The cost of crime from 662,000 criminal illegal migrants sought for deportation has been pegged at three times the much-hyped price of President-elect Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” plan. In an analysis from the Crime Prevention Research Center, the costs of crime from the top targets of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations was set at $166.5 […]
A former FBI agent who was previously accused of lying about President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, has been indicted on tax evasion charges. The former agent, Alexander Smirnov, is alleged to have evaded paying income taxes of more than $2 million that he received from multiple sources between 2020 and 2022, according […]
President-elect Donald Trump managed to win a single voting precinct in New York City‘s Lower East Side. Three weeks after the election results swung in Trump’s favor, a small inroad was revealed in the Two Bridges precinct. As of Wednesday, with 99% of votes counted, Trump’s 16-vote margin among fewer than 500 votes case is […]
Setting up the new Senate This cycle was always going to be about who won the White House. Every four years, the House and Senate contests are going to take a back seat to the race everyone feels like they must participate in. Republicans weren’t swimming against that tide, but outgoing Republican Leader Mitch McConnell […]
(The Center Square) – California Republicans flipped a second seat in the state legislature, nearly three weeks after the general election. Republicans noted the party had not flipped a State Senate seat during a presidential election since 1980. President-elect Trump has won 38.2% of votes counted thus far in California, more than Senator Mitt Romney, […]
(The Center Square) – Illinois lawmakers disagree on the qualifications of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. Illinois U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a veteran, on CBS said Hegseth is “flat-out wrong” in his view that women should not serve in the military in combat roles. “Remember that the Pentagon is three million […]
(The Center Square) – Four Legislature races and one state Supreme Court race were not certified by the North Carolina State Board of Elections on Tuesday. Notably, the state’s sole Supreme Court race between Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs and Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin is one of those currently under both recount and protest. Added at Tuesday’s […]
(The Center Square) – State government covers more than half of operational costs for mass transit systems in Pennsylvania’s largest cities. Notably, it’s not rider fares or contributions from local taxing authorities. In 2022, the latter represented just 7.5% of funding for both SEPTA in the Philadelphia region and the Pittsburgh Transit Authority, which operates 300 […]
(The Center Square) – Gov. Jay Inslee proposed opening a new juvenile rehabilitation center in Aberdeen on Monday as another Chehalis facility grapples with a 60% increase in its population since 2023. Inslee and the Department of Children, Youth & Families laid out the proposal during a Monday press conference. While touting DCYF’s juvenile facilities, the governor also […]
(The Center Square) – After delays and lobbying from business groups around the country, the U.S. Department of Commerce and Intel announced a deal Tuesday morning to release nearly $8 billion in direct CHIPS Act funding. The $7.86 billion directly impacts Intel’s commercial semiconductor manufacturing and advanced manufacturing projects in Ohio, Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon. […]
