by Laura Baigert | Aug 3, 2021 | Georgia, News, Tennessee, The South
Fulton County election officials have failed to meet a second response date they set to provide The Georgia Star News with complete chain of custody documents for absentee ballots deposited into drop boxes during the November 3, 2020, general election. For a...
by Brian Ball | Aug 3, 2021 | Battleground States, News, Ohio, The Midwest
The Ohio Republican Party (ORP) has given the 2022 re-election campaign of Governor Mike DeWine (R-OH) $870,968 since January 1, 2021, despite the fact that DeWine has two announced primary challengers for the Republican gubernatorial nomination – former...
by Cooper Moran | Aug 3, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
The standardized testing scores of students across the state of Tennessee heavily declined in the past year, largely due to the coronavirus pandemic. The results released by Governor Bill Lee and the Department of Education revealed that scores showed a 5%...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Douglas Blair About 350 concerned residents crowded into a church in Georgetown, Delaware, on Thursday evening to hear from a panel of experts about critical race theory—one of whom likened its spread throughout American culture to Mao Zedong’s communist...
by Bradley Vasoli | Aug 3, 2021 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
In a video revealed Monday, Democratic Virginia delegate candidate Katie Sponsler amplified her recently publicized comment about police violence with pointed words to someone filming and questioning her about it: “Enjoy your soulless life.” An audio recording...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Victor Davis Hanson We know the nature of mass hysterias in history, and how they can overwhelm and paralyze what seem to be stable societies. We know the roots and origins of the cult of wokeness. And we know, too, how such insanity—from the Salem witch...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Aug 3, 2021 | Arizona, Battleground States, The West
Between July 23 and July 30, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in Arizona announced that they had arrested five previously-convicted sex offenders, all attempting to reenter the United States illegally. Of those arrests, four of the attempted...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Ailan Evans The Australian government will deploy several hundred soldiers to Sydney to begin enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns Monday following a rise in delta variant infections. The troops were requested by New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller on...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Brad Polumbo If you judged the US’s current COVID-19 situation only by the headlines, you’d come away thinking that we’re spiraling back into pandemic disaster. Localities like Los Angeles County and St. Louis have reimposed mask mandates on their citizens,...
by The Center Square | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Bethany Blankley A legal battle and war of words between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the federal government over COVID-positive migrants being released into Texas communities escalated over the weekend. The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Texas...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Andrew Trunsky House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office would not say whether the House planned to take up a bipartisan bill that would declassify any information regarding the origin of COVID-19. The bill, titled the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2021, passed the...
by RealClearWire | Aug 3, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Ross Pomeroy It may not be today. It may not be tomorrow. It may not be next week. It may not be this month, when the rapid ascension of the Delta variant in the United States could send confirmed daily case counts spiking to 200,000 or more before settling...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Toni Airaksinen The Evergreen State College professor who was caught on camera screaming at her white colleagues has elected to resign, according to an internal announcement. “I am writing to let you know that our faculty colleague Naima Lowe has elected to...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Kaylee Greenlee Over 200 Afghan allies arrived at Fort Lee, in Virginia, on the first of many expected flights bringing thousands of people who assisted the U.S. military to America, Axios reported Friday. President Joe Biden promised to help Afghan...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Aug 3, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
A local judge has ordered that DeKelb County landlords may not evict tenants as the national moratorium on evictions expires. “DeKalb Chief Superior Court Judge Asha Jackson recently signed a new emergency order creating a ban on evictions throughout the...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Thomas Catenacci House Democratic leaders issued a joint statement calling on the White House to disregard a recent Supreme Court ruling and extend the national eviction moratorium. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the other top House Democratic leaders urged...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Ailan Evans An EU privacy regulator hit Amazon with an $887 million fine for violating laws related to the processing of personal data. The Luxembourg agency National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) issued the fine, imposed July 16 and revealed Friday,...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Mary Margaret Olohan Democratic Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser denied breaking her own mask mandate at a wedding Saturday night, despite photo evidence showing her seated maskless at a table. The Washington Examiner first reported late Saturday that...
by Chris Butler | Aug 3, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
Georgia State Rep. Timothy Barr (R-Lawrenceville), currently running for Georgia’s 10th Congressional District, is not friendly to former U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a recent article on NationalFile.com Barr did not return The Georgia Star News’...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Andrew Trunsky As violent crime increases in St. Louis, residents’ outrage towards Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner appears to be growing as well. Gardner, who assumed office at the beginning of 2017 on a progressive platform, is St. Louis’ top prosecutor. But...
by Star News Staff | Aug 3, 2021 | National, News
by Ailan Evans Donors to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) criticized the university for its perceived sympathy towards “Marxism” and Black Lives Matter during the debate over whether to offer New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones a...
