trillion in

[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr (File photo: Erin Scott/Reuters) Attorney General William Barr revealed Wednesday that he believes the country has “a widespread phenomenon” of African American men being unduly treated poorly by the police, adding that “it’s something we have to address.” “I do think it is a widespread phenomenon that African American males,

[ad_1] ( Westend61/Getty Images) Attempting to dictate what words we use is a way to exert power over our thoughts I recently ran across a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer that lays out four racist words and phrases that should be banished from the English language. It begins like this: Editor’s note: Please be aware

[ad_1] A pro-life protester marches during the 47th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Gallup continues to release results on abortion attitudes from its annual “values and beliefs” poll. This week, Gallup released findings about the importance of abortion as a voting issue, showing that about a quarter (24

[ad_1] Kanye West speaks during a meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 11, 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Kanye West singled out Joe Biden for criticism in his first interview since tweeting that he was running for president, implying that he would be fine with running to

[ad_1] A demonstrators holds a large cross outside the Supreme Court as the court rules on two cases concerning religious liberty in Washington, D.C., July 8, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) A victory for the Little Sisters of the Poor, but the case will drag on. The Supreme Court has upheld the Trump administration’s exemptions to mandatory

[ad_1] Dr Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C, July 2, 2020. ( Saul Loeb/Reuters) Dr. Robert Redfield, head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday that his agency’s directives for education amid the coronavirus pandemic were not meant to keep

[ad_1] Little Sisters of the Poor at the Supreme Court in 2016. (Image via Becket Fund for Religious Liberty) The Supreme Court on Wednesday voted 7–2 to allow employers with sincerely held moral or religious objections an exemption from an Obama-era mandate to provide contraception in their health-care plans. The decision upholds President Trump’s 2017

[ad_1] An empty classroom at Kent Middle School in Kentfield, Calif., on April 1 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) What you need to know today: the thorny issues that have to be worked out to open the doors of America’s schools this autumn, checking in on the efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine, and an exasperated cry

[ad_1] Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts departs the Trump impeachment trial in Washington, D.C., January 29, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized overnight last month after a fall at a Maryland country club, a Supreme Court spokeswoman confirmed to the Washington Post.  Roberts’ fall at the Chevy Chase Club

[ad_1] The Fourth Circuit today denied en banc rehearing of the panel decision in March in United States v. Gary. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, joined by four of his colleagues, concurred in the denial of rehearing while slamming the panel decision: I concur in the denial of rehearing en banc for one reason and one

[ad_1] Then president-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama arrive for Trump’s inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2017. (J. Scott Applewhite/Reuters) The final six months of President Donald Trump’s first term has begun. One way to assess where the judicial confirmation process stands is to compare it to the process at this point

[ad_1] Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D., Mich.) addresses the media about the flooding along the Tittabawassee River, in Midland, Mich. May 20, 2020. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday that she could reimpose social-distancing restrictions if cases of the coronavirus continue to rise in the state, adding that she refuses to be “bullied” into

[ad_1] (vitchanan/Getty Images) A review of Alex Edmans’s ‘Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit.’ Esg (Environmental, Social and Governance) strategies — all the rage with today’s investors — have received pushback from an unlikely quarter. At a June 23 webinar, Jay Clayton, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, argued