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Maskless man: Psaki shrugs off Biden’s blunder at Georgetown restaurant

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday dismissed concerns about President Biden violating the District's mask mandate at an exclusive Georgetown restaurant, saying people should not "overly focus on moments in time."

October 18, 2021

Climate backfire: Coal-fired power jumps as natural gas prices soar

Coal-fired electricity generation climbed this year in the U.S. for the first time since the Obama administration, spurred by spiking natural gas prices, a setback for the Biden climate agenda and a sign that the president's drilling crackdown may be backfiring.

October 18, 2021

Bidens blasted for violating D.C. mask mandate at upscale Georgetown restaurant

President Biden is being accused of hypocrisy for failing to wear a mask Saturday at a swanky Georgetown restaurant in an apparent violation of the District's rules on facial coverings.

October 18, 2021

Biden accused of exacerbating labor shortage with ‘far-left socialist agenda’

U.S. employers are still struggling to find workers six weeks after enhanced federal jobless benefits expired, but that doesn't mean Republicans are letting President Biden off the hook.

October 17, 2021

Garland blasted for unleashing FBI on school board squabbles

Attorney General Merrick Garland sees a rising domestic threat to the nation's public schools, but others are struggling to identify anything more insidious than irate parents getting rowdy at their local board of education meetings.

October 14, 2021

Not one dollar: One-third of voters unwilling to spend anything to counter climate change

Most Americans are concerned about climate change, but that doesn't mean they want to get stuck with the tab.

October 13, 2021

Zero bites: Gov. Jared Polis brags that Colorado tied for fewest shark attacks

Gov. Jared Polis has reason to be proud of Colorado: Not only is it a great place to ski and snowboard, but no state has done a better job of keeping people safe from shark attacks.

October 13, 2021

Watchdog group urges IG to investigate whether Tracy Stone-Manning lied to Congress

Tracy Stone-Manning now heads the Bureau of Land Management, but that doesn't mean the uproar over her involvement in a 1989 tree-spiking plot is over.

October 12, 2021

‘Cringeworthy’ Harris video on NASA featured child actors

Vice President Kamala Harris was already being heckled for her ultra-effusive appearance in a YouTube children's video about NASA, and then word spread Monday that the kids involved were child actors.

October 11, 2021

‘Unprecedented’: Newsom regulations target lawnmowers, ketchup, toys

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, fresh off last month's recall victory, signed a bundle of bills over the weekend that delivered a fresh layer of woke regulations to his allies on the Democratic left.

October 11, 2021

Anti-Biden ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ catchphrase becomes all the rage on right

Little did NBC NASCAR reporter Kelli Stavast know that she had just launched an instant political sensation last weekend when she said fans were cheering driver Brandon Brown -- and not shouting a profane anti-Biden chant.

October 10, 2021

Pfizer downplays COVID-19 vaccine’s ties to fetal tissue from abortions: Project Veritas

No pharmaceutical company is eager to broadcast the role that abortion-derived fetal cell lines played in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, and that reportedly includes Pfizer.

October 7, 2021

GOP lieutenant governors urge Biden to stop rationing COVID-19 therapy

Fifteen Republican lieutenant governors have urged President Biden to reverse his administration's decision last month to seize distribution of monoclonal antibody therapies for COVID-19, calling it an "unjustified, targeted attack."

October 6, 2021

Pfizer scientists tout natural immunity in Project Veritas sting: ‘Antibodies are probably better’

Project Veritas jumped into the debate over vaccine mandates with an undercover video that shows two Pfizer scientists agreeing that naturally acquired immunity offers more protection than vaccination from the novel coronavirus.

October 5, 2021

Democratic vaccine crackdown gives GOP opening with mandate-wary Black voters

The Democratic embrace of vaccine mandates is running into resistance from some prominent Black athletes and activists, an unforeseen political side effect with implications for the party's grip on a crucial voting bloc ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

October 5, 2021

Colorado educator sues after being barred from campus over COVID-19 ‘hoax’

Celeste Archer was driving to work at the University of Colorado Denver last month when she learned she had been banned from campus because she had contracted or been exposed to the coronavirus -- which wasn't true.

October 3, 2021

Rand Paul prods Xavier Becerra to apologize to COVID-19 survivors for ‘flat-earthers’ crack

As far as Sen. Rand Paul is concerned, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra owes an apology to those who have opted against being vaccinated after recovering from COVID-19.

October 1, 2021

Another Colorado Catholic church hit with pro-abortion graffiti, vandalism

A Catholic church in Boulder County was defaced this week by extensive vandalism, including pro-abortion graffiti such as "Jesus [loves] abortion," as houses of worship in Colorado and nationwide continue to see a surge in attacks.

October 1, 2021

Senate confirms Bureau of Land Management pick Tracy Stone-Manning on party-line vote

The Senate confirmed Tracy Stone-Manning as Bureau of Land Management director in a party-line vote Thursday, placing a former Earth First! activist involved in a 1989 tree-spiking plot in charge of managing vast swaths of Western lands.

September 30, 2021

Navajo Nation opposes New Mexico drilling ban tucked into Biden’s $3.5 trillion bill

The 24th Navajo Nation Council has come out against President Biden's $3.5 trillion social welfare and climate change bill because it bans new drilling outside Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.

September 30, 2021