A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s ban on military service by individuals who identify as transgender or have gender dysphoria, staying a lower-court order that blocked War Secretary Pete Hegseth from enforcing the policy. The 2–1 decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court […]
Senate Republicans plan to counter a Democratic-led vote on expiring Obamacare subsidies with a healthcare proposal of their own, marking a shift in strategy as the GOP debates how best to challenge Democrats on affordability. “We will have an alternative that we will put up that reflects the views of the Republicans here in the […]
Former Colorado election clerk Tina Peters’s legal team is intensifying pressure on President Donald Trump to pardon her, a move that puts the White House in a complicated position. A federal judge on Monday declined Peters’s bid to be released from prison on bond while an appeals court considers her challenge to a 2024 conviction […]
London Mayor Sadiq Khan responded to criticism from President Donald Trump by pointing to the Square Mile’s strong global rankings. Trump issued a new litany of critiques at Khan during a 45-minute conversation with Politico’s The Conversation, reiterating the attacks he first leveled against the London mayor in his United Nations speech in September. “If […]
(The Center Square) – Asbestos case filings in South Carolina have increased 300% this year over 2024, and the reputation of adjudications has led to a No. 3 ranking nationally from the American Tort Reform Foundation. The nonprofit organization says, “South Carolina’s asbestos judge has demonstrated a clear bias against corporate defendants, reflected in rulings […]
(The Center Square) – Lawsuit abuse and judicial bias are two of the main reasons why Los Angeles was identified as the worst “judicial hellhole” in the country, according to a national report released Tuesday by the American Tort Reform Foundation. The report is issued every year by the foundation to analyze personal injury and wrongful death […]
(The Center Square) – Augusta-Richmond County’s consolidated government apparently doesn’t track supplemental pay to employees in any modern, easily-accessible data-keeping format. Several requests from The Center Square under the Georgia Open Records Act have been met with high cost estimates, indicating intensive labor needed to locate the records, or in some cases total silence. After […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) unveiled his upcoming memoir on Tuesday, describing it as the story of how people formed him and made him “who I am.” The book, titled Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, is scheduled for release on Feb. 24, 2026, a little less than a year before Newsom completes […]
Twin brothers from New Jersey were arrested on charges of threatening to kill Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. DHS announced Tuesday afternoon that U.S. citizens Emilio Roman-Flores and Ricardo Roman-Flores were taken into custody in Absecon, New Jersey, by DHS and the Absecon Police Department’s SWAT team […]
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said she wants to converse with Texas voters, but doesn’t need to “convert” all of MAGA to her cause in her Senate campaign. Crockett announced her Senate bid on Monday, changing the field dramatically. “Yeah, I don‘t know that we’ll necessarily convert all of Trump‘s supporters. That’s not our goal,” Crockett […]
