A nutrition fellowship program for the University of North Carolina removed its race-based criteria for membership following discrimination complaints.
According to a report by Michael Shellenberger, the FBI made an "organized effort" to target social media and news companies, including Twitter, that reported on the Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead-up to the 2020 election, and Twitter received repeated requests for information from the FBI that it had previously stated it would not share outside of normal legal channels.
The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending its policy of rapidly expelling migrants at the US-Mexico border, after a request from Republican officials in 19 states.
The European Union announced on Dec. 18 a provisional agreement that reforms the bloc’s carbon market, successfully expanding a crucial component of the region’s broader green agenda.
House Republicans are planning to release their own 100-page report in response to the select committee's expected 1,000 page report on the events of Jan 6, 2021.
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.
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.
A federal appeals court in New York City ruled on Friday that transgender athletes in Connecticut are allowed to participate on female sports teams, upholding a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit filed by cisgender runners.