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Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building’s co-op board calling her Diwali decoration “offensive” and demanding she take it down. “My decoration said ‘Happy Diwali’ and had a swastika on it,” said Deo, a physician, who was celebrating the Hindu festival of lights. The equilateral cross with its […]

RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation’s oldest national park, washing out bridges and roads and sweeping an employee bunkhouse miles downstream, officials said Tuesday. Remarkably, no one was reported injured or killed. The only visitors left […]

As President Joe Biden works to get his infrastructure package through Congress, a bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed breaking up the package into two to get it passed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s climate change ruling on Thursday is likely to hinder President Joe Biden’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and to make the U.S. a global leader again in the fight to slow global warming. In its decision, the court limited the […]

Dozens of House Republicans broke from GOP leadership and former President Donald Trump to support the creation of a national, bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The vote shakes up the politics of the gun violence debate in Congress as many of the Republicans who voted to proceed to the bill have A or A-plus NRA ratings.  

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — A wave of praise came from political leaders Thursday after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that Americans who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer have to wear a mask in most situations. “Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, […]

65-year-old Shelley Stutchman is one of the 330 Oklahomans participating in phase three of a clinical trial for a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Biden Administration is stopping short of shooting down hopes of a fourth stimulus check, but signaled Thursday that the president is focused on “putting people back to work” rather than short-term relief.

A program that was set up to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic is set to expire next week — unless Congress acts first. Senators on Capitol Hill from both sides of the aisle are now pushing for an extension of the Paycheck Protection Program.

WASHINGTON (WOWK/AP)—According to West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito, infrastructure talks between President Joe Biden and Republican leaders have stalled. Capito is a Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Biden has started reaching out to senators from both parties as he strives to build bipartisan compromise on his top legislative priority. […]