IT'S JAN. 6 WEEK. Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats are planning a series of events to observe the occasion. President Joe Biden will make a speech. Former President Donald Trump will hold a news conference. And the media will talk about it all week. Read More.
A school district in Texas and the state’s attorney general have won a federal lawsuit against a Biden administration vaccine mandate, winning an injunction on vaccine and mask mandates within a federal education program in state schools. Read More.
The University of California Irvine has fired Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a physician and medical ethics professor, for refusing to take the coronavirus vaccine because he claimed natural immunity after he was infected in July 2020 and had recovered. Read More.
A USA Swimming official resigned in protest of male swimmer Lia Thomas, saying she can’t back a sport that allows “biological men” to compete alongside women. Read More.
The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization to a new at-home rapid COVID-19 test manufactured by Siemens Healthineers. Read More.
Border Patrol agents assigned to an immigration checkpoint near the Arizona border with Mexico found an armed human smuggler with three people locked in the trunk of the vehicle. The three migrants included a minor. Read More.
Federal medical czar Anthony Fauci stands to collect the most lucrative federal retirement pay in the history of the United States government, according to an estimate from auditors at OpenTheBooks.com. Read More.
If the Freedom from Religion Foundation thinks it can pressure Sheriff Jody Greene into scrubbing a beloved Bible verse from his office wall, Greene is telling the atheist activist group that it has sorely underestimated his resolve. Read More.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested that refusing to take the coronavirus vaccine goes against the Christian faith, claiming that turning down the jab violates the principle of “loving thy neighbour”. Read More.
Customs and Border Patrol apprehended what the agency is saying is the largest bust of crystal meth in the agency’s history, seizing 3,280 pounds of meth at a port of entry near Nogales, Arizona. Read More.
