(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Education in February warned colleges and universities that if they did not eliminate programs, they could risk losing federal funding.
Now, two months later, many universities around the country still boast of their DEI programs and employ DEI staff, raising questions...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock says ethics questions about his housing and financial disclosures have already been answered.
A conservative nonprofit in Washington is asking the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics for an investigation. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust says information on his...
(Dave Mason, The Center Square) Democratic attorneys general from Arizona and Oregon are co-leading a lawsuit to stop President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
“President Trump’s insane tariff scheme is not only economically reckless – it is illegal,” said Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, who was joined in the suit against Trump...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s parole board has granted early release to an illegal immigrant convicted of killing two Americans.
Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano was convicted of killing two Southern California teens while he was drunk, high and speeding over 100 miles per hour. He is set...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview released on Wednesday that Iran cannot enrich uranium under any deal with the US, an idea Tehran has said is “unacceptable.”
Rubio said that Iran could maintain a civilian nuclear program but that it would have to import...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former FBI analyst who hunted protestors from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising is now running for Congress.
“For 17 years, I was an FBI intelligence analyst, working in secret to keep us safe from global threats and the insurrectionists who stormed our Capitol,”...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department has charged an alleged high-ranking member of Tren de Aragua in Colombia with terrorism offenses, making the first case of its kind against a member of the gang the Trump administration has designated a foreign terrorist organization, officials said Wednesday.
The case is part of a...
(Headline USA) The company that owned the railcar that caused the devastating East Palestine train derailment in 2023 won't have to help pay for the $600 million settlement Norfolk Southern agreed to with residents.
An Ohio jury decided Wednesday that GATX isn't liable for the settlement even though the failure...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Wednesday slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for rejecting the idea of Ukraine recognizing Crimea as Russian, saying the comment is hurting the peace process.
“This statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices...
(José Niño, Headline USA) In 2024, the 19 wealthiest families in America saw their fortunes swell by an astonishing $1 trillion—more than the entire GDP of Switzerland.
These households, which make up the top 0.00001 percent of Americans, now control a record 1.8 percent of total U.S. household wealth, up...
(José Niño, Headline USA) When Congress designed the rules for immigration proceedings, it never anticipated a scenario where hundreds of thousands of cases would be closed or dismissed, and even more would go unheard because respondents simply failed to appear.
However, that's exactly what happened during the Biden administration, when...
(Headline USA) Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who spent much of his career pushing for protections for illegal immigrants, said Wednesday he will not seek reelection in 2026. His impending retirement ends a more than four-decade career representing Illinois, and it accelerates a generational shift in Senate Democratic leadership where he...