(The Center Square) – Adjustments to the state budget at the midpoint of its two-year life, as often happens, appear to be a longshot this year for North Carolina lawmakers. Three-fifths majorities of Republicans are in each chamber, and they’ll need to either craft separate legislation or come together on very different plans to push […]
(The Center Square) – North Carolina Senate leaders released their proposal for amendments to the two-year budget on Wednesday evening, with a key similarity of fully funding Opportunity Scholarships to extinguish the waiting list. After that, even in education, things do not align with the respective plans of the Senate and House of Representatives. There’s […]
(The Center Square) – As the effects of the border crisis ripple throughout the nation, concern grows over increased transnational organized crime, in Pennsylvania and beyond. Those subjective fears have been amplified in the wake of the Biden administration’s recent executive order granting a legal pathway to citizenship for spouses of U.S. residents and their […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s defense team will have an opportunity to argue at a hearing in Florida on Friday that the classified documents case should be dismissed on the grounds that Jack Smith was allegedly unlawfully appointed special counsel. Judge Aileen Cannon scheduled a hearing on the matter as she addresses one by one the […]
The latest round of polling contains good news and bad news for both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump less than a week before their first debate showdown. Biden enjoyed his first lead in a national Fox News poll since October. It is also his largest, with the president beating Trump by 2 […]
When President Joe Biden meets former President Donald Trump on the debate stage for the first time in 2024, both men will be seeking a breakthrough in a race that has been deadlocked for months. Given a choice of two extremely familiar and broadly unpopular candidates who have recently served as president, those in the […]
President Joe Biden is ramping up his campaign attacks against former President Donald Trump‘s new tariff proposals, despite maintaining, and even expanding, the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese imports. Biden told donors at a campaign fundraiser in McClean, Virginia earlier this week that Trump’s suggestion to put 10% or higher tariffs on all imports to the U.S. in […]
Summer’s here, and the time is wrong for voting in the booths. The personal ratings of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron have never been lower. The British and French economies are feeble, and Sunak and Macron’s parties are deeply unpopular with their publics. Yet both leaders have called snap elections […]
Normally, a visit to Congress from the leader of a key U.S. ally in wartime wouldn’t be controversial. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t a normal world leader. And his scheduled July 24 speech to a joint session of Congress has the potential to be uniquely divisive. It comes amid increased global pressure on […]
HOUSTON — A pair of decades-old MLB teams that have never won a World Series lead their divisions. The Seattle Mariners hold first place in the American League West, and the Milwaukee Brewers are out front in the National League Central. While the Cleveland Guardians, which last won a World Series in 1948, lead the […]
