SYNDICATION

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden's incompetence has had far-reaching diplomatic effects in undermining U.S. influence---both emboldening our geopolitical rivals and alienating our longstanding allies. Now Chinese leader Xi Jinping is exploiting America's weakness to renegotiate his own strategic alliances, embracing the oil-rich Saudi Arabia, warts and all, after it humiliated...

(Headline USA) In Georgia’s Senate runoff, Republicans once more met the realities of giving Democrats a head start they could not overcome. According to tallies from the secretary of state, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock built a lead of more than 320,000 votes heading into Tuesday's election. He topped Republican Herschel...

(Headline USA) Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced Friday that she has registered as an independent, but she does not plan to caucus with Republicans, ensuring Democrats will retain their narrow majority in the Senate for the time being. It also likely signals that Democrats' expectations of eliminating the...

(Headline USA) For better or worse, faith in the U.S. dollar has often hinged in part on what Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says. On Thursday, the focus will be on what she writes, as the government churns out its first currency bearing her signature. Yellen’s signature on the new currency will...

(Headline USA) Despite his party’s better-than-anticipated performance in the midterm elections, President Joe Biden is facing consistently critical assessments of his failed leadership and stewardship of the national economy. For skeptics, the disconnect would seem to point to a repeat of the vote fraud in states like Arizona, Nevada and...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by The Center Square from a border agent shows record numbers of apprehensions and gotaways at the southern border in November. Agents apprehended 212,608 illegal foreign nationals and recorded at least 93,461 who evaded law enforcement...

(Adam Andrzejewski - RealClear Wire) The State Department spent $275,000 to develop a video game for people 15 and up to counter disinformation, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken encouraging diplomatic and consular posts worldwide to promote it. The video game, "Cat Park," was funded by the State Department's Global Engagement...

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed skeptical of making a broad ruling that would leave state legislatures virtually unchecked in making rules for congressional and presidential elections, despite the growing trend of activist lawfare abuse and judicial activism that has given courts and judges---many of them unelected---an...

(The Center Square) Lawmakers are down to the wire on the National Defense Authorization Act, the massive annual funding bill for the military that needs to pass this month. Now, though, Republicans are pushing hard to include a provision ending the vaccine mandate for U.S. service members. Senate Republicans have threatened...

(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) It wouldn’t be the holidays without competing religious displays inside the Illinois State Capitol. Inside the capitol rotunda, there’s a tall Christmas tree from the secretary of state’s office, and privately funded displays from other religions: a Christian nativity scene, a Jewish menorah and a...

(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) – President Joe Biden visited Arizona on Tuesday but did not visit the U.S.--Mexico border. He visited the state to tour a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. facility in the process of being constructed in Phoenix, Arizona. When a reporter asked Biden why he would come...

(Tyler Arnold, The Center Square) The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority raided a Fredericksburg restaurant in relation to COVID-19 rule violations, but the owner who is running for a state Senate office is using the raid as a fundraising opportunity. “I’ve seen first-hand what it means to lay it all...