(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden touted Americans' rising wages over the weekend, but a closer look shows there is more to the story.
“More Americans have health insurance than ever in history,” Biden wrote on Twitter. “Fewer families are facing foreclosure today than before the pandemic. And wages...
(Cole Lauterbach - The Center Square) South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Tuesday announced legislation that, if enacted, would repeal the state’s sales tax on grocery items.
House Bill 1075 would amount to the largest tax cut in the state’s history. Noem’s office estimates the cut would allow taxpayers to keep...
(Cole Lauterbach - The Center Square) Arizona Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs’s first budget proposal to lawmakers included the dissolution of the state’s new program allowing parents to spend some tax dollars tied to their child’s public school education on a school of their choice. Although governors wield immense authority, Hobbs...
UPDATE: Extended video of Greta Thunberg's arrest by German police appeared to show that photographs spread in mainstream media were fake.
The video shows the teen eco-activist instead grinning and cavorting with the police while cooperatively posing for photographs with them.
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Original Associated Press story below:
(Headline USA) Police in western Germany...
(Adam Andrzejewski - RealClear Wire) The Federal Emergency Management Agency did not have controls in place to prevent over $3.7 billion of improper payments from the lost wages assistance program, a recent report from the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security found.
In 2020, in response...
(Headline USA) Republican Rep. Jim Banks, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, announced on Tuesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate seat in Indiana being vacated by GOP Sen. Mike Braun.
Banks is the first candidate to formally enter the Senate race since Braun said in...
(The Center Square) Congress’s recent $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill increased the budget for medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health to nearly $50 billion in 2023 alone. A closer look at the agency reveals that NIH is increasingly spending its time, and funds, on <a href="/tag/...
(The Center Square) – Leading Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives filed new legislation that would ban federal employees from working with big tech companies to censor Americans.
The bill comes as ongoing reports show that federal law enforcement and the White House have regularly communicated with social...
(Headline USA) When some of the world’s wealthiest and most influential figures gathered at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting last year, sessions on climate change drew high-level discussions on topics such as carbon financing and sustainable food systems.
The annual event in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos,...
(Headline USA) Newly empowered House Republicans on Sunday demanded the White House turn over all information related to its searches that have uncovered classified documents at President Joe Biden's home and former office in the wake of more records found at his Delaware residence.
“We have a lot of questions,"...
(The Center Square) – Emergency allotments for food benefits were more than $2 billion nationwide from March 2020 to this past December.
Congressional passage and Democrat President Joe Biden’s signing of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill the last week of December signaled the end to those extra benefits. Many...
(The Center Square) – Afghan nationals housed at U.S. bases overseas and in six states cost military branches more than $535 million in damages and consumables according to findings released by the Department of Defense inspector general. A Texas congressman is now demanding answers.
Those housed at eight military bases...