(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...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) South Carolina Democrats were reeling Friday after the disclosure of a months-old arrest video that showed their leading gubernatorial candidate unleashing a drunken diatribe about well-known political figures, including former President Barack Obama and Republican Rep. Nancy Mace.
A 17-minute portion of the cringeworthy half-hour rant...
(The Center Square) Days after President Donald Trump declared “Liberation Day” by federalizing the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and deploying hundreds of National Guard members to curb crime, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming the federal takeover is unlawful.
Schwalb describes...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The local government of the District of Columbia has settled a lawsuit filed by a police sergeant who accused her superiors of misclassifying offense records to deflate crime statistics, the Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday.
Charlotte Djossou, a former sergeant at the Metropolitan Police Department, sued the...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) On the day before Social Security’s 90th anniversary, fiscal watchdogs are urging Congress to seriously address the program’s impending funding shortfalls – particularly in light of the now $37 trillion national debt – even as lawmakers met Wednesday to discuss increasing benefits.
“The looming shortfalls...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has launched a new line of attack against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo by trying to tie him to Republican President Donald Trump, who remains deeply unpopular in the city.
Mamdani kicked off a “Five Boroughs Against Trump" tour...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Amid growing international condemnation of Israel’s annihilation and starvation of Gaza – including from staunch ally Britain—U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday attempted to defend the genocidal assault on Gaza by invoking one of the most notorious Allied atrocities of World War II.
Appearing on...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A Texas judge has temporarily blocked Beto O’Rourke’s shady fundraising campaign to bankroll “runaway Democrats”—the group of state legislators who fled Texas to stall redistricting efforts.
On Friday, Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey issued a temporary injunction against O’Rourke and his group, Powered by People, barring them...