(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Newly released polling data spelled bad news for President Joe Biden this election year.
Gallup released new polling data which showed independent voters trust former President Donald Trump more than Biden when it comes to the economy.
About 34% of independents said they trusted Biden to...
(Headline USA) Columbia University canceled its large university-wide commencement ceremony Monday following weeks of pro-Hamas riots that have roiled its campus and others across the U.S.
However, university officials said students would still be able to celebrate at a series of smaller, school-based ceremonies this week and next.
The decision comes...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) – House lawmakers are pressing the National Institutes of Health for answers on whether the agency has continued funding research in Russia.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers is leading the effort along with subcommittee chairs Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., and Rep....
(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department said protesters had weapons including knives and hammers as well as pamphlets with "Death to America!" written on them.
Michael Kemper, a NYPD's chief of transit, posted photos Friday of what police confiscated from the protesters.
“For...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pledged to protect veterans and address any problems identified by federal watchdogs after an Inspector General report raised concerns about the physicians employed by the VA.
Press Secretary Terrence Hayes responded to an inquiry from The Center Square about...
(Headline USA) A 79-year-old Missouri man is accused of killing a woman in her suburban Chicago home — a crime that happened nearly six decades ago.
James Barbier was arrested Monday at his St. Louis County home and charged with first-degree murder in the November 1966 death of 18-year-old Karen...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – U.S. House committees are investigating “ideological bias” of National Public Radio (NPR), a nonprofit news organization established by Congress and partially funded by taxpayers.
NPR has come under fire after its former editor Uri Berliner said it had "lost America's trust" and criticized NPR’s Chief Executive Officer,...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) – A judge on Friday ordered a pharmaceutical company to pay $1.086 billion in criminal fines and $450 million in criminal forfeiture for misleading doctors about the safety of an opioid medication.
It was the the second-largest set of criminal financial penalties ever levied against...
(Derek Drapin, The Center Square) – A lawsuit brought by Republicans alleges that Nevada’s mail ballot deadline violates federal law.
Nevada allows for mail-in ballots to be counted up to four days after Election Day as long as a ballot is postmarked on or before Election Day.
The lawsuit, filed on...
(Headline USA) Fears of Democrats taking over the House of Representatives ahead of the next congressional term may have waned slightly as one of the most politically vulnerable Democrats now faces serious criminal charges.
However, the indictment raises questions whether Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas---a sometime critic of the Biden administration's...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government's role in climate change violated their constitutional rights.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously ordered the case dismissed in 2020, saying that the...
(Headline USA) On the heels of a newly passed $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and other foreign nations, as well as more rounds of controversial student-loan "amnesty" announced by the Biden administration, the root cause of inflation---unfettered federal spending and borrowing---has yet to be addressed in any meaningful...