(Shirleen Guerra, The Center Square) Virginia revenues are running hundreds of millions of dollars ahead of forecast, but lawmakers warned Tuesday that slowing job growth, inflation and uncertainty tied to healthcare and federal funding are still creating pressure on Virginia’s budget talks.
During a Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee meeting,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas may be one of the most powerful Democrats in the state, but that influence has not translated into fundraising success.
Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas has struggled to raise even 10% of a $100,000 legal defense...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is being sued for having sex with her security guard and breaking up his family in the process. Now, she seeks to subpoena the mental therapy records of the woman who was the security guard’s wife at the time of the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The Israeli military dropped all charges against five soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee, and by April 2026 those soldiers returned to reserve service with no completed internal investigation.
According to the BBC, the military cited "complexities in the evidentiary structure" as its reason...
(José Niño, Headline USA) PayPal agreed to forgo roughly $30 million in transaction fees to settle a Justice Department probe into allegations that the financial services company adopted unlawful preferences for minority owned businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Justice Department officials had been investigating whether PayPal violated a federal...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Chinese President Xi Jinping warned President Trump during talks in Beijing on Thursday that differences over Taiwan could lead to “clashes and conflicts” between the US and China, underscoring the issue’s significance from China’s perspective.
“As President Xi Jinping noted during the talks with President Trump, the Taiwan...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Israeli government wants President Donald Trump to order a US special forces operation to secure Iran’s uranium that’s enriched at the 60% level, according to a report from Axios, an operation that is fraught with risks and would mean the resumption of full-blown war in...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) This author, Headline USA editor Ken Silva, has published a book on the Trump assassination attempts—providing readers with the most comprehensive account to date of the Butler, Pennsylvania and Palm Beach, Florida incidents, as well as several other plots against the president.
Chapter 1 of the...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) President Donald Trump is ripping Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for hiring former Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder to help oversee New York's congressional redistricting plans.
In a social media post, Trump accused Schumer and other top New York Democrats of trying to "interfere in...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A woman who declined to testify against a repeat offender accused of assaulting her now says she regrets the decision after the suspect allegedly went on to kill a retired New York City teacher weeks later.
The suspect, Rhamell Burke, is accused of shoving 76-year-old retired teacher...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A gun smuggling operation run by Canadian, Pakistani and Jordanian citizens has been thwarted at the U.S.-Canada border, authorities said.
While illegal border crosser crime has dropped considerably at the U.S.-Canada border from the Biden administration era, border crime is still ongoing, including human, drug...
(Johnny Edwards, The Center Square) The Georgia district attorney who took on Donald Trump, only to be removed from the case over a romance with her lead co-counsel, likely spent millions of dollars of taxpayers' money on the years-long racketeering prosecution. And taxpayers might be on the hook for...