(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump promised repeatedly during his campaign to expand oil drilling in the U.S., which is good news for political leaders in Alaska, where oil is the economic lifeblood and many felt the Biden administration has obstructed efforts to boost the state's diminished production.
Opening the coastal...
(Spence Pauley, The Center Square) A founder of one of Seattle's largest homeless service providers has been charged with the possession of child pornography.
David Bloom is an American Baptist minister and one of the founders of the Downtown Emergency Service Center, the nonprofit that received the third largest funding...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) A think tank proposed $700 billion in spending cuts that it says should have bipartisan support in the legislature as Congress prepares for a new term that could focus on taxing and spending policies, including extending the debt limit and the 2017 tax cuts.
The...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Outgoing DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is expanding temporary worker visas for Fiscal Year 2025 by more than 60,000, despite only having two months left in office.
Mayorkas announced Friday that DHS, with the help of the Department of Labor, will make an additional 64,716 H-2B visas available....
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Republican Brian Jack will be the only newcomer to the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia after all 13 incumbents won their races.
Running as an “America First” candidate, Jack raised significantly more than his Democratic opponent, Maura Keller.
The voters in Georgia’s District 3 resoundingly...
(Madeline Armstrong, The Center Square) While not a concession, Republican Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake released a video Wednesday thanking Arizonans for supporting her throughout her attempt at a political career and spreading support for President-elect Donald Trump’s win, in addition to a Republican majority in both chambers...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump's vision for education largely revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of “wokeness ” and “left-wing indoctrination.”
Trump wants to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ sports. He wants to forbid classroom lessons on gender identity and Marxist concepts like critical race theory....
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is resurrecting plans to implement congestion pricing that will hike tolls to enter downtown Manhattan, but the new program faces an uncertain future with Republicans vowing to kill the program.
On Thursday, Hochul announced that she is unpausing the...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A 28-year-old man in Houston, Anas Said, has been indicted and arrested on charges he attempted to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, a federally designated foreign terrorist organization.
U.S. Attorney Alamdar Hamdani and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas Williams...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will take over a new effort to make the government more efficient.
President-elect Donald Trump’s new “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, is a government efficiency effort that has turned a public spotlight onto government waste and duplication in...
(Headline USA) Biden administration officials are working to dole out billions in grants before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.
“Let’s make every day count," President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation last week after Vice President Kamala Harris conceded defeat to Trump in the presidential race.
Trump has pledged...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump met Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentine President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with him since the GOP leader's victory in last week's election.
The meeting was confirmed by a person who insisted on anonymity to discuss an event that hadn't yet been...