Mask mandates are returning for a limited time during cold and flu season in the heart of deep-blue California’s San Francisco Bay Area. With winter fast approaching, several Bay Area counties have recently issued health orders requiring that face makes be worn in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and other health care settings beginning on Nov. 1 and extending through either March 31 or April 30, 2025, the San...

Second Amendment activists scored another win against New York State’s expansive gun control regime on Thursday. A federal judge said a newly enacted state law that bans licensed firearms owners from carrying concealed weapons on all private property, unless the owners permit weapons with a sign or by express consent, violates the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. “At least as to private property open to the...