(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The national news outlet CNBC ranked 10 Republican-led states as the worst to live in its 2026 America’s Top States for Business rankings.
Officials from Republican-led Texas, which ranked second to worst for quality of life in CNBC's report, scoffed at the rankings.
In its business...
(Headline USA) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that he is rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops, calling it necessary to allow them to operate at their "absolute best.”
The new screenings will be conducted annually as part of service members' required medical screenings for those...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. inflation decreased by 0.4% in June, for a seasonally adjusted total of 3.5% over the year, driven by rapidly falling energy costs, according to a new report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Inflation rose by 0.5% in May before declining 0.4%...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal agents took a San Jose State University graduate student into custody this week, accusing him of flooding the campus with phony bomb threats and bigoted notes that disrupted operations for months, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday, according to Patch.
Ziheng "Tony" Fang, 30,...
(Headline USA) Billionaire Warren Buffett omitted Bill Gates’ foundation from his annual donations this year after disclosures of the Microsoft co-founder’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He will donate about $6 billion to four foundations connected to his own family, but did not mention Gates in his...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Due to an apparent technicality, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man convicted in 2019 for plotting to bomb a bank in Oklahoma City.
The convicted OKC bomb plotter, Jerry Drake Varnell, filed a lawsuit last December, claiming that he has been...
(Headline USA) Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham, has been named as his temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate after his unexpected death over the weekend.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced at a news conference at the Statehouse on Monday that she will serve the remaining months on Graham's current...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) A national news report indicates an FBI investigation into Fulton County's 2020 election is intensifying.
Fulton County has not received any communication, notification or additional subpoenas from the FBI or the Justice Department about an increase in agents reviewing ballots, a spokesman for Fulton County...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Monday he’s recommended that Lindsey Graham’s sister be named as his temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate.
Trump posted on social media that Gov. Henry McMaster should appoint Darline Graham Nordone to fulfill the rest of Graham’s term, which expires in January. Graham died...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday published a post on X mourning Lindsey Graham, who died at 71 on Saturday night, just one day after meeting with Zelensky in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
Graham was one of Washington’s leading supporters of the proxy war in Ukraine,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Hunter Biden, the only child in U.S. history to receive a presidential pardon from his father, praised the “rule of law” after winning a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne.
At the center of the lawsuit were Biden’s claims that Byrne defamed him by alleging...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The long-expected implosion of Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s senatorial campaign has led to plenty of head-scratching and finger-pointing, with the perplexed punditry seeking to assign blame after weeks spent vouching for the alleged Nazi rapist.
Not surprisingly, some were eager to deflect from the underlying dearth...