by Grant Holcomb | Jul 31, 2021
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) held a press conference Friday, where he said he will be issuing an executive order “protecting the rights of parents,” permitting them to make decisions about masks in schools in this upcoming school year. “In Florida, there...
by Grant Holcomb | Jul 31, 2021
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) called on the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to overturn the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade case legalizing abortion in a brief signed on by 10 other Republican governors, in hopes to make abortion a state issue. The brief...
by Hayley Feland | Jul 31, 2021
The Upper Midwest Law Center (UMLC) has filed lawsuits against several Minnesota institutions, including a school and the Hennepin Health Care System for “Critical Race Theory (CRT) bullying and retaliation.” A press release from UMLC says, “Our clients seek an...
by Eric Burk | Jul 31, 2021
The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) is warning people to avoid contact with water in a 12-mile stretch of the James River in Richmond. On Tuesday evening, a Goochland County sewer main ruptured, and remained open for several hours. Three hundred thousand...
by Casey Owens | Jul 31, 2021
A group known as the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FCAAP) representing over 2,500 pediatricians across the state released a statement Thursday backing the use of masks in schools. With the Delta variant causing an influx of COVID-19...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jul 31, 2021
Amid the ongoing feud between progressive Democrats and their more moderate counterparts over a $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill and legislation to abolish the filibuster, one progressive House Democrat is forging ahead. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) Friday...
by Cooper Moran | Jul 31, 2021
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office will charge David Belle Isle, who is challenging Raffensperger in the GOP primary for the top elections post, more than $100,000 to complete an open records request. Further, Raffensperger’s office claimed...
by Cooper Moran | Jul 31, 2021
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey on Thursday joined 11 other Republican governors and filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to ask the court to overturn Roe v. Wade — which created a federal ban on preventing abortions. “Every single life has...
by Bradley Vasoli | Jul 31, 2021
When Detroit, Michigan voters head to the polls for next Tuesday’s primary, they will decide on a referendum concerning a major proposed revision of the city charter, which would institute numerous left-wing programs and reforms. The ballot item, known as...
by Chris Butler | Jul 31, 2021
Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) officials have announced they will require people who receive Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits on or after December 27 of last year to provide proof of employment or self-employment. Those people must also show...
by Star News Staff | Jul 31, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky Former Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, a Democrat who served 36 years and rose to chair the Senate Armed Services Committee, died Thursday at the age of 87. The Levin Center at Wayne State University in Detroit announced his death Thursday night,...
by Eric Burk | Jul 31, 2021
Eighteen organizations and about 250 people attended an anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) rally at the Virginia Beach town center on Thursday afternoon. Key speakers included former GOP candidate for lieutenant governor Bishop E.W. Jackson, former State Senator...
by Corinne Murdock | Jul 31, 2021
Tennessee’s former leading vaccine official, Michelle Fiscus, said that white, male, rural conservatives refuse the COVID-19 vaccine and are willing to risk the lives of others and themselves out of spite for the left. The former Tennessee Department of...
by Cooper Moran | Jul 30, 2021
In a joint statement released by Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Arizona State Senate Audit Liaison Ken Bennett on Friday, the two confirmed the former Arizona Secretary of State will continue to serve as the Senate’s liaison to the ongoing audit....
by Chris Butler | Jul 30, 2021
Georgia officials have filed a motion to dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) lawsuit against the state’s new voter integrity law, Senate Bill 202. Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr this week released a statement and called the lawsuit...
by Bradley Vasoli | Jul 30, 2021
In House floor remarks on Thursday, Representative John Rose (R-TN-06) called out President Joe Biden for insisting in a CNN Town Hall with host Don Lemon a week ago that “crime is down” even as murder rates rise. The current rise in violent crime has been...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021
by Paul Bradford Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has so many problems to solve right now. A crime wave leaves hundreds of Americans dead and has turned our cities into war zones. A border crisis allows hundreds of thousands of illegals to enter our country. A...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021
by Kaylee Greenlee The Biden administration will keep a Trump-era public health order used to expel most migrants from the U.S. in place, citing COVID-19 variants, Reuters reported Thursday. President Joe Biden reportedly planned to lift public health order...
by Corinne Murdock | Jul 30, 2021
Pfizer has launched trials in Knoxville and Nashville to test a third booster shot for the COVID-19 vaccine, marketed as an “updated version.” Alliance for Multispecialty Research (AMR) Knoxville’s Volunteer Research Group is conducting the...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci The U.S. economy surged 6.5% in the second quarter of 2021 as states continued to end coronavirus-related restrictions that triggered an economic recession last year. The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of net services and goods...
by Star News Staff | Jul 30, 2021
by Kerry McDonald School districts across the country are beginning to impose mask mandates for all students and staff this fall. Officials in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, DC declared last week that everyone in school buildings will be required to...
