(Catrina Barker, The Center Square) Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker launched Think Big America, a nonprofit focused on expanding access to abortion in states across the country. It’s part of his broader mission of “combating far-right extremism.”
Think Big invested millions of dollars advocating for abortion ballot initiatives in eight states....
(Headline USA) Between finding openings, sending out your resume and interviewing, looking for a job is tough. Now a growing trend of scammers impersonating recruiters is making it even harder.
In the last year, job scams have been on the rise, according to Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource...
(Headline USA) Brian Leija, a 31-year-old small-business owner from Belton, Texas, was not surprised that a growing number of Latino men of his generation voted for Donald Trump for president this year. Leija had voted for the Republican in 2016 and 2020.
Leija's rationale was simple: He said he has...
(Headline USA) Caroline Ellison, a former top executive in Sam Bankman--Fried’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire, began her two-year prison sentence Thursday for her role in a fraud that cost investors, lenders and customers billions of dollars.
Ellison, 30, reported to the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, according to the Federal Bureau...
(Headline USA) Elwood Edwards, who voiced America Online’s ever-present “You’ve got mail” greeting, has died. He was 74.
He died Tuesday at his home in New Bern, North Carolina, said his daughter Heather Edwards. The cause was complications from a stroke late last year, she said.
Edwards taped his AOL greeting in...
(Derek Draplin, The Center Square) Federal lands in western North Carolina are set to receive more than $30 million in emergency funding for infrastructure repairs in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
The funding comes as part of $43 million total that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration is...
(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...