Former Green Bay Packers linebacker Brady Poppinga spoke out Thursday for the first time since it was revealed that his 17-year-old son, Julius, died earlier this week after reportedly suffering a severe asthma attack.  Julius Poppinga, a junior at Westlake High School in Ventura County, California, and a member of […]

A wide range of groups representing farmers, cattle ranchers, hunters, landowners and energy companies are fighting Biden administration regulations expanding wildlife protections. In individual comments submitted earlier this month, the groups said the regulations — unveiled in June by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) — represent federal overreach […]

The Alaska state board of education on Thursday voted to support banning transgender girls from competing on high school girls athletic teams, sending the issue to the attorney general. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who appointed the members of the state education board, has said the regulation is needed to ensure […]

Kansas officials should not be required to change official birth certificates when transgender people ask them to do so under a new state law, a federal judge said. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree ruled Thursday that a new Kansas state law requiring birth certificates to reflect the male and female […]

The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said Friday that a partnership between the Russian and Chinese leaders worried him, adding, “We have never seen a threat this large scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.” An alliance between Chinese leader Xi […]

Body camera footage showing the events leading up to a police officer fatally shooting a pregnant Black woman in Westerville, Ohio, is expected to be released to the public on Friday. Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old mother of two kids and pregnant with a third, went to a Kroger in the […]

A headless bronze statue believed to depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius was ordered seized from the Cleveland Museum of Art by New York authorities investigating antiquities looted from Turkey. A warrant signed by a judge in Manhattan on Aug. 14 ordered the seizure of the statue, which […]

A California woman known for a pair of high-profile business failures alongside her husband has been charged with trying to hire someone to kill him in San Diego County. Sometime between July 1 and Aug. 2, Tatyana Remley, 42, allegedly tried to hire a hitman, according to a criminal complaint. […]

The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday permitted the state’s ban on transgender medical procedures for minors to take effect.  The ruling came down after a judge last Friday issued an injunction against the law in response to a lawsuit brought by families of transgender youths and doctors. The law is […]

NASA says it has captured images of the moon showing the “likely” impact site of Russia’s failed Luna 25 mission.  The lunar lander crashed onto the surface of the moon on Aug. 19, marking an end to Russia’s first lunar mission in nearly five decades.  “NASA’s LRO – the Lunar […]