(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The city of Austin faces a crisis of rising violent crime after the City Council voted last year to drastically reduce the police department's budget, interim Police Chief Joseph Chacon says.
Last summer, the Austin City Council voted to defund the police department by $150 million,...
(Jack Birle, The Center Square) President Joe Biden attempted to quell fears over inflation during a speech about his administration’s handling of the economy Monday.
Biden acknowledged rising prices for products like lumber and automobiles but also said these price increases are a side effect of the economy emerging from the...
(Headline USA) An FBI agent who testified about an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is facing an assault charge, according to court records.
Richard Trask appeared in a Kalamazoo court Monday and was released.
Online records show the alleged offense occurred Sunday.
The court file doesn't list a defense attorney...
Coronavirus czar Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed this week that children as young as 3-years-old still need to wear masks at all times.
"Unvaccinated children of a certain age greater than two years old should be wearing masks," Fauci told MSNBC on Tuesday when asked about the spread of the Delta...
A Maricopa County official who may have been at the center of the now confirmed SharpieGate scandal, as well as having overseen the hiring of more than 4,000 temp workers to help run last year's general election, gave a $100 donation to Democrat candidate Mark Kelly --- now a...
Former NFL wide receiver Michael Irvin said players on the Dallas Cowboys are "not thinking right" and not serious about winning the Super Bowl because they have not received COVID-19 shots, NBC Sports reported.
"Dude, you’re not thinking right. You’re not thinking right. Whatever you got, I don’t give a...
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Friday scrapped a proposed regulation that would have promoted and funded Critical Race Theory in the nation's public K-12 schools.
Concerned citizens flooded the Education Department with 33,967 mostly negative comments about the Biden administration's decision to teach Ibram X. Kendi's anti-white doctrine in...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The more than 60 Texas House Democrats who walked out of a special legislative session could be costing taxpayers up to $43,000 a day, one lawmaker estimates.
Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan has demanded that the truant Democrats return the $221 a day they...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden tempered his assessment that social media giants are “killing people” by hosting alleged misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines on their platforms, saying Monday that he hoped they would not take it “personally” and instead would act to save lives.
While companies like Facebook defend their practices...
(Headline USA) Two people died and multiple people were injured, some critically, in four different early morning shootings Saturday in Portland, Oregon, a city that has seen gun violence and associated homicide rates soar in the past six months.
Mayor Ted Wheeler called the rash of shootings a “pandemic” and said...
Democrats in Congress have introduced a measure to rename hundreds of locations whose names are considered racist.
Fake Indian Pocahontas Elizabeth Warren targets racist place names https://t.co/VnCAPS6Ya5
— MikeKirby (@mikekirbyone) July 18, 2021
Up to 1,000 places are under consideration under a bill co-sponsored by 25 members of the House of Representatives,...
New York's Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo used campaign funds to pay the attorney representing him in a sexual harassment case, despite previously saying he would use state financing to pay the legal fees.
Former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan, who was among the first of dozens of female staffers to accuse...