SYNDICATION

(The Center Square) With just a week left until election day, three California seats in the House of Representatives in traditionally Democratic districts have been identified as shifting towards the GOP, designations highlighting the state’s more competitive races in a high-stake midterm election. Cook Political Report analysts have identified three...

(The Center Square) More and more federally funded, controversial projects that came as part of pandemic-relief spending passed by Congress are coming to light, and few of them do not have anything to do with COVID-19. Citizens Against Government Waste released its annual breakdown of the last year’s “nightmarish” federal...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) President Joe Biden's pledge to impose a Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax on U.S. oil and natural gas companies if they don't increase production to "bring down gas prices" is another failed Democratic policy, according to critics, including a former Treasury Secretary. The companies have...

(Headline USA) After starting off his administration fully prepared to prostrate itself to the demands of Iran's fundamentalist rogue regime, the Biden administration now sees itself furiously backpedaling, having alienated its top oil-exporting ally in the process, with America's own energy reserves close to depletion. Saudi Arabia has shared intelligence...

(Headline USA) Addressing a crowd of supporters in Robstown, Texas, former President Donald Trump drew cheers as he talked up his first two runs for the White House—and teased a third. “In order to make our country successful, safe and glorious again, I will probably have to do it again,”...

(Christian Wade, The Center Square) With a red-wave sweeping former tossup seats into GOP territory, another round of once safe Democrat seats is filling their place as the neck-and-neck races to watch in the final week before the 2022 midterm election. In terms of high-profile Senate contests that may determine...

(Headline USA) In what will, no doubt, be seen one day as another in the endless stream of inflection points helping to effect the decline of the Fifth Estate, a major news company justified its spread of fake information on social media as being for the public good. But in...

(Headline USA) The affirmative action programs at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University will come under scrutinyon Monday  SCOTUS is set to begin reviewing the constitutionality of this policy of using race as a criteria of admission. The case, following the Dobbs decision which overturned Roe v. Wade in...

(Headline USA) A Washington city's dress code ordinance saying bikini baristas must cover their bodies at work has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal court. The decision in a partial summary judgment this week comes after a lengthy legal battle between bikini baristas and Everett over the right of the...

(Headline USA)  Stephanie Terrell bought a used Nissan Leaf this fall and was excited to join the wave of drivers adopting electric vehicles to save on gas money and reduce her carbon footprint. But Terrell quickly encountered a bump in the road on her journey to clean driving: As a...

(Headline USA) The addled Joe Biden is attempting to take stock of a newly empowered Xi Jinping as the Chinese president begins a third, norm-breaking five-year term as Communist Party leader. With U.S.-Chinese relations already fraught, concerns are growing in Washington that more difficult days may be ahead. Xi has...

(Victor Skinner, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. John Kennedy is a slam dunk for reelection, significantly outpacing all competitors in both fundraising and public support. While Kennedy’s Democratic challengers are predicting a runoff following the Nov. 8 primary, an Oct. poll and Kennedy’s massive fundraising advantage ultimately make a Democratic...