(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blasted Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee saying she is a California liberal and extremist.
Harris was officially nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night.
While attacking her opponent, former President Donald Trump,...
(Headline USA)The average rate on a 30-year mortgage eased this week to its lowest level in 15 months, welcome relief for home shoppers navigating a housing market that remains out of reach for many Americans.
The rate fell to 6.46% from 6.49% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday....
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) New federal economic data showed that previous data significantly overestimated the health of the U.S. economy.
The Department of Labor released revised jobs data that showed they overestimated the number of jobs created in the U.S. economy by 818,000, a whopping revision that set off...
(Headline USA) Rioters broke through a fence set up by police near the site of the Democratic National Convention on its opening day Monday as thousands took to the streets to voice their opposition to the war in Gaza.
As the larger group marched, a few dozen who broke away...
(Headline USA) Flerentin “Flex” Jean-Baptiste missed so much school he had to repeat his freshman year at Medford High outside Boston. At school, “you do the same thing every day,” said Jean-Baptiste, who was absent 30 days his first year. “That gets very frustrating.”
Then his principal did something nearly...
(Headline USA) As students return to colleges across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism in support of Hamas, and some schools are adopting rules to limit the kind of protests that swept campuses last spring.
While the summer break provided a respite in student demonstrations...
(Headline USA) Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that brought success to Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, has died. He was 88.
NBC's Today show, citing family members, said Donahue died Sunday after a long illness.
Dubbed “the king of daytime...
(Headline USA) Five summers ago, Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance—then a 34-year-old memoirist and father of a 2-year-old boy—took the stage at a conservative conference and tackled an issue that would become a core part of his political brand: the United States' declining fertility rate.
“Our people aren’t having...
(Headline USA) A campaign finance scandal in the executive branch is threatening to throw Delaware's upcoming gubernatorial race into disarray, opening the possibility---albeit remote---that the reliably blue state, home to President Joe Biden, might see its first Republican governor in more than three decades.
Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall--Long’s office staff...
(Headline USA) As California’s attorney general, Kamala Harris successfully defended the death penalty in court, despite her past crusade against it.
As a new senator, she proposed to abolish cash bail—a reversal from when she chided San Francisco judges for making it “cheaper” to commit crimes by setting bail amounts...
(Headline USA) Gov. Tony Evers asked a federal judge Wednesday not to impose any changes at Wisconsin's youth prison after an inmate was accused of killing a counselor during a fight earlier this summer, insisting conditions at the prison have been slowly improving despite the death.
Evers, a Democrat, said...
(Headline USA) A Detroit judge who ordered a teenager into jail clothes and handcuffs on a field trip to his courtroom will be off the bench while undergoing “necessary training,” the court's chief judge said Thursday.
Meanwhile, the girl's mother said Judge Kenneth King was a “big bully.”
“My daughter is...