by The Center Square | Jul 11, 2021
by Jon Styf A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled in favor of a Tennessee farmer, granting an injunction against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in its effort to grant federal loan forgiveness to only “non-whites.” The Southeastern Legal Foundation and the...
by Star News Staff | Jul 11, 2021
by Thaddeus McCotter In an insightful Independence Day Twitter thread, Emily Zanotti expressed her partiality for this provision of the Declaration of Independence: [T]his is my favorite part: ‘And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on...
by Star News Staff | Jul 11, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci A coalition of 15 states agreed to a deal with drug maker Purdue Pharma, which could soon lead to a $4.5 billion settlement over the company’s role in the U.S. opioid epidemic. The states agreed to no longer oppose Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy...
by Star News Staff | Jul 11, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky Less than one-fifth of Americans say that they are still “completely or mostly” practicing social distancing, a new Gallup poll shows. Approximately 18 percent of Americans are still strictly following social distancing guidelines, the lowest...
by The Center Square | Jul 11, 2021
by Casey Harper President Joe Biden has pushed for beefing up IRS audits of corporations to raise revenue for his new spending proposals, but Republicans are raising the alarm about the potential consequences of the plan. Biden unveiled his “Made in...
by RealClearWire | Jul 11, 2021
by Jay Smith Imagine, 75 years ago, some British officer lining up a group of young Indian children against a wall in Bombay, handing some bullets to Mahatma Gandhi, and ordering him to load soldiers’ rifles so that they could execute the youngsters. Would you...
by Star News Staff | Jul 11, 2021
by Eric Lendrum While the tech giant Amazon has publicly endorsed proposals to raise the corporate tax rate in the United States, the company has been secretly lobbying to keep its own tax rates low, Politico reports. Last year, during the 2020 presidential...
by RealClearWire | Jul 11, 2021
by Ross Pomeroy Albert Einstein. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Marie Curie. Gaia. The first person came up with the general theory of relativity. The second is regarded as perhaps the greatest classical composer of all time. The third is the only person to win the...
by Eric Burk | Jul 11, 2021
Charlottesville, Virginia – The City of Charlottesville removed two famous Confederate statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on Saturday. Workers began removing Lee shortly after 7 a.m. to a moderately sized crowd, but more people arrived later in the...
by Casey Owens | Jul 11, 2021
U.S. Representative Val Demings of Florida’s 10th Congressional District has raised $4.6 million in the first quarter of her campaign to unseat U.S. Senator Marco Rubio. Neither Demings nor Rubio have officially submitted their campaign finances to the...
by Star News Staff | Jul 11, 2021
by Kaylee Greenlee A petition urging officials in a North Dakota county to ban sanctuary cities, illegal immigrants, and refugees gained around 5,000 signatures as of Tuesday, the Minot Daily News reported. The Ward County Commission said they would uphold laws...
by Casey Owens | Jul 11, 2021
The Florida Bar announced the creation of the Condominium Law and Policy on Life Safety Task Force in response to the recent events in Surfside. The Task Force will aid the Florida Legislature and Governor DeSantis by reviewing “all aspects of Florida...
by The Center Square | Jul 11, 2021
by Scott McClallen Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) announced grants totaling more than $15.6 million to help get Michigan back to work. The government awarded Michigan Learning and Education Advancement...
by Chris Butler | Jul 11, 2021
A Bartow County, Georgia businessman has pleaded guilty in federal court to harboring illegal aliens for financial gain. That man, Juan Antonio Perez, 48, of Rydal, illegally encouraged and induced aliens to reside in the United States where they worked for his...
by Eric Burk | Jul 11, 2021
A spokesperson for the Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) told legislators that the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) is still unable to answer most of its incoming calls and expressed concern about the backlog of certain types of...
by The Center Square | Jul 11, 2021
by Cole Lauterbach Two dairy farms in Arizona soon will be producing more than milk. Renewable energy company Avolta has begun construction on a renewable gas project in Buckeye that will turn the tons of manure produced daily from the more than 25,000 Holstein...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jul 11, 2021
Several Hennepin County police chiefs are speaking out after Minneapolis’ suburbs have seen an unprecedented uptick in violent crime. “I’ve never seen the gun violence like it is,” Brooklyn Park Police Chief Craig Enevoldsen told Fox 9. The...
by The Center Square | Jul 11, 2021
by J.D. Davidson Giving away millions of federal tax dollars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in college scholarships did nothing to improve Ohio’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, a recent study concluded. Those results have Democratic leaders saying the state...
by Chris Butler | Jul 11, 2021
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones commented Saturday on a new report that said state officials collected more than 10,300 illegal votes in Georgia in the November 2020 general election. The Federalist reported the story about the illegal votes...
by Hayley Feland | Jul 11, 2021
According to Hubbard County Sheriff Cory Aukes, many of the over 300 Line 3 protesters they have arrested have been bailed out by people bringing in bags of cash. Aukes said, “Time and time again, a protester makes a phone call and someone shows up with a...
by The Center Square | Jul 11, 2021
by Nyamekye Daniel A spike in lumber prices has compounded the state’s housing crisis, Georgia housing advocates said. The price of lumber increased by 300 percent this spring compared with the same time last year, reports show. The building material...
