(Casey Harper, The Center Square) – The number of terror suspects captured trying to enter the U.S. illegally has soared since President Joe Biden took office.
But with more than 1 million unidentified foreign nationals evading apprehension after entering the U.S., the potential that at least some are on the...
(Victor Skinner, The Center Square) – Two new reports on home-schooled and private school students in North Carolina are offering snapshots into the long-term trend of parents seeking alternatives to traditional public schools.
Enrollment in both home and private schools increased significantly during the pandemic, but while private schools have...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Texas installed a new marine barrier of buoys last month in the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass as part of its border security mission, Operation Lone Star.
Not soon after, a local business sued and most news coverage was about the buoys. But...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) The Department of Justice should be honest and call itself Biden Campaign Headquarters. As a fearsome whiff of East Germany wafts through its windows, this Cabinet agency persecutes Donald J. Trump, the president’s chief political rival, and keeps the heat off of the Bidens. Regardless,...
(By Duggan Flanakin, RealClear Wire) Four hundred ninety-eight electric vehicles and over 3,200 other vehicles, including 350 Mercedes Benzes, were bound for Egypt on the Fremantle Highway when one or more of the EVs caught fire, costing at least one seaman his life and injuring several others. Curiously, the Dutch...
(By Leonard Robinson, The Center Square) In the wake of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling, the Biden administration is granting more than $100 million to historically black colleges and universities and other predominantly-minority universities and colleges.
The U.S. Department of Education made the announcement Aug. 1 and stated that...
(By Brett Rowland, The Center Square) A nutritional supplement company and one of its managers agreed to injunctions and to pay civil penalties to resolve a federal lawsuit that alleged the company deceptively marketed vitamin supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quickwork LLC and one of its managers, Eric Anthony Nepute,...
(By Andy Puzder, RealClear Wire) Amid growing criticism of its environmental, social and governance investment practices, BlackRock has announced that it will offer retail investors in its largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) the opportunity to participate in its “Voting Choice” program. Open to institutional clients since January 2022, this program allows...
(By Philip Wegmann, RealClear Wire) An internal memo circulated by the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign, and obtained by RealClearPolitics, outlines his pitch to donors ahead of the first GOP primary debate: The 37-year-old first-time candidate is surging as others stumble, going farther with fewer resources, and will soon “eclipse DeSantis.”
Until...
(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) If the current trajectory continues, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations agents are on track this fiscal year to arrest the greatest number of illegal foreign nationals with criminal convictions in recorded history.
By contrast, Border Patrol apprehensions of gang members...
(By Peter Jacobsen, FEE) I saw it for the first time in Wichita, Kansas. My coworker was driving a shuttle carrying myself and a few students from a guest speaker event, and I noticed something strange—a purple street light.
I initially brushed this off as some weird mishap, but as...
(By Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Nationwide 27.4% of homeowners are considered "house poor," meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs.
However, in some U.S. cities, far more Americans are living beyond their means, according to research from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In Hialeah,...