(Headline USA) Wisconsin Republicans have filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to resolve a discrepancy between state and federal law about what date the state's presidential electors must meet to cast Wisconsin's 10 Electoral College votes for President-elect Donald Trump.
State law calls for the electors to meet on...
(Headline USA) As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration, Republican governors and lawmakers in some states are already rolling out proposals that could help him carry out his pledge to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally.
Lawmakers in a growing number of states are proposing to give...
(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) The average American household credit card balance as of the third quarter of 2024 was about $10,757 after adjusting for inflation, according to a new study.
The personal-finance website WalletHub onFriday released its new Credit Card Debt Study, which found that consumers added $21 billion in...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) A Georgia woman died in a wreck with a member of the Rome Police Department's bomb squad that was responding to a bomb threat at U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's residence on Monday, the congresswoman said.
Greene said she was "sick to her stomach" and...
(Headline USA) OpenAI has publicly released its new artificial intelligence video generator Sora but the company won't let most users depict people as it monitors for patterns of misuse.
Users of a premium version of OpenAI's flagship product ChatGPT can now use Sora to instantly create AI-generated videos based on...
(Headline USA) A probate commissioner has ruled against Rupert Murdoch’s effort to change his family’s trust to give one of his sons control of his media empire and ensure Fox News maintains its conservative-leaning editorial values, according to a sealed document obtained by the New York Times.
In a decision...
(Headline USA) Where's Pete this time? The perennially absent Transportation secretary has gone absent during countless crises during the Biden administration, from the supply-chain shortages due to port backups, to the train derailment and chemical spill in Ohio, to unprecedented airline groundings due to sheer incompetence.
Pete Buttigieg, the former...
(Headline USA) New Jersey Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public schools and libraries from imposing restrictions on pornography and other inappropriate content in the state, while indemnifying librarians against civil and criminal charges for granting access to children, regardless of parental approval.
New Jersey becomes...
(Headline USA) A bid by The Onion satirical news outlet to buy Alex Jones's conspiracy theory platform Infowars is scheduled to return Monday to a Texas courtroom, where a judge will be deciding whether a bankruptcy auction was properly run as Jones alleges collusion and fraud.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher...
(Headline USA) Lara Trump will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee as she considers a number of potential options with her father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, set to return to the White House.
Among those possibilities is replacing Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Trump tapped to be the...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Hawaii's gun-licensing law on Monday, though three justices expressed a willingness to hear arguments over the issue later.
The majority did not explain their reasoning in a brief order declining to take the case. But Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he was appointing one of his defense attorneys in the New York porn-star trial as counselor to the president.
Alina Habba, 40, defended Trump earlier this year, also serving as his legal spokesperson. Habba has been spending time with the president-elect...