The highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19 is behind the vast majority of new cases in the United States, and the country is logging over 100,000 infections daily. But how can patients find out if they've contracted the delta variant? Several hospitals

Confirmation that the Taliban captured the capital of Afghanistan's Helmand province has particular resonance in Britain LONDON -- For a large chunk of the past 20 years, British troops fought hard to ensure that the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand

The state senator behind California’s law allowing biological males in women’s prisons defended the law Wednesday and criticized feminists who oppose it, saying, “I’m really proud of that law.” “It’s a really positive step forward,” Democratic California state

A coalition of nine moderate House Democrats have urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to take up the historic infrastructure bill that cleared the Senate earlier this week ― or else. “Some have suggested that we hold off on considering the Senate infrastructure

New York’s top financial regulator, Linda Lacewell, is planning to step down as the state grapples with fallout from Governor Andrew Cuomo’s resignation. Lacewell, the state’s superintendent of financial services, will resign effective Aug. 24, she said in

What The New Census Data Shows About Race Depends On How You Look At It Over the past decade, the United States continued to grow more racially and ethnically diverse, according to the results of last year's national head count that the U.S. Census Bureau

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been caught on leaked audio telling border agents that the current crisis is “unsustainable” and that the US is “going to lose.” Mayorkas told agents during a private meeting in Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday

(CNN) — More than two dozen cases of Covid-19 have been detected among crew and passengers aboard a Carnival cruise ship, according to the Belize Tourism Board. One passenger and 26 crew members tested positive prior to calling on the port in Belize City,

President Joe Biden issued a strongly worded tweet on Thursday evening urging California voters not to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who has been slipping in opinion polls leading up to the start of mail-in voting in the Sep. 14 election. In the tweet, Biden

Hawaii bracing for more COVID-19 cases amid surge Hawaii officials are bracing for more confirmed COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations as the delta variant takes hold on the islands. Gov. David Ige has already reinstated restrictions on social gatherings amid

Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland will require public school staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or face weekly testing. Montgomery County schools on Friday posted the mandate in their reopening guide. More details about submitting

As Afghanistan’s provincial capitals fell in astonishingly rapid order to the Taliban this week, President Biden made it clear he has no regrets for withdrawing American forces from the country after two decades. A politician known for his deep reserve of empathy,

FILE PHOTO: SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as he visits the construction site of Tesla's gigafactory in Gruenheide, near Berlin, Germany, May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi FILE PHOTO: SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as

Anti-mask advocate Heather Tanner (right) tries to persuade Mary Tereilleger, who teaches three-year-olds in Broward County's Head Start program, that students do not need to wear masks when they return to school during a protest outside of a Broward County

Tropical Depression Fred continued to dump heavy rain over parts of Cuba on Friday as the system slogs toward the Florida Keys, where it's expected to hit Saturday. Meanwhile, another system in the Atlantic, Potential Tropical Cyclone Seven, was forecast to

FILE PHOTO: A road leads to an open-cut mine in the area known as the Pilbara region located in the north-west of Western Australia, September 5, 2016. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo FILE PHOTO: A road leads to an open-cut mine in the area known as the Pilbara

Britney Spears' Father Agrees To Step Down As Her Conservator James Spears, the father of pop star Britney Spears, has agreed to step down as the conservator of his daughter's estate. For 13 years, the singer has had no control over her finances. National

Denmark's Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod speaks during a news conference as the country is to temporarily close its embassy in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, and evacuate the employees, in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 13, 2021. Ritzau Scanpix/Nils Meilvang via

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com. The recently completed Tokyo Summer Olympic Games were, in many respects, an unmitigated flop. NBC's prime-time coverage averaged a paltry 12.9 million

Supreme Court declines Indiana University students appeal to block COVID vaccine mandate The decision clears way for school officials at Indiana University to require students and faculty to be vaccinated to attend in-person classes.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s disastrous “Cyber Symposium” concluded on Thursday without offering any of the promised evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. But when confronted by a CNN reporter, Lindell claimed he couldn’t show the evidence, as he’d promised,

(CNN) Entomologists in Washington state are setting up traps and urging people to be on the lookout after a "murder hornet" was spotted attacking a paper wasp nest this week near the US-Canadian border. It's the first confirmed sighting of a live "murder hornet,"

Here’s Department of Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas telling us officially that about the record numbers of illegal border crossers that they encountered in July. That’s just the ones they encountered, not including the ones that got through without

One of two men charged in the death of a Chicago police officer allegedly committed a hit-and-run last April while on probation following a robbery conviction in 2019, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. A Chicago area physician, who asked the Sun-Times to identify