POLITICS

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) University of Illinois Chicago researchers say heightened federal immigration enforcement corresponded with about $1.26 billion in foregone retail and restaurant activity in Cook County, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dismissed the correlation between a good economy and illegal immigration. Matthew Wilson co-authored the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) An illegal alien now sits behind bars, accused of causing a wrong way crash that ended the lives of a mother and her adult daughter in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to a report from Breitbart News. The tragedy reportedly occurred inside a sanctuary jurisdiction that generally...

Chris Wade, The Center Square) A coalition of 9/11 family members, first responders and elected officials on Tuesday urged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend Friday's memorial marking the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. In a press briefing on the steps of City Hall, survivors of...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court in December will hear arguments in cases on semi-automatic gun bans in Illinois and Connecticut, immigration detention centers, voting rights in Arizona and parental rights related to transgender children in Washington state. Justices on the high court released the December argument...

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) President Donald Trump posted a photo on Sunday of a map renaming New Mexico to “New America.” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, slammed the president for that post in one of her own. “New Mexico’s name isn’t up for debate—it’s been ours since...

(Headline USA) An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said. The suspect knocked volunteers to the ground and was arrested with “multiple weapons,” Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman Chris Anderson...

(Headline USA) The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court to allow new restrictions on mail ballots in time for the midterms. The filing came after U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani extended an order against the Postal Service enforcing President Donald Trump’s executive order for the...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Billionaire Elon Musk had a peculiar reaction to a new documentary’s insinuation that he may have used Starlink to meddle in the 2024 presidential election to benefit President Donald Trump. "Lmao," an acronym for "laughing my ass off," Musk wrote via X. He was responding directly to...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Michael Cohen, a key witness in the New York criminal and civil cases against President Donald Trump, has “fully recanted” his testimony in both cases, the Republican president announced Friday via Truth Social. Previously known as Trump’s longtime fixer, Cohen was used by New York Attorney General...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Democratic Party has long attracted peculiarly strange individuals who have been floated as potential presidential candidates, including convicted felon Michael Avenatti, disgraced former first son Hunter Biden, Jerry Springer and anti-Trump filmmaker Michael Moore. Add former CNN anchor Don Lemon to that list. Lemon, now a...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Despite a backlog of legislative responsibilities, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has canceled the final two weeks of the September legislative session. That leaves House lawmakers only one more week of business before the midterm elections. The chamber won’t reconvene until mid-November. While Johnson justified...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Billionaire investor Leon Black skipped a sworn deposition before House investigators on Thursday and asked a federal judge instead to void the two subpoenas the Oversight Committee served on him in June.  His complaint landed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia the...