SYNDICATION

(By Philip Wegmann, RealClear Wire) Nothing happened. Again. Congressional leaders left the Oval Office after meeting with President Biden Tuesday evening, further entrenched in their original positions and without anything close to an agreement on how the federal government should pay its bills. They bickered. They agreed to meet again Friday....

(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Within a short period of time of holding in custody over 27,000 illegal foreign nationals who’ve just arrived to the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, a Border Patrol agent stationed there told The Center Square, “We are almost at ‘Broken Arrow.’” “Of that...

(By TJ Martinell, The Center Square) Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed Senate Bill 5459 into law, which restricts the public from obtaining records regarding ballots and the election system, as well as centralizes all local records requests with the Secretary of State's office. At the May 9 bill signing, Inslee said...

(By Victor Skinner, The Center Square) North Carolina Congressman Dan Bishop wants “full transparency and accountability” at the Department of Homeland Security, and he’s leading a hearing on Thursday to demand it. Bishop, the Republican chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability, wants to examine possible...

(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) To combat the recent spike in housing costs, California sponsored a program to help prospective first-time home buyers purchase a home by providing financing for the down payment. Unfortunately, the $300 million program ran out of money in less than two weeks, after only...

(By Jon Miltimore, FEE) Last September, billionaire Ken Griffin announced he was pulling up stakes and moving Citadel—his gigantic hedge fund—from Chicago to Miami. The Windy City was out of control, he told Bloomberg, something that dawned on him after a colleague made a coffee run and was robbed by...

(By Alfredo Ortiz, RealClear Wire) President Biden claimed to support small businesses during National Small Business Week, but his actions spoke louder than words. Biden is waging war on small businesses, hitting them hard with new regulations, taxes and inflation. At the same time Biden gave his pro-small business remarks, First Republic Bank...

(By Jon Miltimore, FEE) Federal regulators recently seized the struggling First Republic Bank on Monday, which they promptly sold to JPMorgan Chase. Reports show First Republic had some $230 billion in financial assets which quickly evaporated, making it the second largest bank collapse in US history, exceeding the recent...

(Headline USA) Seven people were killed and up to six were injured Sunday after they were struck by a vehicle while waiting at a city bus stop outside of a migrant shelter in the border city of Brownsville, Texas, police said. Brownsville police investigator Martin Sandoval said the crash happened...

(Headline USA) The first big live awards show to air during the current screenwriters' strike has retreated to a pre-taped event as the MTV Movie & TV Awards tries to chart a celebratory course through a turbulent Hollywood. The Sunday show already had lost its host, Drew Barrymore, who dropped...

(Headline USA) After a dismal start to his 2020 presidential campaign, Black voters in South Carolina rallied behind Joe Biden, reviving his White House ambitions by driving his Democratic rivals from the race and ultimately putting him on a path to ‘defeating’ then-President Donald Trump. However, at the outset of...

(Headline USA) A walkout by most Republican members of the Oregon Senate reached a fifth straight day Saturday. The Republican legislators report that they are protesting Democrats failure to adhere to the state's legal requirement that bills must be written in clear and simple language. Oregon Republicans say Democrats have failed...