Drugs
Florida AG warns about another dangerous drug on market: fake Xanax, ‘benzo dope’(The Center Square) – Attorney General Ashley Moody is warning Floridians and Americans about another illicit drug on the market: fake Xanax, known as “benzo dope.” In an alert, she… Read More
2024 election
Maine Secretary of State appeals judge’s delay in Trump ballot fight(The Center Square) – Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has appealed to the state’s Superior Court decision to pause on a ruling to remove former President Donald Trump from… Read More
Crime
DOJ calls law enforcement response to Uvalde school shooting ‘a failure’(The Center Square) – A long-awaited report from U.S. Department of Justice released Thursday found widespread problems with law enforcement officers’ response to the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Read More
2024 election
Trump to argue Colorado Supreme Court devised removal from primary ballot(The Center Square) – Lawyers for former President Donald Trump will argue the Colorado Supreme Court violated state regulations when it ruled he wasn’t eligible for the March Republican presidential… Read More
Fentanyl
DEA seizes greatest amount of fentanyl in agency history in 2023(The Center Square) – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in 2023 seized more than 77 million fentanyl pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder – the most the DEA… Read More
Kansas City
County leader vetoes ballot proposal for 40-year Kansas City stadium sales tax(The Center Square) – Jackson County Executive Frank White, a member of the Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame, vetoed an ordinance placing a 40-year sales tax on the April… Read More
Media
Then came Trump: KC news anchor Mark Alford got up, ran for Congress after hot liquid media meltdown reached his morning show couchWith everyone else playing games outside at his family reunion, 6th-grader Mark Alford was inside. Watching the Watergate hearings live. It was an era when a bumper sticker and button,… Read More
Border
Arizona mother: Mayorkas’ policies ‘partially responsible for my daughter’s death’(The Center Square) – An Arizona mother who lost her daughter to fentanyl poisoning testified Thursday before a U.S. House committee that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ border… Read More
Illegal Immigration
Pritzker responds to Republicans calling for end of migrant sanctuary status(The Center Square) – Illinois Statehouse Republicans wanting to end the state’s migrant sanctuary policies are getting rebuffed by Gov. J.B. Pritkzer. Earlier this week, Republicans held two separate news… Read More
Culture
Just 2% of U.S. voters think colleges should officially support Palestine(The Center Square) – The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks what it considers antisemitism incidents in the U.S., says more than 100 U.S. college campuses held pro-Palestine rallies that included a chant… Read More
Border
Mother of murdered daughter: Border crisis is safety issue for all Americans(The Center Square) – A Virginia mother on Thursday told members of Congress that Biden administration policies enabled a teenage Salvadoran and MS-13 gang member to illegally enter the country… Read More
Education, Missouri
Missouri education systems criticized in House hearing to expand charter schools(The Center Square) – A bill sponsor opened testimony before the Missouri House’s new Special Committee on Education Reform by stating the legislation wasn’t a condemnation of the state’s public… Read More
Biden administration
Biden administration spied on Trump supporters, used tax dollars for anti-conservative propaganda, Sen. Josh Hawley warnsAfter already having censored conservatives online, the Biden administration has now funded anti-conservative “propaganda” while having the FBI rummage around Trump supporters’ bank accounts, notes a livid Sen. Josh Hawley… Read More
President Donald Trump
Trump details defense strategy in classified documents case(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has laid out its most detailed defense strategy so far in a pre-trial fight over what documents prosecutors should have… Read More
Education
New bill would pay Ohio students to go to school(The Center Square) – Two Ohio lawmakers want to pay students to go to school and to graduate, calling chronic absenteeism an education emergency. The bipartisan legislation would spend $1.5… Read More
Illegal Immigration
Former ICE chief: Biden is only president to ‘unsecure the border on purpose’(The Center Square) – Former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan told Congress that President Joe Biden is the only president in U.S. history to “unsecure the… Read More
2024 election
CNN cancels second New Hampshire GOP debate(The Center Square) – CNN has canceled its scheduled Sunday evening GOP presidential debate to be held in New Hampshire, the second debate to be nixed in less than 24… Read More
U.S. Military
Removal of firearms addressed in Missouri committee hearing on veteran suicides(The Center Square) – Assistance to prevent veterans from committing suicide was unanimously approved during a Missouri House Veterans Committee hearing that included a discussion on firearms. Debbie Fitzgerald, a… Read More
Congress, Taxes
Lawmakers unveil major bipartisan tax legislation(The Center Square) – A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators and Representatives unveiled a major piece of tax legislation Tuesday that has a significant chance of becoming law in the… Read More
Illegal Immigration
Florida AG calls on Congress again to impeach Mayorkas as House proceedings continue(The Center Square) – Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is once again calling on Congress to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to secure U.S. borders… Read More