(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Quietly tucked inside Republicans’ funding deal to end the government shutdown is a provision wiping the congressional Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) scorecard, effectively forgiving nearly $3.4 trillion in deficits.
When Republicans passed their budget reconciliation bill in July, which included a permanent extension of the 2017 tax...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has issued two pardons related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, including for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents who were investigating a tip that she may have been at the Capitol, officials said Saturday.
In a separate case, Trump...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem just revealed something that might surprise Donald Trump's immigration restrictionist base: More people are becoming naturalized American citizens under this administration than ever before.
"More people are becoming naturalized under this administration than ever before," Noem said during a Fox News...
(Headline USA) Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political foes, including former President Bill Clinton.
Bondi posted on X that she was assigning Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to lead the probe, capping an...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A corporate landlord owned by one of Israel's largest companies has intentionally displaced an estimated 30,000 American tenants while its parent corporation does business in illegal Israeli settlements that have driven thousands of Palestinians from their homes.
According to Thomas Birmingham of The Nation, American Landmark,...
(Christen Smith, The Center Square) Pennsylvania Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman remains under observation at a Pittsburgh-area hospital following a heart episode early Thursday.
The senator’s spokesman posted to his personal social media account, describing how Fetterman became light-headed, fell and injured his face while on a morning walk after...
(Mark Stricherz, The Center Square) The U.S. House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol cost almost twice as much as previously reported, including spending taxpayer funds for TV news producers and documentary filmmakers to create videos dramatizing its case against President Donald...
(Headline USA) Thousands of documents released by the House Oversight Committee offer a new glimpse into what Jeffery Epstein’s relationships with business executives, reporters, academics and political players looked like over a decade.
They start with messages he sent and received around the time he finished serving his Florida sentence...
(Headline USA) Lawyers representing OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, cities, states, counties, Native American tribes, people with addiction and others across the U.S. delivered a nearly unanimous message for a bankruptcy court judge Friday: Approve a plan to settle thousands of opioid-related lawsuits against the company and members of the...
(Headline USA) A longtime prosecutor announced he will take over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others, after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was removed from the case and no one else wanted the job.
The nonpartisan Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia was tasked with...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) An overwhelming majority of Americans believe freedom of speech is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new poll.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), through its National Speech Index, tracks attitudes toward free speech on a quarterly basis. The latest tracking...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Embattled Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., may soon find himself under Justice Department scrutiny after a top housing official referred him for investigation.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte referred Swalwell for a criminal investigation over allegations of mortgage and tax fraud tied to his Washington, D.C., home.
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