(Headline USA) A federal judge hears arguments Friday on whether the Biden administration can lift pandemic-related restrictions on immigrants requesting asylum later this month, which critics have warned could cause mass chaos on the southern border.
Migrants have been expelled more than 1.8 million times since March 2020 under federal...
(Headline USA) The prominent role that U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-NC, plays as the youngest member of Congress (and third youngest in US history) can rub people on the Right and the Left the wrong way in his North Carolina district.
That's made the 26-year-old culture warrior a social-media political...
(Headline USA) Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, fresh off winning Senate confirmation for a second term earlier in the day, acknowledged for the first time Thursday that high inflation and economic weakness overseas could thwart his efforts to avoid causing a recession.
For weeks, Powell has portrayed the Fed's drive...
(Headline USA) Elon Musk said Friday that his plan to buy Twitter is “temporarily on hold” as he tries to pinpoint the exact number of spam and fake accounts on the social media platform, another twist amid signs of turmoil over the proposed $44 billion acquisition.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525049369552048129
Musk has been vocal...
(Headline USA) In its latest assault on democracy and attack on political opponents, a House panel of Trump-hating, partisan hacks issued subpoenas Thursday to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers in its probe into the events of Jan. 6, an extraordinary step that has little precedent...
(Headline USA) Jen Psaki had been obfuscating and spinning as White House press secretary less than two weeks when a reporter asked whether Twitter's ban of Donald Trump had made President Joe Biden's life easier.
“We don’t spend a lot of time talking about or thinking about President Trump here,"...
(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) The House Natural Resources Committee announced its first-ever criminal referral to the Department of Justice on Wednesday this week.
Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Katie Porter, D-Calif., made the criminal referral showing what they believe is a...
(Headline USA) The U.S. Army is poised to revamp its forces in Alaska to better prepare for future cold-weather conflicts, and it is expected to replace the larger, heavily equipped Stryker Brigade in the state with a more mobile infantry unit better suited for the frigid fight, Army leaders...
(Headline USA) North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely doubted claim of a perfect record keeping out the virus that has spread to nearly every place in the world.
The outbreak forced leader...
(Headline USA) In a political ploy designed to incite radical abortion activists into further protest, rather than produce any actual result, leftist Democrats are holding a sham vote to legislate killing unborn babies.
The vote is expected to fail, giving rise to criticism that Democrats are simply using it to...
(Headline USA) Inflation slowed in April after seven months of relentless gains, a tentative sign that price increases may be peaking while still imposing a financial strain on American households.
But the near-double-digit rate still inflicted an unprecedented amount of pain on American househoulds, with President Joe Biden offering no...
(Headline USA) China on Wednesday defended sticking to its strict “zero-COVID” approach, calling critical remarks from the head of the World Health Organization “irresponsible.”
The response from the Foreign Ministry came after WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he had been discussing with Chinese experts the need for a different...