(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Deployment of the National Guard to help “stabilize a crisis situation and protect innocent lives” has been requested of first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein by Republican U.S. Reps. Rev. Mark Harris, Pat Harrigan and Chuck Edwards.
The congressmen say the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police’s...
(Arthur Kane, The Center Square) U.S. Reps Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and David Scott, D-Ga., have each had taxpayers pay as much as $1,000 every month to Lexus financial so they can lease a vehicle for their offices, a review of House Members' Representational Allowance records by The Center Square...
(Headline USA) A federal judge in Texas has agreed to dismiss a criminal conspiracy charge against Boeing in connection with two 737 Max jetliner crashes that killed 346 people.
In a written decision issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor approved the federal government’s request to dismiss its case against...
(Headline USA) The grim task of finding and identifying victims from the firestorm that followed a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, entered a third day Thursday as investigators gathered information to determine why the aircraft caught fire and lost an engine on takeoff.
The inferno consumed the enormous...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will not seek reelection to the U.S. House, bringing to a close her career as one of most powerful but divisive women in American politics.
Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco for nearly 40 years, announced her decision Thursday.
“I will not be...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is challenging explanations that FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi lack full control of their agencies nearly a year into the Trump administration, particularly when it comes to their handling of Jeffrey Epstein investigation files.
Sen. Ron Johnson recently...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A day after his resounding victory in far-left New York City, self-declared socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was passing the hat around for donations from his billionaire backers.
“Oh, and uh, one more thing. Remember how I told you a few months ago to stop sending us...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin offered reflections about his enduring legacy while on the campaign trail with now defeated Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle--Sears.
“I'm not a legacy guy. I just want to make sure Virginia is in much, much, much better shape than when I found it,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed Tuesday that former Special Counsel Jack Smith seized President Donald Trump’s government-issued phone as part of his post-2020 election Arctic Frost investigation.
Trump’s personal phone records were also targeted, a move Bondi called “unprecedented.”
“We can never again allow this kind of government...
(Headline USA) Starbucks’ union members have voted to strike at the company’s U.S. stores next week unless it finalizes a contract agreement, the union said Wednesday.
The strike would begin on Nov. 13, which is the day Starbucks plans to distribute free, reusable red cups. Red Cup Day, a Starbucks...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US is asking the UN Security Council to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader, and other members of his government, before he visits the White House next week, The Associated Press has reported.
Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, was...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed his top officials to submit proposals on the possibility of resuming what his defense minister called “full-scale” nuclear weapons tests in response to President Trump’s order for the US military to conduct nuclear tests.
It was unclear from Trump’s initial order,...