POLITICS

(Headline USA) Some sharp reversals kept financial markets unsteady on Thursday, as oil prices rose and U.S. stock indexes finished mixed. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% for a second straight loss after setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 51 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump's administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa as it accuses the company of fraud. “If you do the math, for every worker that...

(Headline USA) The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation's main abortion pill will continue into next year, a timeline that was quickly condemned by abortion opponents hoping to see the drug's use curtailed. The FDA gave a court-ordered update on its progress in a...

(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) School choice programs are expanding across the country, giving families more options for educating their children, which prompts a debate over whether student outcomes will improve and how much the programs will cost taxpayers. Currently 30 states have opted into the Trump administration's Education Freedom...

(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) A group representing big tech companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, wants the Trump administration to scrap a proposed rule that would limit repeated patent challenges. The High Tech Inventors Alliance asked the administration to withdraw the proposal and met with the federal officials reviewing...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A UC Berkeley event marking the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death has attracted the attention of the State Department after online accounts claimed that some attendees held student visas. A College Fix report described the event and the subsequent federal response, though no public record has...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., has asked Jared Kushner to provide information about whether his private business interests conflict with his role advising President Donald Trump on Middle East diplomacy. The inquiry centers on Affinity Partners, the investment firm Kushner founded, and its...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) With the national average gas price hovering around $4.37 per gallon, some Republicans are pushing for a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax. Doing so would provide Americans some savings at the pump, but it would also cost billions each month and potentially hasten...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Barack Hussein Obama is headed to Michigan to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed, a man who, in newly unearthed social media posts and past writings, appeared to have nothing but harsh things to say about the former president. El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The 2024 killing of Mirna Arauz Soza, a 67-year-old grandmother, shocked Los Angeles and caused national outrage over soft-on-crime policies in the metro system. Now, two years after Soza was brutally attacked aboard a train, local officials are fighting to prevent the release of footage of...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump, facing protesters and a poor political climate, fought to rally Texas voters behind embattled Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Wednesday night in a bid to stave off a blue wave in the nation's most populous red state. Speaking to a packed Freeman Coliseum, Trump also clarified...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A new report from the Congressional Research Service has found that at least 81 US military aircraft have been damaged or lost in the Iran war since it was launched by the US and Israel on February 28. The report’s authors said the tally was compiled from...