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(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) With the bulk coming from Cook County and Chicago, more than 463,000 vote-by-mail ballots could be in the mix for Illinois’s Nov. 8 election, delaying election outcomes by up to two weeks. Along with early voting beginning Thursday in Illinois, local elections officials are sending...

(Headline USA) Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and knocking out power to 2 million people before aiming for the Atlantic Coast. One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the United States...

(The Center Square) – A new Siena College Research Institute poll released Wednesday shows Democrats losing support from New York independent and third-party voters. There are some issues on which those likely voters still find common ground with Democrats, including 63% who oppose the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this year...

(The Center Square) – Republican lawmakers are questioning the Biden administration about cancel culture on college campuses and asking the question: why are federal taxpayer dollars funding it? House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., and House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia...

(The Center Square) – Gas prices are on the rise again just as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve hits a low point that many say is a problem. Gas prices hit record highs in the middle of June, surpassing a national average of $5 per gallon before starting a steady downward...

(Headline USA) Methane leaking from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines is likely to be the biggest burst of the potent greenhouse gas on record, by far. The leaks, which sprang not long after pipeline owner Russia signaled plans to cut off the flow of energy to Germany, led to rampant...

(Headline USA) With less than two months until the midterm elections, so-called progressive Democrats are facing a test of their power, along with a test of voters' capacity for the pain that radical leftist policies and agendas are inflicting on the country. Their party is heading into the final stretch...

(Headline USA) A defamation lawsuit against Fox Corp., Fox News Network and Lou Dobbs can proceed toward trial, a judge ruled Monday after concluding that a Venezuelan businessman with ties to the highly controversial Dominion Voting Systems had made sufficient claims of being unfairly accused of trying to corrupt...

(Headline USA) U.S. Securities regulators are unlawfully muzzling Tesla CEO Elon Musk, violating his free speech rights by continually trying to enforce a 2018 securities fraud settlement, Musk's lawyer contends in a court brief. The document, filed late Tuesday with the federal appeals court in Manhattan, was written to support...

(Headline USA) Some historical battle re-enactors in New York are holding their musket fire because of worries over the state's draconian new gun rules—an unplanned side effect of a law that Democrat legislators claim was designed to protect the public's safety. The law, which went into effect this month, declares...

(Headline USA) Shares of Biogen and other drugmakers researching Alzheimer’s disease soared early Wednesday after Japan’s Eisai Co. said its potential treatment appeared to slow the fatal disease’s progress in a late-stage study. Eisai announced results late Tuesday from a global study of nearly 1,800 people with early-stage Alzheimer’s. The drugmaker...

(The Center Square) – Congress faces a deadline this week with the government set to shut down Friday night if lawmakers cannot agree on a spending measure to keep the lights on. The currently proposed measure keeps funding at its current level through Dec. 16, and notably the midterm elections,...