(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) National teacher unions contribute at least 10% of their annual budget to lobbying and political activism, which includes calling for the impeachment of Republican President Donald Trump in the 2026 American Federation of Teachers handbook. Efforts also include supporting Democratic causes such as messaging...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department finalized a rule Monday that will pave the way for people who've been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated.
The process launched by newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is a victory for Second Amendment advocates...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The number of foreign nationals apprehended nationwide was historically low in July but the highest they’ve been since January, according to the latest data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The increase is largely due to a greater number of illegal border crossers being...
(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have rebuilt their fractured partnership through months of quiet diplomacy, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The two traveled together aboard Air Force One in May en route to Beijing, chatting warmly about factory plans, space launches and...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Jewish advocacy group and antisemitism tracker the Anti-Defamation League launched a new initiative Wednesday aimed at helping university students, faculty and staff combat antisemitism on their campuses.
The initiative includes two reports tracking “less visible” forms of antisemitism at universities, a confidential reporting mechanism for...
(Headline USA) A man killed a woman and their child at a home daycare they own in Minnesota before taking his life, police said Wednesday.
All six other children who were at the home have been reunited with their parents, and none were injured, according to authorities in Hopkins, a...
(Headline USA) Russia released an American military veteran on Tuesday, allowing his return to the U.S. after four years of what his family and U.S. officials allege was wrongful incarceration and abusive treatment that left him near death.
Robert Gilman, a 32-year-old Massachusetts teacher and former Marine, was freed after
President...
(Headline USA) Ben Jones, who played the good ol' boy mechanic in “The Dukes of Hazzard” TV series and parlayed his fame into a political career and two terms in the U.S. House, has died. He was 84.
Jones had a heart attack in his home Sunday in Washington, Virginia,...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Voters in Minnesota head to the polls Tuesday to pick party nominees to fill Sen. Tina Smith's seat.
The primary election has drawn competition from both sides with several candidates. Thirty-three of 100 U.S. Senate seats are up for election in 2026, and Minnesota’s race...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) After days of drawn-out negotiations, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a short-term government funding stopgap early Saturday morning.
Both chambers of Congress now leave for the entire month of August. The House must approve the Senate’s continuing resolution when it returns before President Donald Trump...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) YouTuber Candace Owens has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s former bodyguard, Brian Harpole, filed against her for implicating him in Kirk’s assassination.
Harpole sued Owens in April after she aired allegations from a man named Mitch Snow that he saw...
(Headline USA) The state of New Mexico sued the Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday, saying the federal government blocked the state's ability to investigate the sex crimes of financier Jeffrey Epstein at a ranch there.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.,...