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(Headline USA) Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson proposed to buy the homeless in his city a one-way airplane ticket out of his town, Anchorage, Alaska. Bronson's airfare proposal caps a turbulent few years as Anchorage, like many cities in the American West, struggles to deal with a burgeoning homeless population. The homeless...

(Headline USA) A Christian woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered non-emergency personnel to leave there amid growing security...

(Headline USA) With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee. To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) – New legislation that would require AM radio capability in every new vehicle is gaining momentum. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation discussed the “AM For Every Vehicle Act” in an executive session and passed it out of committee this week, putting it...

(Jacquelyn Martin, The Center Square) – Seven Republican U.S. senators, led by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced a joint resolution to condemn a federal policy created by the Biden administration through a federal agency rule-making process called the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways Rule. They did so as the Biden administration...

(Headline USA) Lawmakers broke for their August recess this week with work on funding the government largely incomplete. Congress has until Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year, to act on government funding. They could pass a budget, spending bills to fund government agencies into next year, or simply...

(Cameron Arcand, The Center Square) — Lawmakers are looking for answers on the destruction of 30 million tax documents by the Internal Revenue Service in March 2021. Congressman David Schweikert, R-Ariz., and Congressman Jason Smith, R-Mo., of the House Ways and Means Committee, wrote a letter to IRS commissioner Daniel...

(Headline USA) About 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. American's belief in angels (69%) is about on par with belief in heaven and the power of prayer, but bested by belief in...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Three Republican U.S. senators helped defeat an amendment to the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would provide remedies to members of the Armed Forces who were discharged or faced adverse action under the Department of Defense COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Amendment 421,...

(Headline USA) A top Pentagon official has attacked this week's widely watched congressional hearing on UFOs, calling the claims “insulting” to employees who are investigating sightings and accusing a key witness of not cooperating with the official U.S. government investigation. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick's letter, published on his personal LinkedIn page...

(By John Murawski, RealClearInvestigations) Last month, on the same day the Supreme Court declared college admissions based on race unconstitutional, Kamilah Moore, head of the California task force at the forefront of the national reparations effort, announced on Twitter that her cause is not affected by the decision: “Our...

(By Anthony Hennen, The Center Square) State and federal officials continue to monitor the impact of the Norfolk Southern train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, but independent scientists worry that indoor air quality has been ignored. The lack of transparency, too, has made it harder to build and maintain public...