(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Republican lawmakers have introduced a new bill that would block Medicaid from paying for gender transition drugs and surgeries for minors.
U.S. Reps. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., introduced the bill, first obtained by The Center Square.
Specifically, the Do No Harm in...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency during a trip to disaster zones Friday, offering the latest sign of how he is weighing sweeping changes to the nation's central organization for responding to disasters.
Instead of having federal financial assistance...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump vowed to support pro-life advocates in his second term as tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Washington on Friday for the annual March for Life.
“We will again stand proudly for families and for life,” Trump declared in a prerecorded video address as he...
(Headline USA) The Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on how deeply it should intervene in a power struggle between Democrats and Republicans over who should control the state House of Representatives.
Democratic representatives have stayed away from the state capitol since the 2025 legislative session opened Jan. 14 in...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says “act as barriers to American AI innovation."
To maintain global leadership in AI technology, "we must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social...
(Headline USA) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday confirmed the commonly held view, echoed by U.S. President Donald Trump, that Trump's successor/predecessor in the White House, Democrat Joe Biden, was the driving force in the Russian leader's decision to escalate a long-simmering territorial dispute at the Ukraine border into...
(Headline USA) Republican Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday that he is running to be the next governor of Ohio—wedging the news between the departure from the race of a top rival and the expected entry as soon as next week of a new one.
Yost, 68, seeks to succeed...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would pardon pro-life activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances.
Trump called it “a great honor to sign this.”
"They should not have been prosecuted," he said as he signed pardons for "peaceful pro-life protesters.”
The people pardoned were involved in the October 2020...
(Headline USA) The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to shipping lanes and vacationers whether it’s called the Gulf of Mexico, as it has been for four centuries, or the Gulf of America, as President Donald Trump ordered this week.
North America’s highest...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court's approval after President Donald Trump commuted the right-wing group leader's 18-year prison sentence.
Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for helping orchestrate the brouhaha at the U.S. Capitol four years...
(Headline USA) The Senate advanced the nomination of Pete Hegseth as President Donald Trump's defense secretary Thursday on a largely party-line vote, despite party-line opposition from Democrats and defections from two notorious RINOs who---like most in the Senate---voted in favor of confirming grossly incompetent Biden Defense secretary Lloyd Austin.
Sens. Lisa Murkowski of...
(Headline USA) In the first legal setback of what is likely to be a familiar pattern echoing that of President Donald Trump's first administration, a federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing of a multi-state effort...