Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers was condemned by critics as racist after the Republican posted on social media Friday about her veneration of two Confederate generals. Ms. Rogers’ comments came in the context of her objecting to the Cleveland Indians baseball team announcing it was changing its name effective next year to the Cleveland Guardians.
Angelina Jolie scored a major victory Friday in her divorce with Brad Pitt when a California appeals court agreed with her that the private judge deciding who gets custody of their children should be disqualified.
Tucker Carlson has mounted an attack on Harry Dunn, a U.S. Capitol Police Officer speaking publicly about Jan. 6, resulting in Republicans facing pressure to condemn the Fox News host’s comments Thursday.
An Iowa race track said Thursday that it will cut ties with an announcer who went on a racist rant against Black fans and athletes who kneel during the national anthem as a protest against racial inequality.
Funk legend George Clinton has called off plans to retire from performing live, announcing his change of heart in an interview released on the Parliament-Funkadelic's bandleader's 80th birthday this week.
U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger responded Friday to Fox News host Tucker Carlson having recently targeted Officer Harry Dunn, a member of his force set to testify in the House soon about Jan. 6.
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) has warned that hackers may have stolen personal information for possibly tens of thousands of residents seeking or receiving unemployment benefits.
Some 160,000 people, including far-right activists and members of France's yellow vest movement, protested Saturday across the country against a bill requiring everyone to have a special virus pass to enter restaurants and mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all health care workers.
The state of Florida asked the Supreme Court on Friday to lift COVID-19 restrictions on cruise ships so the industry can start taking passengers back out to sea.
The Justice Department has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into government-run nursing homes in New York over their COVID-19 response, according to a letter sent Friday to several Republican members of Congress.
Kaseya, the IT firm whose software was exploited to deliver the "REvil" ransomware strain to its customers this month, announced it has obtained a universal "decryptor" key that restores infected systems.
Maria Taylor has joined NBC less than a week after her contract with ESPN expired.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control unlawfully enacted a temporary suspension on tenant evictions during the pandemic, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
After months of pleading and arm-twisting with the public to increase vaccinations, policymakers and employers are imposing mandates or devising rules that make life miserable for holdouts.
Rick Dennison, an assistant coach for the Minnesota Vikings, is out of a job after he refused to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, according to ESPN.
The same day as the opening ceremony of the Olympics unfolded, Tokyo Games organizers announced Friday that 19 more coronavirus cases had been discovered among people connected to the competition, including three athletes.
Legislation working its way through Congress would fund the development of new capabilities to track space trash and establish a federal office to monitor the trash and other objects in space.
St. Louis city and county officials say they will require masks in some public places starting Monday, citing a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases spurred by the delta variant.
Fox News host Sean Hannity denied Thursday he said viewers should get vaccinated against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and ripped "idiots in the media mob" for reporting otherwise.
