(The Center Square) – With thousands of Pennsylvanians dying from overdoses, Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Dave McCormick wants an aggressive policy to stop the international drug flow. “Our great commonwealth is under siege from this fentanyl crisis— and so is America,” McCormick said at a roundtable on fentanyl in Luzerne County. He praised the work […]
(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania’s total tax burden has gotten worse relative to other states, keeping residents more tax-burdened than the average American. A report from the Independent Fiscal Office found that Pennsylvania’s total taxes per capita ranked 19th overall at $6,710. While Pennsylvania fares better than New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware, it lags behind […]
EXCLUSIVE — Republican lawmakers are accusing the State Department of threatening to obstruct their investigation into “censorship” of companies in the United States. House Small Business Committee Republicans have continued to request grant records from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center for an inquiry into “government censorship and revenue interference of American small businesses by proxy,” […]
Officials at Texas public universities are quietly trying to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion programs after a statewide ban on the ideology took effect Jan. 1, according to hidden camera footage published this week. Undercover video captured by investigators from Accuracy in Media shows employees from multiple Texas universities admitting to finding “creative” ways to […]
A second wave of February’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest earners who retire at 70, will go out to retirees in four days. Retired seniors born on or between the 11th and 20th of their birth month will receive the second payment on Wednesday, Feb. 21, according to the […]
Millions of beneficiaries will receive March’s Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943 for individual filers, in less than two weeks. The payment will go out in 13 days, on Friday, March 1; it is the second paycheck for 2024 because no payments went out in January due to a scheduling quirk in the […]
A rare Cadillac once leased by President Joe Biden is set to hit the auction block. The 2018 Cadillac ATS-V Sedan was designed and manufactured as a “one-of-one specification” for the former vice president, according to a report. Specificities of the vehicle include tinted windows and a rare Kona Brown interior not featured in any other […]
The hope that a third-party candidate could threaten President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump‘s reelection appears to be fizzling out after several possible contenders declined to run in the 2024 race. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) became the latest candidate to pass on a presidential run when he announced on Friday that he wouldn’t […]
Several fire crews were on scene after a house exploded in Loudoun County, Virginia, on Friday evening. Firefighters responded to the fire in the 300 block of Silver Ridge Drive in Sterling. News4 was on the scene and reported that Loudoun County Fire and Rescue received a call about natural gas at around 7:40 p.m., […]
Independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed his frustration at the potential for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley to receive protection from the Secret Service. “While I’m happy she’ll be protected and publicly supported her request, double standards abound,” Kennedy wrote on X on Friday. “My campaign first requested Secret Service protection in […]
