CULTURE

(Tyler Arnold, The Center Square) The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority raided a Fredericksburg restaurant in relation to COVID-19 rule violations, but the owner who is running for a state Senate office is using the raid as a fundraising opportunity. “I’ve seen first-hand what it means to lay it all...

(The Center Square) The Illinois Legislature has approved a measure that would provide prison inmates with free menstrual products and underwear. House Bill 4218 aims to address the lack of hygiene products in Illinois Department of Corrections facilities. The measure would make feminine hygiene products and underwear available for "all committed persons...

(Headline USA) Washington, D.C., media elites are reportedly upset that President Joe Biden didn’t invite them to the traditional White House Christmas parties. The administration typically holds special holiday events for the White House press corps, including one for TV teams, which will be held on Dec. 8 this year, and...

(Headline USA) USS Arizona sailor Lou Conter lived through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor even though his battleship exploded and sank after being pierced by aerial bombs. That makes the now 101-year-old somewhat of a celebrity, especially on the anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, assault. Many call him...

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recently released transcript of Dr. Anthony Fauci's deposition in a Missouri case investigating media censorship revealed that Fauci's daughter worked for Twitter throughout the pandemic. Attorney D. John Sauer questioned Fauci, asking if he communicated with anyone at any of the social media giants, the...

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Only days after Elon Musk dropped the bombshell Twitter files on Hunter Biden and regime collusion to censor the laptop from hell story, the Biden administration is launching an investigation into Musk's Neuralink over allegations that the company is in violation of animal welfare laws. Musk...

(The Center Square) A series of document dumps called the “Twitter files” have exposed the social-media companies’ collusion with federal law enforcement and the Democratic Party to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, and now lawmakers are calling for consequences. New Twitter owner Elon Musk ordered...

(Headline USA) New York Democrats are pushing for a state law that would require the government to pay reparations to black residents after a California taskforce revealed a similar plan earlier this month. The California plan would force the Golden State to shell out $569 billion in reparations to slaves’s descendants,...

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell caved to his friends, outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., regarding the inclusion of a media cartel provision in the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act. Such bills coming from the House often...

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Paul Pelosi, husband of retiring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., made his first public appearance Sunday at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., just weeks after being attacked with a hammer in what appears to have been a domestic dispute with a mentally unstable...

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In response to warnings from federal officials that the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok was a security threat, South Carolina Republican Gov. Henry McMaster on Monday moved to ban it from all state government electronic devices. Calling it a “clear and present danger to its users,” McMaster...

(Headline USA) Kirstie Alley, a two-time Emmy winner whose roles on the TV megahit Cheers and in the Look Who’s Talking films made her one of the biggest stars in American comedy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, died Monday. She was 71. Along with being one of the industry's...