(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Joe Biden has extended another national emergency, this time related to threats posed by weapons of mass destruction.
Lately, nearly every week, the president has been extending national emergencies that most Americans didn’t even know existed, including one related to Iran that’s been ongoing since...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) Despite a rising tide of Democratic opposition and the majority of California counties voting for president-elect Donald Trump, California regulators voted to pass an estimated $105 billion in EV charging credits and $8 billion of hydrogen credits largely paid for by fees on gasoline...
(Cameron Arcand, The Center Square) Numerous firearms were confiscated at the southern border in Arizona last Friday.
United States Customs and Border Protection announced that Area Port of San Luis officials seized "high-powered assault weapons" from a 28-year-old American citizen crossing the border through the legal port of entry.
“Preventing the smuggling...
(Headline USA) The election of Donald Trump returns an ally of school choice to the White House, this time with a Republican-controlled Senate — and potentially House — that could be more supportive of proposals that fizzled during his first term.
Although proposals to expand private schooling suffered high-profile defeats in...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York City is ending its controversial program that gave debit cards pre-loaded with money to pay for food, baby supplies and other necessities to newly arriving illegal immigrants .
The Adams administration announced on Thursday that it was winding down the program that has...
(Christen Smith, The Center Square) Sen. Bob Casey Jr. falsely insisted Thursday that he hadn’t lost his reelection bid just yet, despite outlets like the Associated Press having already declared Republican David McCormick the winner.
In a statement posted to social media, the two-term senator said 100,000 provisional and overseas...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Two bills have been filed in the House of Representatives directed at disaster relief following the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and other states in the South.
Authored by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the legislation is supportive of an Oct. 3 letter...
(Headline USA) Republican David McCormick has won Pennsylvania’s pivotal U.S. Senate seat, beating three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Tuesday’s election, despite the incumbent's last-minute effort to link himself with President-elect Donald Trump.
The victory pads Republicans' majority in the Senate, which they wrested from Democratic control this week, and...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles, the manager of his victorious campaign, as his White House chief of staff, the first woman to ever hold the influential role.
Wiles is widely credited within and outside Trump’s inner circle for running what was, by far, his most disciplined...
(Headline USA) The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Thursday by a quarter-point in response to the steady decline in the once-high inflation that had angered Americans and helped drive Donald Trump’s presidential election victory this week.
The rate cut follows a larger half-point reduction in September, and it...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) California’s key congressional races that could determine the fate of the United States House of Representatives remained undecided on Wednesday morning.
Republican and Democratic candidates squared off with razor-thin margins. Republicans generally remained in the lead coming off Election Day; the question is whether uncounted...
(Headline USA) The U.S. stock market, Elon Musk’s Tesla, banks and bitcoin all stormed higher Wednesday as investors made bets on what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the economy and the world.
Among the losers the market sees: the renewable-energy industry and foreign currencies.
The S&P 500...