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Update: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was re-elected to his post Wednesday following reports that he could face an intra-party challenge from Florida Sen. Rick Scott, Fox News reported. Original story below: (Headline USA) Florida Sen. Rick Scott said Tuesday that he will mount a long-shot bid to unseat Senate Republican...

(Madison Hirneisen, The Center Square) With Republicans on the cusp of controlling the U.S. House of Representatives, the balance of power could come down to California. Fourteen U.S. House races remained too close to call as of Tuesday morning---10 of which are in California. Five seats were called for Republicans...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a Civil Investigative Demand to the Center for Tech and Civil Life as part of an investigation his office launched to determine whether it “solicited donations under the pretext of protecting voters from Covid-19 while instead using the...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Numerous news outlets and social media pundits on Tuesday misreported that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared an invasion at the southern border. He did not, according to an analysis of available data by The Center Square. Abbott tweeted from his personal Twitter account Tuesday content...

(Headline USA) The future of abortion in Kentucky reaches a defining moment Tuesday when the state's highest court hears arguments over a pro-life ban on baby-killing put in place by the Republican-led legislature. The case before Kentucky's Supreme Court is the first legal test since voters in Kentucky and three...

(Headline USA) Former Vice President Mike Pence blamed Donald Trump for endangering his family “and all those serving at the Capitol” on Jan. 6 in a new memoir released Tuesday. In So Help Me God, Pence recounted, for the first time in his own words, the day thousands of Trump-supporting...

(Kevin Bessler, The Center Square) A growing list of Illinois counties disenfranchised by the goings-on in Cook County have voted in nonbinding resolutions to leave Illinois and form a new state. Residents in three more counties---Brown, Hardin and a portion of Madison County---voted in favor of a nonbinding resolution allowing...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A military and veterans coalition is calling on Congress to designate the Sunday after Veterans Day as National Warrior Call Day after thousands across the country participated in an effort to express support for U.S. service members and veterans. They hope that after members of...

(Headline USA) The Biden administration has determined that Iranian threats against former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and one of his former top aides remain credible and persist nearly two years after they left office. The State Department notified Congress last week that both Pompeo and Brian Hook, who served...

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden's plan to transfer hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt to U.S. taxpayers lost another battle in court on Monday when a federal appeals court panel agreed to a preliminary injunction halting the program while an appeal plays out. The ruling by the...

(Headline USA) Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle alleged misinformation, usually to the extreme benefit of leftists and Democrat, on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job. Twitter and other big social media firms...

(Headline USA) Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced Monday. The states' investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people's...