Nearly a year ago, President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at “increasing the number of background checks conducted before firearm sales, moving the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation.” According to the watchdog group Empower Oversight, which cites two unnamed “whistleblowers” at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After a deadly school bus crash last summer, a task force convened by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recommended Wednesday more training, driver benefits and safety features — but not a seat belt mandate. How and when safety upgrades are made would be up to individual school districts, DeWine said at […]
A California Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill he calls “groundbreaking” that would require all new cars sold in the Golden State to be equipped with a device preventing them from traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, introduced the Speeding and Fatality Emergency […]
For the second year in a row, lawmakers considering legislation that would add clergy to the list of people mandated to report abuse or neglect in Washington state. The newest version of the legislation, sponsored by Sen. Noel Frame, D-Seattle, and co-sponsored by nine other Senate Democrats, had a public hearing Thursday in the Human […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Montana fire chief who lost a previous job over a coronavirus vaccine mandate has been charged with spraying a chemical irritant on police officers during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors say that Frank Dahlquist sprayed “an orange-colored chemical agent” directly into the face of one […]
More US hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face an expected but still nasty post-holiday spike in flu, Covid and other illnesses. While many experts say this season likely will not prove to be as deadly as some other recent winters, it could still mean hundreds of thousands of hospital admissions […]
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and her husband are suing the Department of Defense (DOD) refused to receive the COVID-19 shot and left the military under the Pentagon’s since-repealed vaccine mandate. Luna and her husband, Andrew Gamberzky, a former technical sergeant with the Oregon Air National Guard, this week filed a federal complaint against the […]
New York mandates that by 2027, any new school buses have to be zero emissions; and by 2035, the school bus fleet statewide should be all-electric. But critics say it’s unrealistic, costly and could lead to unreliable transit for kids, especially in rural areas of the state. “The costs will inevitably fall on the already-overburdened […]
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out several cases challenging the federal government’s now-defunct Covid-19 vaccine mandates for executive branch employees and military service members. The court’s action comes after the federal employee vaccine requirement was rescinded by President Joe Biden in May, and the Pentagon – as a result of congressional action – rescinded […]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans approved a bill Wednesday to block strict new tailpipe pollution limits proposed by the Biden administration, calling the plan a back-door mandate for electric vehicles. A rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would require that up to two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. are electric by 2032, a […]