SYNDICATION

(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...

(By Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Average per-unit costs were $232,000, most for one-bedroom apartments, in a review of a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program designed to build and preserve affordable housing. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Housing Trust Fund program needs better oversight, according...

(Cameron Arcand, The Center Square) In his latest authoritarian land grab, President Joe Biden proclaimed a new monument near the Grand Canyon, a move that will stop proposed uranium mining in the area and, consequently, benefit foreign adversaries like China, where the Biden family is personally invested in a...

(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected an attempt Tuesday to make it more difficult for citizens to change the constitution---a measure intended to prevent Democrats from enshrining abortion via a November referendum. In a special election that cost state taxpayers $15 million and came less than a year...

(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) The federal government is borrowing an average of $5.3 billion per day this fiscal year, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office estimated Tuesday. The new estimate come just days after a top international creditor downgraded the U.S. credit rating. “The federal budget deficit was $1.6...

(By Susan Crabtree, RealClear Wire) The wheels of justice often turn slowly, but when it comes to U.S. corporate complicity in China’s record of religious persecution, human rights activists say they are finally picking up speed and moving in the right direction. Top reformers in Washington, D.C., are heralding a...

(Jon Miltimore, FEE) A growing number of people, including prominent scientists, are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the journal Nature in March 2020 that explored the origins of SARS-CoV-2. The paper, whose authors included immunology and microbiology professor Kristian G. Andersen, declared that evidence clearly showed that...

(Headline USA) Massachusetts Democrat Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency Tuesday, citing an influx of illegal immigrants seeking shelter at a time when the cost of housing — already in short supply — continues to rise. Healy's frantic SOS comes amid a national crisis of illegal aliens pouring...

(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Through Texas’ border security mission Operation Lone Star, Texas DPS troopers have rescued over 900 children being smuggled into and through Texas from Mexico by human traffickers, DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez recently announced. Among them was a recent rescue in Maverick County in Eagle Pass,...