Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel reportedly said she would step down as chairwoman if former President Donald Trump became the nominee and wanted her out. McDaniel believes the Republican nominee deserves a chairperson they can trust, so she said she would resign from her post if that was what Trump wished, according to the […]
Documents show President Joe Biden‘s lawyers were frustrated with special counsel Robert Hur‘s findings and the tone of his report over the president’s handling of classified documents ahead of its release to the public. A series of letters between Biden’s legal counsel and Justice Department officials occurred the day before Hur’s report was released last […]
One of Hunter Biden‘s former business partners told Congress in a closed-door interview this week that he witnessed firsthand how President Joe Biden met several years ago with associates involved in the Biden family members’ deal with a Chinese energy conglomerate. Tony Bobulinski said, according to a transcript released by House Republicans on Friday, that […]
Wholesale inflation, as measured by the producer price index, declined slightly to 0.9% for the year ending in January but was higher than expected. The one-tenth of a percentage point decline came after an increase the month before. Most economists had forecast annual wholesale inflation would fall to 0.6%, so it isn’t welcome news for the economy, which has […]
(The Center Square) – A move is underway at the Illinois Statehouse to address the rising costs of local pensions while some look to alleviate the state’s property tax burden. Illinois property taxes are already among the highest in the country. Many taxing bodies have more of their share of property taxes going to local […]
(The Center Square) – A new bill has been filed to give state attorneys general greater authority and legal standing to sue the federal government when it fails to enforce federal immigration law established by Congress. Republican U.S. Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Dan Bishop of North Carolina introduced the Standing Up to the […]
(The Center Square) – Democratic leaders in Olympia say they will not hold hearings on at least two of the six initiatives to the Legislature that Republicans argue the majority is obligated to consider based on the Washington State Constitution. The two measures they will not consider based on comments from leadership this week are Initiative 2109 that […]
(The Center Square) – The federal government filed suit Thursday against Tennessee and its Tennessee Bureau of Investigation over enforcement of the state’s aggravated prostitution statute. The state law requires people with HIV convicted of aggravated prostitution to register for life as a violent sex offender. The federal suit seeks to stop enforcement of the […]
(The Center Square) – A think tank that promotes fiscal transparency is calling on state and local governments to come clean when reporting their so-called balanced budgets. Truth in Accounting released an update on their “State of the States” report, and also their “Financial State of the Cities.” Illinois ranked 48th in the report with […]
(The Center Square) – As Texas continues to put up resistance at major illegal crossing points at its border with Mexico, illegal entries have increased in Arizona, California and New Mexico where similar policies are not being implemented, officials in Texas say. Through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, National Guard soldiers […]
