(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) A bipartisan group of 26 U.S. lawmakers have sent letters to seven major tech companies requesting updates on how the platforms plan to counter the growing prevalence of pornographic “deepfakes” on social media.
The number of artificially generated, sexually explicit impersonations of nonconsenting individuals increased...
(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) Legendary Star Wars actor Mark Hamill was slammed over recent comments where he compared President-elect Donald Trump’s win to Pearl Harbor.
Hamill took to social media Tuesday where he responded to a post about the 2024 election taking place three weeks ago.
“A Day That Will Live...
(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) A Colorado state representative race where the Republican candidate appears to have won by six votes has triggered an automatic recount, according to the Colorado Secretary of State's office.
Secretary of State Jena Griswold ordered the District 16 Colorado House of Representatives race in El...
(Brett Davis, The Center Square) While nobody will mistake Washington state for a hotbed of political conservatism, it turns out voters moved ever so slightly to the right, according to numbers from the Nov. 5 general election.
Media reports based on initial results on Election Day characterized progressive Washington as...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Democrat-controlled state across the country are preparing to wage lawfare with the incoming Trump administration—including Maryland, which created an entirely new department to do so.
A recent job ad on the Maryland government’s website seeks attorneys for its newly established Federal Litigation Unit within the Civil...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Thousands of Amazon workers in the U.S. and abroad are striking from Black Friday to Cyber Monday.
Workers have participated in the annual strike for five straight years as part of “Make Amazon Pay” movement.
Spearheaded by UNI Global Union and Progressive International, the protests include...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A Massachusetts man was nearly electrocuted to death while hanging his Christmas lights on his tree, ABC News reported.
The incident occurred on Wednesday of this week, and was reported to the local 911 station around 10 a.m., according to the Wellesley Police Department.
Though he did...
(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) The San Jose State University women's volleyball team advanced to the finals of the Mountain West Conference after Boise State forfeited due to SJSU having a transgender athlete.
Boise State pulled out of the tournament on Wednesday night and released a statement, according to ESPN.
"The decision...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly warned this week that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is “not safe” from assassination attempts.
Putin’s remarks came at a Thursday press conference during a security summit in Kazakhstan.
“What struck me the most is not that Donald Trump was faced with uncivilized...
(Headline USA) Amid renewed interest in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey triggered in part by a new Netflix documentary, police in Boulder, Colorado, refuted assertions this week that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old girl that they are not pursuing.
JonBenet Ramsey, who...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) While California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the state has seen a “surge” in people moving to the state, data from the same source shows California has the highest net out-migration of any state in the nation.
Newsom’s office recently sent the Center Square an...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Matt Gaetz was one of the biggest thorns in the ATF’s side while he was in Congress, pushing to both defund and abolish the agency over its constitutional infringements.
Gaetz is no longer in Congress after he stepped down in a failed effort to become the...