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(Headline USA) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney World’s self-governing district, after the woke company vigorously opposed the state's parental rights legislation. The new bill requires DeSantis, a Republican, to appoint a five-member board to oversee the government services that the...

(Headline USA) A Florida judge has issued an arrest warrant for rapper Kodak Black for failing a drug test while on bail for a drug charge, court records show. The warrant was issued Thursday after Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, did not appear for a scheduled drug test in...

(Headline USA) As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, CIA Director William Burns said Sunday in an interview with CBS's Face the Nation that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “too confident” in his military's ability to grind Ukraine into submission. Burns, in a television interview, said the head of Russia's...

(Headline USA) U.S. intelligence shows that China's President Xi Jinping has instructed his country's military to “be ready by 2027" to invade Taiwan, CIA Director William Burns said. Nonetheless, the foreign intelligence agency remained noncommital about what the Asian superpower's plans might be, and whether anything would occur during President Joe Biden's term...

(Headline USA) The creator of the Dilbert comic strip faced a backlash of cancellations by the mainstream media Saturday while defending his remarks denouncing anti-white racism which were construed as being racist against black people. Various media publishers across the U.S. denounced the comments by Dilbert creator Scott Adams while...

(Headline USA) Jill Biden spent her time in Africa lecturing Africans on safe sex and condom use. She praised young adults for learning about safe sex and dating practices. Biden has been highlighting U.S.-backed efforts to empower these groups during a five-day, two-country visit to Africa this week. “These are issues that really all...

(Scott McClallen, The Center Square) When Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Ford’s new $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant last week, her office's news release said it would cost taxpayers $1 billion. Nine days later, state officials asked for $750 million more to prep the Marshall site – bringing the...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Chicago recorded 697 total homicides in 2022, far more than any other city in the United States, but New Orleans had the highest murder rate per capita, according to a new report from a nonprofit research group. Chicago had more total homicides in 2022 than Philadelphia...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday an extensive legislative plan to address the border crisis. His proposal comes as record numbers of foreign nationals have illegally entered through the southern border and made their way to Florida or are continuing to be apprehended by...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Attorneys representing four people indicted in a federal bribery and conspiracy case involving Illinois' largest utility company are worried about a political science professor. They are concerned the expert witness' explanations of how Chicago's political machine works could make their clients look guilty in front of...

(Glen Hodgson & Brooke Medina, RealClear Wire) In J.K. Rowling’s novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Professor Albus Dumbledore opines that humans have a knack for choosing precisely those things that are bad for them. The same could be said for United States and European Union leaders’ affection for...

(Steve Dewey, FEE) The American public has long held an unfavorable view of the Internal Revenue Service, as evidenced by several historical surveys. A Gallup poll taken more than 25 years ago in October 1997 found that 69 percent of the American public held the opinion that the IRS “frequently abuse...