Kinney County in Texas has declared a local state of disaster, officially classifying the flood of migrants streaming from across the Mexican border as an “invasion” and requesting assistance from state and federal authorities.
Police in Illinois said Tuesday that the rifle used in the July Fourth parade shooting outside of Chicago was "purchased in Illinois" and "appears to have been purchased legally" by the shooter.
North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley authorized billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates’ purchase of large swathes of the state’s farmland Tuesday.
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a $3.2 billion deal to purchase 105 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for a fall vaccination campaign, with options to buy up to 300 million doses.
The Biden administration today said it ordered 2.5 million more doses of Bavarian Nordic’s Jynneos monkeypox vaccine, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was seeking to expand the vaccine for children, despite no known cases yet in children in the U.S.
Pro-choice liberals, including a northern California public school board member, are calling for boycotts of Independence Day to protest the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.