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(Headline USA) The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a GOP-driven congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years—weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. The national emergency allowed the government to...

(Headline USA) A federal judge wants to know if ex-President Donald Trump plans to attend a New York trial this month resulting from a columnist’s claims that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, a Bill Clinton appointee, issued an order Monday...

(Headline USA) The online leaks of scores of highly classified documents about the Ukraine war present a “very serious" risk to national security, and senior leaders are quickly taking steps to mitigate the damage, a top Pentagon spokesman said Monday. As the public airing of the data sends shockwaves across...

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) More than 300 biotech and pharmaceutical CEOs and executives have signed an open letter Monday calling for the reversal of a Texas judge's ruling that issued a national injunction on the abortion pill mifepristone. The letter, signed by Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and Biogen President Alisha...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. Congressional Budget Office said Monday the federal government has borrowed more than a trillion dollars in debt only six months into the fiscal year. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a report pointing out that those figures amount to an average of...

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) As the West faces extended droughts and water shortages, Los Angeles officials thought they would get ahead of the curve by investing about $1 billion into water storage solutions. Now, four years later, the droughts are intensifying while that money sits unspent, according to the according...

(Headline USA) China sent warships and dozens of fighter jets toward Taiwan on Saturday, the Taiwanese government said, in retaliation for a meeting between the U.S. House of Representatives speaker and the president of the self-ruled island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory. The Chinese military announced...

(Headline USA) U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of President Donald Trump, on Friday ordered a hold on federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. His ruling, came practically at the same time that U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, an appointee of /tag/barack-obama, essentially ordered the opposite in...

(Headline USA) Everett, Wash., has agreed to pay $500,000 to the owner and employees of ‘bikini coffee stands’ who sued over it six years ago. The Everett City Council voted unanimously this week to authorize Mayor Cassie Franklin to sign the settlement agreement with Jovanna Edge and employees, The Daily...

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) A former executive assistant to President Joe Biden dropped a bombshell this week, revealing in testimony for the House Oversight Committee that the administration had stashed unsecured boxes of classified documents in at least three different locations around Washington, D.C., including an office in Chinatown. Kathy Chung,...

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments later this month in a case determining whether government has the right to keep all the proceeds from foreclosed properties. The Tyler v. Hennepin County case begins April 26. The case involves a Minnesota woman who owed $15,000 in...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The National Institute of Standards and Technology's speech directives for scientists have come under fire for embracing critical race theory and gender ideology ideas. The Center Square recently reported on the NIST's "Inclusive Language Guidance," which tells scientists which words or phrases they can or cannot...