A school that said a student couldn’t attend classes if she didn’t cut her dreadlocks did not infringe on the child’s constitutional rights, the Supreme Court of Jamaica ruled Friday. The issue began in July 2018 when Kensington Primary School asked the mother of a 5-year-old — identified as ZV since she’s a minor —…… MORE
The FBI said it found only “minor” errors in 29 warrant applications to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, after the agency came under heavy criticism for its handling of politically sensitive cases and reviewed a sampling of its past efforts. The agency’s audit filed with the FISA court looked at almost 7,000 facts in…… MORE
The Kansas Senate Republican primary on Tuesday has suddenly become the center of the two parties’ struggle for control of the chamber. Democrats haven’t won a Senate seat in the state since 1932, the longest losing streak for the party in the country. But the Republican establishment is terrified that spell might be broken if…… MORE
Outside groups in Georgia are sending absentee ballot applications to voters, potentially causing confusion and delays in mailing ballots. The Patriots Foundation, a self-proclaimed watchdog group, has been conducting a nonpartisan voter turnout effort in various states around the country, according to the group’s president, Craig Robinson. The effort has come after the state of…… MORE
Hours after President Donald Trump’s Tuesday tweet to “OPEN THE SCHOOLS!!” the private school attended by Trump’s youngest son has determined it will not open the school year with in-person learning. In a letter sent to parents and obtained by CNN, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School head of school Robert Kosasky announced the K-12 school will…… MORE
President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the US ambassador to Germany has a history of making xenophobic and racist comments about immigrants and refugees in both Germany and the US. Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, a decorated combat veteran, author and frequent guest on Fox News, claimed that Muslim migrants were coming to Europe “with…… MORE
Sen. Lindsey Graham wasn’t entirely sure what TikTok was, beyond a source of videos of piano-playing dogs and dancing cats. Nonetheless, he was tasked with a mission: talk President Donald Trump down from his threatened ban on the Chinese-owned platform that is hugely popular with American kids. So on Saturday, following 18 holes of golf,…… MORE
A bipartisan group of six governors has joined forces with the Rockefeller Foundation to pursue a deal for 3 million coronavirus antigen tests, which would help create the country’s first coordinated testing strategy in the absence of a national plan. Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, chairman of the National Governors Association, negotiated the deal with…… MORE
As the Trump administration’s coronavirus testing czar, Admiral Brett Giroir has repeatedly said the federal government is doing everything possible to address the country’s unmet demand for tests and timelier results. “If there is a stone that needs to be turned that is left unturned,” Giroir said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on July…… MORE
The US Navy SEALs will suspend its ties to the privately run Navy SEAL Museum, which is not sponsored by the Navy, amid the fallout of a video filmed there that involved a military working dog demonstration using an individual wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey as a target going viral. “I have suspended our support…… MORE
