(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state as he proposes erasing the 5,525-mile-long border that separates the countries and alleviating the need for tariffs that he has leveraged to force the northern neighbor into maintaining tighter border security.
“If people wanted to...
(Headline USA) Several NATO allies demanded on Thursday that Ukraine and Europe not be cut out of any peace negotiations---despite an alarming interview recently in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to precondition any such negotiation on his country's access to nuclear weapons.
“There can be no negotiation about Ukraine without...
(Headline USA) It's a chicken-and-egg problem: Restaurants are struggling with record-high U.S. egg prices, but their omelets, scrambles and huevos rancheros may be part of the problem.
Breakfast is booming at U.S. eateries. First Watch, a restaurant chain that serves breakfast, brunch and lunch, nearly quadrupled its locations over the...
(Headline USA) If Linda McMahon is confirmed as Education secretary, President Donald Trump has said he wants her to “put herself out of a job.”
A plan being considered by the White House would direct the Education secretary to dismantle the department as much as legally possible while asking Congress to...
Editor's note: While the Justice Department characterized its action against New York as "charges," the case is civil and not criminal.
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced the Department of Justice has filed civil charges against the state of New York, citing the state’s failure to...
(Headline USA) Attorney General Pam Bondi said she would “look into” why the corruption charges against New York City's mayor have not yet been dropped, two days after a senior Justice Department official ordered federal prosecutors to ditch the case.
Speaking with reporters Wednesday evening, Bondi said she was unaware...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Billionaire Elon Musk joined President Donald Trump in the oval office Tuesday as the president signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to work with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE.
The order will require federal agencies to work with DOGE to significantly...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) President Donald Trump announced Tuesday in a post online that he’s issuing more executive orders, adding to his already historic tally.
“I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water...
(TJ Martinell, The Center Square) Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning medical providers from performing gender reassignment or affirming procedures, such as mastectomies or prescribing puberty blockers, to individuals below the age of 19. In response, many medical centers and hospitals have since suspended those...
(Headline USA) Connecticut U.S. Rep. John Larson, who inexplicably stopped speaking during a speech Monday on the House of Representatives floor, said Tuesday night he had suffered a complex partial seizure.
The 76-year-old Democrat, who is serving his 13th term, said the House attending physician referred him for further evaluation...
(Headline USA) Billionaire megadonors are opening their wallets to influence the high-stakes race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The winner of the April 1 election between Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Crawford and Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel will determine whether the court in battleground Wisconsin will remain under liberal control or flip to...
(Headline USA) New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed to regain the public’s trust Tuesday as the Justice Department moved to halt his criminal corruption case, an extraordinary directive that officials said would free him up to assist in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
In his first public comments since federal...