(The Center Square) — A lawsuit by the city of Boulder that seeks to hold oil companies accountable for their purported role in climate change will continue in a lower district court. The Colorado Supreme Court said in a ruling Monday that federal law doesn’t preempt the city’s claims in the lawsuit, so the case will continue […]
The number of people practicing the Catholic faith in the United States has grown over the last decade. The concentration of Catholics has also shifted. The Northeast and Midwest were once the center of the Catholic faith in the U.S., but the share of Catholic churches and congregations there decreased from 2010 to 2020. Meanwhile, […]
The Democratic National Committee is planning to troll President Donald Trump by flying a “Qatar-a-lago” banner near his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, while he is in the Middle East. Trump is in Qatar on Wednesday after visiting Saudi Arabia and before heading to the United Arab Emirates. However, his trip has been overshadowed by questions surrounding Qatar’s […]
President Donald Trump was given a red Cybertruck motorcade on his way to Doha, Qatar. As part of his second international trip during his second term as president, Trump traveled to Qatar after a stop in Saudi Arabia. Doha sought to make a positive impression, tapping into its alliance with Tesla CEO Elon Musk by […]
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested President Donald Trump has a deeper motive in receiving a luxury jet from Qatar. He is trying to get Boeing to expedite an aircraft to replace Air Force One. Trump has pushed back against criticism over his openness to accepting a Qatari jet, suggesting that it was “a very […]
The Senate passed a bill on Tuesday to rename a wildlife refuge after Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl allegedly killed by two Venezuelan migrants last year. The measure, offered by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in a unanimous consent request from the Senate floor, would codify an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in March. […]
(The Center Square) – After hand-delivering over 100 letters to Washington, D.C., Pierce County Councilmember Dave Morell says emergency grants could save a historic mining town that the state left out to dry. Washington State Route 165 leads hundreds of thousands of tourists to Mount Rainier National Park every year. The highway stretches through Wilkeson to […]
(The Center Square) – More than $13 million in incentives from North Carolina are pledged to a biotech company making a $700 million investment, a move the Commerce Department says will grow the economy by more than $3 billion over the next dozen years. Genentech, American-headquartered in San Francisco and subsidiary of the Roche Group […]
(The Center Square) – Democrats in the North Carolina Legislature complained Tuesday that the Republican majority killed good bills without even considering them in the respective rules committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. Crossover day for a bill to clear one chamber or the other has now passed, shutting out Democrat-sponsored bills for […]
Vice President JD Vance championed the Trump administration‘s support for law enforcement during a breakfast event Wednesday morning celebrating National Police Week. The vice president, joined by second lady Usha Vance, held an intimate breakfast with roughly two dozen state and local law enforcement officers at their residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington. […]
