(Headline USA) Growth in U.S. consumer spending slowed in July to a barely detectable increase of 0.3%, while inflation over the past 12 months hit its fastest pace in three decades.
Last month's spending was not even a third of the 1.1% rise in June, the Commerce Department reported Friday.
Consumer prices...
(Headline USA) Texas Republicans advanced new election integrity measures Thursday night after months of protests by Democrats, who after returning from a 38-day walkout are now all but out of ways to stop the bill.
The nearly 50-page legislation passed the Texas House on a 79-37 mostly party-line vote, moving fast...
The Public Interest Legal Foundation advised election officials in all 50 states today that the Department of Justice has exceeded its authority in trying to prevent state election audits.
We do not want a federal takeover of elections! pic.twitter.com/5Q7d0x31BD
— PublicInterestLegal (@PILFoundation) August 9, 2021
“The bottom line is this: current leadership...
Verizon is following the corporate 'woke' bandwagon in conducting race-based training with a pedigree from Critical Race Theory that teaches that fundamentally the US is a racist nation, said a researcher who received internal documents on the Verizon training.
Verizon’s corporate slogan is "Built Right." If Verizon executives want to...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Since Oct. 1, 2020, San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents have apprehended more than 7,300 Brazilian nationals, an increase of more than 2,433% from the prior fiscal year.
In all of fiscal 2020, 330 Brazilian nationals were apprehended, the sector reports.
Every month since April 2021, San...
A New Jersey man released from prison early because of the coronavirus pandemic has been charged with killing two men last weekend.
Theodore Luckey, 42, was one of the prisoners eligible for New Jersey’s “public health emergency credits,” which allowed inmates who were within a year of completing their sentence...
(Headline USA) The U.S. government said Thursday it is shutting down a federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following the death of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein there two years ago.
The federal Bureau of Prisons said the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan will...
(David N. Bass, CJ News Service) A bill that would prohibit public schools from promoting controversial viewpoints related to Critical Race Theory cleared the N.C. Senate on Thursday. Debate about the bill featured rare personal attacks among senators.
The vote split along party lines, with 25 Republicans voting in favor and...
(The Center Square) New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham drives a car with an average fuel economy of less than 13 mpg, according to records obtained by Power the Future and first reported by The Federalist.
At the same time, Lujan Grisham committed the state in 2019 to new energy efficiency...
Ashli Babbitt's killer spoke to NBC's Lester Holt on Thursday, and he claimed that his decisive action displayed "the utmost courage" and "saved countless lives."
"She was posing a threat to the United States House of Representatives," said Lt. Michael Byrd, a Capitol Police officer.
Byrd shot and killed Babbitt—an unarmed,...
(Headline USA) Former president Donald Trump lambasted President Joe Biden Thursday after a terrorist attack left 13 U.S. service members dead and at least 15 more wounded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The former president kicked off an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity by placing the blame for Thursday’s attacks squarely at...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a ban that was put in place, rationalizing that it was necessary because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The court said in an unsigned opinion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...