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(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court in December will hear arguments in cases on semi-automatic gun bans in Illinois and Connecticut, immigration detention centers, voting rights in Arizona and parental rights related to transgender children in Washington state. Justices on the high court released the December argument...

(Headline USA) The Justice Department is demanding testimony before a Florida grand jury in an investigation aiming to establish an intelligence community conspiracy against President Donald Trump, according to The Associated Press. New subpoenas being issued to former government officials represent an escalation in the year-long investigation as the Justice Department...

(Headline USA) Huawei Technologies, a leading Chinese tech company, faces a criminal racketeering trial in New York over charges that it stole technology, plotted to steal U.S. trade secrets and committed wire and bank fraud, among other crimes. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday. The indictment alleges that, besides stealing trade...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was murdered in 2010 thanks to the ATF’s ill-conceived operation known as Fast and Furious, was ironically trying to stop weapons smuggling in the lead-up to his death, according to a new report from Just the News. Operation Fast and...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) New York City has agreed to release new documents showing that officials lied about the air quality in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. The more than 170,000 pages of documents are being released by NYC in response to...

(Headline USA) Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was scheduled to appear in court remotely Tuesday for a hearing on a claim that an accuser wants to recant allegations that Sandusky sexually abused him years ago. The hearing is part of the latest bid by Sandusky’s lawyers to secure...

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) President Donald Trump posted a photo on Sunday of a map renaming New Mexico to “New America.” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, slammed the president for that post in one of her own. “New Mexico’s name isn’t up for debate—it’s been ours since...

(Headline USA) Patrick Sullivan was sure it was a “crazy neighbor” honking a car horn nonstop while Sullivan was up feeding his infant son at 3 a.m. one night this summer. It was a neighbor all right, but not a human one. A black bear had opened the door of a...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) Although a recent report on financial red flags said Chicago is on a path toward insolvency, Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon says Chapter Nine bankruptcy might not work for the Windy City like it previously did in Detroit. Reason Foundation’s report on state and local government...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security had a budget of about $31 billion in its first full year of operation. For 2027, the Trump administration wants $118 billion. Created in 2003 in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by folding 22 agencies...

(Headline USA) Federal investigators examining why an Amazon cargo jet barreled off a runway at Miami International Airport and into vehicles, killing at least five people, are likely to focus on a crucial moment in the landing: whether the plane touched down too late to stop safely. Video of Sunday’s landing...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On the day before the 2024 presidential election, the Justice Department announced that it foiled a right-wing terrorist plot. Former Attorney General Merrick Garland said at the time that the defendant, Skyler Philippi, was planning to destroy a Tennessee energy facility. “But the FBI had already...