Stephanie Carter, a nurse practitioner at the Olin E. Teague Veterans’ Center in Temple, Texas, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for not allowing her a religious accommodation to opt out of participating in the agency's new federally funded abortion plan, citing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act which requires the federal government to accommodate religious objections.
A committee consisting of seven Democratic and two Republican members of Congress has recommended that former President Donald Trump be charged with defrauding the US, making false statements, obstruction, and inciting an "insurrection" on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.
Twitter has suspended the Colorado Springs branch of Antifa, @COSAntiFascists, which had been active for several years with a history of inciting violence.
The US is adding more than 30 Chinese companies to a trade blacklist that would prevent them from purchasing certain American components as part of the ongoing US-China technology conflict.
El Paso, Texas has declared a state of emergency and requested additional resources from the state due to a surge in border crossings and overwhelmed law enforcement.
The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service has advised the public to report individuals who express dissent towards Covid-19 mandates, including mandatory vaccines, as potential "terrorists," citing "radicalized" political views potentially fueled by "conspiracy theories."
A large anti-NATO rally was held in Paris, France on Saturday by the right-wing Les Patriotes party, with protesters calling for a review of France's policies towards the US-led bloc and Moscow and denouncing anti-Russia sanctions.
An attorney for Donald Trump's 2024 campaign has claimed that a whistleblower from a ballot company reported that approximately 300,000 ballots were "illegally inserted" into the Maricopa County, Arizona midterm election tally.
Despite high vaccination rates in China, the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation projects that the country will see an "explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023," with peak cases and approximately 322,000 deaths expected around April 1, when around one-third of the population is projected to have been infected.
