by Peter D'Abrosca | Jun 10, 2021
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL-10) announced Wednesday her intention to run for U.S. Senate against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). “When you grow up in the South poor, Black, and female, you have to have faith in progress and opportunity,” Demings, who grew up in...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 10, 2021
by Steve Postal Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved China’s Sinovac vaccine for COVID-19, following its approval of China’s Sinopharm last month. The WHO can now distribute both vaccines through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX)...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 10, 2021
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 10, 2021
by Mary Margaret Olohan A record number of Americans find abortion “morally acceptable” though American sentiment on the matter is sharply divided, a Gallup poll released Wednesday found. Forty-seven percent of Americans find abortion acceptable, while 46%...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 10, 2021
by Steven Hall Nearly 200 Houston hospital workers will be fired after a two-week suspension if they don’t comply with a vaccine requirement. Houston Methodist President and CEO Dr. Marc Boom sent an email in April to employees saying that they must receive at...
by RealClearWire | Jun 10, 2021
by Jason Edmonds This school year started unlike any other for children across the country, many of whom began the year staring at a computer screen. Yet for the minority of students who were able to start the year at an independent school, their education was...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 10, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky President Joe Biden revoked an executive order that sought to ban downloads of Chinese-owned apps like TikTok and WeChat in the United States, the White House announced Wednesday. Instead, Biden directed the Commerce Department to evaluate...
by Cooper Moran | Jun 10, 2021
A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by Ohio Attorney General David Yost aims to make Google a public utility, limiting the ways the search engine provides search results. “Google uses its dominance of internet search to steer Ohioans to Google’s own...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 10, 2021
by Daniel Gelernter I don’t need an AR-15 for hunting: It’s not even legal to take a deer with one in my state—the caliber is too small. I also don’t need an AR-15 for self-defense, though I’d want to have one if someone broke into my house. And I...
by Cooper Moran | Jun 10, 2021
Georgia state Senators Burt Jones (R-Jackson) and Brandon Beach (R-Alpharetta) traveled to Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday to tour the ongoing Maricopa County ballot audit. The two are examining the process behind the audit after a similar audit was originally...
by Chris Butler | Jun 10, 2021
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has scheduled a virtual town hall where she said she will call on her supporters to pressure the U.S. Senate to pass the For the People Act. Some people also refer to the bill as H.R. 1. Abrams announced she...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jun 10, 2021
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL-10) announced Wednesday her intention to run for U.S. Senate against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). “When you grow up in the South poor, Black, and female, you have to have faith in progress and opportunity,” Demings, who grew up in...
by Hayley Feland | Jun 10, 2021
A 50 year old murder was recently solved when police arrested Barry Lee Whelpley of Mounds View, Minnesota for the murder of 15 year-old Julie Ann Hanson. The murder took place in Chicago, Illinois when Whelpley was 27, in 1972. The girl was stabbed 36 times...
by Casey Owens | Jun 10, 2021
Gubernatorial candidate and current U.S. Representative Charlie Crist began his “Voting Rights Tour” of the state of Florida to speak out against Republican efforts to establish stricter voting provisions. Crist began his tour on Tuesday and will...
by Eric Burk | Jun 10, 2021
The public comment period at Tuesday’s Loudoun County Public School (LCPS) Board meeting lasted about three hours after 121 people registered to speak. Several factors contributed to the high participation, according to LCPS citizen reporter Julie Sisson....
by Hayley Feland | Jun 10, 2021
The Minneapolis Democrat Farmer Laborer (DFL) Party moved their caucus process online and are now being accused of discrimination. Three DFL leaders, DFL Party activist Ken Vreeland, and former Minneapolis Council members Tony Scallon and Lisa MacDonald, have...
by Eric Burk | Jun 10, 2021
Democrats nominated former governor Terry McAuliffe, Attorney General Mark Herring, and Delegate Hala Ayala (D-Prince William) for governor, attorney general, and lieutenant governor respectively. Progressive candidates lost both in those races, and down-ballot...
by The Center Square | Jun 10, 2021
by Scott McClallen COVID-19 restrictions might be winding down, but 762,000 Michiganders are still receiving unemployment benefits while records jobs stay unfilled. The location of those receiving unemployment is skewed toward high-population areas. Oakland,...
by Grant Holcomb | Jun 10, 2021
On Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke at a town hall organized by the Jewish Federations of Florida about anti-semitism. DeSantis touted an education bill he signed after this year’s legislative session requiring schools to teach about the Holocaust....
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jun 10, 2021
The Ohio Senate is set to vote on its version of the state’s two-year, $75 billion budget. The main items in the Senate’s budget plan, which is similar to the budget on which the Ohio House voted in April, are an income tax cut, along with increased...
by Grant Holcomb | Jun 10, 2021
On Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke at a town hall organized by the Jewish Federations of Florida about anti-semitism. DeSantis touted an education bill he signed after this year’s legislative session requiring schools to teach about the Holocaust....
