(The Center Square) Washington, D.C.’s vaccine mandate for students over 12 years old has been the subject of major controversy, and is now being put to the test after thousands of students returned to school this month without being vaccinated.
The city, which has one of the most aggressive mandates...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A federal judge sided with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and 12 other plaintiff states in a Louisiana-led lawsuit, issuing a permanent injunction against the Biden administration’s moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and water.
U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Nearly 100 Republican members of Congress have called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold accountable President Joe Biden for what they say is his “illegal $300 billion student loan giveaway.”
Initially, the cost estimate was $300 billion.
However, since then, the Committee for a Responsible...
(The Center Square) A political ad airing on TV and online that is critical of Democrats’ policies is finding different interpretations among Democrats.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot last week criticized a political ad from People Who Play By The Rules PAC airing concerns about the Democrats’ policies on crime and...
(Headline USA) In a move that looks designed to avoid special master oversight of a review of documents seized in the FBI's unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump's home, the Justice Department announced it has already completed its process and has identified “a limited set of materials that...
(Headline USA) A recent bombshell whistleblower report from Twitter’s former head of security alleges that the social media company has been negligently lax on cybersecurity and privacy protections for its users for years.
While worrisome for anyone on Twitter, the revelations could be especially concerning for those who use it...
(Headline USA) Russia said Monday it will launch sweeping military drills in the country’s east that will involve forces from China — a show of increasingly close defense ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West over the Kremlin's action in Ukraine.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that...
(Headline USA) Rep. Liz Cheney, RINO-Wyo., in flashes of delusional grandeur described her blowout loss in the state's GOP primary as the beginning of a more consequential step in her political career. She summoned Abraham Lincoln, who lost elections for the House and Senate and still went on to...
(The Center Square) Oversight Republicans have launched an investigation into how the U.S. Department of Education has handled billions of COVID-19 relief dollars, raising the alarm about the major learning loss experienced by students.
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona...
(Headline USA) A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants — killing three of them — Sunday morning after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said. Officers fatally shot the gunman.
The incident happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed...
(Headline USA) Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he had cleared his campaign schedule after receiving treatment at a San Antonio hospital for an unspecified bacterial infection.
In a statement tweeted Sunday by his campaign, O’Rourke said he sought treatment at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio after...
(Headline USA) The woman was crumpled on the floor of a mangled Mercedes, unconscious and struggling to breathe. The French doctor had no idea who she was, and focused on trying to save her.
Twenty-five years later, Frederic Mailliez is still marked by what happened in the Alma Tunnel in...