(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is holding its second hearing next week as part of its efforts to bring impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The hearing will examine the human cost of the border crisis, and witnesses will...
(Headline USA) A Vermont state trooper plunged into a frigid pond and pulled out an 8-year-old girl who had fallen through the ice while playing with siblings.
The child survived and fully recovered after a brief hospital stay.
The girl and her younger sister fell through the thin ice on the...
(TJ Martinell, The Center Square) A Washington bill introduced this session would give the state Legislature and the Secretary of State the power to ban a political candidate from appearing on a ballot in the state.
House Bill 2150, sponsored by Rep. Kristine Reeves, D-Federal Way, sets up a process...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) U.S. House and Senate Republicans are pushing a bill that would force removal proceedings for illegal immigrants who have a visa revoked on security grounds.
Existing law allows such people to remain in the country at the discretion of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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(Headline USA) The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Thursday to raise from 18 to 21 the minimum age at which a person can be sentenced to mandatory life without parole in a narrow 4-3 ruling.
The decision came in the case of Sheldon Mattis, who was convicted of the 2011 killing...
(Headline USA) Philadelphia’s two-term elected district attorney said Thursday that he wants a court to stop plans to appoint a special prosecutor who would handle crimes on the city’s transit system under a new law designed to dilute his authority.
It’s not the first time progressive District Attorney Larry Krasner...
(Headline USA) Alabama can begin immediately enforcing a ban outlawing the use of puberty blockers and hormones to treat transgender people under 19, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, granting the state’s request to stay a preliminary injunction that had blocked enforcement of the 2022 law.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court...
(Headline USA) Several Jewish students have filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of becoming “a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment.”
The lawsuit filed Wednesday mirrors others filed since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel--- including against the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University and the University...
(Headline USA) The Federal Aviation Administration will begin auditing Boeing's aircraft production and increase oversight of the troubled manufacturer after a panel blew off a jetliner in midflight last week, the last in a string of mishaps for its marquee aircraft.
The agency's move comes just a day after it announced an investigation...
(Headline USA) An Ohio woman facing a criminal charge for abusing the corpse of her dead child after a home miscarriage will not be charged, a grand jury decided Thursday.
The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office said grand jurors declined to return an indictment against Brittany Watts, 34, of Warren, resolving a case...
(Headline USA) Despite a ruling from the nation's highest court last year that explicitly told him his loan-cancellation policies were unconstitutional and should go through Congress, President Joe Biden continued to show his disdain for the rule of law as he desperately seeks to regain his fast-eroding support among...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden's troubled son Hunter pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal tax-fraud charges filed after the collapse of a sweetheart plea deal that could have spared him the spectacle of a criminal trial during the 2024 campaign.
Hunter Biden has been accused of nine felony and misdemeanor tax...