(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Congress faces a mountain of political challenges when it resumes session next week, including a potential government shutdown, a health care affordability crisis, and the ongoing release of the Epstein files.
U.S. lawmakers left town for the holidays after passing only three of the 12...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) US District Judge Matthew Sharbaugh ruled Friday that Brian Cole Jr., who’s accused of planting two pipe bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest, is to remain in jail—despite the fact that Cole has not...
(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit this week against Virginia, alleging the state unlawfully grants in-state college tuition rates to students who are not legally present in the United States.
The government is seeking a permanent injunction against certain provisions of the Virginia...
(Headline USA) A Georgia judge on Tuesday tossed racketeering charges against dozens of defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics call “Cop City.”
Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer said in the order that Republican Attorney General Chris Carr...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US Department of War announced on Monday that Boeing has been awarded a contract worth up to $8.6 billion to sell Israel new F-15 fighter jets as part of a deal funded by US military aid.
The Israeli Defense Ministry announced the initial deal in November...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) One of the violent individuals serving one of the heaviest sentences for the 2020 riots in Portland, Oregon, had been making sickening blog posts from federal prison, including one in which he celebrated Charlie Kirk’s murder and allegedly urged further violence.
The inmate, Malik Fard Muhammad, made the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) “Violence cannot defeat violence,” said Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, the head of the Diocese of Sokoto in northwestern Nigeria. He added that Christianity has survived oppression through resilience, not force, saying, “Let us heed those solemn words of Jesus to Peter: Put your sword back in its...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) In President Donald Trump’s first year in office, illegal border crossers in one year in Texas totaled nearly half of gotaways reported in previous years in Texas.
They also represent roughly 10% of illegal entries in Texas in 2022 and 2023, according to U.S. Customs...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he’d launched a “powerful and deadly" U.S. strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country's government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.
“Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United...
(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) If your last-minute Christmas shopping requires a credit card, you are not alone.
According to a new WalletHub report, many Americans are still paying off credit card debt from last Christmas.
“What we found is that through the end of the third quarter 2025, we're sitting...
The probe comes after two students were killed and nine others injured on Dec. 13 when a lone gunman burst into an engineering building where students were taking exams…