(The Center Square) – A child welfare bill was gutted just moments before going to the Illinois House floor and replaced with an omnibus election bill. House sponsor of Senate Bill 2412, State Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Swansea, said the bill does three things. “It places three non-binding referendums on the General Election ballot, eliminates the slating process […]
EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans are set to introduce a bill seeking to prohibit former government employees of health agencies from profiting off medical research or products, specifically targeting former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci. Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) filed the Fixing Administrations Unethical Corrupt Influence Act, or the FAUCI Act, […]
(The Center Square) – Last year was a record year for domestic natural gas consumption, and its supply wouldn’t have been possible without record U.S. production, led by Texas, according to several reports. Texas produced the equivalent of one-third of the natural gas consumed last year, with Texas producers breaking multiple records last year, The Center […]
(The Center Square) – The Biden administration’s move to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk substance has broad implications for the cannabis industry at large, including in Washington state, a pioneer in the legal cannabis industry. On Dec. 6, 2012, Washington became the first state in the nation to legalize recreational use of marijuana and the […]
EXCLUSIVE — In the summer of 2021, the White House convened a meeting over Zoom with outside groups to plan on implementing an executive order from the president granting them historic new tools to register voters. The Biden administration has insisted attendees and the operation at large are “nonpartisan,” though internal documents provide a glimpse […]
Prosecutors are limited in how they may reference Michael Cohen’s past guilty pleas during former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, but these restrictions have not stopped them from finding ways to tie Trump to Cohen’s crimes in front of the jury. Judge Juan Merchan expressly ruled that prosecutors are not permitted to use Cohen’s […]
Pro-Palestinian protesters continued to clash with law enforcement officials overnight in various incidents throughout the country. The situation at UCLA remained tense with protesters and police officers on Wednesday night. There were multiple reports of the Los Angeles Police Department breaching the pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday morning in an attempt to clear the protesters. It […]
EXCLUSIVE — Conservative advocacy group Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, has launched a campaign opposing President Joe Biden‘s latest moves to cancel student loans. The group launched a comment portal in April seeking input from the public on Biden’s plan to cancel or reduce student loan debt for as many as […]
Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer recently lamented the “unfortunate” leak of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade, an incident that two years ago today threatened the very core of the institution he once represented. “You try to avoid getting angry or that — you try in the job — you try to remain as […]
Congressional Democrats are struggling to coalesce around a unified message as antisemitic and at times violent anti-Israel protests play out on college campuses. The demonstrations, which have led to mass arrests as students break campus rules and the law, have been condemned by Democratic leaders, but some lawmakers have been more forceful than others […]
