Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit against the state GOP this week to block Republican legislators from subpoenaing election officials for its forensic investigation into the 2020 presidential election.
Shapiro, a Democrat, asked the state’s Commonwealth Court to block state legislators’ subpoena, which requests the nonpublic personal information...
President Joe Biden and his administration face heavy criticism as they push a plan to give the Internal Revenue Service permission to delve into private bank accounts, Fox News reported.
The plan requires banks and other financial institutions to report all inflows and outflows of over $600 to the IRS.
The...
(Bob Pepalis, The Center Square) The Biden administration is delaying lease sales of federal lands for oil and gas exploration even after a court order, the head of the Western Energy Alliance said.
President Joe Biden banned oil and gas lease sales by directing the U.S. Department of the Interior to...
(Associated Press) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed booster shots for millions of older or otherwise vulnerable Americans, opening a major new phase in the U.S vaccination drive against COVID-19.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on a series of recommendations from a panel of advisers...
(Headline USA) Texas election officials said Thursday night they were auditing the 2020 results in four large counties hours after former President Donald Trump pressed Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for a ballot review.
Trump won Texas last year by 5.5 percentage points, the closest margin of victory by a GOP presidential nominee...
(Headline USA) The year 2020 saw the largest spike in murder rates in U.S. history, the New York Times reported.
The largest previous change on record was a 12.7% spike in 1968.
Last year's surge nearly tripled the old record.
Though the change occurred throughout the country, large urban centers got hit...
(Headline USA) Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., claimed that immigration officers’ treatment of Haitian migrants trying to cross the southern border was “worse than slavery.”
Citing fake reports that alleged Border Patrol agents on horseback were “whipping” Haitian migrants, Waters blasted the Biden administration for enabling “the cowboys who were running...
(Associated Press) A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 protests at the U.S. Capitol has issued its first subpoenas, demanding records and testimony from four of former President Donald Trump's close advisers and associates who were in contact with him before and during the event.
In a significant escalation for...
(Headline USA) Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter this week to the owner of the art gallery that will host Hunter Biden’s art exhibition, demanding to know who will attend Biden’s exhibition and purchase his artwork.
Citing ethical concerns,...
(Associated Press) The former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in George Floyd's death intends to appeal his conviction and sentence, saying the judge abused his discretion or erred during several key points in the case, according to documents filed Thursday.
Derek Chauvin said he intends to appeal on 14...
(Headline USA) A Florida lawmaker introduced a pro-life bill on Wednesday that is similar to Texas’s recently enacted pro life law, which restricts abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Texas’s law is seen as a model for pro-life lawmakers after the Supreme Court declined to strike it down earlier...
(Mark Hemingway, RealClearInvestigations) From covering displaced refugees around the globe to the obstacles faced by protesters seeking change in America, freelance photojournalist Maranie Staab believes her camera can be a force for truth and social justice. The work of a “conflict photographer” often requires physical courage in places she has...