(The Center Square) – Only five days into the special session and 15 Texas House Democrats left the state to meet with the Democratic governors of California and Illinois looking for ways to oppose redistricting efforts underway in Texas. The Texas legislature began a special legislative session on Monday to address 18 legislative items identified […]
(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania on Friday became the latest state to consider legislation that would unmask agents from U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Joining state lawmakers from California, New York, Massachusetts, and Tennessee, the “Unmask ICE” effort is a reaction to officers concealing their identities to evade public attacks and retaliation for the agency’s […]
(The Center Square) — San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond on Friday applauded the Trump administration’s executive order addressing the national homelessness crisis. President Donald Trump signed the order Thursday, calling on state and local governments to end the “endemic vagrancy” that has taken root in the country. Designed to “protect public safety,” the order encourages states and […]
(The Center Square) — One of the nation’s largest hospital systems has decided to settle after investigations by Nevada, California and Colorado determined it was forcing new nurses to repay training costs if they left the company within two years. The company, called HCA, was found to have violated state-level consumer protection laws, with possible federal […]
(The Center Square) – Texas will become the seventh state to ban the production and sale of lab-grown meat in September. Florida was the first, followed by Alabama last year. This year, five more states, including Texas, followed. They did so after the Trump administration took the opposite approach. In 2019, the first Trump administration […]
Taiwanese voters overwhelmingly rejected an unprecedented Saturday recall effort targeting the opposition Kuomintang Party, which favors better relations with China. Voters in every targeted constituency voted against recalling the KMT lawmakers, Central Election Commission data found, a striking rejection of the effort boosted by President Lai Ching-te’s Democratic Progressive Party. The attempt aimed to recall 24 […]
The growing border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia continued into its third day with new attacks, as fears of war loom. The conflict’s death toll rose substantially on Saturday, with Cambodian authorities reporting 12 new deaths and Thailand one, making the total confirmed death toll 13 Cambodians and 20 Thai. More people were evacuated from […]
An enlightening analysis by pollsters John and Jim McLaughlin suggests that how voters view President Donald Trump six months into the job is largely influenced by which media they rely on. If Fox and Newmax are the source, Trump is on a great run, scoring big wins. If it’s CNN and MSNBC, he is sinking […]
An author with insider knowledge of the Biden administration believes that there was no “dastardly cover-up” of former President Joe Biden‘s condition, with the saga better explained by dysfunctional group dynamics. Chris Whipple, author of the book Uncharted, about the 2024 election campaign, said in an interview with Fox News that Biden’s inner circle wasn’t […]
Chinese financiers and operators are behind a surge of illegal marijuana grow operations that have sprung up across Maine, according to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Collins has led the charge to stand up a joint federal, state, and local operation to take down the hundreds of confirmed grow houses in her backyard. Since 2022, her […]
