(The Center Square) – An Illinois taxpayer watchdog is calling for a formal investigation into the Rochester Public Library, alleging staff and board members used public resources to campaign for a 169% property tax increase. Americans for Prosperity–Illinois filed a 35-count ethics complaint and is now urging Sangamon County State’s Attorney John Milhiser and Illinois Attorney […]
The House is canceling votes and sending members home early this week as the chamber is paralyzed over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) assuring Republicans that the Trump administration is taking care of it. A whip notice sent Tuesday morning alerted that previously scheduled votes for Thursday are […]
President Donald Trump celebrated rumors that late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon will have the plugs pulled on their shows, saying both have “absolutely NO TALENT” on Truth Social Tuesday. Trump’s post comes only a few days after he celebrated that comedian Stephen Colbert’s show on CBS was cut. Like Colbert, Kimmel and Fallon […]
President Donald Trump hosted Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. at the White House on Tuesday to discuss security in the Indo-Pacific and possibly hammer out a trade deal between the United States and its oldest regional military ally. Marcos is the first South Asian leader to visit the White House during Trump’s second term […]
The Department of Health and Human Services, under the direction of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced an initiative on Monday to begin reforming the organ transplant system after an investigation uncovered “disturbing practices.” The Health Resources and Services Administration, which is housed under HHS, ordered the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to review a […]
(The Center Square) – A new paper detailing the impact of hosting the NFL Draft on host cities called the 2022 draft a “disaster” for Las Vegas as the city had approximately 20,000 less hotel room nights than it would without the event. While organizers of the annual event – including cities, tourism departments, the […]
A city councilor in Switzerland is being charged with “disturbing religious freedom” after sharing a video of her firing dozens of rounds into an image of the Virgin Mary and infant Jesus. Sanija Ameti, a member of the Zurich municipal council, unloaded a sporting handgun into a poster advertising the auction of Tommaso del Mazza’s 14th-century […]
(The Center Square) – Modernization of “manufacturing technologies and controls through further advanced automation and artificial intelligence” are helping trigger Biogen’s commitment of $2 billion into its North Carolina facilities. The Fortune 500 company based in Cambridge, Mass., opened its first campus in the Research Triangle Park in 1995. Celebrating the 30 years, the company […]
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claimed over the weekend that there is enough evidence to prosecute Obama administration officials over their false 2016 election narrative tying President Donald Trump to Russia, but it may be too late for the Justice Department to pursue the case. While Trump and his administration have released new documents […]
Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., called on President Donald Trump to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein after he released 230,000 pages on her late father. The document release was a fulfillment of Trump’s executive order to declassify FBI reports on the assassination of King Jr., 57 years after the fact. However, […]
