SYNDICATION

(Jon Miltimore, FEE) Writing in the New York Times, columnist Bret Stephens highlighted new research from an Oxford University epidemiologist who found that masks—and mask mandates—did nothing to slow the spread of COVID-19 or protect people from the virus: The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned Congress that more aggressive interest rate hikes may be on the horizon. Powell testified before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday where he cited the stronger economy, saying bigger hikes could be necessary to address inflation. The Fed has been...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned eight Mexican companies and three members of the violent Mexican cartel, Cartel de Jaslisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), for targeting Americans and others in a timeshare fraud scam in and near Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. Scam proceeds...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Washington D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced he is withdrawing a controversial crime law from Congressional consideration Monday that would have lessened certain criminal penalties even as crime spikes in the nation's capital. Mendelson said that the changes would be reworked. The U.S. Senate was expected...

(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) A Macon County judge has declared Illinois’ gun ban and registry unconstitutional, setting up a direct appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court. The move means the law is not enforceable statewide pending appeal, according to attorney Jerry Stocks, who represents state Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur, in...

(Reilly Stephens, RealClear Wire) The last time your phone asked you to allow this or that app access to your location data, you may have had some trepidation about how much Apple or Google know about you. You may have worried about what might come of that, or read about...

(Headline USA) Norfolk Southern has pledged several million dollars to cover the cost of the response and recovery in Pennsylvania after last month's derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals just across the border in Ohio, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Monday. Shapiro's office said he met with Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw on...

(Headline USA) Steve Shurtleff was at Joe Biden's side in 2019 when he filed papers in the New Hampshire State House to run for president. He repeatedly trekked across the state with Biden to court primary voters. And when Biden ultimately won the presidency, it was Shurtleff, then the Democratic state House speaker,...

(Headline USA) Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts—perhaps hundreds of thousands of them—to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump, an Israeli-based cybertech firm claims. The sprawling bot network was uncovered by researchers at Cyabra, an Israeli tech firm that shared its...

(Headline USA) Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, has agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a civil case filed by the Justice Department over undeclared foreign bank accounts. When the civil case was filed in April 2022, prosecutors alleged that Manafort had failed to...

(Headline USA) Authorities in Ohio said there was no indication of any risk to public health from the derailment of a Norfolk Southern cargo train between Dayton and Columbus, the second derailment of a company train in the state in a month. It is also the latest in a longer series of...

(Headline USA) Gary Rossington is as free as a bird now. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member---who also helped to found the group---died Sunday at the age of 71. No cause of death was given. “It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our...