The federal government “abandoned” local sheriffs and police departments on immigration, leaving them in a legal limbo and spurring their embrace of sanctuary policies, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s office lashed out at the Department of Homeland Security after its No. 2 official, Ken Cuccinelli, sent a scorching letter complaining…

The CDC has updated coronavirus testing guidelines for people who do not have symptoms of Covid-19

The World Health Organization warned Friday that the coronavirus is "not going away," noting that it's still killing about 50,000 people a week. "That is not where we want to be," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO's health emergencies program, said of Covid-19 deaths during a news conference at the agency's Geneva headquarters. "It's…

An Idaho pastor who called himself a "no-masker" and prayed with his congregation against a local mask ordinance has been in a hospital intensive-care unit with Covid-19 for more than two weeks.Pastor Paul Van Noy of Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene also wrote on Facebook in July, "It has been clearly and scientifically proven…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday reiterated her hard-line demand for a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package, snapping at a reporter who asked why she would not support a smaller bipartisan bill introduced earlier in the week."Just go read my statement," Pelosi said after a New York Times reporter asked what specifically she did not like about a $1.5 trillion…