(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Years after the passage of federal COVID-era relief and the subsequent loss of likely hundreds of billions of those taxpayer dollars, lawmakers are still unsure where that money went, how to get it back, and seemingly have done little to prevent it from happening again.…
(Headline USA) For thousands of local governments, the clock is ticking to spend their share of $350 billion in COVID-19 relief funds approved by Congress and Joe Biden in 2021. Governments must obligate all their American Rescue Plan funds for specific projects by the end of this year or else…
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) San Francisco’s former district attorney is leading a class action lawsuit requiring the state to follow through on a 1973 statute signed into law by then-governor Ronald Reagan to pay prisoners who have served more than six months $200 upon their release as “gate money.”…
(Headline USA) The percentage of U.S. residents who were foreign-born last year grew to its highest level in more than a century, according to figures released Thursday from the most comprehensive survey of American life. The share of people born outside the United States increased in 2023 to 14.3% from…
(Headline USA) Young women are more liberal than they have been in decades, according to a Gallup analysis of more than 20 years of polling data. Over the past few years, about 4 in 10 young women between the ages of 18 and 29 have described their political views as…
At a recent U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on victim perspectives, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said, “when it comes to open borders and the impact of illegal immigration in California, I have a front row seat to the havoc those can wreak.” Boudreaux is among many sheriffs in the…
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) North Carolina’s State Board of Elections says a mobile phone identification is acceptable for the state’s voter ID law. The state and national Republican organizations on Thursday in court said it is not. Seven times in 52 days, the five-member bipartisan state authority and its…
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is accusing some of her opponent’s supporters of launching a vicious campaign that has put her family at risk of potential political violence. Luna, a staunch conservative, veteran and a new mother, alleged that some individuals sent her threatening messages and leaked…
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Tim Miller, the openly gay man at the center of a drunken exchange with Sen. Lindsey Graham, shared his perspective about what transpired in the spin room of the ABC News presidential debate on Tuesday. Miller’s interaction with Graham sparked controversy after Laura Loomer accused the South Carolina…
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) On Sept. 12, 2024, Donald Trump announced that, as president of the country, he would ensure that companies receiving federal housing subsidies would be required to verify whether people looking for rent have American citizenship or residency status. “When I return to the White House,…