(The Center Square) – Areas of western North Carolina declared federal disaster areas following Hurricane Helene are included in a $1.45 billion grant program from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The announcement was made Wednesday by Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick and second-term Republican President Donald Trump. The Fiscal Year 2025 Disaster Supplemental Grant Program […]
Second lady Usha Vance detailed her summer reading program to address the “reading loss” among children, a topic she is “really motivated” to address during her time with the Trump administration. The program encourages children to read 12 books between June 1 and Sept. 5 and will give participants who complete it a chance to […]
The Trump administration gave Customs and Border Protection the green light to move forward with border wall projects across Arizona and New Mexico. The Department of Homeland Security instructed CBP to ignore environmental regulations and immediately begin building 36 miles of barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, CBP announced Thursday. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem issued a […]
Weeks of attacks from Democrats and legacy media outlets have had no impact on President Donald Trump’s approval ratings, which remain at their highest level. Several polls, including two on the list of most accurate in the 2024 election, this week said that Trump has maintained his approval rating in the face of the attacks […]
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that discrimination claims from majority-group plaintiffs do not need to meet a higher legal bar than the one that plaintiffs from historically marginalized groups must meet. The high court ruled that a federal appeals court erred by holding white, male, and straight employees to a higher standard, dubbed […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) endorsed state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, aligning the progressive left with a candidate who has built his campaign on grassroots support. “Zohran doesn’t just speak truth to power—he organizes to build it from the ground up. His campaign isn’t just about policies, it’s about a vision […]
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino knocked former FBI Director James Comey for the “mess” he left at the agency and said it’s “stunning” how Comey continues to target new leadership. Bongino revealed last week that new leadership discovered a box of Comey-era evidence, which had been “hidden” from them. The deputy director said on Wednesday […]
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its decision to cut a COVID-19 pandemic-era assistance program. The Trump administration ended the $13 million Local Food Purchasing Assistance Program agreement, supporting 189 Pennsylvania farms and 14 food banks, citing shifting priorities. To no avail, Shapiro appealed the decision in March, resulting in […]
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) lamented that judicial injunctions have led to the inability to “deport terrorists from our country.” Hawley was seemingly referring to U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, who stopped the deportation of convicted illegal immigrant men to South Sudan. Instead, Murphy ruled that the eight migrants remain […]
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that Wisconsin violated the Constitution by forcing a Catholic nonprofit organization to pay into the state’s unemployment insurance program, delivering a win for religious liberty advocates and narrowing how far states can go in defining what counts as “religious.” In an opinion authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the high court found that the […]
