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(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...

(Tom Gantert, Shirleen Guerra and Brett Rowland, The Center Square) – An influx of migrants from border cities has put Chicago at the center of the immigrant debate in the U.S. as it and other large sanctuary cities struggle to shelter and care for new arrivals. Chicago's elected leaders continue...

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Ruling like the dictator whom he says Donald J. Trump aspires to be, President Joe Biden has decreed restrictions, if not prohibitions, on gas stoves, gas furnaces, gasoline-powered cars and trucks, and other products. Congress has passed no such laws for Biden to sign. Instead, he...

(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...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A rising rodeo star and Oklahoma State University graduate died tragically during a duck-hunting trip, as reported by the New York Post on Friday.  Twenty-four-year-old Jackson Williams lost his life on Dec. 10 while attempting to retrieve a downed duck in Sooner Lake. Reports indicate that he...

(Andrew Hensel, The Center Square) After much debate and pushback from the public, the Chicago City Council voted against asking voters to decide on the city's sanctuary status. A City Council meeting this week included public comments from Chicago residents seeking to end the city's migrant crisis and end their...

(Headline USA) A federal judge has rejected a request from Oregon Republican state senators who boycotted the Legislature to be allowed on the ballot after their terms end. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken, an appointee of former Democrat President Bill Clinton, issued the decision Wednesday. State Sens. Dennis Linthicum, Brian...

(Headline USA) Serial complainer Megan Rapinoe groused this week that playing for the elite U.S. Women’s Soccer team was the “worst job in the world” due to the significant criticism she faced. In a new Netflix documentary series titled, Under Pressure: The U.S. Women’s World Cup Team, Rapinoe said that...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Some might call it the latest sign that the U.S. government is a collapsing empire—though compared to the civil liberties abuses, endless wars and theft of taxpayer funds, others might argue that it’s not the most vulgar event to transpire on Capitol Hill. In any event,...

(The Center Square) A former top FBI agent was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Thursday for helping a Russian oligarch avoid U.S. sanctions. Charles McGonigal, 55, the former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Counterintelligence Division in New York was sentenced to 50 months in...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The thought of someone like President Joe Biden unleashing an army of killer robots might sound like a right-wing fever dream, but it’s closer to reality than one might expect. According to a Wednesday report from the Military Times, efforts to incorporate robots in the military...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) About a decade before the FBI infiltrated Midwest militias and fomented a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the bureau targeted Alaska’s militias as part of an apparent attempt to disrupt what was once a thriving Tea Party movement in that state. The FBI’s main...