(The Center Square) – A Florida sheriff has been charged in a public-corruption related investigation that involved an illegal gambling operation. Attorney General James Uthmeier’s Office of Statewide Prosecution charged Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez and others in a massive Central Florida gambling operation on Thursday. The charges allege that Lopez initially got involved in […]
(The Center Square) – For Gavin Newsom, it’s personal. The California governor, who has wrestled with his own dyslexia since childhood, Thursday stressed the need to do a better job with literacy throughout the state. “I don’t read speeches [when delivering them] because I can’t, but that didn’t stop me from getting through high school and […]
Georgia state Rep. Derrick Jackson joined a crowded field of Democratic candidates seeking to become the Peach State’s next governor. Jackson launched his campaign on Friday after teasing the bid with a preview announcement earlier this week. While he faces stiff competition ahead of the primary, which includes Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, state Sen. Jason […]
The headline The economy added 139,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate remained at 4.2%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Investors had expected roughly 127,000 new jobs and for the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.2%. The interpretation Dan North, a senior economist with Allianz Trade Americas, told the Washington Examiner […]
President Donald Trump has renewed a version of his first-term travel ban, and is preparing for a new legal fight as well. “The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted as well as those who come […]
A GOP congressman is raising concerns about Qatar‘s growing influence in the United States, and with the Trump administration, after visiting the Middle East. Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) said Qatar was a main topic on his trip last week to Israel when he spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the war against Hamas and […]
President Donald Trump has launched a sweeping effort to look into whether White House aides unlawfully governed on behalf of former President Joe Biden — scrutinizing the use of mechanical signatures, questions about Biden’s mental fitness, and how the executive branch functioned without an active commander in chief. In a White House memorandum on Wednesday, Trump authorized two formal […]
Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) said she is pushing to increase the size of the child and dependent care tax credit in the Senate as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Britt, who has previously sponsored bipartisan legislation to boost the credit, told the Washington Examiner this week that she will try to get changes to the CDCTC […]
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk caused quite a stir on Thursday, exchanging insults on social media. Yet despite the very public rift, reports have emerged that they could be headed for a truce. Politico’s Dasha Burns reported that White House advisers have scheduled a call between Musk and Trump to resolve their disagreements. She […]
Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research is set to shutter at the end of June following a deluge of reporting on alleged financial mismanagement, poor leadership, and low research output. Similar academic centers hosted on college campuses across the United States share many of the same struggles that Kendi’s ill-fated venture at Boston University […]
