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(Headline USA) A federal judge on Friday rejected a motion from Google to toss out the government's antitrust case against it. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled the lawsuit alleging Google wields monopolistic power in the world of online advertising can proceed in its entirety. Her ruling is the second setback for...

(Headline USA) Oregon’s Democratic Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is in hot water, with Republican lawmakers calling for her resignation and the Democratic governor seeking investigations because Fagan took a consulting job with a marijuana firm. The matter came to a head Friday after Fagan’s office released an audit of the...

(Headline USA) Florida officials are threatening to revoke the teaching license of a school superintendent who criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis, accusing the educator of violating several statutes by allowing his “personal political views” to guide his leadership. Such a revocation by the state Department of Education could, in turn, remove...

(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump turned his attention to the general election at a speech in New Hampshire on Thursday, using his first campaign appearance since President Joe Biden launched his own reelection bid to boast of his poll numbers and suggest that he has no need to debate his Republican rivals. “We...

(Headline USA) West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday that he is running for Democrat Joe Manchin’s U.S. Senate seat in 2024, setting up what could be a hard-fought campaign between two of the state’s most prominent politicians. Even before that, Justice, a former Democrat, will face a crowded...

(Headline USA) Growing anger at the FBI from both parties in Congress has become a major hurdle for U.S. intelligence agencies fighting to keep their vast powers to collect foreign communications that often sweep up the phone calls and emails of Americans. Key lawmakers say they won't vote to renew...

(Headline USA) California approved Thursday a first-in-the-nation rule limiting rail pollution to aggressively cut greenhouse gas emissions in the state's latest move to establish itself as a global leader in the fight against so-called climate change. The move is likely to have resounding effects that further suppress the economy as...

(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson aimed at President Joe Biden's policy in his Wednesday announcement as a 2024 presidential candidate and did not mention his Republican opponents directly. "In this campaign for president, I stand alone in terms of my experience, my record, and leadership...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. economy is growing at a slower pace, newly released economic data shows. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released Gross Domestic Product Data Thursday that showed the size of the U.S. economy increased by 1.1% in the first quarter of 2023, more slowly than...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) A closer look at the months leading up to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the second-largest bank collapse in history, shows that regulators saw the warning signs since last year but did not step in. SVB’s collapse sent shockwaves through the markets, destabilized the...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) In a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray, congressional members on the U.S. Select Committee on the Chinese Community Party expressed concerns about the FBI potentially not knowing about Chinese "police stations" operating in the U.S. They also asked Wray to provide information about...

(Headline USA) Hundreds of thousands of Fox News viewers are reacting to Tucker Carlson’s firing by abandoning the network in his old time slot — at least temporarily. Fox drew 1.33 million viewers for substitute host Brian Kilmeade in the 8 p.m. Eastern hour on Wednesday night, putting the network...