(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Within one week of Texas suing the Biden administration over Border Patrol agents cutting concertina wire barriers on Texas soil, a federal judge granted Texas’s request and issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the federal government from cutting the fencing.
In response to the ruling,...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Department of Defense said Monday the budget for the Military Intelligence Program was $27.9 billion for fiscal year 2023.
That's up from the $24.1 billion appropriated top line budget for fiscal year 2022. That figure has increased every year since fiscal year 2019, when it was $21.5...
(David Beasley, The Center Square) Tourism is not Florida’s only attraction for out-of-state residents. Retirees continue to like the sunshine and warm weather.
According to new 2022 U.S. Census Bureau statistics, Florida is once again the top destination for U.S. residents moving from one state to another.
The study found 738,969...
(Headline USA) The World Bank reported on Monday that oil prices could be pushed into “uncharted waters” if the violence between Israel and Hamas widens, which could result in increased food prices worldwide.
The possible famine could impact the U.S., where the Biden administration's failed policies have significantly curtailed domestic oil production...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) More than 10 million people have been reported illegally entering the United States since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the greatest number in history and of any administration.
That number---roughly the same amount of people as live in the state of Michigan---is likely...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to elect Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., as speaker of the House, ending more than three weeks without a speaker and a string of chaotic meetings and votes on Capitol Hill.
Johnson received multiple standing ovations from his colleagues...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) An off-duty commercial airline pilot who tried to shut down the engines of a regional jet mid-flight told an officer it was his first time taking psychedelic mushrooms.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged Joseph David Emerson, 44, of Pleasant Hill, Calif., with one count of...
(Headline USA) Despite speaking out publicly about the stabbing death of a 6-year-old Muslim boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, in Chicago, in what appeared to have all the hallmarks of a propaganda narrative, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., remained silent over the stabbing death of a Democrat leader of the Jewish community...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) – Federal judge Roger Benitez overturned California's ban on semi-automatic rifles, pistols or shotguns with certain cosmetic or ergonomic features that make them defined as “assault weapons.”
“Today’s radical ruling — comparing an assault rifle to a bowie knife — is a direct insult to...
(Christian Wade, The Center Square) — New Jersey Democrats are vulnerable to voter concerns about parental control in public schools and it could hurt them in the next election, according to a new poll.
A new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University found that the issue of parental control makes New Jersey voters...
(Brett Rowland, Center Square) The backlog of immigration cases is growing as U.S. lawmakers evaluate plans to address the problem.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which handles immigration cases, has 69 immigration courts, 597 courtrooms and 659 immigration judges throughout the U.S. It faced a backlog of nearly 2.2 million...
(Garcia de Paredes, Center Square) U.S. Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., is the 15th U.S. House member to announce he is not seeking reelection in 2024. Kim, in office since 2019, is retiring to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.
Including Kim, 20 members...