(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Americans won't get a $2,000 rebate check from the federal government before Christmas.
President Donald Trump said Friday that the proposed checks will not be distributed before the end of the year. Trump made the comments aboard Air Force One on his way to Mar-a-Lago,...
(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump defended H-1B skilled worker visas during a Fox News interview on Monday, sparking backlash from his MAGA base while highlighting tensions created by a controversial September ICE raid that detained hundreds of South Korean engineers at a Georgia battery plant.
The contentious exchange...
(Tate Miller, The Center Square) Billions of U.S. tax dollars have been used to fund climate initiatives in foreign countries without the American people’s consent, all while government officials travel on jets to attend climate conferences where they “give away other people's money over beef, seafood, and cocktails,” a...
(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) More than half of U.S. households say they’re struggling with debt, according to a new WalletHub survey.
Total household debt increased to $18.59 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, which is $990 billion below the all-time 2008 high of $19.57 trillion.
Still, consumer debt...
(José Niño, Headline USA) In this Headline Geopolitics episode, José Niño interviews Carl Zha, host of the Silk & Steel Podcast and one of the most provocative voices dissecting U.S.–China relations.
Zha breaks down the trade war, America’s pivot to Asia, Western myths about China, and whether the latest...
(Arthur Kane, The Center Square) U.S. Reps Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and David Scott, D-Ga., have each had taxpayers pay as much as $1,000 every month to Lexus financial so they can lease a vehicle for their offices, a review of House Members' Representational Allowance records by The Center Square...
(José Niño, Headline USA) In this Headline Geopolitics episode, José Niño interviews Tim Hinchcliffe, editor of The Sociable and one of the most incisive journalists covering the rise of global technocracy.
Based in Medellín, Colombia, Hinchcliffe breaks down the World Economic Forum’s latest schemes, the spread of digital ID and...
(Arthur Kane, The Center Square) Job perks like an on-call doctor, on-site daycare and millions of dollars for food, beverages and bottled water sound like something offered to employees of big tech firms.
But actually, taxpayers are paying for those perks for members of Congress and often their staff, an...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel has been taking criticism online for using an FBI Gulfstream jet to fly around the country for personal reasons, including hockey games, UFC fights and visits to his girlfriend in Tennessee.
Patel is continuing to fly for private reasons amidst the government...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Millions of tax-exempt dollars from liberal billionaire George Soros have quietly flowed into the New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner and self-described democratic socialist, a new bombshell report alleges.
The report — authored by forensic accountant Sam Antar and published Tuesday — uncovered an alleged “systematic...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.'s 88-year-old congressional delegate, claims to sit on multiple boards at prestigious institutions, but investigations reveal she hasn't been active with them in years. Some of these positions no longer even exist according to a report by Luke Goldstein and Dan...