(Cameron Arcand, The Center Square) Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, asked social media platforms to limit accounts criticizing posts she made during her tenure as secretary of state, overseeing the 2020 election and its highly contentious aftermath.
The requests came to light in emails obtained by Arizona Capitol Oversight, a new...
(Headline USA) An Arizona judge has rejected the state Democratic Party's lawsuit targeting the new No Labels Party, which many Democrats fear will boost former President Donald Trump's bid to return to the White House.
The news coincided with an interview in which Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who is seen as...
(By Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Suicide deaths in the United States hit an all-time high in 2022, increasing about 2.6% to 49,449 deaths last year.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the provisional estimates on Thursday.
"One life lost to suicide is one too many. Yet, too...
(By Steve Wilson, The Center Square) A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Thursday in a free speech case involving the federal government and social media censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Department of Justice asked the three judges to lift a...
(By Francis P. Sempa, RealClear Wire) Jessica Berlin, a policy analyst writing in the Center for European Policy Analysis’ online journal, has proposed a NATO without limits--an expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to all democratic nations. “The 21st-century threat landscape,” she contends, “calls for a global alliance...
(By Paul Sperry, RealClear Wire) For the second time in three years, the Washington Post has quietly “updated” one of the most consequential fact checks in the history of American politics – its October 2020 article undercutting reports that Hunter Biden arranged a dinner meeting between one of his...
(By Jon Miltimore, FEE) For the second time in its history, the United States saw its AAA rating on long-term debt downgraded by a credit rating firm.
Fitch Ratings said the downgrade of the U.S., which is now rated AA+, “reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general...
(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he won't sign a pledge to support the Republican nominee if he loses the GOP presidential primary, flouting a requirement for appearing in the first debate later this month.
“Why would I sign it?" Trump said in an interview on the conservative cable network Newsmax. “I...
(Headline USA) Even as President Joe Biden proceeds to take a victory lap on inflation numbers that have yet to reach the Federal Reserve's baseline rate of acceptable increase, the administration's gaslighting efforts to redefine "Bidenomics" appear to be premature at best.
Inflation in the United States likely rose in...
(Headline USA) Robbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight” and “Up on Cripple Creek” mined American music and folklore and helped reshape contemporary rock, died Wednesday at 80.
Robertson died surrounded by family in Los Angeles “after a long illness,” publicist Ray Costa...
(Headline USA) Virgin Galactic is taking its first space tourists on a rocket ship ride after years of delays, including one passenger who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean.
The flight window opens Thursday morning at Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert for a...
(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) New Orleans has lost so many police officers that it could be responsible for $38 million in fines over the next 15 years thanks to a state law meant to protect pension funds, according to 4WWL, a New Orleans CBS affiliate.
The Louisiana law is...