Sunday, June 15, 2025

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Report: Several Crucial Bridges at ‘High Risk’ for Ship Collisions

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) An ominous report identifies 20 bridges nationwide at serious risk of ship collisions, potentially resulting in a collapse like the one that brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. A group of engineers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore analyzed the likelihood of...

Report: Nearly 50,000 Border Crime Arrests Reported in Texas in 2023

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) According to the most recently available data, there were nearly 50,000 border crime arrests reported statewide in Texas in 2023 by local law enforcement agencies. Eighty percent of arrests occurred in 20 counties, according to an annual Texas border crime report published by the Texas...

Bondi Charges Three in Attacks on Tesla Property amid Musk Cost-Cutting

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The nation's top prosecutor announced federal charges against three people for their roles in attacks on Tesla property as the company's CEO, Elon Musk, leads federal cost-cutting efforts at the Department of Government Efficiency. Tesla cars, showrooms, lots and dealerships have become targets for those...

Trump Dismantles Education Department, Will ‘Fully Preserve’ Programs

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) In a move that will undoubtedly incite legal challenges, President Donald Trump dismantled the U.S. Department of Education via executive order Thursday, sending education policy back to the state level. The long-promised, controversial order preserves and redistributes the Education department’s responsibilities to other federal agencies...

Ed Department Opens Title VI Investigations into Schools Making Race-Based Decisions

(Tate Miller, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Education has opened Title VI investigations into dozens of colleges and universities that are still engaging in race-based practices even after the department sent a Dear Colleague letter explaining what it says is the unlawfulness of race-based decisions in education. Forty-five...

PBS and NPR Heads Asked to Testify before DOGE Committee

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The House Subcommittee for the Department of Government Efficiency is calling the leadership of National Public Radio, a news operations that receives taxpayer funding, to testify before Congress, it said Wednesday. The House subcommittee was created to operate similarly to DOGE, the Trump Administration's federal...

Top Prosecutor Calls Tesla Violence ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Amid Federal Cuts

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) As Tesla boss Elon Musk leads federal cost-cutting efforts, his auto company has drawn the ire of frustrated Americans who have taken things out on his cars, buildings, electric vehicle chargers and everything else that carries a Tesla logo. President Donald Trump has gone to...

Pentagon Eyes Deeper Cuts after 21,000 Opt to Resign

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Pentagon is working toward deeper cuts to its civilian workforce after about 21,000 civilian employees volunteered for a federal Deferred Resignation Program. The department wants to cut 5% to 8% of civilian employees, or about 50,000 to 60,000 employees. Office of Personnel Management sent an...

Teens Are Charged w/ Murder in the Hit-and-Run of a Bicyclist Posted on Social Media

(Headline USA) Police have charged a 13-year-old with murder, taken an 11-year-old into custody and are continuing to search for a 15-year-old in the apparently deliberate hit-and-run of a bicyclist in Albuquerque that was recorded on video inside a stolen car last year. The detained 13-year-old boy is believed to...

Dispute Between Parents’ Group, Ohio School District over Gender Pronoun Policy Goes before Judges

(Headline USA) A federal appeals court in Cincinnati heard arguments Wednesday in a legal dispute that pits a suburban Ohio school district's policy on gender pronouns against the free speech rights of classmates who believe there are only two genders. The lawsuit brought by Parents Defending Education, a national membership...

Tulsi Gabbard Wants Other Countries To Join the US in Attacking Yemen

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has called for other countries to join the US in attacking the Houthis in Yemen, a country she previously strongly opposed intervening in. The US launched a major round of airstrikes against Yemen on Saturday and in the days that followed, killing at least 53...

Ex-IRS Employee Who Leaked Trump Tax Returns Summoned by House Committee

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) – A Republican lawmaker is demanding that the man responsible for leaking President Donald Trump’s tax returns in 2019 testify before the House Judiciary Committee. Responsible for one of the largest data breaks in the Internal Revenue Service’s history, the ex-IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn is...
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