(The Center Square) – Illinois truckers are applauding a federal rule and hope the state enforces a pause on non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs), saying it protects American jobs and restores trust in licensing. In late-September, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered states to pause non-domiciled CDLs for drivers on temporary visas. Illinois’ Secretary of State’s […]
(The Center Square) – Tennessee’s October revenues were $48.7 million more than estimated and $115 million higher than October of last year, according to Department of Finance and Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson. Tax revenues for the first three months of the 2026 fiscal year are up 1.59% from forecasts, according to the revenue report. Franchise and […]
(The Center Square) – Louisiana’s annual budgets swelled more than 71% over the past decade, ticking up year after year under a Democratic governor who expanded Medicaid and led the state through the COVID crisis. While the pace of spending slowed under a Republican governor elected two years ago, the bottom line keeps growing, an […]
President Donald Trump, whose recent moves appear more legacy- than MAGA-focused, is being urged to return to the strategy that helped him win back the White House: direct outreach to supporters and policies that make their lives better. Instead of gilding the White House and building a U.S. version of the Arc de Triomphe, pollsters […]
A federal magistrate judge ordered the Justice Department to hand over all grand jury materials to former FBI Director James Comey on Monday, saying the record shows unusually strong reasons to suspect irregularities in the proceedings. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick, who is handling pretrial discovery disputes in the Comey case, said Comey’s team presented […]
A date is set for the California GOP’s lawsuit against the state’s redistricting plan, in which it will argue that Proposition 50 is unconstitutional. Judge Josephine L. Staton of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ordered the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against California’s redistricting plan to appear in court on Dec. […]
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a challenge to a border policy aimed at preventing migrant surges by stopping asylum-seekers from reaching U.S. soil to make their claim. The “metering” policy was implemented during President Donald Trump’s first term in 2018, but was rescinded by former President Joe Biden and has not been restored by the current […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said he still sees a “fundamental divide” among Democratic senators following the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. “In the course of about seven or eight days, [Democrats] went from election euphoria to shutdown civil war to Epstein mania,” York said on Fox News’s Fox Report with Jon […]
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani wants to meet with President Donald Trump soon in Washington, D.C., the president said on Sunday. “The mayor of New York, I will say, would like to meet with us,” Trump said before returning to the district after visiting his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend. “We’ll work something […]
An Indiana Republican lawmaker underwent a swatting incident on Sunday after President Donald Trump called him a “RINO” for opposing the Republican Party’s mid-decade redistricting agenda. State Sen. Greg Goode was the target of the swatting incident. His household was reported for a false emergency in a prank email to the Terre Haute Police Department. […]
