(The Center Square) – The orchestrated parade of rental trucks delivering bank boxes of signed petitions to the Missouri secretary of state’s office ended on Friday, the final business day before a May 5 constitutional deadline. Organizations desiring to get a measure on the November ballot gathered signatures for the last few months. Signatures of […]
(The Center Square) – A judge on Friday ordered a pharmaceutical company to pay $1.086 billion in criminal fines and $450 million in criminal forfeiture for misleading doctors about the safety of an opioid medication. It was the the second-largest set of criminal financial penalties ever levied against a pharmaceutical company for violations of the […]
(The Center Square) – A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department said protesters had weapons including knives and hammers as well as pamphlets with “Death to America!” written on them. Michael Kemper, a NYPD’s chief of transit, posted photos Friday of what police confiscated from the protesters. “For those romanticizing the protests occurring […]
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs pledged to protect veterans and address any problems identified by federal watchdogs after an Inspector General report raised concerns about the physicians employed by the VA. Press Secretary Terrence Hayes responded to an inquiry from The Center Square about recent IG reports. The reports in […]
Former President Donald Trump has decried the gag order against him in his Manhattan criminal court trial as “unconstitutional,” a claim professors say could be working to galvanize his base. Trump earlier this week was fined $9,000 by Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the trial that accuses Trump of falsifying business records to […]
Former President Donald Trump’s trial in New York will resume Monday with prosecutors calling on more witnesses to try to prove to a jury that the former president concealed hush money payments to influence the 2016 presidential election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s team has spent two weeks questioning eight witnesses, including some high-profile names, […]
President Joe Biden‘s political sensibilities and public speaking skills will be tested next week when he delivers a highly anticipated speech denouncing antisemitism. But critics contend the speech, scheduled to take place one week after colleges requested that police respond to student protest encampments over the Israel-Hamas war, could be too little, too late as […]
University endowments have come under scrutiny from anti-Israel protesters as they demanded schools across the country cut financial ties with Israel over its war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza. With protests raging at schools from the University of California, Los Angeles, to Columbia University, the Washington Examiner is explaining what mechanism anti-Israel protesters are attacking […]
In deep red Indiana, where the top offices are held by Republican politicians, this election cycle is set to bring a new wave of leadership from the governor’s mansion to the halls of Congress. Voters in Indiana will head to the polls on Tuesday to participate in their primaries, which will include a six-way primary […]
School officials from the University of California, Los Angeles, notified students that in-person classes will resume on Monday. The announcement comes after a tumultuous week of violence in the wake of anti-Israel protests on campus that caused the school to move classes online, according to multiple reports. “The campus will return to regular operations tomorrow, Monday […]
