(Headline USA) Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by...
(Derek Draplin, The Center Square) Some Western states have filed motions to intervene in a pair of lawsuits from environmental groups that seek to halt federal oil and gas lease sales.
Wyoming, Montana, Utah, and Oklahoma filed a memo last week seeking intervention in Dakota Resource Council v. U.S. Department...
(Christian Wade, The Center Square) Public health groups are urging New Hampshire lawmakers to sustain Gov. Chris Sununu's veto of a bill authorizing pharmacists to dispense the drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 without a prescription.
It comes on the heels of a new study that shows the readily available drug---once...
(The Center Square) Political tensions have ramped up year after year, and now nearly half the country thinks a civil war could happen in the U.S. in the next decade.
Newly released polling data from YouGov and The Economist show that “two in five Americans believe a civil war is...
(The Center Square) A national labor union representing over 100,000 federal employees pulled a document off its website after a report showed the Biden administration was using taxpayer dollars to help public unions grow their members, and as a result, their budgets.
The Center Square reported the story, which cited...
(Headline USA) Math and reading scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new federal study---offering an early glimpse of the sheer magnitude of the learning setbacks dealt to the nation's children under lockdowns driven by leftist teachers unions.
From early...
(Headline USA) Stoked by the largest surplus in state history, Missouri's Republican-led Legislature devised a $500 million plan to send one-time tax refunds to millions of households.
In a shock to some, GOP Gov. Mike Parson vetoed it.
Parson's objection: He wanted a bigger, longer-lasting tax cut.
“Now is the time for...
(Headline USA) Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was 91.
The Central Clinical Hospital said in a...
(Headline USA) Elon Musk and Twitter lobbed salvos at each other Tuesday in the latest round of legal filings over the billionaire Tesla CEO's efforts to rescind his offer to buy the social media platform.
Musk filed more paperwork to terminate his agreement to buy Twitter, this time based on...
(Headline USA) A judge ruled Monday that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp must testify before a special grand jury investigating left-wing claims that then-President Donald Trump and others tried to influence the 2020 election in the state---but not until after the November midterm election.
Lawyers for Kemp had argued that immunities...
(Headline USA) Four school board members appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in one of Florida’s most Democrat counties were sworn into office on Tuesday.
They replace the elected Broward County board members DeSantis suspended after a grand jury investigating the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School found widespread...
(Headline USA) Mississippi’s capital city is grappling with multiple water problems — too much on the ground after heavy rainfall in the past week, and not enough safe water coming through the pipes for people to use.
Parts of Jackson were without running water Tuesday because flooding exacerbated longstanding problems in...