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(Steve Miller, RealClearInvestigations) Echoing the private financing of public elections that critics saw as heavily favoring Democrats in 2020, some of America’s richest foundations are pouring money into a similar effort again, in the face of more organized conservative resistance.  A nonprofit group called the Audacious Project---whose supporters include the...

(Headline USA) The on-again, off-again neocon, possibly red-pilled, possibly not, Nikki Haley is moving closer to making her presidential campaign official. On Wednesday, supporters of the former South Carolina governor will get an email invitation to a Feb. 15 launch event in Charleston, at which she plans to announce her campaign,...

(Headline USA) Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for witchcraft. The Windsor town clerk registered the death on May 26, 1647, in a diary entry that...

(Headline USA) The official curriculum for a new Advanced Placement course on African--American studies that was released on Wednesday downplays some components that drew criticism from conservatives including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had threatened to ban the class in his state. In the new framework, topics including Black Lives...

(Headline USA) The FBI was conducting a planned search Wednesday of President Joe Biden's beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of classified documents, the president's personal lawyer said. The search follows a 13-hour, top-to-bottom review of his home in Wilmington on...

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) Gas prices at the pump rose for the fifth consecutive week and there isn't much hope of prices going down in the near future, according to a industry analysis. GasBuddy said that the national average of $3.49 per gallon reported Sunday is up 33.3 cents from...

(Derek Draplin, The Center Square) Twenty-five Republican governors oppose a revised federal rule regulating U.S. waterways, citing uncertainty from an undecided U.S. Supreme Court case related to the rule. The governors sent a letter to the Biden administration on Monday asking it to delay the implementation of the revised Waters of...

(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Grand Forks, North Dakota, will deny building permits to a Chinese-based food manufacturer that purchased land near an Air Force base, the mayor said Tuesday. Chinese food manufacturer Fufeng Group announced the purchase of 370 acres of land for a wet corn milling plant in 2021....

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) Regional airline company Champlain Enterprises, specifically its subsidiary CommuteAir, recently suffered a data breach, where a Swiss hacker gained access to the federal Terrorist Screening Database and “no-fly” list. This is after Champlain Enterprises received more than $73 million in financial assistance from the U.S. Treasury. The...

(Headline USA) As Democrats moan and groan about horrifically unqualified leftists like Reps. Ilhan Omar and Eric Swalwell being dropped from key House committees, Republican Rep. George Santos of New York told GOP colleagues Tuesday he is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees, a move that comes amid a...

(Glenn Minnis, The Center Square) Three out of every four voters agree that housing affordability is a problem, with many saying they would like to see government take more direct action in easing the burden for residents, said a recent poll from the State Policy Network. Pollsters found that 63%...

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service will invest $25 million into three states to encourage people on food assistance to buy more fruits and vegetables. The incentive pilot program would encourage people receiving what used to be called food stamps the ability...