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(The Center Square) President Joe Biden raised eyebrows Monday telling reporters that he expects no progress on the abortion issue in the second half of his term. "I don't think they can expect much of anything other than we're going to maintain our positions," Biden said when asked by a...

(Headline USA) Congress is returning to an extremely volatile post-election landscape, with control of the House still undecided, party leadership in flux and a potentially consequential lame-duck session with legislation on gay marriage, Ukraine and government funding. Newly elected members of Congress arrived for Monday’s orientation amid jarring disappointments for...

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court has cleared the way for House Speaker Democrat Nancy Pelosi's partisan J6 witch hunt to get phone records belonging to the leader of the Arizona Republican Party. The high court on Monday rejected GOP state chair Kelli Ward's request to halt the turnover of records...

(Headline USA) A week after securing his reelection to the U.S. Senate, Republican Sen. John Kennedy said Monday that he is “giving serious consideration” to entering the 2023 Louisiana governor's race. In a statement, Kennedy said he will be announcing “soon” whether he will run for governor or not. Current Gov....

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Oral arguments are scheduled to be heard before the U.S. Supreme this month in a case brought by Texas and Louisiana over the Department of Homeland Security altering policy to prohibit certain violent criminal foreign nationals from being detained and deported and instead releasing...

Update: The alleged shooter in the U.Va. attack on Sunday reportedly was an ex-football player, while the three victims killed in the assault also were football players. The players were Devin Chandler, a wide receiver from Virginia Beach, Va.; Lavel Davis, a wide receiver from Dorchester, S.C.; and D'Sean Perry,...

(The Center Square) As much as $400 billion in COVID-19 unemployment relief dollars were likely lost to waste and fraudsters. Lawmakers want answers. Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor demanding documents and information related to the unemployment fraud. “Since the...

(Headline USA) The United Methodist Church moved toward becoming more woke and homosexual-affirming during U.S. regional meetings this month that included the election of its second openly homosexual bishop. Conservatives say the developments will only accelerate their exit from one of the nation’s largest Protestant denominations. Each of the UMC's...

(Headline USA) Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock's first runoff in 2021 was a nine-week election for control of the Senate that included three weeks of early in-person voting and lots of mail ballots. Warnock's victory against Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler - and Democrat Jon Ossoff's tilt against Republican David Perdue -...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Despite claims by some political analysts that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke would carry South Texas and campaign ads that claimed Gov. Greg Abbot didn't do anything for the community after the shooting, Uvalde County voters overwhelmingly voted to reelect Abbott and voted...

(Headline USA) Two days after Republicans dramatically underperformed in the midterms, but even as control of Congress remains too close to call, Sen. Josh Hawley has completed his autopsy and offered it to his party’s leaders for consideration. The topline: The failure is all their fault. The Missouri populist believes...