SYNDICATION

(Madison Hirneisen, The Center Square) Richmond, Virginia, removed its last city-owned Confederate monument Monday, a move that comes after a more than two-year effort by city officials to remove and relocate Confederate statues. Workers descended on the intersection of Laburnum Avenue and Hermitage Road on Monday morning to begin removal...

(Joe Mueller, The Center Square) Throughout the decades, millions of Americans had small amounts from their paychecks withdrawn---before taxes were deducted---and invested the money in retirement plans. As those taxpayers retire or plan for retirement, the Internal Revenue Service is reminding them about required mandatory withdrawals from retirement accounts. Failure to...

(Headline USA) Dave Chappelle asked the crowd at his comedy show to “make some noise for the world’s richest man.” They did. Lots of booing. It was a rather uncomfortable appearance for Elon Musk, Twitter's new owner, at Chappelle’s show with Chris Rock on Sunday night at the Chase Center in...

(Headline USA) A high-profile report on inflation to be released Tuesday morning was expected to show that the numbers continue to be more than three times what it was, on average, during the Trump administration, despite an aggressive---and economically risky---gambit by the Federal Reserve to bring it back down. Economists...

(Headline USA) Elon Musk's Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of around 100 ostensibly independent activist organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address broadly defined "hate speech" and other problems on the platform. Its formation also provided cover for Twitter's aggressively partisan censorship...

(Headline USA) A former CNN television producer pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to using interstate commerce to entice and coerce a 9-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity at his Vermont ski house. As part of the plea deal, the government will drop the two remaining counts of enticement...

(Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hasn't even given up the gavel yet---and already her role as one of the most ruthless, divisive and corrupt Democrat leaders in modern history is being whitewashed by the propagandist HBO network. The so-called documentary, Pelosi in the House, is directed and produced...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the former CEO of failed cryptocurrency firm FTX---also Democrats' second largest donor in the 2022 midterm election cycle---with orchestrating a scheme to defraud investors. An SEC complaint filed Tuesday alleges that Sam Bankman--Fried raised more than $1.8 billion from equity...

(T.A. DeFeo, The Center Square) The federal government is looking to dole out nearly $2.3 billion to “expand and modernize” intercity passenger rail across the country. But a leading transportation analyst says that Amtrak, the nation’s passenger railroad, doesn’t have any plans to break even. The Federal Railroad Administration announced the...

(The Center Square) Arizona U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s announcement that she is leaving the Democratic party to be an independent sparked a flurry of speculation Friday about what this could mean for the Democrats’ Senate majority and the future of the party itself. After U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Naloxone, the emergency treatment that’s proven to reverse opioid overdoses and fentanyl poisoning if administered quickly enough, is available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It’s accessible for free and low cost online, through a range of community organizations, and through pharmacies...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) If Congress were to rescind the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. military service members, that still won’t be enough to undo the damage the mandate caused, Orlando-based religious freedom legal defense organization Liberty Counsel argues. The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday passed a draft version...