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(Headline USA) Attorney Lin Wood, who filed legal challenges seeking to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, is relinquishing his law license, electing to retire from practicing rather than face possible disbarment. Multiple states have weighed disciplining him for pushing Trump's claims that he defeated Joe Biden. On Tuesday, Wood...

(Headline USA) A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 million to a black church in downtown Washington, D.C. that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest, as BLM riots raged across the country. Superior Court Associated Judge...

(Headline USA) Democrats looking to secure future votes from immigrants are worried that updates to the U.S. citizenship test will hurt test-takers with lower levels of English proficiency. The naturalization test is one of the final steps toward citizenship — a months-long process that requires legal permanent residency for years...

(Headline USA) The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts. “Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an...

(Headline USA) Vietnam's state media have reported that the government banned distribution of the controversial Barbie movie because it includes a view of a map showing disputed Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea. The newspaper Vietnam Express and other media said posters advertising “Barbie” were removed from movie distributors’ websites after Monday’s...

(Glenn Minnis, The Center Square) Voters across the country have largely soured on the two major political parties, with just 20% of respondents in a new State Policy Network (SPN) survey considering the parties civil and fewer than half of partisans finding their own party “ethical.” In the poll of 2,043...

(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has had $7.6 billion in cost overruns in 2023, down from an incredible $12 billion in cost overruns in 2022, according to a Government Accountability Office study. The overruns come from 16 of NASA’s major projects, though the top...

(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) Recently released inflation data shows prices continue to rise in the U.S. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its monthly Personal Consumption Expenditure Index, a favorite marker of the Federal Reserve to track inflation, which showed prices rose 0.3% in May when excluding...

(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) Taxpayers lost nearly $200 billion to fraudsters that was meant for struggling small businesses, according to a new watchdog report on the Small Business Administration’s COVID-era pandemic relief programs. The SBA Office of Inspector General released a report on COVID-19 Pandemic EIDL and PPP...

(By Brian Crawford, RealClear Wire) Think of your favorite beer. What comes to mind? Maybe it’s an IPA at your friend’s cookout, or a crisp and refreshing light lager at a baseball game, or a summer shandy at the beach. No matter what brew you like to drink, millions...

(By Hans Zeiger, RealClear Wire) The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important statements on human liberty ever written. Not only did it launch the American Revolution, but it also inspired freedom fighters all around the world. From Frederick Douglass and the struggle against chattel slavery to...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) – The national debt will be nearly twice as large as the U.S. economy in 30 years, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office projects. That figure assumes no new major spending projects from Congress in that time, which is unlikely, meaning that debt levels could actually...