(By Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Democrats and Republicans presented different definitions of environmental, social and governance investment standards, with Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs calling it "data about value, not values" and two Republican attorneys general calling it a political agenda that hurts investment.
The House Oversight Committee held...
(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Instead of U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehending, detaining and deporting people who’ve illegally entered the U.S., they will be implementing a plan decided on last year to release them en masse into local border communities.
The public health authority Title 42, which has given...
(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The U.S. National Park Service requires visitors to certain parks to obtain a vehicle pass, and charges a $2 reservation fee to book ahead of time. Unfortunately, the Park Service isn’t the one receiving most of this fee, thanks to their decision to outsource...
(By Philip Wegmann, RealClear Wire) Nothing happened. Again.
Congressional leaders left the Oval Office after meeting with President Biden Tuesday evening, further entrenched in their original positions and without anything close to an agreement on how the federal government should pay its bills.
They bickered. They agreed to meet again Friday....
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) After a string of narrative-busting setbacks from recent mass-shooting attacks involving left-wing extremists and illegal immigrants, the Biden administration's politicized intelligence community got a much-needed "win" on Saturday.
The woke authorities were gifted with what appeared to be a clear-cut case of right-wing extremism in an...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Several Democrat state attorneys general issued approval of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's efforts to heavily regulate natural gas stoves.
The 11 attorneys general commented on the upcoming procedures, saying they support "voluntary standards or mandatory regulations that will reduce the emissions of harmful pollutants from...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Earlier this month, Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., floated a hair-brained proposal for what the U.S. should do if China invades Taiwan.
"The U.S. should make it very clear to the Chinese that if you invade Taiwan, we're going to blow up TSMC,” Moulton said at a conference...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden's Office of Refugee Resettlement failed to check children's caretakers for sex offender status, adding to growing and grave concerns about the safety and health of immigrant children being abused under Biden's watch.
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General...
(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin intends to withhold support from any Biden administration nominee to the Environmental Protection Agency in anticipation of a fundamental disagreement with sweeping energy-related regulations set to be issued later this week.
"This Administration is determined to advance its radical climate agenda and...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Jason Poje, the acting assistant State's Attorney and a longtime prosecutor from Chicago, resigned last week, calling out George Soros-backed State's Attorney Kim Foxx for her lax approach to crime in Cook County in his exit email to colleagues.
The Chicago Contrarian blog received Poje's email,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The House Oversight Committee released new evidence Wednesday about President Joe Biden’s family receiving money from foreign nationals—revealing that more than 20 companies, 12 banks and nine Biden relatives were used in an alleged complex money-laundering scheme.
The evidence was presented in a 36-page report as well...
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., presiding over an already fractious and razor-thin legislative majority, said that he would not be giving the boot to Rep. George Santos, the embattled New York Republican who was indicted Tuesday on federal charges.
While the indictment remains under seal and...