(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Saturday presented the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with their medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office, hailing the slate of artists he was deeply involved in choosing as “perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class” ever assembled.
This year's recipients are actor Sylvester...
(Headline USA) Police in North Carolina have charged a 33-year-old man with critically injuring another person in a stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train, just a few months after a Ukrainian refugee riding one of the city's trains was killed in an unrelated knife attack.
Oscar Solarzano, 33, was charged...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The U.S. Senate will hold a doomed vote next week on Democrats’ bill to extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies for three more years.
Senate Republicans, meanwhile, have not decided on an alternative health care bill, despite millions of Americans’ premiums set to spike after Dec....
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a US government watchdog established in 2008 to oversee US reconstruction spending in Afghanistan, has issued a scathing final report on the US’s failed nation-building effort.
SIGAR will be closed down on January 31, 2026, and was required to...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The far-left Atlantic admitted that Marxist educational policies designed to provide “each according to his needs” in elite universities were, in fact, lowering the bar and wreaking havoc in classrooms.
The article “Accommodation Nation,” published last week, acknowledged that a longstanding problem in the school system...
(Nolan Mckendry, The Center Square) Louisiana investigators have fielded more than 20,000 tips on online child sexual abuse so far this year, already surpassing the state’s total for 2024, according to figures provided to The Center Square.
The tips have led to 457 arrests, with 70 child victims identified and...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Illegal border crossings continued a downward historic trajectory in October and November, representing the lowest numbers ever reported at the beginning of a fiscal year in recorded U.S. history. The fiscal year goes from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
In October, 30,573 illegal border crosser...
(Catrina Barker, The Center Square) A renewed push to double H-1B visas is touted as a talent win, but critics warn it could reshape the tech market by driving down wages and edging out U.S. grads.
Illinois Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Schaumburg, reintroduced the HIRE Act to double the H-1B visa...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military blew up another boat in the waters of Latin America on Wednesday, an attack that comes amid growing congressional scrutiny of the bombing campaign.
US Southern Command said in a statement on X that its forces conducted a “lethal kinetic strike” on a vessel...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had won its war, but was in a never-ending conflict.
The Israeli leader told The New York Times’ Dealbook Summit, “We won this war. But it’s never ending. It’s like if you have cancer and you take it...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth violated multiple protocols and federal law in the “Signalgate” affair in March, according to Pentagon watchdog the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Defense.
In a report commissioned by Congress, the office concluded that Hegseth stepped outside his...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Under the Biden administration, the greatest number of illegal border crossers at the U.S.-Canada border were reported in U.S. history, breaking records nearly every month for four years, The Center Square first reported.
While record high numbers dropped under the Trump administration, illegal entries still...