U.S. Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel announced Wednesday morning that they have entered into a historic agreement together, days after President Donald Trump approved the merger. The $14.1 billion deal is expected to create more than 100,000 jobs in the steelmaking industry, the corporations said in a joint statement. Nippon will make at least $11 […]
(The Center Square) – Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols fended off a challenge in the Republican primary for his District 2 seat and Democrats appear to be heading to a runoff in District 3. Echols won more than 75% of the vote to challenger Lee Muns’ 24.19% for the seat that covers a large part […]
The shootings of two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses took place over the weekend as the latest act of political violence in the United States. A gunman impersonating a police officer shot and killed Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Saturday morning at their home after wounding Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his […]
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee rejected a motion from Democrats to make a $400 million investment in the Broadband Expansion Grant Program, which would seek to deliver high-speed internet to rural or unserved areas. The rejected motion came in response to delays President Donald Trump’s review of the Broadband, […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s physical and mental decline. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10:15 a.m. The hearing, titled, “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the Constitution,” will feature testimony from former White House press secretary […]
(The Center Square) – An aerospace company is adding 217 new jobs at its Morristown location, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter said Tuesday. Howmet Aerospace employs 1,000 people in Hamblen County. The company added 50 new jobs last year, Lee said. “Howmet Aerospace’s Morristown operations play […]
(The Center Square) – An agreement between the state of Tennessee and Tennessee State University will help the institution overcome financial woes and “regain its legacy as one of our nation’s great, historic institutions of higher education,” a state official said. The agreement allows the university to use $96 million in capital outlay funds for operations […]
When Vice President JD Vance weighed in to defend his boss, President Donald Trump, on Iran, he was coming from a different place than many of his predecessors. Unlike Dick Cheney under George W. Bush, Vance isn’t more hawkish than his senior partner or viewed as pushing for war behind the scenes. When Vance endorsed […]
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stood defiant in the face of President Donald Trump’s threats, saying any intervention would be met with “irreparable damage.” In a televised address, Khamenei sought to reassure Iranians amid increasing signals that the United States could join Israel in its assault on Iran. He turned to Iranian history to […]
A federal judge held Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt for sending a letter to local police suggesting he couldn’t prevent them from disobeying her order pausing a new immigration law. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled on Tuesday that the letter violated her order, leading Florida’s top prosecutor to respond that “if […]
