(Casey Harper, The Center Square) This week will mark the three-year anniversary of President Joe Biden’s chaotic and deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Biden committed on the campaign trail to withdraw U.S. troops, a move supported by his predecessor Donald Trump, but the process left 13 U.S. service...
(Kevin Bessler, The Center Square) – It is Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s lofty goal to have one million electric vehicles on Illinois roads in less than six years, and now a public service campaign is critical of his political party’s EV agenda.
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) has...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit Friday against real estate software company RealPage Inc., accusing it of an illegal scheme that allows landlords to coordinate to hike rental prices.
The lawsuit, filed alongside attorneys general in states including North Carolina and California, alleges the company is violating...
Update: CNN reports that at a meeting over the weekend, NASA decided to bring home the stranded astronauts on a SpaceX capsule currently docked at the International Space Station rather than require them to wait until February.
(Headline USA) NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blasted Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee saying she is a California liberal and extremist.
Harris was officially nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night.
While attacking her opponent, former President Donald Trump,...
(Headline USA)The average rate on a 30-year mortgage eased this week to its lowest level in 15 months, welcome relief for home shoppers navigating a housing market that remains out of reach for many Americans.
The rate fell to 6.46% from 6.49% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday....
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) New federal economic data showed that previous data significantly overestimated the health of the U.S. economy.
The Department of Labor released revised jobs data that showed they overestimated the number of jobs created in the U.S. economy by 818,000, a whopping revision that set off...
(Headline USA) Rioters broke through a fence set up by police near the site of the Democratic National Convention on its opening day Monday as thousands took to the streets to voice their opposition to the war in Gaza.
As the larger group marched, a few dozen who broke away...
(Headline USA) Flerentin “Flex” Jean-Baptiste missed so much school he had to repeat his freshman year at Medford High outside Boston. At school, “you do the same thing every day,” said Jean-Baptiste, who was absent 30 days his first year. “That gets very frustrating.”
Then his principal did something nearly...
(Headline USA) As students return to colleges across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism in support of Hamas, and some schools are adopting rules to limit the kind of protests that swept campuses last spring.
While the summer break provided a respite in student demonstrations...
(Headline USA) Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that brought success to Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, has died. He was 88.
NBC's Today show, citing family members, said Donahue died Sunday after a long illness.
Dubbed “the king of daytime...
(Headline USA) Five summers ago, Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance—then a 34-year-old memoirist and father of a 2-year-old boy—took the stage at a conservative conference and tackled an issue that would become a core part of his political brand: the United States' declining fertility rate.
“Our people aren’t having...