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After two weeks of lifting its mask mandate and allowing businesses to open at full capacity, Texas is not seeing a surge of new COVID-19 cases. Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, issued an executive order (pdf) that went into effect on March 10 to loosen COVID-19 restrictions. Although the government’s statewide mask mandate was lifted, […]

You may not have realized it, but Prohibition didn’t entirely end in 1933: Brewing your own beer also became illegal under the constitutional ban, but the practice wasn’t made legal when commercial sales of alcohol resumed. Actually, you can thank Jimmy Carter for your homebrew, and, in turn, the craft brewing industry. California Sen. Alan

Easter is perhaps my favorite food holiday. It’s the day that the food of my people comes out: Slovenian and Czech braided bread, fried krofi, and sausage with sauerkraut. But also? This cake. This cake is nothing short of pure American ingenuity, in my mind—a sweet and sticky confection of angel food cake, marshmallow icing,

President Joe Biden’s administration is going to use a third convention center to house illegal immigrant youth. The Freeman Expo Center in San Antonio is being converted to an Emergency Intake Center for children who cross the southern border without their parents. Up to 2,400 kids can be housed at the facility, according to the

Two family members of former national security adviser Michael Flynn sued CNN on Thursday, asserting a report connecting them to the QAnon movement constituted defamation. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, and obtained by The Epoch Times, says CNN’s Feb. 4 video report “falsely accused Plaintiffs of

Bright pink cherry blossoms against a brilliant blue sky is a sight unlike any other in the world. “Sakura” is the cherry blossom’s name in Japan. They flutter slowly to the ground as crowds mill about, taking in springtime’s beauty. Across the country, the atmosphere shifts. Buds bloom. Winter draws to an end. Just as

Australia’s domestic spy chief is standing by the agency’s decision to drop the sensitive term “Islamic extremism” to “religiously motivated violent extremism,” saying such activity was not limited to one religion. Mike Burgess, the director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), did concede, though that Islamic extremism was the leading motivator behind recent terrorist

Social media platform Parler said it had referred violent content from its platform to the FBI ahead of the breach at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Parler made the disclosure in a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, in response to the panel’s request for documents. The company said that it had referred

The Queensland government is implementing a targeted lockdown in parts of Brisbane after a man was found to have been infectious with the CCP virus in the community for a week. From noon on Friday, visitors will not be permitted at aged care and disability centres, hospitals, and correctional centres in the Brisbane City and

A mom-to-be with pulmonary hypertension knew that more than 50 percent of women with this life-threatening disease do not live to meet their babies. Yet, with her husband by her side, she decided that termination was simply not an option. Jackie Zieman, 30, of Manhattan Beach in southern California, survived her pregnancy with the rare condition, and