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(Headline USA) Republican lawmakers in Montana are sharing that they received letters with white powder as federal agents investigate mysterious substances similarly mailed to GOP officials in two other states. In a Friday night tweet, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte said he has received “disturbing” reports of anonymous threats sent to...

(Headline USA) Kris Kobach, the attorney general of Kansas, asked a judge to end a requirement for Kansas to allow transgenders to change their birth certificates. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree imposed the requirement in 2019 to settle a lawsuit filed by four transgenders against three state health department officials. It...

(Headline USA) Opposing parental control over the children’s sections of libraries will be a major focus of the American Library Association's annual meeting this weekend in Chicago. Librarians may attend sessions aimed at helping them confidently counter parental book challenges and fight legislative regulation of indecent library material. All day Saturday,...

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a new Florida law prohibiting children from attending live adult performances. U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell granted a preliminary injunction stopping the law from being enforced until a trial is held to determine its constitutionality, and he denied a Florida licensing and...

(Headline USA) President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday to punish the organizers of an armed rebellion in Russia after mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led his troops out of Ukraine and into a key southern city. Putin denounced the uprising as “a stab in the back." It was the biggest threat to...

(Headline USA) Russian President Vladimir Putin is addressing the nation Saturday, after mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin called for armed rebellion and reached a key Russian city with his troops. Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner private military company, has claimed that his forces had military facilities in Russia’s southern city...

(By Addison Graham, RealClear Wire) Faith leaders met on Tuesday at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. to discuss religious liberty and human dignity in the Americas. The conference was sponsored by the Interreligious Forum of the Americas and highlighted Christian, Muslim, and Jewish voices. “Religious liberty is...

(By Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Athletes and congressional members continued their fight this week to protect women's sports from encroachment by biological males identifying as transgender, and from the Biden administration’s work to rewrite Title IX. They also shared support for the bicameral effort to establish National Women’s Sports...

(Headline USA) Former Texas congressman Will Hurd, a onetime deep state CIA officer and fierce critic of Donald Trump, announced Thursday that he’s running for president, hoping to build momentum as a more moderate alternative to the Republican front-runner. Hurd, 45, served three terms in the House through January 2021,...

(Headline USA) The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis was within his rights to remove a radical prosecutor who opposed prosecutions for abortions or gender-mutilation health procedures, in defiance of state law. The state’s highest court ruled that Andrew Warren had waited too long...

(By Brendan Clarey, Chalkboard Review) The National Assessment of Educational Progress released assessment results Wednesday that show 13-year-olds tested in the 2022-23 school year saw dramatic declines in math and reading compared to previous years. The NAEP’s Long Term Trend assessment, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, found...

(By J.J. Brannock, The Center Square) Former Special Counsel John Durham said in a Congressional hearing on Wednesday that several FBI agents apologized to him for the way the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s Russian collusion probe was handled. In his report on the Trump-Russia investigation, nicknamed Crossfire Hurricane,...