New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Thursday that raises the age of consent to be married to 18 — effectively banning child marriage. The bill, called Nalia's Law, is named after a survivor who was forced into marriage at age 13. New York raised the age of consent from 14 to 17 with parental or judicial consent in 2017.

Last week we learned that, in June, prices throughout the U.S. economy continued to rise at a pace we simply have not observed since the “Great Inflation” period of 1966-1982. Tuesday’s report that consumer prices had risen 0.9 percent (11.4 percent at an annual rate) was followed Wednesday with news that producer prices had surged 1 percent (12.2 percent annualized), both roughly double what economists had been forecasting. Then, on Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that import prices also had continued to surge higher in June.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) suggested on Sunday that she is like Moses because God has given her "perseverance" over communism. While speaking to the Turning Point USA Student Action Summitt, Boebert credited God for allowing her restaurant to succeed.

The social network and the Biden administration have engaged in an increasingly rancorous war of words over the issue of vaccine misinformation.

The coronavirus itself is morally blameless in its devastation. But Donald Trump, right-wing media and accommodating Christians are not.

“The truer something is, the more penalized you are for articulating it.”

Thirty years ago, Albert O Hirschman published a short book that infuriated conservatives called The Rhetoric of Reaction. The book showed how conservative arguments across time and space fell into three rhetorical buckets: perversity – raising taxes means less revenue; futility – voting changes nothing; and jeopardy – if you give the vote to poor people, you get revolution (the opposite of futility, but who cares about consistency).

Great analysis of Biden's speaking style: "Beasley and others noted the contrast between Biden and former President Donald Trump, who often spoke loudly and angrily."

After recording the country’s highest ever temperatures of 49.6C, the town of Lytton in British Columbia, Canada, burst into flames. Residents had minutes to flee a “wall of fire” with nothing but the clothing on their backs. Like people in many other places in the world struggling with heatwaves, fires, droughts and strange extreme storms, BC residents now know what it feels like to live in a changing climate on an increasingly inhospitable planet.

A secretly taped video showed Texas Rep. Chip Roy saying he wanted to prevent Democrats from getting anything done so the GOP could win back Congress.

A political fight is brewing among wings of the Democratic Party over Beijing’s help in curbing climate change versus curbing its human rights abuses.

As you’ve probably heard by now, on Thursday, the Trump Organization and its longtime CFO, Allen Weisselberg, were indicted on 15 criminal charges, including conspiracy, grand larceny, and multiple counts of tax fraud and falsifying records.

As formerly Confederate states struggle with low vaccination rates as the Delta variant of coronavirus spreads across America, pastors stuck between the science of what is best for their flocks and superstitions that their congregants believe.

Ahead of the first Fourth of July since an attack on the Capitol, fueled by baseless claims of voter fraud, and as several GOP-led states work now to enact stricter voting rules, majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents express worry about the health of democracy.

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who oversaw the Pentagon's response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has died at the age of 88.

Many in the cryptocurrency industry have long demanded that Congress provide "regulatory clarity" on how it will tax and regulate digital assets. But as powerful figures in Washington weigh in, it's doubtful crypto enthusiasts are liking what they hear.

This movement is putting politics ahead of faith and ideology ahead of theology.

Right Wing Watch was banned while the right-wing extremists they merely exposed via the platform continue to publish misinformation on YouTube.

"Judging by the Trump-supporting normies I live with, they were bored with his speech," wrote one QAnon user.