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(Headline USA) Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., says she hears about it constantly when she is at home in Alabama—at school track meets, basketball tournaments and on her regular morning walks with friends. And when she was running for the Senate last year, Britt says, “parent after parent” came up to...

(Headline USA)  Brazil’s Federal Police searched former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home and seized his phone Wednesday in what they said was an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards. Several other locations also were searched and a half dozen people faced arrest, police said. The former president confirmed the search of...

(Headline USA) The World Health Organization says it has fired the scientist who led a high-profile delegation from the U.N. health agency to China two years ago to jointly look into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, citing sexual misconduct. Peter Ben Embarek, who led the WHO side of a joint...

(Headline USA) Donald Trump's lawyer said Thursday the former president will seek to move his New York criminal case to federal court, attempting avoid a state court trial that a Manhattan judge said he expects to hold early next year. Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, said at a hearing on an unrelated...

(Headline USA) Taking a page from the playbook of Democrat lawmakers---notably in a 2011 Wisconsin standoff and a 2021 attempt in Texas---Republican lawmakers in Oregon sought to forestall two radical blue-state bills by refusing to show up.  Partisan tensions in Oregon skyrocketed Wednesday after GOP state senators denied Democrats who...

(Headline USA) After three years of yawning over scandals involving members of the Biden family and others that would tarnish their collective narrative, three leftist media outlets---the Associated Press, the New York Times and National Public Radio---have been reinvigorated by the prospect of digging through the private messages of...

(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. Federal Reserve Board Wednesday announced another increase to the federal funds rate, inching the target range up to 5% to 5.25%, an increase of a quarter of a point. Wednesday’s announcement is the tenth rate hike since March 2022. “We are prepared to...

(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) A new federal rule that would charge higher fees to home buyers with good credit to help subsidize those with poor credit goes into effect Monday. The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced in January it would increase Loan-Level Price Adjustment fees for mortgage borrowers...

(By Casey Harper, The Center Square) A rise in crime, looting and unhindered theft around the U.S. has helped fuel Americans' rising concerns about crime. Some of the nation’s largest cities are experiencing crime waves in recent years, and new polling shows Americans are worried. Gallup released new polling Tuesday...

(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) Boston Mayor Michelle Wu recently announced a new initiative providing $4 million in funding for a community college tuition assistance program that will be available to all residents, including undocumented immigrants — all using federal dollars. In a recent press release, Wu touted the expansion...

(By James Varney, RealClear Wire) John Kerry leads an international jet-set life that might exhaust a runway model. If President Biden’s special envoy for climate was not in Washington or relaxing at his mansion near Nantucket Harbor, he could be found in Brazil, Panama, the Bahamas, or Germany. And...

(By Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) Since the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, the U.S. has continued sending money to the country in the form of humanitarian aid. Now, a watchdog claims that the U.S. can’t be confident that our $8 billion of aid to Afghanistan...