(The Center Square) — After spending almost nine months overseas, the USS Carl Vinson and Carrier Strike Group One returned to Naval Base San Diego on Thursday afternoon, with friends, families and newly born babies waiting to greet them home. Carrier Strike Group One, a U.S. Navy team consisting of ships, aircraft and more than 7,000 sailors, […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Russian President Vladimir Putin has been pressed twice by reporters during his high-stakes summit with President Donald Trump in Alaska on whether he would commit to stopping the killing of civilians. “President Putin, will you stop killing civilians?” a reporter asked Putin on Friday after Trump and Putin shook hands on the […]
(The Center Square) – Louisiana’s parishes are flush with opioid-settlement cash, but a lot of questions remain about how those funds are being used and how they should be used. One answer is apparently to invest the funds using Louisiana’s state-affiliated asset management pool. “This investment pool was created as a voluntary option for parishes […]
(The Center Square) — The superintendent of the nation’s fifth-biggest school district said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreed not to conduct raids or arrests in schools in Las Vegas or the county surrounding it. The move comes in direct defiance of President Donald Trump, who rolled back immigration enforcement protection earlier this year for specialfspaces like churches and […]
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s law banning utility shutoffs during extreme heat and cold is sparking concerns over rising electric bills across Illinois. Signed a few years ago, the law prohibits utility companies from disconnecting residential electric and gas service when temperatures reach 90°F or above, or drop to freezing and below, aiming […]
(The Center Square) — It is not every day that people on opposite sides of the political spectrum join forces, but that is exactly what Lisa Everett and Brent Peak have done in Arizona. Everett, the GOP chair for Arizona Legislative District 29, is working with Peak, a Democrat, to keep restaurant owner Kelly Yu from […]
(The Center Square) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has proposed a controversial new law to get drug addicts off the city’s streets by expanding the state’s involuntary commitment laws. The Compassionate Interventions Act, if approved by the state Legislature, would give doctors and medical professionals authority to hold someone at a hospital if they […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have started their meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, their first face-to-face encounter of Trump’s second administration and the first between a U.S. president and Putin since he embarked on his 3 1/2-year war against Ukraine. Putin was greeted by a show […]
Two U.S. B-2 stealth bombers flew into Alaska‘s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hours before a high-stakes summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pair of stealth bombers represents roughly 10% of the Air Force’s entire fleet, and are the same kind that Trump used to strike Iran’s nuclear sites in June. They […]
A federal appeals court panel lifted a lower court’s order Friday that blocked the Trump administration‘s efforts to fire most employees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted 2-1 to vacate a preliminary injunction by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman […]
