Texas Gov. Greg Abbott debuted the first section of the state-funded border wall in the Rio Grande Valley, making good on his promise to address the Lone Star State’s unprecedented border crisis in response to President Biden’s “failure to do his job.”
After weeks of remaining noncommittal while negotiating with President Joe Biden, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announced Sunday that he would not support the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better bill.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chileans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in the Andean nation’s most divisive presidential election in decades, with two candidates offering starkly different visions for the future from pensions and privatization to human rights. Voters were choosing between Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student protest leader allied to the […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] MANILA (Reuters) – Typhoon Rai rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm before making landfall in the southern Philippines on Thursday, forcing mass evacuations and flight cancellations as floodwaters reached chest-high in low-lying communities. Rai, the 15th typhoon to enter Philippine territory this year, hit the holiday island of Siargao in the southern province of […]
Lauren Moye, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The White House’s vaccination mandate for private businesses will take effect in early January after a U.S. appeals court ruled in favor of lifting a lower court’s stay against the emergency order. The order will now go into effect on Jan. 10 with some delay in enforcement until February. […]
Lauren Moye, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Faith organizations continue to provide crucial aid in communities shredded by devastating tornadoes on Dec. 10. The storm system heavily impacted Midwestern states as it cut a path across 200 miles of land. Christians across different denominations and non-denominational faith-based organizations have mobilized relief teams and supplies to the […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] GENEVA (Reuters) – Countries taking part in U.N. talks on autonomous weapons stopped short of launching negotiations on an international treaty to govern their use, instead agreeing merely to continue discussions. The International Committee of the Red Cross and several NGOs had been pushing for negotiators to begin work on an international treaty […]
Schools and businesses across the nation are closing their doors following President Biden’s announcement that the winter could become a season of “severe illness and death” for those who are unvaccinated.
An August 2020 lawsuit filed by the NAACP against the United States Postal Service ended Friday when the two sides, with the help of the Justice Department, reached an agreement on how best to proceed with the delivery of mail-in ballots.
Fears of overloaded hospitals amid a rise in COVID-19 infections driven by both the Delta and Omicron variants have plunged some states and countries back into fear.