Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday signed legislation placing limits on inspections of large agricultural facilities such as concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs. Parson, a Republican, signed the bill despite concerns from Democrats and others that it would further erode local control and make it more difficult to police bad actors... In addition, the law limits who may offer evidence during a criminal prosecution. Evidence at a criminal prosecution must be offered by an authorized individual, someone on the property with the permission of the landowner, an official serving a search warrant, or a person who “observed a condition or event at the grounds or facilities” from public land or land owned by the person.

Republicans joined with majority Democrats in the Oregon House Thursday night in voting to expel Rep. Mike Nearman, a Republican from outside Independence who let far-right armed demonstrators into the Capitol on Dec. 21.

Staging the Olympics amid a state of emergency and a coronavirus upsurge has led top officials to question whether they should happen at all.

The Justice Department seized records from Apple for metadata of House Intelligence Committee members, their aides and family members.

SNK Corp's recent ownership change left fans unsettled.

Pedro Castillo was nearing victory in Peru's presidential election on Thursday, with the socialist holding a slim lead of some 70,000 votes over conservative rival Keiko Fujimori, who has yet to concede and has alleged fraud despite scant evidence.

The woman gives advice on social media about best sex work practices.

An extremely common microbe can stop the insects from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever.

The data includes source code for FIFA 21 and the Frostbite engine.

Its films have always celebrated a pluralistic India, making the industry—and its Muslim elite—a prime target for Narendra Modi.

A civil rights lawsuit tells the story of workplace discrimination, verbal abuse, assault and rampant misogyny at a major Asheville company

Ilhan Omar was attacked by 12 fellow House Democrats for making factual assertions about America and Israel. It's shameful.

A state judge is warning that he may force lawmakers to act if they don’t begin funding a multi-billion dollar plan to provide every North Carolina student with a sound basic education. This week, state Superior Court Judge David Lee signed a court order approving a plan from the State Board of Education and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration that calls for at least $5.6 billion in new education funding through 2028. Lee said in the order that “time is of the essence” because so many children aren’t getting what they need educationally. “If the State fails to implement the actions described in the Comprehensive Remedial Plan … ’it will then be the duty of this Court to enter a judgment granting declaratory relief and such other relief as needed to correct the wrong,’” Lee wrote in the order. Lee cited how Cooper’s proposed budget and House Bill 946 filed by Democratic lawmakers would fund the first two years of the action plan. The legislation funds items such as teacher and principal pay raises and additional state funding to expand NC Pre-K program and hire more teacher assistants, school nurses, school social workers and school counselors. The bill has not been acted on by the Republican-led General Assembly, which has repeatedly said that more money won’t necessarily solve the education problems.

The solidarity movement for Sheikh Jarrah against Israel's eviction plans has given Silwan residents hope that all is not yet lost

Chuck Schumer’s anti-China legislation won enough Republican support to pass, but at the expense of the planet. The Senate voted 68–32 Tuesday to pass the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a wide-ranging package promoted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Todd Young, aimed at countering unspecified threats from China. Young summed up the package’s rationale thus: “When future generations of Americans cast their gaze toward new frontiers, will they see a red flag planted on those new frontiers that is not our own? Today, we answer unequivocally, ‘No.’” Aping a talking point from President Biden, Young added, “Today we declare our intention to win this century, and those that follow it as well.” It’s an ironic turn of phrase considering that Democrats have yet to pass legislation tackling the single greatest threat humanity faces in this century and those to follow: the climate crisis. Shortly after the American Rescue Plan passed in March, Schumer decided not to focus on climate legislation and instead to eke out a bipartisan victory via an anti-China bill. The idea was to wrap independently popular industrial policy in the language of great power rivalry—or, in other words, to offer Republicans some jingoism in exchange for their support for greenish manufacturing. More overtly hawkish measures from Senator Robert Menendez’s Strategic Competition Act were folded into the 2,400-page final bill, too. It tracks with recent moves from the Biden administration, which backed the package early on. As Kurt Campbell, the National Security Council’s coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs, said recently of the U.S.-China relationship, “The period that was broadly described as engagement has come to an end.… The dominant paradigm is going to be competition.” So what have Democrats gotten in exchange for embracing this manifest destiny nationalism?

Lucas Wall was denied entry even though he wasn't wearing a mask due to a medical condition – saying he had requested an exemption from the airline.

The oil sands pipeline faced fierce opposition since it was first proposed in 2008.

Manchin has long been a “heat shield” for fellow moderates on the thorniest topics, including the filibuster. He still is, but cracks are beginning to show.

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, a third of unvaccinated Hispanic adults want a vaccine as soon as possible—twice the proportion of unvaccinated whites. But 52 percent of this eager group were worried that they might need to miss work because of the reputed side effects, and 43 percent feared that getting vaccinated could jeopardize their immigration status or their families’. Unsurprisingly then, among the states that track racial data for vaccinations, just 32 percent of Hispanic Americans had received at least one dose by May 24, compared with 43 percent of white people. The proportion of at least partly vaccinated Black people was lower still, at 29 percent. And as Lola Fadulu and Dan Keating reported in The Washington Post, Black people now account for 82 percent of COVID-19 cases in Washington, D.C., up from 46 percent at the end of last year. The vaccines have begun to quench the pandemic inferno, but the remaining flames are still burning through the same communities that have already been disproportionately scorched by COVID-19—and by a much older legacy of poor health care.

Thirty years ago, the biggest celebrities on earth opened a chain restaurant. For a few years, it was the hottest ticket in town. Then it went bankrupt. Twice. The brains behind this pop-culture phenomenon explain how it happened.