SYNDICATION

(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump is being forced to participate in another lawfare exercise, with a judge declaring he will have to answer questions under oath next week in a defamation lawsuit lodged by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan...

(Headline USA) On Thursday, the U.S. government is set to announce how big a percentage increase Social Security beneficiaries will see in monthly payments this upcoming year. Some estimates say the boost for more than 65 million Social Security beneficiaries may be as big as 9%. It’s virtually certain to be the...

(The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a new rule Tuesday that would overhaul how independent contractors like freelancers and drivers for ridesharing apps are classified, potentially upending the gig economy that has exploded in growth in recent years. The DOL said in its rule proposal that it...

(The Center Square) The Mexican government says American guns fuel criminal enterprises in its country. Its leaders filed a lawsuit against five gun dealers in U.S. District Court in Tucson, Arizona, this week. Mexico’s lawsuit alleges that the dealers systematically participate in the arms trafficking of military-style weapons. Mexico says this...

(Zeta Cross, The Center Square) The Biden administration has announced $500 million in grant money to stimulate American-made fertilizer production. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack unveiled the new grant program, called the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program, on Sept. 27. Agronomist Emerson Nafziger, a crop specialist with the University of Illinois Extension...

(The Center Square) The U.S. State Department’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan has sparked controversy for including taxpayer-funded “gender transition care” for employees and their children. The policy comes as some states have begun banning those very same transgender surgeries and drugs from use on children, labeling...

(Headline USA) As Republicans and Democrats fight for control of Congress this fall, a growing collection of conservative political action groups is targeting its efforts closer to home: at local school boards. Their aim is to gain control of more school systems and push back against a radical far-left tide...

(Headline USA) New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gases that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. The government said the farm levy would be a world first, and that farmers should be able to recoup the cost...

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court will hear arguments over a California animal cruelty law that could raise the cost of bacon and other pork products nationwide. The case’s outcome is important to the nation’s $26-billion-a-year pork industry, but the outcome could also limit states’ ability to pass laws with impact...

(Headline USA) Just weeks before Election Day in Texas, once again there is big money, new signs of shifting voters and bold predictions of an upset that will turn heads across the U.S. But this time, it's coming from Republicans. “We are going to turn the Rio Grande Valley red,” said...

(Headline USA) A small-business advocacy group has filed a new lawsuit seeking to block the Biden administration's efforts to transfer student loan debt from tens of millions of borrowers to the American taxpayer at large.. The suit, filed Monday by the Job Creators Network Foundation, argues the Biden administration violated...

(Headline USA) The Democrat president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned from the post Monday after she was heard making racist comments and other coarse remarks in a leaked recording of a conversation with other Latino leaders. Council President Nury Martinez issued an apology and expressed shame. “In the end,...