Joel B. Pollak

Dr. Anthony Fauci announced Wednesday afternoon in the White House briefing room that the first confirmed case of the "Omicron variant" of COVID-19 had been identified in California in an individual who recently returned from South Africa.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki falsely claimed Wednesday that former President Donald Trump told people to "inject bleach" when she was confronted with the fact that more Americans have died from coronavirus under President Joe Biden.

Israel shut its borders this week to all foreign passport holders -- except the contestants in the Miss Universe pageant, to be held in the Red Sea resort city of Eilat later this month.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said Wednesday that abortion is "part of the fabric of women's existence in this country" as she tried to defendthe 1973Roe v.

The liberal justices on the Supreme Court made lengthy statements from the Bench on Wednesday during oral arguments in the case ofDobbs. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case that could see the 1973Roe v.

San Francisco's Union Square, the high-end shopping district at the center of the city, is boarding up for the Christmas shopping season after a string of "mass looting" events that began on the weekend before Thanksgiving.

If nominated to the Supreme Court, Vice President Kamala Harris could be the first Justice to have failed the Bar exam.

The City of Los Angeles began enforcing its vaccine mandate on indoor businesses Monday, including gyms, restaurants, and other facilities, with inspectors able to impose thousands of dollars in fines over time.

Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane defied pressure from anti-Israel groups and even the South African government on Sunday and landed in Israel to represent her country in the Miss Universe pageant in the coastal Red Sea city of Eilat next month.

The first night of Chanukah, also transliterated as Hanukkah, begins on Sunday evening, November 28, with the lighting of an eight-branched candelabra called the menorah, or chanukiah, shortly after sunset.

The Biden administration is unlikely to see its long-delayed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) director confirmed before the end of the year, despite fears of a new coronavirus variant and a winter surge, thanks to an avoidable paperwork blunder.

Many of us already believe we have justice -- because we are the ones dispensing it, thanks to the American jury system.

CARACAS — Inflation is a fearsome beast, and it’s plagued my country, Venezuela, for longer than I’ve existed.

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents utilized drone technology to help in the apprehension of eight migrants attempting to make their way into the U.S. interior. The agents apprehended the migrants in south Laredo near a busy highway.

All three defendants were found guilty by a jury on the second day of deliberations Wednesday in the Cobb County, Georgia, trial for the murder of 25-year-old black jogger Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot to death while jogging early in 2020.

TheSan Francisco Public Utilities Commission voted Tuesday to declare a water shortage emergency amid a crushing drought in the state that threatens water supplies throughout the region, slapping a 5% surcharge on water users in the city.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is denying fracking permits to oil companies in the state "in droves" despite the ongoing surge in gas prices.

Anonymous alleged "U.S. and congressional officials" told theWall Street Journal this weekthat President Joe Biden is planning to remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a nearly 60-year-old terrorist organization responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, from America's

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Newly-acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse could sue White House press secretary Jen Psaki for defamation, following her claim Tuesday afternoon that he was linked to the Proud Boys and her implication that he was a violent "white supremacist.

LOS ANGELES, California -- New fines for shipping containers left on the docks at the ports of Long Angeles and Long Beach have been delayed for a second time to November 29, as there have been signs of progress in the cargo crisis.