(The Center Square) – The Texas cattle industry face a crisis after the largest wildfire in state history caused the death of thousands of beef cattle and now dairy cows for the first time have been infected by a bird flu outbreak. An initial 7,000 head of cattle were lost after the largest wildfire in […]
(The Center Square) – Midyear elementary school reading assessments in 2023-24 are up 22%, education leaders told the state Board of Education in its Wednesday meeting. The 2021 Excellent Public Schools Act required all K-5 literacy educators to be trained in the science of reading. The national rate is just 13%. “Elementary educators have been […]
(The Center Square) – Lawmakers anticipate at least $1 million in legal challenges if a proposed ballot measure setting an age limit for North Dakota congressional candidates passes. The North Dakota Legislative Management Committee discussed the fiscal impact of the proposed constitutional measure on Wednesday. The measure would prohibit an individual from appearing on a […]
Former President Donald Trump is about to go to trial over criminal allegations he paid off a porn star before the 2016 election. But instead of being deterred, support from white evangelical Protestant Christians could win him the 2024 cycle over President Joe Biden. In 2020, white evangelicals accounted for roughly 1 in 5 general […]
There are less than four more weeks until the first of two Supplemental Security Income payments in May, worth up to $943 for individual filers, goes out to millions of beneficiaries. The first installment goes out in 27 days, on Wednesday, May 1, to people with a serious debilitating disability that results in a limited […]
The first round of April’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest income earners who retire at 70, will go out to the first group of retirees in less than a week. The payment will go out Wednesday to beneficiaries born on or between the first and 10th of a month, […]
Former President Donald Trump’s relentless attacks on the judges and prosecutors overseeing a series of criminal cases against him are central to his 2024 run for president. He has framed the 88 criminal indictments, covering everything from his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to charges of business fraud in New York, as a […]
Longtime Israeli politician and diplomat Danny Danon believes his country made a mistake in dragging out its military campaign in Gaza to satisfy outside interests. Danon, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and former ambassador to the United Nations, told the Washington Examiner that Israel changed “the mode of operation” after the […]
Two news stories in the last week underscore the Biden administration‘s balancing act with LGBT causes as the 2024 election approaches. The first was that, having declared March 31 the annual Transgender Day of Visibility in 2021, President Joe Biden honored the new tradition alongside Easter on Sunday, outraging conservatives in the process. The second […]
One of Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R-FL) top deputies said he left a visit to the Texas border in disbelief after seeing the illegal immigration and drug smuggling crises with his own eyes. Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, a Cabinet member in the DeSantis administration who oversees finances for the deployment of state military and law […]
