(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) – A coalition of state attorneys general is filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, urging the court to lift a nationwide restraining order that is “preventing” the “immediate deportation” of "Tren de Aragua gang members."
Leading the...
(Headline USA) Allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation in U.N. peacekeeping and political missions topped 100 for the third time in the last 10 years in 2024, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday, which said 65 of the allegations involved women who gave birth after saying they were...