(Headline USA) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Wednesday that the media has been perpetuating a “dishonest narrative” about President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
Leavitt’s comments come as Trump faces questions about the constitutionality of some of his executive orders, which have been wide-ranging and frequent since he...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) A bill preventing future presidents from unilaterally banning hydraulic fracking made its way to the Senate last week after passing the House 226-188.
Sixteen Democrats joined all Republicans in voting for the Protecting American Energy Production Act, which will block future bans on hydraulic fracking...
(Headline USA) Denver Public Schools became the first U.S. school district Wednesday to sue the Trump administration challenging its policy allowing ICE immigration agents in schools.
Colorado’s largest public school district argued in the federal lawsuit that the policy has forced schools to divert vital educational resources and caused attendance...
(Headline USA) Jim Guy Tucker, who became Arkansas governor when Bill Clinton was elected president but was later forced from office after being convicted during the Whitewater investigation, has died. He was 81.
Anna Ashton, Tucker's daughter, said the former governor died Thursday in Little Rock from complications from ulcerative colitis.
“Because he...
(Headline USA) When Angelica Delgado took a one-way flight to Mexico as she fled Cuba in December, she was set on seeking asylum in the United States.
But with the Biden administration's open-border policy coming to a halt following the 2024 re-election of President Donald Trump, the 23-year-old recalibrated her...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has just started his second term, his last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he's already started making quips about serving a third one.
“Am I allowed to run again?” Trump joked during the House Republican retreat in Florida last month.
Whether teasing or taunting, it...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state as he proposes erasing the 5,525-mile-long border that separates the countries and alleviating the need for tariffs that he has leveraged to force the northern neighbor into maintaining tighter border security.
“If people wanted to...
(Headline USA) Several NATO allies demanded on Thursday that Ukraine and Europe not be cut out of any peace negotiations---despite an alarming interview recently in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to precondition any such negotiation on his country's access to nuclear weapons.
“There can be no negotiation about Ukraine without...
(Headline USA) It's a chicken-and-egg problem: Restaurants are struggling with record-high U.S. egg prices, but their omelets, scrambles and huevos rancheros may be part of the problem.
Breakfast is booming at U.S. eateries. First Watch, a restaurant chain that serves breakfast, brunch and lunch, nearly quadrupled its locations over the...
(Headline USA) If Linda McMahon is confirmed as Education secretary, President Donald Trump has said he wants her to “put herself out of a job.”
A plan being considered by the White House would direct the Education secretary to dismantle the department as much as legally possible while asking Congress to...
Editor's note: While the Justice Department characterized its action against New York as "charges," the case is civil and not criminal.
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced the Department of Justice has filed civil charges against the state of New York, citing the state’s failure to...
(Headline USA) Attorney General Pam Bondi said she would “look into” why the corruption charges against New York City's mayor have not yet been dropped, two days after a senior Justice Department official ordered federal prosecutors to ditch the case.
Speaking with reporters Wednesday evening, Bondi said she was unaware...