(The Center Square) – Nine Democratic U.S. Senators, including Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, introduced legislation this week that they hope will reduce the amount of fentanyl that flows over the country’s southern border. At the same time, the bill will increase inspections of goods leaving the United States for Mexico in an effort […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) ended his 2024 presidential campaign on Sunday after a turbulent eight months in the race. The Florida governor had several moments before and during his ill-fated candidacy that hurt his campaign, from technical glitches during his launch to awkward interactions with voters. Here are six lowlights from the doomed DeSantis campaign. […]
(The Center Square) – An organization tied to the terrorist group Hamas works with Chicago Public Schools to combat alleged Islamophobia. The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), offers a program called, “The Chicago Public Schools Project.” According to CAIR Chicago’s website, the organization has offered the program since 2014 as part of […]
(The Center Square) – Chicago Gig Alliance organizer Lori Simmons is leading the charge in demanding city officials take action in response to a rash of recent rideshare driver robberies on the city’s West Side. “It’s really scary,” Simmons told The Center Square after authorities recently issued a community alert about the attacks. “I did […]
(The Center Square) – Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order to implement artificial intelligence standards and guidelines he says will protect Virginians. Executive Order 30 will implement AI educational guidelines for the classroom and policy and information technology standards. He says it will “safeguard the state’s databases while simultaneously protecting individual data” for Virginians. The executive […]
US INTENT ON DEGRADING HOUTHI FIREPOWER: The United States is preparing to mount a sustained bombing campaign against targets in Houthi-controlled western Yemen that will last until the attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea are deterred or Houthi missile stocks are exhausted. The plans for an open-ended military campaign follow a meeting of […]
(The Center Square) — Multiple Democrat-sponsored pieces of gun legislation aimed at strengthening firearm laws advanced in Virginia’s House of Delegates this week. House bill 2 A bill to watch this legislative session sponsored by Del. Dan Helmer, D-Fairfax, House bill 2 creates a class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports […]
(The Center Square) – The fallout has begun in Illinois from the expired Invest in Kids school choice scholarship program as schools are announcing they will close. The Archdiocese of Chicago announced this week the closing of two west suburban Catholic schools at the end of the school year. St. Frances of Rome in Cicero had […]
(The Center Square) – Convicted felons in Washington state, including murderers, may soon have more rights when it comes to seeking elected office, voting or sitting on a jury while still in prison. House Bill 2030 is sponsored by Tara Simmons, D-Bremerton, an advocate for the restoration of rights for felons. In 2020, Simmons was elected to […]
Witnesses whom lawmakers plan to question as part of the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden in the coming weeks were once some of the associates most intimately familiar with the Biden family’s business affairs. Some of them had well-documented firsthand involvement in business ventures with the Bidens, and two had what records suggest […]
