(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The New York judge overseeing President-elect Donald Trump's porn star case said Monday he won't toss Trump's conviction.
Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump's motion to dismiss the indictment on grounds of presidential immunity because he said Trump's actions in the case were unofficial and thus...
(Headline USA) Ismael El-Amin was driving his daughter to school when a chance encounter gave him an idea for a new way to carpool.
On the way across Chicago, El-Amin’s daughter spotted a classmate riding with her own dad as they drove to their selective public school on the city’s...
(Headline USA) An attorney defending Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter against the rape allegation brought against him last week by an unnamed woman outlined a range of evidence Monday that he said showed the accuser’s account to be “provably, demonstrably false.”
The woman told NBC News last week that Carter and Sean...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden's unprecedented pardon spree---including to Chinese nationals accused of stealing U.S. secrets, as well as the "unconditional" pardon of his son Hunter---likely hinted at the golden parachute that the "Big Guy" expects when he finally leaves office.
While in his 50 years as a civil servant,...
(Headline USA) The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail.
Luigi Mangione already was charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of...
(Headline USA) Democrats' reckless gamble to use the U.S. justice system as a bludgeon to take down their political rival may not have achieved its desired ends.
Nonetheless, it has likely come with considerable collateral damage, with both the Right and Left believing themselves aggrieved after the lawfare abuse sputtered...
(Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations) Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias had a rough election. Several of his clients, notably Kamala Harris and Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, fell to defeat.
But instead of accepting their losses, Elias disputed the presidential and senatorial results in Pennsylvania, leading to charges that Elias, a self-advertised "democracy...
(Brendan Clarey, The Center Square) According to a federal survey of school leaders, 40% of students in the nation’s public schools were behind grade level in one or more subjects at the beginning of the school year.
The National Center for Education Statistics announced its findings this week that the...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) The team behind the Scripps National Spelling Bee whacked a hornet’s nest when it identified specific words for potential competitors to ponder.
Its list of “50 challenging third grade words” includes giraffe, groceries, and jigsaw. So far, so good. But beneath the “preferred spelling” of women,...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, though not yet confirmed, has pledged to root out “woke” ideology in the military.
Other Republicans have lamented the same issue for years but done little about it. However, if Peter Hegseth can be confirmed,...
(Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigations) Even as President-elect Donald Trump promised to act “very quickly” on pardons for many of the protesters involved in the events of Jan. 6, the Biden administration’s Justice Department is continuing to arrest and try people for actions that occurred almost four years ago.
Meanwhile, it is...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Millions of residents in blue states have migrated to red states within the past 30 years, according to federal data.
A policy group that analyzed the data says it's a clear sign that many Americans find Democratic policies unlivable.
The migration has been, in large part, an...