POLITICS

(Headline USA) The United States and Canada, historic allies along an undefended border, fell deeper into a trade war Saturday marked by angry recriminations and new tariffs that are expected to raise prices for products in both countries. Each side blamed the other for the collapse of negotiations in Washington...

(Headline USA) A lip-licking alligator, a smiling moose and a hat-wearing bear are among the many cartoon animals to have found themselves in the crosshairs of Buc-ee’s, the popular Texas convenience store chain that has a penchant for protecting its buck-toothed beaver. But now Buc-ee's has set off a Buckeye...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The vast majority of Americans want hospitals and healthcare providers to publicly disclose prices before patients receive care, according to a new poll. The Center Square Voters Voice Poll, conducted by Noble Predictive Insights, found 88% of American voters said it was at least "somewhat...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Soon-to-be former Rep. Nancy Pelosi accused one of the two candidates seeking to replace her in Congress of launching a misogynistic attack against her preferred successor. But Pelosi’s accusations quickly backfired, with critics calling them “absurd.” Specifically, Pelosi targeted California state Sen. Scott Wiener after he launched...

(Headline USA) A federal judge in New York has vacated a Trump administration policy that suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration deemed likely to require public assistance in the United States. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, an...

(Headline USA) Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is still under orders to pay more than $1 billion over his false claims surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre despite a Texas court reducing some of the money awarded to families. For the bombastic Infowars founder, the ruling that saves him...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests are ongoing nationwide, including in the southeastern states of Georgia and Mississippi. In this month alone, ICE officers have arrested more than 1,200 in the two states. Arrests were made through multiagency partnerships and ongoing investigations. Dozens of local law...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) The Trump administration is temporarily lifting the tariff on beef to help lower prices for Americans at the grocery store. “For the next 90 days, the United States will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef to be imported with no...

(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...