(The Center Square) — The Virginia Senate Education and Health Committee recommends legislation to boost teacher pay, following the committee’s first meeting of the 2024 legislative session. SB 104, sponsored by longtime senator and committee member Sen. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, would deeply impact teachers’ livelihoods in the commonwealth and require an ongoing commitment from the state. […]
The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge from Fortnite developer Epic Games to a district court’s ruling that the Apple App Store‘s payment policies do not violate federal antitrust law. The Court also on Tuesday said that it was declining a petition from Apple to review the same decision, which limited some App Store […]
House Republican leaders have canceled their scheduled votes for Tuesday evening due to inclement weather just days before the government is set to enter a partial shutdown if lawmakers can not pass a funding extension by Friday. The week’s first votes are now expected around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to a whip notice sent to […]
(The Center Square) – San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus touted the success of a joint operation conducted between police department officers and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers in apprehending a street takeover group. Gov. Greg Abbott also lauded the operation, pointing to a new law that went into effect to help law enforcement […]
A battle between “good and evil” at the border Law enforcement continues to battle cartel operatives worshiping saint of death (The Center Square) – What’s happening at the border is a spiritual battle between good and evil, retired Border Patrol agent Frank Lopez Jr., argues. He and others in law enforcement have combatted crime coming […]
President Joe Biden faces a threat in one of the states that made history in 2020 as it helped him to deliver the win over former President Donald Trump. In a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll of registered voters, Trump is defeating Biden by 8 percentage points in Georgia. The two men are likely to be their […]
(The Center Square) – School districts in Detroit, Lansing and Pontiac will each receive $5.9 million in federal funding to buy 15 clean-powered school buses apiece. The funding flows from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Clean School Bus Program grants. Funding through third-party multistate grantees First Student Inc. and Highland CSB 1 will help buy […]
(The Center Square) – Few understand the complexity and scope of sex trafficking in Pennsylvania, experts say, making it harder to combat the issue at the legislative level. The seminal issue arose during the Senate Majority Policy Committee’s recent public hearing in Pittsburgh in keeping with Human Trafficking Awareness Month. While experts and law enforcement […]
Eight years after losing the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump won the Hawkeye State by a record margin of nearly 30 percentage points, winning an outright majority of the state and blowing the polls out of the water. The former president did so despite spending more time in Manhattan courtrooms than in Iowa and […]
Lawmakers on Tuesday announced a bipartisan agreement to reinstate major expired tax provisions, including an expansion of the child tax credit and a renewal of business investment deductions. Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) worked together in crafting the agreement, which Smith said would amount to […]
