(Ford Turner, The Center Square) Two powerful forces, money and silence, have been stirring hearts and minds as well as controversy in a 240-year-old township near a scenic bend of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania.
All of it is tied to the artificial intelligence-data center boom.
Rural residential property owners...
(José Niño, Headline USA) U.S. spy agencies warned the Trump administration that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will probably undermine President Donald Trump's pursuit of a durable peace agreement with Iran, the Washington Post reported.
Analysts determined that Netanyahu confronts powerful domestic political forces pushing him to sustain military action...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that 455 people have been indicted for alleged health care fraud, believed to cost taxpayers over $6.5 billion.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the defendants spanned 45 states and territories.
“These individuals participated in health care fraud schemes...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration is providing $17.5 billion to speed the development of 10 new large nuclear reactors to meet the skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited “tremendous interest” among developers of data centers that would buy the power, as well as utilities...
(Headline USA) Eight protesters accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa were sentenced Tuesday to decades in federal prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that wounded a police officer and prosecutors called an act of terrorism.
One of the defendants, a former U.S....
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former White House COVID czar Anthony Fauci reportedly agreed earlier this month to testify before Sen. Rand Paul’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs—but he’s since changed his mind.
Sen. Paul said Monday on Twitter/X that he’s subpoenaed Fauci to testify since he’s not speaking voluntarily.
“Last week,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Twice-failed presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris may have lost different elections, but they now share a common complaint: the Electoral College.
In a preview of her upcoming Netflix docuseries, The American Experiment, Clinton described the Electoral College as an “abomination.”
“Well, I personally think the Electoral...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Following what appeared to be a bumpy weekend between the United States and Iran, Vice President J.D. Vance said progress is being made.
Vance, leading a U.S. delegation in talks with Iran, mediated by Pakistan and Qatar, reassured that talks remain ongoing in Switzerland after...
(Benjamin Yount, The Center Square) Milwaukee’s mayor is again questioning and criticizing the federal investigation into Wisconsin’s 2020 election.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson was on UpFront over the weekend and framed the FBI’s questioning of Milwaukee County election officials and Milwaukee police officers as an attempt to undo the 2020 presidential...
(Headline USA) Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died Monday. He was 100.
Greenspan died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent...
(José Niño, Headline USA) An Arizona State University professor found himself penalized in his yearly performance evaluation over allegations of "bias" and "slant" toward Christianity stemming from his instruction on theologian Thomas Aquinas and classroom inquiries about the "highest good," The College Fix reported.
Owen Anderson, who has been an...
(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump challenged Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker to seek federal assistance after a bloody weekend left multiple dead and dozens injured across Chicago, Just the News reported.
"Why isn't Governor Pritzker calling me for help," Trump wrote Sunday morning on Truth Social. "I could...