SYNDICATION

(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) The Los Angeles Police Department’s ranks have dropped below 9,000 officers, well short of the 9,985 it once had in 2009 and the 9,500 goal from Mayor Karen Bass. Interest in joining the police department has collapsed as well, with half of the department’s...

(Christian Wade, The Center Square) New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the cost of sheltering tens of thousands of illegal immigrants across the city could rise to $12 billion in coming years as he pushes for more help from the state and federal governments. Even Adams himself has lately...

(Christian Wade, The Center Square) New York election officials have certified controversial touchscreen voting machines for use in federal, state and local elections, despite warnings from watchdog groups on both the Left and Right that the devices are costly and flawed. On Wednesday, the New York State Board of Elections...

(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...