SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Autopsy findings released Friday on Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a now-fired sheriff’s deputy charged in her death, confirm that she died from a gunshot wound to the head. The report was released shortly before civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Massey’s […]
Vice President Kamala Harris has already surpassed the 1,976 delegates needed to make her the likely presumptive Democratic presidential nominee when the party gathers at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month. However, there are still some prominent and vulnerable Democratic holdouts who have not rushed to endorse Harris’s campaign after President Joe Biden […]
Former President Donald Trump said he will continue to hold outdoor rallies, reversing a decision after he was nearly assassinated to discontinue his signature events. “I WILL CONTINUE TO DO OUTDOOR RALLIES, AND SECRET SERVICE HAS AGREED TO SUBSTANTIALLY STEP UP THEIR OPERATION,” Trump said on Saturday in a post to Truth Social. “THEY ARE […]
The Paris Olympics is under fire from Republicans after hosting a controversial drag parody of a moment Christians consider sacred. As viewers tuned in to watch the Paris Olympic’s opening ceremony, many decried a segment that depicted a scene from Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. Da Vinci’s famous painting of a Biblical event revered […]
This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden bowing to party elites and media liberals who have been trying to push him off the 2024 ticket, a place he won fair and square during the primary process. Those months of disunity have led to the Democratic Party coalescing around Vice President Kamala Harris, […]
(The Center Square) – Less than one year after winning re-election, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has emerged as a potential vice-presidential candidate in the Democratic Party. While he has used that opportunity to attack the Republican ticket, it also opens him up for the same kinds of rebukes, and GOP members in the Bluegrass State […]
(The Center Square) – One day after U.S. Rep. Don Davis was the only Democrat in North Carolina to vote for a resolution condemning Vice President Kamala Harris’ handling of her border assignment from the president, he gave her an endorsement. And suggested Harris pick North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper as a running mate. Only […]
(The Center Square) – A new report from the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce finds that the aerospace industry is a key driver of economic growth in Washington state. The aerospace industry generated more than $71 billion in business revenues and $19.4 billion in labor income last year, according to the report. The report also found that […]
(The Center Square) — Rural-urban tensions split lawmakers on whether to reinstate spreading oil and gas wastewater on roads to suppress dust. “It all comes down to risk assessment. Are the impacts to the environment outweighed by the benefits created?” Burt Waite, a retired geologist and hydrologist, said during a House Republican Policy Committee hearing […]
(The Center Square) – Concerns are being raised as solar energy facilities displace Midwestern farmland. The Institute for Energy Research reports that the target for solar operations is increasingly in the Midwest, where government subsidies allow solar companies to pay more to rent land than the farmers feeding the nation. Myke Luebbers of the Illinois Freedom Alliance […]
