(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A rural east Texas district attorney has described how the border crisis is impacting her community after two Chinese illegal immigrants were arrested on money laundering charges.
Their arrest was not the first where “we have encountered Chinese nationals on the highway engaged in illegal...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee, admits that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “has a point” on the border crisis.
The Democratic governor has waffled on his views about the border, opposed border wall funding, embraced so-called sanctuary city status, and...
(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) - So far in the fiscal year 2024, the federal government has had to borrow about $5 billion every day.
The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday the federal budget deficit was $1.5 trillion for the first 10 months of fiscal year 2024, which covers October...
(Bethany Blanklay, The Center Square) – A 15-state coalition led by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a multi-jurisdictional asylum case.
Moody previously led a 17-state coalition calling on the Ninth Circuit to do the same.
At issue are multiple lawsuits...
(Christen Smith, The Center Square) The chairman of a congressional task force assembled last month to probe former President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt gave a glimpse into its work during an interview with a local radio station Wednesday.
U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., told The Daily Focus the bipartisan 13-member...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) An executive order has been issued to codify Virginia's “election security procedures” implemented by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
The governor issued Executive Order 35 on Wednesday to “protect legal voters and accurate counts,” which includes “stringent ballot security, complete and thorough counting machine testing,” and “best-in-the-nation...
(Headline USA) When longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon surrendered last month at a federal prison in Connecticut, he asked an unconventional U.S. Senate candidate from Minnesota to stand at his side.
Royce White, seeking the Republican nomination in next week's primary to challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.,...
(Headline USA) The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 2023 state law that restores voting rights for felons once they have completed their prison sentences.
The new law was popular with Democrats in the state, including Gov. Tim Walz, who signed it and who is Vice President Kamala Harris’...
(Headline USA) It’s a 2024 election battleground where millions of dollars are being spent and big names in American politics are popping up. But it’s not in the Rust Belt. And it isn’t Georgia or Nevada, either.
It’s Long Island, a suburban stretch east of New York City, home to...
(Headline USA) One of the last remaining U.S. House RINOs who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump and a candidate endorsed by the former president have advanced in Tuesday’s primary to the general election in Washington state’s 4th Congressional District.
Rep. Dan Newhouse is seeking a sixth term in...
(Headline USA) Federal investigators say they found the DNA of a retired Green Beret on some of the 60 automatic weapons he allegedly smuggled from Florida to South America as part of a failed 2020 coup attempt against Venezuela's socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
The allegations were detailed in court papers...
(Headline USA) Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday, likely intending to help Vice President Kamala Harris.
Iranian actors also have spent recent months creating fake news sites and...