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California University Staffers Could Set Record as Dem’s Tax-Funded Cash Cow

(David Mastio, The Center Square) - In 2024, as the possibility of a Donald Trump/Joe Biden presidential rematch looks more and more possible, the University of California system will take on a prominent role in national politics, not for cutting edge political science research, legal theories or technology, but...

Consulting Firm Agrees to Pay $78 Million for Peddling Opioids

(Headline USA) Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims from insurers and health care funds that its work with drug companies helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis. The agreement was revealed late Friday in documents filed in federal court in San Francisco. The...

Dems in Biden’s Home State of Pa. Are Switching to GOP in Droves

(Headline USA) Democratic voters in President Joe Biden’s home state of Pennsylvania are increasingly switching to the GOP ahead of the 2024 election, according to recent voter-registration data. As of Dec. 18, 35,598 Democrats in the swing state have switched their registration to Republican this year. Just 15,622 Republicans have switched...

House Homeland Security Committee Releases Report Highlighting Waste

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – The House Committee on Homeland Security Majority released its fifth and final interim report as part of its nearly year-long investigation into "the causes, costs, and consequences of the crisis at the Southwest border and how the reckless decision-making and legally dubious policies of...

Blue States’ New Woke Money-Waster: Translating Street Signs into Indian

(Headline USA) A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language. Carbone, a citizen of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island, thought back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has lived for...

Meta’s Censorship of 2 Israel-Hamas Videos Reversed by Oversight Board

(Headline USA) A quasi-independent review board is recommending that Facebook parent company Meta overturn two decisions it made this fall to remove posts “informing the world about human suffering on both sides” of the Israel--Hamas war. In both cases, Meta ended up reinstating the posts—one showing Palestinian casualties and the...

EV Company Founder Gets 4-Year Prison Sentence for Fraud

(Eli Pacheco, Headline USA) Nikola founder Trevor Milton received a four-year prison sentence on Tuesday for investor fraud---less than half what federal prosecutors sought in the case.  Milton, 41, who founded the electric truck startup, faced a maximum of 60 years in prison. Federal prosecutors asked for an 11-year sentence...

DeSantis’s New Answer to Trump VP Role Amid Campaign Turmoil

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., addressed Friday the prospect of teaming up with GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump for a hypothetical DeSantis-Trump ticket in 2024. Despite previously rejecting the idea, DeSantis reiterated his stance against joining Trump. Instead, he highlighted former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's position, noting her...

Federal Figures Show Surge in Homelessness

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) – The number of homeless people in the U.S. jumped 12% to more than 653,000 people as pandemic spending expired, the highest level on record since the counts started in 2007. Figures released Friday provide a snapshot of the number of people in shelters, temporary...

California Freezes Spending as State Faces $68 Billion Deficit

(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) – In the aftermath of a government report projecting a $68 billion deficit for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the California Department of Finance ordered a spending freeze across all state agencies for the remainder of the ongoing 2023-2024 fiscal year. “The State of California anticipates...

University of Wisc. Regents Agree to Limit DEI as GOP Funding Condition

(Headline USA) In a surprising about-face, the Universities of Wisconsin regents approved a deal Wednesday evening with Republican legislators to limit diversity positions at the system’s two dozen campuses in exchange for money to cover staff raises and construction projects. Assembly Republican Speaker Robin Vos, who brokered the deal with Universities of Wisconsin...

U.S. Congressman Asks Federal Reserve Whether Nations Are Repatriating Gold from New York

(Money Metals Exchange) As central banks across the globe continue to scoop up gold bullion for their reserves at record rates, Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., is asking Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell some pressing questions about gold. Gold currently trades at all-time highs in most currencies. Market insiders claim that...
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