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(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) Michigan House Republicans say newly obtained records show Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson maintained ties to the recently indicted Southern Poverty Law Center after taking office. The records come amid ongoing scrutiny of Benson's relationship with the organization following a federal indictment announced in...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) President Donald Trump on Thursday floated temporarily pulling Todd Blanche's nomination to the attorney general post while a U.S. Senate committee struggles to advance him. The Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to hold a vote on Blanche's nomination Thursday morning. However, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas,...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Plans to unite Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery into a film and television giant are on ice following a flurry of antitrust lawsuits. Paramount Skydance recently announced that it will delay closing its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to as late as...

(Headline USA) A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison. Colin Gray’s sentencing comes days after his son, Colt Gray, was sentenced to life in prison without...

(Headline USA) Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved. After Graham was eulogized Tuesday in the nation's capital as an indefatigable dealmaker by the president, vice president and others,...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) After meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday to discuss the Iran war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the talks as “one of the best conversations” he’s ever had with the US president. “It was a meeting with full cooperation, with mutual support, with...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The Senate narrowly approved Walter “Jay” Clayton as the next Director of National Intelligence, where he will oversee the 18 federal agencies making up the U.S. Intelligence Community. The partisan 51-47 vote highlighted Democrats’ growing distrust of the U.S. Attorney. Clayton’s responses to lawmakers during...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. senators will vote next week on holding in contempt of Congress the man who led the U.S. response to the global pandemic in 2020. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said senators would vote to determine whether Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute for...

(Headline USA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump met at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since they launched a joint war against Iran, offering a chance for Netanyahu to smooth out strains in their relationship. The closed-door meeting lasted nearly an hour and...

(Headline USA) Sen. Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of his generation's more influential U.S. politicians at home and abroad, is being eulogized Tuesday as “a true American original” during memorial services in Washington. Graham's flag-draped casket arrived for a tribute at the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal housing regulators have turned to college dormitories, opening civil rights investigations into two flagship public universities. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is examining campus housing at the University of Connecticut and the University of Minnesota after complaints alleged both schools operate residential...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Immigration and Customs Enforcement broke a months long data blackout this week, and the figures it finally posted reveal an agency arresting people faster than at any point in Donald Trump's second term. Immigration researcher Austin Kocher reported on his Substack that ICE held 65,765 people...