by Star News Staff | May 8, 2024
by Misty Severi The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to table Georgia firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s petition to remove Mike Johnson on Wednesday. Greene started the clock to vote on removing Johnson on Wednesday afternoon, giving...
by Star News Staff | May 8, 2024
by Eric Lendrum On Tuesday, the Chinese social media app TikTok and its parent company filed a lawsuit against the federal government of the United States over a new law threatening to ban the app if it is not sold to another company by next year. ABC...
by Star News Staff | May 8, 2024
by Eric Lendrum Several threats made against a pro-LGBTQ “pride” event in Montana have since been determined to be hoaxes simply meant to discourage people from attending. According to ABC News, the Bozeman Police Department (BPD) investigated two threats that...
by Tom Pappert | May 8, 2024
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and Republican Party of Pennsylvania (PAGOP) have filed to intervene in a Butler County lawsuit brought by two voters who want to enable the curing of mail-in ballots returned to election officials without a security sleeve. The...
by The Center Square | May 8, 2024
by T.A. DeFeo Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed off on the state’s fiscal 2025 budget, a spending plan that includes pay raises for public school teachers and state law enforcement officers. “This budget in particular will help us further promote...
by The Center Square | May 8, 2024
by Andrew Powell State officials say Florida’s tourism marketing organization, Visit Florida, returned only 58 cents for every dollar spent on it in 2023. The report by the Office of Economic and Demographic Research found that Visit Florida’s public marketing...
by The Center Square | May 8, 2024
by J.D. Davidson Nearly half of the most popular jobs in Ohio pay the average worker so little employees qualify for government assistance to feed a family of three, a new report based on information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows. The findings in...
by Star News Staff | May 8, 2024
by Hank Long It’s been less than a week since a group of anti-Israel activists on the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus packed up their tents and provisions and ended their encampment protest on Northrop Mall. And now come the questions: How much was...
by The Center Square | May 8, 2024
by Benjamin Yount Six months before Election Day, Milwaukee’s mayor has made a change at the top of his city’s elections commission. Mayor Cavalier Johnson on Monday announced Paulina Gutiérrez as the new executive director of Milwaukee’s Election Commission....
by The Center Square | May 8, 2024
by Anthony Hennen Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer expanding into the illicit drug market, will soon face more restrictions as Pennsylvania tries to combat overdoses and the social ills of drug abuse. A bill championed by Rep. Carl Metzgar, R-Somerset, would...
by The Center Square | May 8, 2024
by Morgan Sweeney Three public interest groups are claiming a legal victory of sorts, saying their actions have led to at least a temporary delay in Dominion Energy’s efforts to begin construction on Virginia’s major offshore wind project – but Dominion...
by The Center Square | May 8, 2024
by Scott McClallen The Michigan Supreme Court declined to say whether the government can use drones to spy on people without a warrant. The unanimous Friday ruling follows a 17-year dispute between residents Todd and Heather Maxon and Long Lake township...
by Star News Staff | May 8, 2024
by Christopher Roach We are in the midst of a presidential campaign year. It’s supposed to be the Super Bowl for political junkies like me. But it feels strange and muted, and, so far, its vibe is uncomfortably similar to 2020. The 2020 election was strange...
by Kaitlin Housler | May 8, 2024
A Memphis man out on bond for his alleged involvement in a shooting earlier this year is behind bars once again after being accused of hunting down and shooting a witness who testified at trial for the earlier shooting case. On Monday, ABC24 News reported that it had...
by Peter D'Abrosca | May 8, 2024
Pope Francis has appointed a priest who is a native of Tennessee to become the next Bishop of Knoxville. “Pope Francis has appointed Reverend James Mark Beckman, as Bishop of Knoxville,” according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops...
