(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...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat candidate for Virginia governor, came under fire after one of her supporters waved a racist sign targeting Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, a black Republican running for the same office.
The sign, reportedly held by activist Anita Martineau, appeared outside a school board...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) As comfort-food restaurant Cracker Barrel continues its long-running mission to become the next Bud Light under “girlboss” CEO Julie Felss Masino, Democrats are pouncing on the opportunity for a rebrand of their own.
https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/1958659652708716776
“We think the Cracker Barrel rebrand sucks too,” the party posted on an...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A viral video posted on Tuesday showed a man in the United Kingdom being led away by police officers after saying “We love bacon” during an anti-Muslim demonstration.
According to Grok, the X-based artificial intelligence assistant, the 23-year-old man featured in the video was participating in...
(Headline USA) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the El Salvadorian gang MS-13, was released from jail in Tennessee on Friday so he can rejoin his family in Maryland while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges.
The Salvadoran national’s case became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda after...
(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) President Donald Trump says Chicago is next on his list of cities to focus on cleaning up crime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Lf-uKO4P3RE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecentersquare.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecentersquare.com&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE
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...
(Caroline Boda, The Center Square) The U.S.’s foreign-born population shrunk this year for the first time since the 1960s, new data released Thursday from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found.
After rapidly growing for more than 50 years, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. reached a record high...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The July 4, 2022, mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, remains one of the strangest cases in recent memory.
A 21-year-old Soundcloud rapper named Robert Crimo III was said to have scaled an unsecured ladder to gain access to the roof of a local cosmetic store,...
(Headline USA) An Ohio man was arrested for the throwing of a sex toy at a WNBA game in New York, police said Thursday.
It’s the latest development in a string of disturbances where similar toys were tossed at WNBA games across the country, resulting in at least three arrests.
Charles Burgess,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon is planning to spend at least $3.5 billion replenishing weapons it has used defending Israel, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
The report cited budget documents “prepared through mid-May,” meaning the $3.5 billion doesn’t include the cost for the US-Israeli war that was launched against Iran starting on...
(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...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Even as President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., has yielded strong results in bringing down violent crime, the murder of a beloved local makeup artist---allegedly by her own son---over the weekend shook the conservative mediasphere.
Newsmax’s Travis Renee Baldwin, 57, was shot and killed...