(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s steady increase of apprenticeships in the state over the past 10-plus years has grown to 77% higher than 2013, according to a new report. The total comes as many industries are seeing labor shortages and those are expected to expand in coming years as the state’s population shrinks. Wisconsin had […]
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is refusing to cooperate with investigators by taking off his clothes and refusing to move. Special counsel investigators, fulfilling an arrest warrant on allegations of influence-peddling by Yoon, attempted to coax the former leader into voluntary questioning on Friday. “Without wearing his prison uniform, the suspect lay down on […]
(The Center Square) – New Jersey may soon follow California’s lead in a reinterpretation of its ABC test that would force as many as 1.7 million independent contractors to lose their self-employed status while increasing the amount of workers that can be “unionized.” Director of Independent Women’s Center for Economic Opportunity Patrice Onwuka told The […]
President Donald Trump called on the board of the Federal Reserve to take control from Chairman Jerome Powell if interest rates are not lowered. After a brief display of public friendliness, Trump resumed his rhetorical offensive against Powell on Wednesday after he announced that the Fed would not lower interest rates. On Friday morning, Trump […]
Former President Joe Biden warned that he thinks the Trump administration is attacking the rule of law during remarks to the National Bar Association in Chicago on Thursday night. Biden said he believes “these are dark days,” as President Donald Trump nears the 200th day of his presidency. However, the former president did not mention […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced Thursday plans to order a special election in November for voters to decide whether to approve new congressional maps to redistrict California House seats in favor of Democrats. The strategy comes as a retaliatory rebuke to Republican-led Texas’s recent proposal to redraw the political maps in an effort to flip […]
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country’s Legislative Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years. Lawmaker Ana Figueroa from the New Ideas party had proposed the changes to five articles of the constitution. The proposal […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday introduced legislation seeking to modernize weather radio systems after deadly Texas flashfloods recently raised alarms that emergency communications had failed to prevent the loss of life. The floods along the Guadalupe River in central Texas occurred over the July 4 holiday weekend, leading to the deaths of over 130 […]
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper led Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley by 6 percentage points in the first major poll of the 2026 North Carolina Senate race. The Emerson College poll, obtained by Politico, showed Cooper with 47% compared to Whatley’s 41%, with 12% unsure. Cooper has a massive lead among independents, with […]
More than 50,000 discrepancies have been discovered in the state of New York’s voter registration rolls, including deceased registrants, placeholder or fictitious birthdates, and duplicate entries, according to an election security watchdog’s findings shared with the Washington Examiner. Among the alarming revelations, Public Interest Legal Foundation, PILF, a law firm focused on voting integrity, found […]
