After uproar over its initial decision to ban the Bible — which was later reversed — a Utah school district has been trying to better separate the wheat from the chaff in determining which religious books can stay on library shelves. And it has decided all of them are good books. Earlier this year‚ Davis School District concluded its long pending reviews of both the Book of Mormon‚ which is the foundational scripture for the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‚ and the Quran...

President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the U.S. sent troops to Ukraine‚ it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict. Putin‚ speaking just days before a March 15-17 election which is certain to give him another six years in power‚ said the nuclear war scenario was not "rushing" up and he saw no need for the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. "From a military-technical point of view‚ we are...

When special counsel Robert Hur released his report last month explaining why he wouldn’t charge President Joe Biden with mishandling classified documents‚ his claim that Biden displayed a “poor memory” and “diminished faculties” in their interview received enormous attention. But now‚ the full transcripts of Hur’s interviews with Biden have been released — and they make Hur’s claims about Biden’s memory appear cherry-picked and exaggerated. Biden...

President Joe Biden will announce in Milwaukee on Wednesday $3.3 billion in infrastructure grants that will used across the country to connect communities divided by other projects. The grants‚ done in conjunction with the Department of Transportation‚ will cover more than 130 projects in 41 states‚ and will attempt to give access to neighborhoods and communities cut off from transportation infrastructure years ago‚ Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.

U.S. President Joe Biden sketched his policy vision for a potential second four-year term on Monday‚ unveiling a $7.3 trillion election-year budget aimed at convincing skeptical Americans that he can run the economy better than Donald Trump. Biden wants to raise taxes by trillions on corporations and high earners‚ his budget wish-list showed‚ to help cut the deficit and pay for new programs assisting those who make less cope with high housing and childcare costs....

President Joe Biden's proposed 2025 budget includes some perks for millions of families and low-income workers as well as senior citizens‚ including reviving a program that lifted millions of children out of poverty during the pandemic. The budget‚ released Tuesday‚ aims to pay for those tax breaks by raising taxes on corporations and the rich. One proposal‚ for instance‚ would completely reverse one of the cuts implemented by former President Donald Trump‚ whose 2017 Tax Cuts and...

President Biden unveiled his election-year budget pitch Monday‚ calling for $5.5 trillion in tax increases by raising rates on the wealthy and corporations — while spending $7.3 trillion on defense‚ federal benefit programs‚ affordable housing and student debt cancellation‚ among other proposals. The fiscal year 2025 budget — which is highly unlikely to be approved by Congress — matches last year’s topline tax increase level and spends $300 billion more while...

Until today‚ I might have been the last person left in America who has never seen a Hitchcock film.