POLITICS

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) On the day before Social Security’s 90th anniversary, fiscal watchdogs are urging Congress to seriously address the program’s impending funding shortfalls – particularly in light of the now $37 trillion national debt – even as lawmakers met Wednesday to discuss increasing benefits. “The looming shortfalls...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Researchers at the Center for Immigration Studies find that immigrants, once concentrated in the Northeast, are increasingly settling in southern and western states, fueling historic population growth. Conducted by Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research, and Karen Zeigler, a demographer with CIS, the study uses census...

(José Niño, Headline USA) X’s moderation systems briefly removed Grok from the platform after mass reports targeted the AI’s responses on the Israel-Gaza conflict.   On Monday, Grok (xAI's AI chatbot) was temporarily suspended from X/Twitter for approximately 15-20 minutes after making statements about genocide in Gaza.  https://twitter.com/Villgecrazylady/status/1955003947774534010 Upon reinstatement, Grok claimed it...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A former Democratic intelligence official warned the FBI that in 2017, then-Rep. Adam Schiff had leaked to the media in an effort to smear President Donald Trump with the Russia collusion hoax. The whistleblower’s warnings were nearly immediately dismissed, according to a newly released FBI memo. The documents—first...

(Headline USA) A man who fired a shotgun outside an upstate New York synagogue with dozens of children inside shortly after the start of the Israel-Hamas war was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 10 years in prison. Mufid Alkhader, 29, was arrested in December 2023 after firing two shots...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has launched a new line of attack against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo by trying to tie him to Republican President Donald Trump, who remains deeply unpopular in the city.  Mamdani kicked off a “Five Boroughs Against Trump" tour...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The man accused of killing a Minnesota politician and her spouse in June reportedly claimed he was working in an undercover investigation of the “sudden and unexpected deaths of 400 Minnesota citizens" as well as the "ties between Minnesota politicians and the Chinese government.” The alleged...

(Headline USA) Desperate parents begged law enforcement officers to storm an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in the frantic minutes after a gunman opened fire in one of the deadliest classroom attacks in U.S. history, police body camera video released Tuesday shows. “Whose class is he in?” one parent can...

(Christina Urso) WASHINGTON DC — In March, Secret Service agents shot and wounded a man who had driven from Indiana to the White House, supposedly with the intent to commit “suicide by cop.” At the time, few details were provided about the suspect, 27-year-old Andrew Dawson, other than that...

(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) California’s annual state spending is up 50% per capita, or $106.3 billion, since 2019, the first year Gov. Gavin Newsom took office, highlighting the state’s growing budget woes. According to taxpayer advocates, the state government has increased spending, despite the state’s constitutionally-mandated balanced budget requirement,...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Nvidia will pay the United States 15% of the money it makes from selling artificial intelligence chips to China, President Donald Trump said in a press conference on Monday. Trump said he allowed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to sell H20 chips to China while the...

President Donald Trump is promising new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city's mayor to voice concerns about the potential use of the National Guard to patrol the streets in the nation's capital. Trump wrote in a social media post that he would hold a White...