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(Headline USA) A California panel on Wednesday denied parole for Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, saying the 78-year-old prisoner still lacks insight into what caused him to shoot the senator and presidential candidate in 1968, Sirhan’s lawyer said. That contradicted the decision by a different parole board two years ago...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The cost of interest payments on the national debt will continue to grow as a financial burden for the U.S. over the next decade, even surpassing what the nation spends on national defense within a few years, a newly released budget analysis shows. The national debt...

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Arizona Republican Kari Lake appealed her election integrity case to the state’s Supreme Court, following through on a promise to keep fighting for the rights of voters who were disenfranchised by a horribly flawed midterm election. Lake allegedly lost the Arizona governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Chris Wray has frequently blamed the bureau’s intelligence failures ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill protests on the fact that his analysts had difficulty separating online bluster from actual threats of violence. According to Wray, his analysts saw a tremendous amount of online chatter...

(Adrienne Ferguson, Headline USA) A Republican state legislator from Florida has introduced a measure that, if passed, would dismantle the Florida Democratic Party.  The state's Division of Elections would have to "immediately cancel" the filings of any political party whose platform had "previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery...

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) President Joe Biden this week nominated Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su to become the next Secretary of Labor. Before her stint in the Biden administration, Su served as labor secretary in California, where massive COVID-relief fraud took place under her watch. She failed to enforce California law aimed at...

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) House Republicans and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., decided to stop the release of the surveillance video from Jan. 6 that they had previously offered to Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, saying clips could not be shown to the public without a prior security clearance. Last week,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asked Attorney General Merrick Garland how many informants the FBI has inside America’s Catholic churches. Hawley’s question was in relation to a recently leaked FBI bulletin, which assessed “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as potential violent domestic extremists....

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) A convicted felon who stole more than $400,000 from federal pandemic relief programs while serving a sentence for tax fraud and identity theft highlights what officials have said were lax controls on billions of dollars in aid given out in response to the pandemic. Carlos Smith,...

(J. Peder Zane, RealClear Wire) During much of the COVID pandemic, progressives intimidated, insulted, and sought to censor those who questioned the efficacy of face masks or wondered if the virus might have leaked from a lab in China. Displaying their trademark belief that they always possess the truth, progressive politicians,...

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The IRS is using such ancient equipment and systems that they are having difficulties finding employees that know how to use the systems, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. Government technology often lags behind the private sector. In the case of the IRS, the technology...

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) FBI Director Christopher Wray commented on the arrest of pro-life activist Mark Houck, who the FBI seized in his home for alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, defending the show of force as "protocol." The FBI arrested Houck in front of...