SYNDICATION

(Headline USA) North Carolina residents can now buy a handgun without getting a permit from a local sheriff, after the Republican-controlled legislature on Wednesday overrode the Democrat governor’s veto — a first since 2018. The House voted 71-46 to enact the bill, which eliminates the longstanding, onerous and largely useless...

(Headline USA) Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday voted to override Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill preventing transgender treatments---including irreversible genital-mutilation surgery---in minors. The bill, which also addressed other hot-button issues surrounding child-grooming and promotion of the transgender agenda within the school system, fueled unruly protests from...

(Headline USA) Seattle's leftist mayor and woke city council on Wednesday approved a law forcing companies to pay their workers what government thinks they should be paid, ignoring warnings from industry experts with concerns that the measure would ultimately hurt consumers. Most gig workers in Seattle will be permanently entitled...

(Headline USA) Board members picked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee the governance of Walt Disney World said Wednesday that their Disney-controlled predecessors pulled a fast one on them by passing restrictive covenants that strip the new board of many of its powers. The current supervisors of the Central...

(Headline USA) An FBI informant who marched to the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members on Jan. 6 testified on Wednesday that he didn't know of any plans for the anti-socialist group to invade the building and didn't think they inspired any violence that day. The informant, who was...

(Headline USA) Twitter says it has removed thousands of tweets showing a poster promoting a “trans day of vengeance” protest in support of transgender rights in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of Trust and Safety, said in a tweet Wednesday that the company automatically removed more than...

(Headline USA) The Commerce Department admitted that it once again had over-projected the strength of the Biden economy as bank failures, inflation and skyrocketing interest rates leave the U.S. on the cusp of a devastating recession. Meanwhile, the Democrat-led government continues its wasteful spending on dubious priorities like the war...

(Headline USA) A train hauling ethanol and corn syrup derailed and caught fire in Minnesota early Thursday and nearby residents were ordered to evacuate their homes, authorities said. The BNSF train derailed in the town of Raymond, roughly 100 miles west of Minneapolis, about 1 a.m., according to a statement...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in hot water after regulators seemed to suggest they had more money than they could spend but needed to spend it anyway. That funding came in part from the Inflation Reduction Act, and now lawmakers are pointing to watchdog reports...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, its secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, said he supported a federal assault weapons but couldn’t define what an assault weapon is. U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., asked Mayorkas, ”Do you agree with the president...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio blasted the Pentagon’s increasingly leftward bent as it struggles to keep up with national security interests. “The United States military is the greatest fighting force in the world, but woke activists in the Biden Administration are undermining military readiness, cohesion, and purpose,”...