(The Center Square) – 2025 started in California with devastating wildfires, continued with immigration raids and riots protesting them, and ended with congressional redistricting. It was a year of cliffhangers in Arizona, which almost saw its first state government shutdown, and a year of uncertainty in Nevada, where casinos saw a decline. Here’s a look at […]
(The Center Square) – One of the nearly 300 new laws that took effect in Illinois on New Year’s Day is a ban on compact fluorescent light bulbs. State Rep. Nicholas Smith (D-Chicago) introduced House Bill 2363 in February 2023. Gov. JB Pritzker signed the measure in August 2024. The law prohibits the sale and […]
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit this week against Virginia, alleging the state unlawfully grants in-state college tuition rates to students who are not legally present in the United States. The government is seeking a permanent injunction against certain provisions of the Virginia Education Code, which it claims conflict with federal […]
Attorney General Pam Bondi signaled this week that a Justice Department investigation into what she described as a decadelong conspiracy spanning the Obama and Biden administrations could come to a head in 2026. In written responses to Just the News released Sunday, Bondi said she has directed prosecutors to investigate what she characterized as a […]
President Donald Trump pushed back against his approval numbers ahead of 2026, claiming his approval rating is north of 60% on Tuesday night. Trump posted a graphic of himself claiming that over 50% of voters approve of him, citing data from the Trafalgar Group. The survey’s latest polling puts Trump at 50.2% approval, with 46.7% […]
A federal appeals court revived a First Amendment case challenging diversity, equity, and inclusion training imposed by a Missouri school district. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled 6-5 to revive a lawsuit alleging that required diversity training by the Springfield R-12 School District violated the First Amendment rights of two […]
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that his administration is removing National Guard units from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite deployments to those cities leading to “greatly reduced” crime. “Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren’t for the Federal Government stepping in,” Trump wrote on Truth Social before teasing that the […]
The House Judiciary Committee on New Year’s Eve released the full transcript and video of its closed-door deposition with former special counsel Jack Smith, shedding new light on his now-defunct prosecutions of President Donald Trump and revealing previously undisclosed details about covert subpoenas targeting Republican lawmakers and weaknesses in the Jan. 6 investigation. The more […]
President Donald Trump touched on the nine-year prison sentence of former Colorado election clerk Tina Peters again this month, telling Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Mesa County District Attorney Daniel Rubinstein on Wednesday to “rot in Hell” for incarcerating the 2020 election denier. The fiery statement came weeks after Trump granted a “full pardon” to […]
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered a national address on New Year’s Eve that warned Europeans to take the future into their own hands without relying on the United States. In his first speech since being elected to lead Germany earlier this year, Merz called on his nation and the wider continent to take a more […]
