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(The Center Square) The majority of Americans should wait until they’re age 70 to begin collecting their Social Security benefits to maximize their monthly payments, according to a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. “Americans are notoriously bad savers,” the authors of the report state. “Large numbers...

(Derek Draplin, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments starting next week in what could be a landmark case centered on a Colorado small business owner’s free speech rights. Lorie Smith, owner of graphic design company 303 Creative in Littleton, Colo., is challenging the state’s public-accommodation law, which...

(The Center Square) A U.S. House Democrat blasted President Joe Biden for his planned ritzy dinner with France’s leader Emmanuel Macron. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, called out Biden on Twitter, suggesting the president is a hypocrite for crushing the lobster industry with strict regulations while purchasing 200 lobsters from Maine...

(Headline USA) The former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX said Wednesday that he did not "knowingly" misuse customers' funds, and said he believes his millions of angry customers will eventually be made whole. The comments from Sam Bankman--Fried came during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at a...

(Headline USA) Videos of hundreds protesting in Shanghai started to appear on WeChat on Saturday night. Showing chants about removing COVID-19 restrictions and demanding freedom, they would stay up only a few minutes before being censored. Elliot Wang, a 26-year-old in Beijing, was amazed. “I started refreshing constantly, and saving videos,...

(The Center Square) The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday on an agreement between rail companies and workers to prevent a strike that could have major economic consequences. Lawmakers voted 290 to 137 to back a deal between unions and rail companies that includes pay increases. Now, the Senate must...

(Headline USA) Following their defeat in the recent midterm elections, House Democrats doubled down on their divisive radicalism on Wednesday, selecting Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., replace long-serving Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., next year. Although Jeffries has a troubling history of making divisive remarks and is the nephew of a firebrand...

(Headline USA) Fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian, according to the most recent census—the first time a minority of the population has followed the country’s official religion. Britain has become less religious—and less white—in the decade since the last census, figures from the 2021...

(Headline USA) Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador under President Donald Trump and first woman of color to be elected governor of South Carolina, said Tuesday that she would take the Christmas holiday to mull a possible 2024 presidential bid, contradicting her statement last year that she wouldn't enter...

(Headline USA) Democrats considering shaking up the order of their 2024 presidential primary are waiting on President Joe Biden, anxious to see if he'll endorse stripping Iowa of its traditional leadoff spot or discourage major changes while mulling his own potential reelection bid. But Biden seems to be showing little...

(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump's recent dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort with a Holocaust-denying, far-right figure who accompanied embattled rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West) left even the normally unapologetic Trump scrambling to do damage control. The meeting with Ye---who, himself, was recently was accused of making anti-Semitic remarks---and his...

(Headline USA) In a stunning shift from one radical extreme to another, far-left San Francisco, which once led the "defund the police" movement in protest of police killings while in the line of duty, now seeks to empower its remaining law enforcement to use even more deadly force via...