(The Center Square) – Illinois state Rep. La Shawn Ford said it’s not hard to comprehend why Chicago Public Schools system low-income and minority students are reading and performing math at much lower levels than their state peers. Even after state officials inflated the number of students meeting proficiency levels by lowering reading and math […]
President Donald Trump renewed criticism against CBS News’s 60 Minutes while criticizing Paramount Skydance on Monday, a possible bad omen in the company’s bid to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery. 60 Minutes conducted a sit-down interview with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Sunday, a month after she and the president publicly broke their alliance. Trump […]
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison explained that his merger offer to Warner Bros. Discovery stockholders would save the theatrical movie business. Ellison’s all-cash offer of $30 per share follows Netflix’s offer, which WBD accepted, for $27.75 per share. Paramount Skydance provided this offer earlier this year but “never got a response” from WBD, according to […]
Former Texas GOP Rep. Steve Stockman launched his reelection campaign on Monday, promising to fight against lawfare in government, seven years after he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $1 million in restitution. Stockman was convicted of 23 felonies in 2018 for misusing $1.25 million in funds from political donors […]
EXCLUSIVE — An outside group aligned with the White House is urging President Donald Trump to keep up his pressure campaign against the European Union‘s extraterritorial environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, mandates. The EU-U.S. Forum, a non-profit conservative organization founded by former Trump administration officials Matt Mowers and Joe Grogan, is amplifying its call […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit to prevent plans for a Muslim community in the state from advancing. Over the weekend, Paxton announced he is suing East Plano Islamic Center, known as EPIC City, and those spearheading the project, marking Republicans’ latest efforts to thwart what they believe to be a development that […]
The Trump administration is proposing to close the door left wide open by former President Joe Biden to migrants who can’t take care of themselves without going on U.S. taxpayer-funded government assistance programs. In a rule change meant to echo 140 years of federal law before the Biden administration’s open border policies, the Trump administration […]
Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito predicted that President Donald Trump will “forcefully” address affordability during his visit to Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Trump said during a Cabinet meeting last week that “the word affordability is a Democrat scam,” prompting news outlets to infer that the president is not focused on affordability. However, according to Zito, Trump […]
Lawmakers added a provision to key defense legislation that, if included in the final version, would prevent the Pentagon from reducing the military‘s presence in Europe below a specific threshold. The inclusion of this provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, the language of which was released on Sunday, stands in contrast […]
(The Center Square) – Gaining five times more in the last week, Republicans have moved to the cusp of eclipsing Democrats in voter registrations in North Carolina for the first time. Consolation prize as it may be, the change is historic and coincides with another unprecedented benchmark in 15 years of Republican majorities in the […]
