(Headline USA) A federal judge on Wednesday removed a key legal hurdle on Wednesday that was stalling President Donald Trump’s plan to downsize the federal workforce with a deferred resignation program.
U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr.'s order in the challenge filed by a group of labor unions was a...
(Headline USA) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Wednesday that the media has been perpetuating a “dishonest narrative” about President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
Leavitt’s comments come as Trump faces questions about the constitutionality of some of his executive orders, which have been wide-ranging and frequent since he...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) A bill preventing future presidents from unilaterally banning hydraulic fracking made its way to the Senate last week after passing the House 226-188.
Sixteen Democrats joined all Republicans in voting for the Protecting American Energy Production Act, which will block future bans on hydraulic fracking...
(Headline USA) Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — roughly one-tenth of the agency's workforce — are being forced out under the Trump administration's move to downsize the federal bureaucracy.
The Atlanta-based agency's leadership was notified of the decision Friday morning. The verbal notice...
(Headline USA) Denver Public Schools became the first U.S. school district Wednesday to sue the Trump administration challenging its policy allowing ICE immigration agents in schools.
Colorado’s largest public school district argued in the federal lawsuit that the policy has forced schools to divert vital educational resources and caused attendance...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Tennessee Star, which last year published Nashville mass shooter Audrey Hale’s “manifesto,” continues to publish stunning revelations about the attack nearly two years after the fact.
Earlier this week, the Star revealed that the Metro Nashville Police Department detective who initially led the investigation quit the force...
(Headline USA) Jim Guy Tucker, who became Arkansas governor when Bill Clinton was elected president but was later forced from office after being convicted during the Whitewater investigation, has died. He was 81.
Anna Ashton, Tucker's daughter, said the former governor died Thursday in Little Rock from complications from ulcerative colitis.
“Because he...
(Headline USA) When Angelica Delgado took a one-way flight to Mexico as she fled Cuba in December, she was set on seeking asylum in the United States.
But with the Biden administration's open-border policy coming to a halt following the 2024 re-election of President Donald Trump, the 23-year-old recalibrated her...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has just started his second term, his last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he's already started making quips about serving a third one.
“Am I allowed to run again?” Trump joked during the House Republican retreat in Florida last month.
Whether teasing or taunting, it...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state as he proposes erasing the 5,525-mile-long border that separates the countries and alleviating the need for tariffs that he has leveraged to force the northern neighbor into maintaining tighter border security.
“If people wanted to...
(Headline USA) Several NATO allies demanded on Thursday that Ukraine and Europe not be cut out of any peace negotiations---despite an alarming interview recently in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to precondition any such negotiation on his country's access to nuclear weapons.
“There can be no negotiation about Ukraine without...
(Headline USA) It's a chicken-and-egg problem: Restaurants are struggling with record-high U.S. egg prices, but their omelets, scrambles and huevos rancheros may be part of the problem.
Breakfast is booming at U.S. eateries. First Watch, a restaurant chain that serves breakfast, brunch and lunch, nearly quadrupled its locations over the...