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(Headline USA) Wisconsin and North Carolina have joined at least 22 other states in banning the popular social media app TikTok on state-owned devices, including Mississippi, Indiana, Louisiana and South Dakota. Congress also recently banned TikTok from most U.S. government-issued devices over bipartisan concerns about security. TikTok is owned by ByteDance,...

(Headline USA) The U.S. now acknowledges having collected 510 reports of unidentified flying objects, many of which are flying in sensitive military airspace. While there’s no publicly released evidence of extraterrestrials, they may still pose a threat, the government said in a declassified report summary released Thursday. Last year, the Pentagon...

(Andrew Hensel, The Center Square) Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is drawing criticism over leaked emails of her campaign asking public school students for help her re-election bid in exchange for "extra credit." Lightfoot, who is running for a second term, faces several challengers in next month's primary. Challengers are highlighting...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) “More damaging evidence” of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies have been uncovered in a trial that began Monday in a lawsuit filed against the Biden administration by Florida, state Attorney General Ashley Moody said Thursday. “Florida is the first state to take the Biden administration...

(Greg Bishop - The Center Square) A growing number of county officials say they won’t enforce the gun ban and registry Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker enacted this week. It is now illegal to buy or sell more than 170 semi-automatic firearms. Those who owned such guns before the ban went into...

(Headline USA) On the heels of praise for helping broker a deal between House Freedom Caucus members and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., former President Donald Trump is planning to hold the first public campaign rally of his 2024 White House bid in the early-voting state of South Carolina. Campaign spokesperson Steven...

(Headline USA) Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis Presley and a dedicated keeper of her father’s legacy, died Thursday after being hospitalized for a medical emergency. She was 54. Presley's death was confirmed by her mother, Priscilla. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating...

(Headline USA) With the damning revelation that President Joe Biden had mishandled classified materials from the Obama administration, discovered on Nov. 2 in a closet at the Penn Biden Center's Washington, D.C., office, the 80-year-old Biden quickly disavowed any knowledge of the documents. But doing so for the second batch,...

(RaeLynn Ricarte - The Center Square) U.S. Rep. John Joyce, R-Pennsylvania, led Wednesday’s meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that focused on stopping the flow of deadly fentanyl and other illicit drugs over the nation’s southern border. “In 2002, the DEA seized more than 379 million lethal doses of...

(Headline USA) House Republicans on Wednesday opened their long-promised investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, wielding the power of their majority to demand information from the Treasury Department and former Twitter executives as they lay the groundwork for public hearings. “Now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule...

(Headline USA) A computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration brought flights to a standstill across the U.S. on Wednesday, with hundreds of delays quickly cascading through the system at airports nationwide. The FAA ordered all U.S. flights to delay departures until at least 9 a.m. Eastern, though airlines said...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said her office received “bombshell new evidence” that the Biden administration “wrongfully withheld” from her office until just days before they went to trial on Monday. Her office filed a lawsuit last year against the Biden administration over altering federal...