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(Scott McClallen, The Center Square) After Michigan leaders pledged $1 billion in taxpayer subsidies to Ford’s new electric vehicle plant in Marshall, Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is calling for an investigation into the agreement between the automaker and its contract with Chinese service provider and technology licensor CATL. Rubio...

(Headline USA) The Justice Department is sending out more than $200 million to help states and the District of Columbia administer “red-flag laws” and other crisis-intervention programs as part of the controversial gun legislation passed by Congress over the summer, officials said Tuesday. Red-flag laws, also known as extreme risk...

(Headline USA) A gunman opened fire Monday night at Michigan State University, killing three people and wounding five more, before fatally shooting himself miles away after an hours-long manhunt that forced frightened students to hide in the dark. Police announced the man’s death early Tuesday, four hours after shootings broke out...

(Anthony Hennen, The Center Square) Pennsylvania’s hyperlocal emergency medical services system teeters on the brink of collapse and, officials say, it’s up to legislators to intervene before it’s too late. “If they do nothing, this will collapse — there’s no ifs, ands, or buts about it —this system will collapse if...

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) From Jan. 1, 2017 to March 31, 2021, the Veterans Heath Administration, under the control of the Department of Veterans Affairs, made more than 425,000 duplicate payments that cost taxpayers more than $307 million, according to a VA Department Inspector General report. According to the report, the...

(Joe Mueller, The Center Square) Taxpayers who received state refunds from Colorado and 20 other states will not be required to report those payments on their 2022 federal Internal Revenue Service return. “The IRS has determined that in the interest of sound tax administration and other factors, taxpayers in many states...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) – Newly released polling data shows that as people living in or entering the country illegally continues to soar, Americans’ feelings on the issue are changing. Gallup released new polling data showing that Americans’ satisfaction with the current immigration level has declined to 28%, a...

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Very serious academics have concluded that wild animals avoid minority neighborhoods because of systemic racism. This pathbreaking study was conducted by biologists Colin Garroway of the University of Manitoba and Chloé Schmidt from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, according to The Daily Mail. The study...

(Headline USA) Kentucky has seen its first infant anonymously dropped off at one of its “baby box” safe surrender locations. At a news conference Friday, Safe Haven Baby Boxes founder and CEO Monica Kelsey said the child was dropped off within the last seven days at a Bowling Green Fire...

(Headline USA) Joe Biden ordered an "unidentified object” be shot down with a missile by U.S. fighter jets Sunday over Lake Huron, and it was believed to be the same one tracked over Montana and monitored by the government beginning the night before, U.S. officials said. The downing came after...

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The U.S. Navy pushed out the original team of aviators for the annual Super Bowl flyover, instead replacing them with an all-female group of flyers. The final roster will feature 11 female pilots and flight officers. Seven of the pilots will perform the opening ceremony. According...

(Headline USA) The Oregon Department of Justice is opening a criminal investigation into allegations that senior officials in the state's alcohol regulatory agency violated ethics laws by diverting rare, sought-after bourbons for personal use, the state attorney general said Friday. The officials said they were paying for the whiskey, which can cost...