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(Headline USA) SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first test flight Thursday and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Elon Musk’s company was aiming to send the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) More than 11,000 small business leaders have rallied together in a petition to protest the tax hikes proposed in President Joe Biden's latest proposed budget. The National Federation of Independent Businesses organized the effort and recently launched a paid ad campaign against the tax increases. “Thousands...

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) So far through February 2023, Seattle Public Schools has made $67.5 million more in expenditures than it has received in revenue, part of a total projected deficit of $131 million, according to Chalkboard Review. According to the article, the spending comes in three main categories: regular...

(Headline USA) Artificial intelligence imaging can be used to create art, try on clothes in virtual fitting rooms or help design advertising campaigns. But experts fear the darker side of the easily accessible tools could worsen something that primarily harms women: nonconsensual deepfake pornography. Deepfakes are videos and images that have...

(Headline USA) SpaceX prepared to launch the biggest and most powerful rocket Thursday, working nonstop after the first shot at a test flight fizzled earlier in the week. The nearly 400-foot Starship was poised to blast off from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. SpaceX’s Elon Musk...

(Headline USA) New supervisors leading Disney World’s revamped governing body said Wednesday that they had good intentions about collaborating with the company after they were appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis but felt betrayed when Disney signed agreements with their predecessors stripping them of most of their authority. “Our board...

(Headline USA) Twitter has removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” raising concerns among radical activists pushing their own agendas that the Elon Musk-owned platform is becoming what they claim is less safe for marginalized groups. Twitter enacted the policy against deadnaming, or using a...

(Headline USA) A federal watchdog is investigating whether the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration under chief Anne Milgram improperly awarded millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to hire her past associates, people familiar with the probe told the Associated Press. Among the contract spending under scrutiny by the Justice Department’s Office...

(Headline USA) Despite damning stories---such as the revelation in a classified document leak that U.S. special forces are actively on the ground fighting in a never-authorized war; or that the Biden administration was aware of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy having embezzled some $400 million in U.S funds---the U.S. continues...

(Headline USA) A proposed change to next year's Montana U.S. Senate primary that could have hurt Democrat Sen. Jon Tester's reelection chances is likely dead after a state legislative committee shelved the GOP-backed measure Wednesday. Some Republican lawmakers wanted to alter Montana's 2024 Senate primary so that only the top...

(Headline USA) The Florida Board of Education on Wednesday approved a ban on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding its anti-grooming law at the request of Gov. Ron DeSantis. The proposal will take effect after a procedural notice period that lasts about a month,...

(Headline USA) Red-pilled political scion Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who gained prominence in his own right as a vocal vaccine skeptic during the COVID-19 pandemic, launched his bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democrat nomination next year. Kennedy, a member of one of the country’s most famous political...