While the Obama administration and its allies last decade waged an all-out war on the conscience rights and the free exercise of religion, Arkansas’s legislature stepped up to pass the Conscience Protection Act.
A federal judge in Texas last week ruled that Llano County officials must return more than a dozen books they had banned and removed to the county’s library shelves during 2021. The preliminary order by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman also prohibited the county from removing any other books as the court case is pending....
Nashville, Tenn. area school students have planned to walk out of their classes on Monday to call for gun reform in the U.S. in the wake of the shooting at a local private elementary school. Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN, a Nexstar-owned station, reported that the event is being led by March For Our Lives (MFOL)...
Home prices rose nationally for the first time in 8 months in February amid continuing inventory challenges and relief in affordability leading to a rise in demand, according to data released on Monday. “In many areas of the country, that dynamic – low inventory and a modest rise in demand – led to an uptick...
Restaurants are the cornerstone of the local, state and national economy in the U.S. With food service on pace to reach nearly $1 trillion in sales this year alone, the restaurant industry’s impact has never been more important. To put that in perspective, the total gross output in the restaurant industry is larger than the agriculture,...
GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson dismissed fears that a crowded Republican primary would end up aiding former President Trump in 2024 in an interview with The Hill on Monday. “I think it’s totally different from 2016,” Hutchinson said. “One, we’re not going to have as many candidates in the field as...
Federal health officials on Monday outlined a new framework aimed at helping to implement the White House "Cancer Moonshot" initiative. One of the main goals of the Moonshot initiative is to reduce cancer mortality by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years. To accomplish that, the new National Cancer Plan includes eight distinct...
Antisemitism continues to make headlines in the United States and elsewhere. Jews face physical attacks and verbal harassment on the streets of their communities, in addition to a vitriolic torrent of bigoted online rhetoric, particularly on social media. From the spray-painting of Nazi symbols on synagogues to violent assaults on Jews who are going about...
CBS's "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl is coming under some criticism for how she handled an interview with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), which aired over the weekend. Stahl, a longtime broadcast news journalist working for "60 Minutes," sat with Greene, a firebrand conservative House member, for an extensive interview during which Stahl pressed the...
Federal clean energy tax credits are accelerating a nationwide wave of coal plant closures, as those facilities can no longer economically compete. That’s driving a wave of state-level legislation and national rhetoric from the GOP aimed at keeping coal plants online. But cost concerns — as much as those around climate — mean that the...