(Headline USA) A judge blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from appealing a key ruling in a long-running lawsuit claiming negligence by the federal government in Flint's lead-contaminated water in 2014-15.
U.S. District Judge Judith Levy ruled in 2020 that Flint residents could sue the EPA. Now, two years later, she...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday declared a public emergency over several thousand foreign nationals arriving in the nation’s capital from the southern border after the Pentagon twice rejected her request to activate the National Guard to provide assistance.
Bowser announced the emergency at...
(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) Ariz.’s election debate authority will not bend to Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ demand to have a sequestered conversation with a moderator instead of a traditional debate with Republican Kari Lake. The two women won their respective primaries for governor and face off...
(Scott McClallen, The Center Square) Mich. Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher ruled the state’s 1931 law that bans abortion, triggered by the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, is unconstitutional.
Gleicher said the law violates the Michigan Constitution’s Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.
“Despite that...
(Steve Bittenbender, The Center Square) The international organization responsible for creating merchant category codes for credit card purchases has given its approval to establish one for transactions made at gun stores.
The International Organization for Standardization’s Registration and Maintenance Management Group met on Wednesday to discuss a request made by...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Several lawmakers are urging the U.S. Department of Education to rescind a proposed rule that would tie billions of dollars in federal education funding to an array of LGBT mandates.
A dozen Republican lawmakers signed a letter to the department, led by Rep. Bob Good,...
(Headline USA) As other nations see the impact of U.S. weapons in the Ukraine war, the Pentagon is getting more requests for America to extend its foreign entanglements by giving other countries the high-tech, multiple-launch rocket system that Ukrainian forces have successfully used against Russian ammunition depots and other...
(Headline USA) Planned Parenthood leaders from 24 states gathered in California's capital Friday to begin work on a nationwide strategy to make sure their money-making and fundraising machine of providing quick and easy access to abortion remains on track after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Their goal...
(Headline USA) Two leading House Democrats are asking for a federal investigation into whether airlines used any of the $54 billion they received in government pandemic relief to pay employees to quit.
The lawmakers said Friday that buyouts to employees made a pilot shortage worse and contributed to widespread flight...
(Headline USA) In Orange County, California, where the typical house sells for $1 million, Rep. Katie Porter’s four-bedroom, three-bath residence in a leafy subdivision on the University of California Irvine campus is a bargain.
The leftist Democrat and law professor, who has lamented the cost of housing in her district,...
(Headline USA) The king formerly known as Prince Charles says the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, “is a moment of the greatest sadness” for him and his family.
In a statement issued Thursday following the 96-year-old monarch's death at her Balmoral Castle estate in Scotland, King Charles III...
(Headline USA) The Democrat mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, held a midnight press conference on Thursday to address the city's rapidly escalating crime epidemic after an apparently random shooting spree terrorized citizens.
The shooting spree came on the heels of an abduction, rape and murder case earlier in the week involving...