(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...
(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) – Washington drivers may see new stickers on the fuel pump next year when filling up their gas tanks.
A state lawmaker is backing legislation in the form of House Bill 2050 that would require the Washington Department of Agriculture to amend the gas tax stickers...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., faced a heckling incident in New York City where a man referred to her as “stupid” and “such a loser” while she took a stroll in the city, Shores News Network reported on Saturday.
The altercation, recorded by an unidentified man, occurred as...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – An Iranian with terrorist ties was caught after illegally entering the U.S. near Niagara Falls, New York, as a record number of known, suspected terrorists (KSTs) were apprehended in the first three months of fiscal 2024 at the northern border.
After the Iranian was...
(Headline USA) More than 700,000 illegal immigrants living in California will gain access to “free” health care on Monday.
It will eventually cost the state about $3.1 billion per year.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers agreed in 2022 to provide health care access to all low-income adults regardless of their...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Justice says it will sue Texas over a new law that makes illegal entry into Texas from a foreign country between ports of entry a state crime.
Gov. Greg Abbott signed SB 4 into law on Dec. 18, saying its...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) – Four high school female track athletes in Connecticut have stood against the influx of transgender athletes seeking to compete against girls in school sports, likely setting up a defining legal battle of 2024.
The U.S. Court of Appeals rescued the legal challenge, Soule v....
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York City officials declared Friday that there are no "specific credible threats” ahead of the city’s popular New Year’s Eve party.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, however, cautioned that law enforcement will be on high alert and fully deployed during the Times Square ball drop...
(Headline USA) GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley was roasted during a campaign stop in New Hampshire Thursday by a 9-year-old boy who called her the “new John Kerry” due to her politically calculated waffling over former President Donald Trump, the Daily Mail reported.
While speaking to voters in North Conway, New...
By Mike Gleason
On this final week of trading for 2023, gold is set to put in its highest ever annual close.
The gold price has been capped at around the $2,100 level since trading just shy of it in May. Whenever prices threaten to break out, institutional sell orders on...
(Headline USA) Comedian Dave Chappelle plans to open his own comedy clubs across the country to promote “free thought” and fight back against woke culture, according to a recent profile in the Wall Street Journal.
The popular stand-up comedian has rankled the Left for the past several years by frequently cracking...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Hospitals all around the United States started reimplementing mask mandates to control the population once again while pretending that the reason for the mandates was an uptick in COVID-19 and other respiratory infections.
Among those hospitals were the NYC Health + Hospitals — officially the New...