(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Education's proposed rules for student-loan forgiveness could cost taxpayers up to $600 billion, far more than the department estimated, according to budget watchdogs.
The Department of Education announced Friday another amnesty effort, despite a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced late Sunday the commonwealth will file an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to block the return of more than 1,500 noncitizens to voter rolls.
The appeal follows a unanimous panel ruling Sunday from the...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) With just over a week until Election Day, former President Donald Trump headlined a star-studded rally in a jammed-packed Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Supporters filled the arena, which can hold up to nearly 20,000 people, in the heart of a deep blue state...
(Headline USA) Donald Trump said Thursday that if he wins the White House again, he will fire partisan and arguably illegitimate special counsel Jack Smith “within two seconds” of taking office.
Trump was asked during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt whether he would first pardon himself or...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security have launched an investigation into the alleged misuse of Federal Emergency Management Agency funds by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
DHS, which has oversight of FEMA, has directed that billions of dollars of...
(Headline USA) Georgia authorities said Sunday they are investigating the catastrophic failure of a dock gangway that collapsed and killed seven on Sapelo Island, where crowds had gathered for a fall celebration.
“It is a structural failure. There should be very, very little maintenance to an aluminum gangway like that,...
(Brendan Clarey, The Center Square) The overwhelming majority of Americans do not believe schools should hide a student’s gender change at school from parents, according to a recent poll of over 2,200 likely voters.
The issue of parental notification regarding a student’s gender transition has been hotly contested in recent...
(By Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The Republican National Committee has filed another lawsuit against the City of Detroit Department of Elections, this time for deleting absentee ballot drop box video surveillance from the August primaries while a FOIA request for the footage was pending.
“Deleting drop box surveillance footage...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-TN, is demanding answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about a claim that nearly one-third of surveillance cameras Border Patrol agents use at the southwest border aren’t working.
NBC News reported that...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The federal government spent $1.8 trillion more than it collected in tax revenue in fiscal year 2024, according to figures released Friday by U.S. Treasury Department.
Congress has run a deficit every year since 2001. In the past 50 years, the federal government has ended...
(TJ Martinell, The Center Square) Most registered voters, 59%, support a federal ban on transgender procedures such as puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgeries for minors, a new national poll found.
The strongest support for a federal ban came from registered Republicans (82%), while the lowest amount of support for it came from...
(Headline USA) Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz carried a shotgun and tramped through tall grass as Minnesota's pheasant hunting season opened.
Neither Walz nor Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan managed to bag any pheasants as they hunted near Sleepy Eye, a town about 90 miles southwest of Minneapolis.
The campaign of Harris...