by Star News Staff | Jun 19, 2024
by J.D. Foster Something very strange is going on in America’s labor market. The employer’s survey in the June jobs report showed 272,000 jobs gained in May, and nearly 2.8 million jobs over the past year. These are both amazing figures given that the economy...
by Star News Staff | Jun 19, 2024
by Nick Pope An electric vehicle (EV) producer that was once a splashy start-up company has filed for bankruptcy. Fisker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday after trying and failing to secure more investment to stay afloat, the company announced. The...
by Star News Staff | Jun 19, 2024
by Jennifer Nuelle A pro-life group in South Dakota filed a lawsuit to block an amendment enshrining abortion in the state constitution from appearing on the November ballot, alleging the initiative contained fraudulent signatures, the Associated Press...
by Star News Staff | Jun 19, 2024
by Christopher Roach In a story that deserves more attention, Ukraine recently attacked a Russian early warning radar facility designed to detect nuclear attacks. This insane action conferred no military advantage on Ukraine—the station monitored potential...
by Zachery Schmidt | Jun 19, 2024
by Dr. Carol M. Swain How did Juneteenth, once just a regional celebration, become a federal holiday instead of the far more significant Emancipation Proclamation? The latter freed over 3 million slaves, including the ones in Galveston, Texas that didn’t know...
by Star News Staff | Jun 19, 2024
by Wallace White Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced on Monday that he had signed an executive order to create a new “task force” to study reparation payments for black Chicagoans. The Black Reparations Co-Governance Task Force will study “all policies that...