(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...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Amid growing international condemnation of Israel’s annihilation and starvation of Gaza – including from staunch ally Britain—U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday attempted to defend the genocidal assault on Gaza by invoking one of the most notorious Allied atrocities of World War II.
Appearing on...
(Shirleen Guerra, The Center Square) President Donald Trump has announced a new $200 million expansion of the White House, with construction to be handled by Clark Construction, a national firm with offices across Virginia.
The project will add a new State Ballroom to the White House grounds with approximately 90,000...
A Colorado prison was evacuated as one of the largest wildfires in state history continued to grow, and officials warned residents of remote areas to be ready to leave Sunday as gusty winds and low humidity fed the flames.
Evacuation orders were already in place for mountain communities as the...
A federal judge in San Francisco will consider evidence and hear arguments on whether the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed National Guard soldiers and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids this summer.
The Trump administration federalized California National Guard members and sent them...
The threats, pressure and ultimatums have come and gone, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has maintained Moscow's uncompromising demands in the war in Ukraine, raising fears he could use a planned summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska to coerce Kyiv into accepting an unfavorable deal.
The maximalist demands...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Though the economy and immigration were issues that helped President Donald Trump secure the White House, some economists have said that too steep a decline in immigration will prove harmful to the economy.
The Trump administration touted a statistic Monday reported by CNN the day...
(Orphe Divounguy, The Center Square) The economy was already slowing, and that was before higher tariffs kicked in last week, raising import taxes to the highest level since the Great Depression.
The latest jobs report showed only 73,000 jobs added in July, falling well short of expectations. But the bigger...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Trump administration is reportedly reassigning 120 FBI agents to patrol the streets of Washington DC at night in response to the rampant crime there.
“Most of the agents will be pulled from their regular duties at the F.B.I.’s Washington field office, but it was not...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) An Israeli airstrike on Sunday night targeted a tent outside the gates of the al-Shia Hospital in Gaza City and killed five Al Jazeera journalists, including 28-year-old Anas al-Sharif, a well-known reporter who had a large following on X.
Al Jazeera said that the other four journalists killed...