(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Conservatives widely celebrated the firings or resignations of several disloyal staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as woke holdovers of the Biden era made themselves easier to identify and root out---including at least one facing scrutiny for his alarming fetishes and beliefs...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Riley Gaines' father is entering the political arena with a run for a Tennessee congressional seat.
Brad Gaines is seeking the Sixth District congressional seat, which is currently occupied by John Rose, who is running for governor.
Gaines will face four Republicans in the 2026 primary....
(Tate Miller, The Center Square) The Trump administration directed 46 states and territories to remove gender ideology from their sex ed materials or else face possible termination of federal Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) funding, with a family advocate praising the move.
Policy director for family advocacy group American Principles...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday that the Trump administration is considering taking stakes in major US weapons firms, comments that came after the US government announced it was acquiring a 10% stake in Intel, the US chip-making giant.
“Oh, there’s a monstrous discussion about...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Trump administration has shattered the record for total US airstrikes in Somalia in a single calendar year, as the US has been bombing the country at a record pace with virtually no American media coverage.
US Africa Command told Antiwar.com in an email on Tuesday that...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Two weeks after declaring “Liberation Day” in Washington, D.C., to combat crime, President Donald Trump signed executive orders to end cashless bail in the nation’s capital, while taking steps to eliminate it throughout the country.
The president signed the executive orders on Monday morning in...
(The Center Square, Bethany Blankley) The Texas Senate passed HB 4, the state’s congressional redistricting plan, which changes nearly all districts and could flip up to five seats from blue to red.
It passed along party lines Friday by a vote of 18-11, according to the Senate Journal record.
The bill...
(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) President Donald Trump says Chicago is next on his list of cities to focus on cleaning up crime.
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In December, after Trump was elected to a second non-consecutive term, Danielle Carter-Walters used public comments at a Chicago City Council meeting to call for the Trump...
(Headline USA) A New York appeals court on Thursday threw out the massive financial penalty a state judge imposed on President Donald Trump, while narrowly upholding a finding that he overinflated his property values to obtain loans—even though Trump repaid those loans and even though the banks never complained.
The ruling...
(Headline USA) Nebraska announced plans Tuesday for an immigration detention center in the remote southwest corner of the state as President Donald Trump's administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations.
The facility will be dubbed the “Cornhusker Clink,” a play on Nebraska's nickname of the Cornhusker State...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Questions from a triple fatality on the Florida Turnpike about 50 miles north of West Palm Beach are centered on Harjinder Singh’s citizenship status, a work permit, and where he obtained a commercial driver’s license.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the office of...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Monday that the only way the remaining Israeli captives would be freed from Gaza is if Hamas is “confronted and destroyed,” a statement that provides backing for the Israeli government’s plans to escalate its genocidal war on the Palestinian territory.
“We will only see...