(Margaret Menge, The Center Square) Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said Wednesday that Indiana University’s vaccine mandate “clearly violates” the new state law on vaccine passports which prohibits the state and local governments from requiring proof of vaccination.
Rokita soundly rejected IU’s argument that it is not a part of the...
(Headline USA) The sponsor of Tennessee’s new law requiring businesses and government facilities to post signs if they let transgender people use the bathrooms of their choice now says owners and officials who refuse could face up to six months in jail — a penalty that went unmentioned during legislative...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that prohibits cities from banning natural gas utilities.
Because it received overwhelming support in the House and the Senate, the law takes effect immediately.
House Bill 17 was introduced by state Rep. Joe Deshotel, D-Beaumont, in response to...
(Headline USA) A billionaire businessman with a controversial record on guns may be considering a run for Senate.
Rumors among political strategists and other key stakeholders point to former CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods, Ed Stack, as the potential replacement for outgoing Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
Breitbart spoke with Dan Garcia,...
(The Center Square) A Wyoming rancher is suing the Biden administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture claiming race discrimination over a federal loan forgiveness program that bars her from participating because she is white.
Leisl Carpenter, a 29-year-old rancher from Laramie, says in the lawsuit that the “American Rescue Plan”...
(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) A credit ratings agency says mobile workers in California and New York who remained employed through the COVID-19 pandemic could keep the states from full recoveries.
A report released Wednesday by Fitch Ratings described the “severe job shocks” in two of America’s major economic centers.
“These orders...
Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services failed to conduct a mandatory review of COVID-19 deaths, which indicates that the state significantly undercounted deaths of nursing-home residents, a new investigation found.
An independent analysis by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and reporter Charlie LeDuff's "No BS News Hour" also...
Former president Donald Trump is reportedly working with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., on a new policy agenda for the Republican Party ahead of the 2022 midterm election.
The policy framework will be modeled after Gingrich’s 1994 "Contract with America," which helped Republicans reclaim control of Congress in a...
A former female high school athlete who filed a lawsuit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference over its decision to allow transgender athletes to compete on the team of their choice said being forced to compete against biological males shattered her confidence.
"I've lost four women's state championship titles, two...
Two Republican congressmen urged President Joe Biden's administration to reject cancel culture in finance and prevent banks from halting services for politically unpopular businesses.
Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., introduced the Fair Access to Banking Act to stop woke ideology from dictating financial decisions.
They also wrote...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Texas Public Policy Foundation and America First Policy Institute have sued the U.S. Small Business Administration, alleging a provision in the America Rescue Act requires the SBA to prioritize businesses owned by women and minorities to receive nearly $30 billion in COVID-19-designated relief money...
During congressional testimony Tuesday, coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci admitted that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which he oversees, had helped fund a "modest collaboration" with scientists at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology.
That included $600,000 funneled through the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance for a study on the transmission...