(The Center Square) — A California judge ruled that the Los Angeles Unified School District violated state law for failing to share its facilities with charter schools. Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Stephen Goorvitch, at the end of June, ruled that LAUSD broke state law when it denied charter schools access to its campuses. The LAUSD […]
(The Center Square) — The United States signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday with Mexico, launching a permanent solution to end the Tijuana River sewage crisis. Upon arriving in Mexico City on Thursday morning, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin met with Mexican officials to discuss what Zeldin called a 100% solution to end the crisis. […]
Three lawyers recently fired by the Department of Justice after working on Jan. 6 cases sued the Trump administration on Thursday over their “unlawful and unconstitutional” terminations. The lawsuit, filed in a District of Columbia federal court, alleges the employees were wrongfully fired because Attorney General Pam Bondi did not give specific reasons for their […]
EXCLUSIVE — As leader of New England Law in Boston, Scott Brown touted diversity, equity, and inclusion as a “core value” and “top priority” of the institution. Now a Republican Senate candidate in New Hampshire, Brown assails DEI as “woke.” In an “unlisted” 2021 YouTube video unearthed by the Washington Examiner, which is not publicly […]
(The Center Square) – Amid allegations of a quid pro quo, the Spokane Ethics Commission voted Wednesday to initiate an independent investigation into Mayor Lisa Brown and the city council. The allegations claim that Brown and five of the seven council members violated the ethics code on June 16 by reversing their vote on a proposed camping […]
A House Ethics Committee investigation found Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) acted “inconsistent with House Rules, laws, and other standards of conduct” in relation to her 2021 Met Gala appearance and asked her to pay more than $2,700. In a report released Friday, the committee determined that there was no evidence Ocasio-Cortez intentionally underpaid for “any […]
An Arizona woman has been sentenced to 8.5 years in federal prison for participating in a fraud scheme that helped give remote jobs to North Korean information technology specialists at over 300 companies in the United States, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. The alleged scheme generated more than $17 million in revenue for the […]
President Donald Trump suggested that he could send out rebate checks to U.S. citizens, directly distributing revenue raised from tariffs. When asked if he would consider tariff rebate checks, Trump said he was “thinking about that, actually.” “We have so much money coming in, we’re thinking about a little rebate, but the big thing we […]
The dust has not settled since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, but House Republicans have already launched an initiative to plan for a second reconciliation bill. The Republican Study Committee announced Friday the creation of its Reconciliation 2.0 Working Group, which will lead the committee’s efforts to […]
Three of Europe’s most powerful countries are holding a phone call to discuss the future of the Gaza Strip after the leader of France declared his nation will recognize a sovereign Palestinian state. French President Emmanuel Macron is speaking with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday, ostensibly to discuss […]
