Inflation
Inflation speeds up in new federal data(The Center Square) – Consumer prices continued to rise at an elevated rate in March, according to newly released federal inflation data. This marks yet another month of elevated prices,… Read More
Border
Tucson border agents seizing enough fentanyl, meth to kill billions of people(The Center Square) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in the Tucson Sector of Arizona are seizing enough fentanyl and methamphetamine alone to kill billions of people. Similar to… Read More
Economy
Report: Illinois’ high taxes, government scope dampen economic outlook(The Center Square) – Illinois ranks among the worst states in the nation for economic outlook and its high tax burden continues to drive residents out of the state, according… Read More
Economy
No surprise: New York ranks dead last for economic outlook(The Center Square) — New York has maintained its place at the bottom of a nationwide ranking on the economic outlook, according to a new report, which faults the Empire… Read More
Illinois
Pritzker’s grocery tax plan is ‘zero benefit to taxpayers,’ GOP senator says(The Center Square) – The conflict over how to address getting rid of Illinois’ 1% grocery tax continues with Republicans saying their plan should be considered. In 2022, as a… Read More
President Biden
Missouri, other states, file suit to block Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan(The Center Square) – A coalition of states has filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s latest executive effort to forgive a portion of Americans’ student loan debt. The… Read More
Media
Forget COVID: It’s the Trump Derangement Syndrome pandemic that has laid ruin to American journalismSomeday in 300 years or so they’ll cut open a tree and there’ll be a ring marking the pandemic – not of COVID-19, but of Trump Derangement Syndrome in the… Read More
Border
Border officials stop another way to smuggle in fentanyl: hamburgers(The Center Square) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at El Paso area ports of entry seized a large amount of drugs being smuggled into the country in… Read More
Census
Report: Michigan might lose 700,000 residents by 2050(The Center Square) – A Michigan report says up to 700,000 people could leave the state by 2050. An April report, which does not measure inbound migration, from the Michigan… Read More
Elections
Texas public school officials charged with ‘illegal electioneering’(The Center Square) – Criminal charges have been filed against two Denton Independent School District administrators after the ISD was sued by the Texas Attorney General’s Office in February for… Read More
2024 election
Biden in jeopardy of not making Ohio’s November ballot(The Center Square) – Ohio law and the planned date for the Democratic National Convention could keep President Joe Biden off the state’s November ballot. Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s… Read More
Abortion
Trump lays out IVF, abortion stance after court rulings(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump laid out his stance on abortion and in vitro fertilization (IVF) Monday after recent major court cases reshaped the landscape on both… Read More
Free Speech
Could crackdown on free speech in Brazil be U.S.’s future? Is Elon Musk our Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man’?Brazil is “on the brink” of shutting down free speech online – but may only be further down the same path President Biden is blazing in the U.S. Leading free… Read More
Missouri
Life-changing ‘HBOT’ oxygen treatment denied to Missouri veterans; legislative bill could change that, even save livesBlake Richardson has long suffered traumatic brain injury from a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Iraq in 2006, and more such damage in a near-drowning during training.Therapy and drugs could only… Read More
Elections
‘United Kansas’ pushes fusion voting scheme in Sunflower State(The Sentinel) — A new political party,“United Kansas,” wants to institute fusion voting, which allows a candidate to be listed twice on the ballot. Fusion voting is not… Read More
Elections
Cybersecurity, voter eligibility focus of new Ohio legislation(The Center Square) – A plan to more stringently scrutinize voter registration data and citizenship verification during Ohio’s elections sits before the Ohio House of Representatives. The proposed legislation, which… Read More
Crime
New York congresswoman blasts release of migrant squatters(The Center Square) — A Republican congresswoman is ratcheting up criticism of New York City’s sanctuary policies after federal immigration authorities arrested several migrant “squatters” accused of crimes who were… Read More
Illegal Immigration
House Judiciary Committee demands answers from Mayorkas on gotaways(The Center Square) – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has been demanding answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about gotaways and other information for months. After receiving… Read More
Energy
Baltimore bridge funding snared in battle over new natural gas exports ban(The Center Square) – After the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last week, President Joe Biden called for Congress to pick up the tab, but… Read More
Biden administration
SEC voluntarily puts stock market climate change rule on hold(The Center Square) – Requiring publicly traded companies to make climate-related disclosures has voluntarily been put on hold by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC’s move came before a… Read More