(Headline USA) Coast Guard Academy officials and a lawyer for several cadets are disputing each other's accounts of what happened to seven students before and after they were forced to leave the Connecticut campus last month after refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The New London academy said in a...
(Headline USA) As the war in Ukraine stretches into its seventh month, North Korea is hinting at its interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country's east.
The idea is openly endorsed by senior Russian officials and diplomats, who foresee a cheap and hard-working workforce...
(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...