(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Charlotte welcomed its new police chief Friday morning, and by nightfall returned to the spotlight of light rail train safety and the nation’s debate on immigration, two recent flashpoints coming together in one case.
Court filings confirmed the suspect in a fatal stabbing on the...
(Headline USA) The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week's shooting in Washington is slowly healing, West Virginia's governor said Friday.
Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe's head wound is slowly improving and “he's beginning to ‘look more like himself,’” Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement quoting Wolfe's parents.
Wolfe and...
(Headline USA) The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden weekslong cross-country drives. Rahmanullah Lakanwal's behavior deteriorated so sharply that a...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Saturday presented the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with their medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office, hailing the slate of artists he was deeply involved in choosing as “perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class” ever assembled.
This year's recipients are actor Sylvester...
(Headline USA) Police in North Carolina have charged a 33-year-old man with critically injuring another person in a stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train, just a few months after a Ukrainian refugee riding one of the city's trains was killed in an unrelated knife attack.
Oscar Solarzano, 33, was charged...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The U.S. Senate will hold a doomed vote next week on Democrats’ bill to extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies for three more years.
Senate Republicans, meanwhile, have not decided on an alternative health care bill, despite millions of Americans’ premiums set to spike after Dec....
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a US government watchdog established in 2008 to oversee US reconstruction spending in Afghanistan, has issued a scathing final report on the US’s failed nation-building effort.
SIGAR will be closed down on January 31, 2026, and was required to...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz complained Thursday that residents had begun taunting him with the word “retarded” after President Donald Trump used the term to criticize him in a Thanksgiving message.
“This creates danger,” Walz said during a press conference. “And I'll tell you what, in my time on this, I’d never...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Ilhan Omar, the radical left-wing Squad member, has been linked to the massive COVID-19 relief fraud scheme in Minnesota, as some of her inner circle personally profited from the $1 billion scam.
The fraud involved Somali-owned businesses claiming they provided meals to people in need and then submitting reimbursement forms to the Minnesota government....
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former President Joe Biden resurfaced on Friday and stumbled through his remarks once again, months after insisting he was fit to serve another term and not too long after announcing he had stage IV cancer.
The 83-year-old former president mangled the country’s name as “Amerigotit” while delivering a...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Newsweek senior editor Josh Hammer is calling on President Trump and Vice President JD Vance to deliver an Oval Office address condemning Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and what he describes as rising antisemitism in conservative circles.
The controversy centers on Carlson's October 27, 2025 interview with...
(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) House representatives passed three bills this week aimed at protecting K-12 classrooms from the influence of the Chinese Communist Party.
The bills - PROTECT Our Kids Act, CLASS Act and TRACE Act - essentially prohibit funding from foreign sources and reinforce protections for American students...