(Headline USA) Amid renewed interest in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey triggered in part by a new Netflix documentary, police in Boulder, Colorado, refuted assertions this week that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old girl that they are not pursuing.
JonBenet Ramsey, who...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) While California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the state has seen a “surge” in people moving to the state, data from the same source shows California has the highest net out-migration of any state in the nation.
Newsom’s office recently sent the Center Square an...
(Headline USA) After weeks of pushing early deals, retailers in the United States and some other countries tried to seduce customers with promises of bigger discounts on Black Friday, the sales event that still reigns as the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season even if it's lost some luster.
Department...
(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) Schools in Ohio are required to have single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms after Gov. Mike DeWine signed the state’s bathroom bill into law Wednesday.
The bill, folded into a law that revamped the state’s College Credit Plus Program by Republicans, requires multi-occupancy restrooms, locker rooms,...
(John R. Lott Jr., RealClearInvestigations) In June, Victor Martinez--Hernandez was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland.
Police in Oklahoma tracked the accused repeat offender down with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a 9-year-old girl...
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been appointed to lead a subcommittee dedicated to working with President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency.
Known as a Republican firebrand and close ally of Trump, Greene has already set her sights on rooting out “every penny...
(Headline USA) Walmart's sweeping rollback of its diversity policies is the strongest indication yet of a profound shift taking hold at U.S. companies that are re-evaluating the legal and political risks associated with discriminatory hiring and advancement practices based exclusively on identity politics.
Walmart confirmed to the Associated Press that...
(Jeremy Portnoy, RealClearInvestigations) Taxpayers have spent $15 million on security services for ex-COVID czar Anthony Fauci in the last two years, after he had already returned to life as a private citizen, according to a new report from OpenTheBooks.com.
The security agreement took effect in January 2023 and extended to...
(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) After delays and lobbying from business groups around the country, the U.S. Department of Commerce and Intel announced a deal Tuesday morning to release nearly $8 billion in direct CHIPS Act funding.
The $7.86 billion directly impacts Intel’s commercial semiconductor manufacturing and advanced manufacturing projects...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President-elect Donald Trump's vow to hit America's top trading partners with 25% tariffs on imported goods prompted a cool response from neighbors and China.
Mexico's lower house leader Ricardo Monreal, a member of the ruling Morena party, said a trade war would hurt the entire...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Pentagon officials declined to comment on billionaire Elon Musk's critical assessment of its most expensive project, the F-35 stealth fighter.
The Tesla CEO and SpaceX leader, now tasked with co-managing the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, called the Pentagon's stealth fighter "obsolete."
"The F-35 design...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Outbound Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed legislation from the Republican General Assembly sending $227 million to western North Carolina to assist in recovery from Hurricane Helene.
Thirty-six days from exiting the governor’s mansion, Cooper, a 67-year-old lawyer from Nash County, called the bill “a sham”...