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(Headline USA) The new mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, said Sunday her administration will start moving homeless people from tent encampments into hotels and motels. Bass told NBC's “Meet the Press” host, Chuck Todd, that her plan to move homeless people into rooms immediately will not “address everybody, but...

(Headline USA) The mayor of El Paso declared a state of emergency Saturday over concerns about the community's inability to handle an anticipated influx of illegal immigrants across the Southern border after Title 42 expires on Wednesday. El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser issued the state of emergency declaration to allow...

(Headline USA) Attorney General Merrick Garland has taken action to soften the legal punishments for crack-cocaine. Federal law requires mandatory minimum sentences for individuals caught in possession of crack cocaine.  With changes to the law stalled in Congress, Garland instructed prosecutors to file charges that avoid the mandatory minimum sentences that are...

(Headline USA) Restrictions that have prevented hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from claiming asylum in America in recent years remained on track to expire in a matter of days after an appeals court ruling Friday, as thousands more migrants packed shelters on Mexico’s border with the U.S. The ruling...

(Headline USA) The ACLU, UCLA, and a New York law firm have filed a federal lawsuit that contends the election system used in Dodge City, Kansas, prevents the city's large Latino population from electing representatives to the city commission. The lawsuit filed Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union and...

(Headline USA) The President Trump backed candidate for Speaker of The House, Kevin McCarthy and the Freedom Caucus are preparing for a tough fight over the speakership and House rules. The increasingly real prospect of a messy floor fight over the speaker’s gavel on Day One of the new Congress on Jan....

(Brent Addleman, The Center Square) Outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has already found a landing spot for his post-political career. The second-term Republican governor has been named as the next president of the National Collegiate Athletics Association, the organization said. Baker, who played basketball at Harvard University, will take the reins...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The exodus of companies from California continues, with many relocating to Texas, according to a tally kept by the California Policy Center. According to its California Book of Exoduses, 183 companies have left California since 2005, citing the state’s ever-expanding regulatory and taxation climate. Since Gov....

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas stayed the termination until legal challenges by Texas and Missouri are settled but didn't...

(The Center Square) – A New York state lawmaker will hold a hearing next week to learn how online sports betting has affected the state’s budget. Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, D-Mount Vernon, announced the hearing would take place next Wednesday in Albany. Mobile sports betting began in New York on Jan. 8....

(The Center Square) – Small businesses around the country still see inflation as a top concern this Christmas season. Goldman Sachs released survey data that found that 52% of surveyed small business owners say that their profitability "has not met expectations. Even while an overwhelming 79% have increased prices compared...

(Andrew Hensel, The Center Square) With the Teamsters union receiving a significant pension bailout from the federal government, Illinois taxpayers will now be paying for both public and private pension systems. Last week, President Joe Biden announced the federal government would use nearly $36 billion to stabilize the Teamsters union...