(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are looking into a claim that Pfizer delayed announcing the "success" of the COVID vaccine until after the 2020 election, according to the Wall Street Journal.
British drugmaker GSK brought the claim after one of its senior scientists, who previously worked at Pfizer,...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) The city of Los Angeles has issued just four rebuilding permits in the Pacific Palisades 75 days after a fire devastated most of the coastal community, highlighting the city’s struggle with providing basic government services.
After the city dedicated significant resources to tearing down a...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) While Democratic lawmakers and experts said Tuesday that the Biden administration effectively facilitated a crackdown on speech it disliked, they maintained those efforts did not amount to unconstitutional censorship.
The claim made by Republicans that the previous administration headed a “censorship industrial complex” – composed...
(José Niño, Headline USA) National security adviser Michael Waltz continues to face scrutiny after he included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, in a Signal chat where war plans about bombing Yemen were being discussed.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that his Venmo friend list was publicly accessible until...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An individual was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly beating two college students with a metal bike lock—likely in protest of their ties to the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA.
Liam Thanh Tam Nguyen, a transgender-identified individual, was caught on video swinging the lock at Paige Neumann, the TPUSA...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., shut down a British reporter who attempted to press her on whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should resign over a texting scandal. Greene bluntly told the reporter to “go back” to her country and report on its own issues.
Greene made the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) When Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., was appointed as chairman of the Task Force to investigate the Trump assassination attempts last year, he promised to get to the bottom of what happened at the deadly July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
But more than four months...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) Los Angeles is seeking a $1.9 billion state bailout after receiving $2.5 billion in state aid thus far.
Los Angeles faces a $1 billion deficit due to spending vastly outpacing revenues — issues that predated the fire and which City Controller Kenneth Mejia has long...
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Colorado's roads are deteriorating, as more money moves away from maintaining the roads in favor of funding public transportation and electric vehicle programs.
This comes even as transportation fees continue to increase for Coloradans, raising over $200 million.
This is all according to a March report...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) The Trump administration is threatening to withhold federal funding for New York City's cash-strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority unless the city cracks down on crime, but state officials are pushing back on the criticism — and asking for more money.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote to...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is teaming up with the Department of Homeland Security to prevent illegal immigrants from using public housing.
HUD Secretary Scott Turner and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed the "American Housing Programs for American Citizens" Memorandum of...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) If Republicans in Congress make good on President Donald Trump's promise to extend the expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the move would add more than $37 trillion to the debt over the next 30 years, including $4.5 trillion in...