Trump gets high marks for transition — and public optimistic: new CBS poll
Most Americans approve of President-elect Donald Trump's handling of his administration's return to the White House and are bullish about the next four years, according to a new poll. According to the paper, a significant 59% of Americans approve of his efforts to fill the next administration with “disruptors,” while 41% disapprove. CBS News/YouGov Investigation. […]
Philippine vice president makes public assassination threat against country’s president
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte shockingly declared on Saturday that she had contracted assassins to kill the president, his wife and other government officials in case of his untimely death. President Duterte warned in an online press conference that he was very serious about his threat to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. if anything happened […]
Texas tees up likely legal battle with biblical public school lessons
Texas has joined the growing list of states mixing Bibles into public school classrooms, setting the stage for a possible new legal showdown. The Texas State Board of Education voted 8-7 Friday to allow classes on Bible stories in kindergarten through fifth-grade classes, encouraging those seeking to expand the Christian faith in public schools. Texas's […]
Girls Catholic school volleyball team could face penalty after fans boo trans athlete on public school team
A transgender volleyball player at a Northern California high school was reportedly booed and harassed during a game against a Catholic school on October 12, ABC 7 reported. In response, another school's athletic director reportedly told the Catholic school it could face “consequences” from its athletics council. The October 12 game was hosted by Notre […]
Mayorkas, Wray Are Ducking Public Testimony Because ‘They Get Grilled’, It’s ‘Unpleasant for Them’
On Thursday's MSNBC broadcast of “The Ana Cabrera Report,” NBC News Justice and Intelligence Correspondent Ken Dilanian said that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed to testify before the Senate Homeland Security Committee. (According to the committee chairman) Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.)It's the first time in more than 15 years […]
The Guardian view on physician associates: the NHS must level with the public | Editorial
THis plans for England's NHS workforce, created under the Conservative Party, are already under consideration. Given Labor's pledge to rebuild the system with a focus on prevention and care delivered in the community rather than hospitals, it is inevitable that the overall workforce will be restructured when the 10-year plan launches next year. . But […]
Senate has 6 weeks to vote to lift Social Security for public workers. Will it? – USA TODAY
Public sector workers are nervous in the hope that the Senate will pass a bill within the next six weeks that would allow them to receive the Social Security benefits they feel they are entitled to. It was passed by a bipartisan majority in the U.S. House of Representatives last week. Social Security Fairness Act […]
RFK Is a ‘Threat’ to Public Safety, He ‘Doesn’t Believe in Medical Science’
Former President Biden's White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Wednesday on CNN's “The Read” that President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., believes in medicine. He said he did not. “There's a lot of fear with RFK Jr. and what he's said about vaccines and medicine, […]
GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin: Letting Oklahoma public school educators teach the Bible is a 'slippery slope'
Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said teaching the Bible to Oklahoma's public school educators is “a slippery slope” when the teachers themselves “may not be believers.” “It's an easy slope,” he said. Mullin, who serves on a Senate committee that oversees education, said he wants his children to know the Bible. I think when placed […]
Texas Board of Education Pushes to Include Bible-Based Lessons in Public Schools
The Republican-led Texas Board of Education is scheduled to vote on approving voluntary Bible instruction in elementary schools across the Lone Star State. According to texas tribunea majority of the board's 15 members have expressed support for Bluebonnet Learning, an elementary school curriculum that includes Christian teachings and Biblical references, and are expected to formally […]