(Andrew Hensel, The Center Square) Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot claims crime is down in the city as her opponents in the Feb. election reveal their plans for public safety.
The mayor held a news event this week to announce a proposed infrastructure plan for Chicago Works. She also discussed crime...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Houston native Chingo Bling, “the Tamale King,” is headlining a bus tour to rally Hispanic voters to vote Republican in Texas.
“Hispanics are Americans and Texans first, and we don’t like being told we have to be Democrats to be ‘Good Latinos’,” Chingo Bling said.
“We...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Newly released polling data shows that a majority of Americans say the federal government has too much power.
Gallup released the poll Wednesday, which showed that 54% of Americans said the federal government is "too powerful." The survey found that 39% said the federal government has...
(Headline USA) Across the U.S., families are looking to the winter with dread as energy costs soar and fuel supplies tighten.
The Department of Energy is projecting sharp price increases for home heating compared with last winter and some worry whether heating assistance programs will be able to make up...
(Headline USA) The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against big tech firm Google, alleging the company has been suppressing its email solicitations ahead of November's midterm elections.
The lawsuit, filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of California Friday evening, accuses Gmail of “discriminating” against the RNC...
(Headline USA) IRS requests for even more funding from Congress — made over the years by one leader after another — were granted by Democrats this summer.
Indeed, Democrats stuffed $80 billion of pork for the tax collectors into their flagship climate and health care law.
Fortified with a new funding stream,...
(Headline USA) Inside the Minneapolis Police Academy's sprawling campus on the city's north side, six people sat soberly and listened to a handful of officers and city officials make their pitch about joining an understaffed department that has been subject to public derision—and defunding—because of the arrest and fatal...
(Headline USA) A surge in illegal immigration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The year-end numbers reflect deteriorating economic and political conditions in some countries, the...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Two new motions have been filed with a U.S. district court asking it to grant class status and to certify a classwide preliminary injunction on behalf of U.S. Coast Guard members whose religious exemption requests to a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate were denied.
The Orlando-based...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The majority of Americans say "transgender" surgeries for minors should be illegal, newly released polling data shows, backing up a movement to ban the practice in states around the country.
Convention of States Action, along with the Trafalgar Group, released the data, which showed that “78.7...
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Members of the influential House Freedom Caucus are eyeing a possible showdown with Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., after the House minority leader’s suggestion that in the wake of a red wave midterm, he would sideline a Republican majority from seeking impeachments for members of the Biden...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott met with scores of law enforcement officers in Corpus Christi to discuss measures being taken to secure the border and combat the fentanyl crisis.
“Cartels are bringing fentanyl across the border in record amounts,” Abbott said. “Texas DPS alone has confiscated...