SYNDICATION

(Headline USA) Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is taking the next official step toward a bid for president in 2024. In a video released Wednesday morning, Scott announced he was forming an exploratory committee, which moves him closer to a formal campaign for the White House. He leaned into his biography as a black...

(Headline USA) Fed up by an enormous pothole in his Los Angeles neighborhood, Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up a shovel and filled it himself. The actor and former California governor tweeted a video Tuesday of him and a helper using packaged concrete to repair the road in the Brentwood area. “Today, after...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas state troopers and local law enforcement officers continue to apprehend truckloads of single military age men attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. Law enforcement officers have explained to The Center Square that they estimate the number of people they apprehend are a fraction of those...

(Headline USA) Police body camera video released Tuesday showed the chaotic moments when police arrived at the scene of a mass shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, as the shooter they couldn’t see from the street rained bullets down on them. The videos, taken from two wounded officers’ lapels, offer...

(Adam Andrzejewsk, RealClear Wire) After this column reported that the State Department was funding nonprofits that target “disinformation” and that have tried to censor American news outlets, we now know that the National Science Foundation has also funded $5.7 million in grants to target disinformation about elections and COVID-19 vaccine...

(Matt Paprocki, RealClear Wire) Socialism hasn’t always been mainstream. It started off as radical: too hot to touch. So in 2010, radical new leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union started slowly. “Convincing our members to wear a red T-shirt on Friday was a task,” said Brandon Johnson, who on April 4...

(Charles Lipson, RealClear Wire) To sustain a constitutional democracy, public officials must do more than obey written laws. They must respect the unwritten ones that have cumulated over the years. Together, they are the cement of our society. Unfortunately, in recent weeks, we’ve seen two disturbing cases of elected officials...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Small businesses are less optimistic about the future, a newly released survey shows. The National Federation of Independent Businesses released survey results showing their small business optimism index decreased in March, “marking the 15th consecutive month below the 49-year average of 98.” “Small business owners are cynical...

(Christian Wade, The Center Square) A watchdog group says New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman violated House ethics rules by recording TikTok videos inside the U.S. Capitol building and in his congressional office. The complaint, filed Tuesday by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, alleges Bowman used social media accounts in...

(Headline USA) A major leak of classified U.S. documents that’s shaken Washington and exposed new details of its intelligence gathering may have started in a chatroom on a social-media platform popular with gamers. Held on the Discord platform, which hosts real-time voice, video and text chats, a discussion originally created to...

(Headline USA) Many Americans aren’t yet sold on going electric for their next cars, a new poll shows, with high prices and too few charging stations the main deterrents. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults are at least somewhat likely to switch, but despite an array of incentives for consumers...

(Headline USA) American and Filipino forces on Tuesday launched their largest combat exercises in decades in the Philippines and its waters across the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, where Washington has repeatedly warned China over its increasingly aggressive actions. The annual drills by the longtime treaty allies called Balikatan—Tagalog...