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(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has approved reimbursing Texas $7.5 billion for costs incurred by the state's border security operations during the Biden administration's border crisis. It's the first time Texas has received such a reimbursement, thanks to a new federal law. Gov. Greg Abbott...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) As the Trump administration continues to pursue ways to quell “birth tourism,” legal scholars are probing potential actions Congress could take to rewrite the common interpretation of the 14th amendment’s citizenship clause. The clause states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,...

(Headline USA) A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Sunday that the massive arch he wants to build between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery would become a “top grade military complex” able to host drones and snipers while storing ammunition. It is one more example of how Trump is insisting that his...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A group of Hollywood celebrities drew mockery online after joining forces for a short video pledging to uphold the U.S. Constitution ahead of Constitution Day. Jamie Lee Curtis, Noah Wyle, Robert De Niro and Ramon Gerard Estevez appear in the nearly 40-second video for the so-called Oath...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA)  Much has been said about President Donald Trump's Friday decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, but some of Trump's supporters are pointing to the loudest critics' own records of disputes over press access. Left-wing figures immediately accused Trump of violating the...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Lawmakers and the Trump administration are investigating the odd disappearance of a U.S.-bound shipment of F-35 fighter jet components from Australia, which were originally meant to be repaired on U.S. soil, according to new reporting by Politico. The report, published Friday and citing three anonymous sources, noted...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Pentagon is ordering testosterone screening for some 2 million troops without saying what it will cost, and its own clinical guidance says it does not know how many service members it will test or treat. The screening applies to every active-duty and reserve service...

(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Education’s Student Privacy Policy Office has launched an investigation into the Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough in Massachusetts over alleged violations of federal law after school officials allegedly socially transitioned a minor to another gender. According to the Trump administration,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., has been accused in a House Ethics Committee complaint of having sexual relationships with three House employees, two of them female, under her direct supervision. The complaint, filed Thursday by journalist David Wheeler, says Boebert had sex with the staffers during official...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump announced Friday he has a deal with Denmark to bolster the U.S. military presence in Greenland after months of threatening to take the island by force — an agreement that also keeps the Arctic territory in Denmark's hands. Trump in a social media post announcing the...

(Headline USA) Federal law banning licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under age 21 is unconstitutional and can't be enforced, the Justice Department said in a legal opinion released Friday. The opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel says the law aimed at making it harder...