POLITICS

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks, the cost to taxpayers for the U.S. War on Terror is approaching $10 trillion. Initial costs for two conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan were more than $8 trillion. An additional $2 trillion will be incurred by U.S....

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Republican Rep. Nancy Mace’s former chief-of-staff has filed a lawsuit against a local political site in response to an article suggesting that she and Mace had an affair. The former chief-of-staff, Lorie Khatod, filed her lawsuit on August 11 against South Carolina news site FITSNews and...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling blocking the U.S. Department of Justice from subpoenaing records from New York Attorney General Letitia James' office about her investigations. In a 2-1 ruling Friday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily allowed continued construction on President Donald Trump's estimated $400 million White House ballroom. Chief Justice John Roberts issued a stay on Friday temporarily stopping a D.C. District Court's injunction against further construction on the ballroom. The D.C. court's...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum to expand space travel, with the goal of facilitating more than 1,000 launches and reentries “on American soil” each year by 2030. The White House seeks to encourage American exceptionalism in its approach to space travel, beginning with...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) By now, anyone who follows cable news is likely familiar with Gustavo Gordillo, the co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. But viewers may not know that the self-described socialist lives in a Brooklyn townhouse now valued at $1.5 million,...

(Ioannis Vlahos, Antiwar.com) The Trump administration is increasing sanctions on Cuba, in the form of new economic penalties for Cuban industries as well as expanding enforcement of laws that bar Americans who visit the island from dealings with government-owned or -affiliated businesses. The penalties, which were announced Thursday by the...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) Federal and state officials are questioning Illinois sanctuary policies after a Jordanian national charged with illegal possession of Molotov cocktails was released on electronic monitoring while he was unlawfully present in the United States. Hamed Alsaidi, 31, was arrested in Mokena on August 1 and...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) The Anti-Defamation League is sounding an alarm over the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America’s questionnaire for city council candidates. ADL Midwest Senior Regional Director Rebecca Weininger told The Center Square the DSA questionnaire’s first two long-form questions are devoted to Israel instead of how candidates...

(Headline USA) The defense rested its case Friday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting several days of testimony about her mental state before and after she strangled her three young children. Prosecutors then began calling rebuttal witnesses in the trial, which is likely entering its final days. Closing...

(Headline USA) The Texas prosecutor who oversaw Karmelo Anthony's conviction in a deadly stabbing at a high school track meet said Thursday that both sides had agreed to hold back evidence that risked further inflaming a case already boiling with racial tensions and death threats. That agreement is at the...

(Headline USA) An Alabama jury on Thursday awarded $9.25 million in damages after finding that The New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa. Kai Spears, who played for the University of Alabama men’s team,...