(Headline USA) DDA Multnomah County grand jury has ordered Walmart to pay $4.4 million in damages to a man who sued the store, saying he was racially profiled and harassed by a Walmart employee at a Portland, Oregon, area store in 2020.
According to the lawsuit the employee “spied” on...
(Headline USA) UPDATE: In a hasty decision that critics are calling yet another example of a two-tiered justice system, a jury wasted no time in convicting two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, delivering swift verdicts in a plot that many claim was orchestrated by...
(Headline USA) A local North Carolina grand jury on Monday advanced its consideration of possible criminal charges against the state's Democrat attorney general, Josh Stein, and two aides over an investigation into a political ad targeting Stein’s 2020 election opponent.
After hearing from a State Bureau of Investigation agent, the...
(Headline USA) Two loyalists of former President Donald Trump face off Tuesday in a contest that likely will decide who will be Oklahoma's next U.S. senator.
U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin, a plumbing company owner from Westville, and T.W. Shannon, a former speaker of the Oklahoma House and a bank executive...
( Brett Rowland and Tom Gantert, The Center Square) In October 2020, the Michigan Supreme Court stripped Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of the unilateral powers she was using when she declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Whitmer had been using a 1945 law---which was prompted by a...
(Headline USA) The world’s newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before, auroras and all.
Scientists released the shots Monday of the solar system’s biggest planet.
The James Webb Space Telescope took the photos in July, capturing unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze....
(Headline USA) COVID Czar Anthony Fauci, the highest paid public official in the federal government, despite his ineptitude at shepherding the country through a devastating pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December after more than five decades of service.
“I will be leaving these positions in...
(The Center Square) Jason Furman, a Harvard professor and former chair of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, said that forgiving student debt “benefits recent college grads and hurts most everyone else, both rich and poor.”
President Joe Biden has considered forgiving $10,000 of student debt per borrower. Furman...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court on Sunday agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court’s order requiring that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating attempts to correct Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss in Georgia.
A subpoena had instructed the South Carolina...
(Headline USA) Actor Gary Busey has been charged with sexual offenses at a New Jersey fan convention this month.
Busey, 78, was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of attempted criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment, Cherry Hill police said Saturday.
The charges...
(Headline USA) The fast-food chain Wendy’s says it is pulling lettuce from sandwiches in its restaurants in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania after people eating them there reported falling ill.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday it is trying to determine whether romaine lettuce is the source of...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Fla.’s job growth continued to surge in July while its unemployment rate also dropped to a historic low of 2.7%.
“ continues to outperform the nation because freedom first policies work,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
“July’s job numbers represent one of the largest month’s job gains...