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(Madison Hirneisen, The Center Square) Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan has been elected to fill the seat in the U.S. House of Representatives left vacant after the death of Rep. Donald McEachin, making history as the first black woman to be elected to Congress to represent the state. The Associated Press...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) A federal watchdog reported that Congress continues to spend more money than it collects in taxes. The U.S. Government Accountability Office's audit of the federal government's financial statements found it "continues to face an unsustainable long-term fiscal path." In fiscal year 2022, the federal government spent $6.27...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Friday marks the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which resulted in well over $100 billion in American taxpayer dollars being set aside to help the Eastern European country fend off its aggressor. The U.S. Congress committed more than $113 billion dollars in support for...

(John Tamny, RealClear Wire) If you’re ever searching for the personification of sanctimonious, find yourself a “balanced budget” proponent. These individuals will tell you in haughty, eyes-periodically-closed fashion about the crisis that awaits us unless we allegedly “get deficits under control.” Balanced budget proponents are morally superior to all of...

(John R. Lott Jr., RealClear Wire) If you believe tweets from Michael Bloomberg’s The Trace and its employees, I am “one major factor” why the U.S. hasn’t passed stronger gun control laws and thus, they claim, responsible for mass shootings in the United States. These are becoming regular tweets after...

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The Department of Education recently received an unusual audit opinion, thanks to poor data quality and uncertainty in the cost of subsidy programs, according to an Inspector General report. After conducting their yearly audit, auditors at KPMG issued a “Disclaimer of Opinion.” This means auditors felt they...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona have until March 1 to turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee about alleged FBI investigations into parents attending school board meetings in response to a memo Garland issued 17...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court canceled oral arguments scheduled for March 1 in a case filed by Arizona and 18 other states against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and several federal officials and agencies. President Joe Biden has said the national public health emergency issued...

(Tom Joyce, Center Square) A California bill would prevent future tobacco sales for those born on or after January 1, 2007. Assembly Bill 935, filed by Assemblyman Damon Connolly, D-San Rafael, would make this change. If someone were born on January 1, 2007, they would be 16 years old today. “The impetus...

(Jp Cortez, Sound Money Defense League) State lawmakers of both houses have just voted overwhelmingly to exempt physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion from the Mississippi state sales tax, sending the bill to Governor Tate Reeves (R) for his signature. Senate Bill 2019, sponsored by Sen. Chad...

(Headline USA) Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States, moving the two countries that much closer to nuclear confrontation. Putin’s announcement, made Tuesday in his state-of-the-nation address, would suspend Moscow’s participation in the New START Treaty. The pact, signed in...

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) Across the country, universities are hiring journalist and author of the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, to speak to students on issues of race and history. Her lucrative speaking fees cost students and taxpayers. Just 12 universities have paid a combined $521,000 in speaking fees to Hannah-Jones. The 1619...