(Headline USA) Pigs ran loose on a metro highway after a semitrailer truck that was carrying 50 hogs overturned, causing an hours-long shutdown Friday morning in Minnesota on Interstate 694.
State troopers tried to corral several loose pigs that cameras showed running through traffic, the Star Tribune reported.
The truck tipped...
(By Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Despite recent reforms, the U.S. Department of Defense has had challenges bringing new weapons to the battlefield, according to a new report.
More than half of the 26 major defense acquisition programs reported new delays. At the same time, net costs increased by $37...
(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Attorneys representing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have sent a cease and desist letter to Texas House Republicans and to two Houston attorneys prosecuting Paxton, saying they are not allowed to contact potential witnesses or employees according to state law.
Attorneys Judd Stone and...
(Jon Miltimore, FEE) State Farm announced last week it will no longer accept homeowner insurance applications in California , where it has long been a leading insurance provider.
In a press release , America’s largest property insurance company cited various reasons for its decision, including the high costs of doing business in California, macroeconomic factors such...
(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The U.S. Navy is trying to claw back $7 million from over 1,200 retired sailors after a system error resulted in overpayments for almost four years, according to NBC News.
The errors were a result of inaccurate service calculations for 1,283 retired sailors between August...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas's Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed six border bills into law on Thursday, ranging from designating cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations to creating an interstate compact to expanding resources for law enforcement.
“Washington, D.C. has failed to do its job to secure our border,” the...
(Leonard Robinson, The Center Square) The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will consider establishing an office to oversee the city’s reparations rollout.
The ordinance, proposed to the board’s Budget and Finance Committee earlier this year, would appropriate $50 million from the city’s general fund to the Human Rights Commission for...
(Headline USA) The Los Angeles county district attorney's office said Thursday it has left Twitter due to barrage of “vicious” homophobic attacks that were not removed by the social media platform even after they were reported.
The account, which went by the handle @LADAOffice, no longer exists on Twitter.
“Our decision...
(Headline USA) Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT Thursday for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing.
Attorneys Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are facing possible punishment over a filing in a lawsuit against an airline that included references...
(By Paul Sperry, RealClear Wire) The custodian of Joe Biden’s vice presidential records, a key witness in his classified documents probe, was caught up in another documents scandal while working at the Commerce Department during the Clinton administration, court records reveal.
Longtime Biden aide and gatekeeper Kathy S. Chung, who...
(Headline USA) As it pushes to renew a cornerstone law that authorizes major surveillance programs, the Biden administration faces an American public that's broadly skeptical of spying practices and of the need to sacrifice civil liberties for alleged security.
Congress in the coming months will debate whether to extend Section...
(Headline USA) After years of criticizing mail-in voting and ballot harvesting as ripe for fraud, Republicans leaders now concede that there is no way to beat corrupt Democrats who engage in such strategies in blue states where they have been codified into law except by winning at their own...