House lawmakers asked the Justice Department on Monday to open an investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for making false statements to Congress about his handling of the state's nursing-home patients during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
One way to observe how modern society interacts with religion is to look at its dealings with authority figures. An upcoming adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, part of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series, presents an opportunity to do so in the possible casting of the character Aslan as female. In the story, the lion Aslan is […]
THE ESSENTIAL MYSTERY OF THE KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA CASE. After all the talking and arguing about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal border-crosser and alleged gang member deported by the United States and now imprisoned in El Salvador, there is still a fundamental unanswered question about the case: Why is he imprisoned in El Salvador? “We deport […]
Most California voters support the state’s efforts to increase health care coverage for migrants without legal status, a new survey found. According to a new survey from the University of California, Berkeley and Politico, 21 percent of surveyed voters believe the state should continue to offer Medicaid coverage to migrants without legal status, even if...
A GOP-led House panel sent a letter Monday asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) for allegedly lying to the panel investigating his administration's COVID-19 pandemic-era nursing home policies. The letter renewed a referral made last fall by former Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), who was chair of the...
Ryan Mindell, the executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission, has resigned effective immediately, a release from the agency said Monday. “Ryan Mindell notified the Texas Lottery Commission board of his resignation, effective today, April 21,” Robert Rivera, the agency’s chair, said in a statement. Rivera said Sergio Rey, the agency’s chief financial officer, will...