(The Center Square) – Florida is No. 1 in educational freedom for the fourth year in a row, a report from the Heritage Foundation said Tuesday. The annual scorecard – in existence just four years – ranks the states across five categories. A No. 1 national ranking was achieved in education choice, transparency, teacher freedom […]
A veteran Colorado Republican, state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, is entering the 2026 gubernatorial race. Kirkmeyer is a state senator for Brighton, Colorado, and is known for being a centrist. Before taking office in 2021, she served for two decades as the Weld County commissioner and in former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens’s administration. The 66-year-old ran […]
Two new Democrats who are expected to be sworn into Congress this month will be able to finalize the push to force a vote for a full release of the criminal files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. As Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) discharge petition is merely two signatures short of forcing House […]
French President Emmanuel Macron selected his loyal defense minister, Sébastien Lecornu, as the nation’s prime minister. Lecornu, 39, was appointed just over a day after his predecessor, François Bayrou, was ousted in an overwhelming 364-194 vote against him on Monday, after just nine months in office. Lecornu is Macron’s fifth prime minister since he began […]
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a bill Tuesday to install the national motto, “In God We Trust,” on every public building in the United States. Hawley first floated the idea last July during his remarks at the 2024 National Conservatism Conference, when he called for all public buildings to replace the transgender flag with the […]
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared on The View on Tuesday to promote her new children’s book, Just Shine! How to Be a Better You, which reflects on lessons from her late mother and her belief that multilingualism and inclusivity should be central in children’s education. The book, which is being released in both English […]
The yearslong succession battle over News Corporation is coming to an end, with the media company announcing Monday that the beneficiaries of the Murdoch Family Trust reached a “mutual resolution.” The termination of the litigation created new trusts for News Corp Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch, the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, and Grace and Chloe […]
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will hear two consolidated legal cases challenging President Donald Trump‘s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs in November. The high court issued a brief order granting the motion for the cases to be expedited, after the Justice Department requested the justices rule on the petition to take up the case […]
Republicans are close to finalizing a short-term spending deal to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month, with appropriators and GOP leadership hoping to return to holding an “old-school” formal conference between the House and Senate to advance the remaining appropriations bills. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) said on Tuesday […]
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes denied the Trump administration’s request for access to the sensitive data of millions of voters in the state. The Department of Justice requested that at least 30 states hand over their voter roll data, including names, addresses, birthdates, driver’s license numbers, and the last four digits of their Social […]
