(Headline USA) Google, already facing a possible breakup of the company over its ubiquitous search engine, is fighting to beat back another attack by the Department of Justice alleging monopolistic conduct, this time over technology that puts online advertising in front of consumers.
The Justice Department and Google were scheduled to...
(Headline USA) The chair of the Democratic National Committee informed party leaders on Monday that the DNC will choose his successor in February, an election that will speak volumes about how the party wants to present itself during four more years of Donald Trump in the White House.
Jaime Harrison, in a letter...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) The average American’s energy bill could increase from 25% to 70% in the next 10 years without intervention from policymakers, according to a recent study from Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Jack Kemp Foundation.
According to reports, America is facing an energy crisis, with demand...
(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors moved Monday to dismiss the lawfare charges against President-elect Donald Trump that accused him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election and to abandon the classified documents case against him, citing longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution.
“The American People re-elected President...
(Headline USA) Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of Wheel of Fortune, Love Connection and Scrabble who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering leftists and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19, has died. He was 83.
Mark Young, Woolery’s podcast co-host and friend, said in an email...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas is offering state land to be used for President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.
Trump has said he plans to declare a national emergency on his first day in office, citing the border crisis. Doing so will enable him to utilize the military to...
(Tate Miller, The Center Square) The University of Maryland is offering a course called "Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections" this spring.
The three-credit course will be taught by Professor Sydney Lewis on Tuesdays and Thursdays and looks at “fatness as intersectional,” particularly highlighting “the relationship between...
(Headline USA) Service workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport plan to go on strike during a busy week of Thanksgiving travel to protest what they say are unlivable wages.
Employees of ABM and Prospect Airport Services cast ballots Friday to authorize the work stoppage in North Carolina, which is set to begin...
(Headline USA) A jury convicted two men on Friday of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of illegal immigrants from India who froze trying to cross the Canadian border.
Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, an Indian national who prosecutors say...
(Headline USA) Drug reform advocates hailed Oregon as a progressive leader when it became the first in the nation to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, but Oregon voters are backtracking after a few years of drug legalization.
Four years later, voters in a...
(Headline USA) Texas’ education board voted Friday to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools under optional new curriculum.
The material adopted by the Texas State Board of Education, which is controlled by elected Republicans, passed in an 8-7 final vote.
Supporters argued the Bible is a core feature of American history...
(Tate Miller, The Center Square) The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents has recommended a number of new and revised policies for its institutions, such as a commitment to institutional neutrality, the prohibiting of DEI tactics, and a mandatory education in America’s founding documents.
The University System of Georgia...