by Hayley Feland | Sep 17, 2021
Wisconsin Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI-08) introduced a bill that would limit gain-of-function research for five years by pausing taxpayer funding. Gallagher, Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA-01) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) introduced bipartisan legislation...
by Casey Owens | Sep 17, 2021
Judge K. Michael Moore of the First U.S. District Court of Florida, decided Wednesday to deny a motion requested by a group of south Florida parents with disabled children, to block Governor DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates in schools. Filed in Miami, the...
by Brian Ball | Sep 17, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio -The campaign of GOP gubernatorial challenger Joe Blystone has announced running mate Joanna Swallen has left the campaign. Blystone, a Canal Winchester rancher, and Swallen, owner of a Canton restaurant, cited “personal reasons” in a...
by Star News Staff | Sep 17, 2021
by Merissa Hamilton Over thirty years ago, then-presidential candidate George H.W. Bush stood onstage at the Republican National Convention and infamously promised, “Read my lips, no new taxes.” That promise may have won him the election, but it was also his...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Sep 17, 2021
Two high-profile endorsers of now-expelled State Rep. John Thompson (D-District 67A) remained silent Thursday when asked whether they still support the embattled congressman. Thompson was expelled earlier this week from the Minnesota House...
by Grant Holcomb | Sep 17, 2021
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, among other Florida Democrats, have criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the DeSantis administration opting to decline application into the federally run Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program....
by Eric Burk | Sep 17, 2021
A new poll announced Thursday has Virginia’s gubernatorial race in a statistical tie, with early voting beginning Friday. According to an Emerson College poll commissioned by WRIC, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe has the support of 49 percent of...
by Grant Holcomb | Sep 17, 2021
The administration for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has blasted President Joe Biden for capping the amount of monoclonal treatments states like Florida can receive. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken over the national distribution of...
by Star News Staff | Sep 17, 2021
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by Cooper Moran | Sep 17, 2021
A Democrat Michigan state representative who has been in constant conflict with the law since April was arrested this week and found to have a handcuff key taped to his foot. State Rep. Jewell Jones (D) was arrested on a slew of charges last spring stemming...
by The Center Square | Sep 17, 2021
by Nyamekye Daniel More than half of Georgia voters support an expansion charter schools in the state, according to a new poll. The poll, which was conducted on behalf of the Georgia Charter Schools Association, showed 56% of registered voters in Georgia favor...
by Hayley Feland | Sep 17, 2021
The ruling for a former Minneapolis police officer, Mohamed Noor, who fatally shot a woman in 2017 was overturned this week, removing a third-degree murder conviction. Noor was initially convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter and...
by Eric Burk | Sep 17, 2021
One day before early voting begins, GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin and Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe faced off for the first time in a debate at the Appalachian School of Law in Southwestern Virginia Thursday. Moderators asked candidates...
by Star News Staff | Sep 17, 2021
by Debra Heine Former Detroit police chief James Craig, 65, tried to hold a press conference in a state park Tuesday to announce his candidacy for the governor of Michigan, but had to cut it short when a mob of aggressive left-wing agitators prevented him from...
by Cooper Moran | Sep 17, 2021
Jim Renacci, one of the primary challengers taking on Governor Mike DeWine in 2022, knocked the governor’s decision to accept nearly 900 Afghan refugees. According to Renacci, the decision from DeWine does not prioritize the needs of citizens throughout...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Sep 17, 2021
An Ohio mayor has issued an ultimatum to his city’s school board after an assignment given to students caused a major uproar. “It has come to my attention that your educators are distributing essentially what is child pornography in the...
by Chris Butler | Sep 17, 2021
Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs put U.S. President Joe Biden on notice Thursday regarding one of the president’s COVID-19 mandates and said his county will flatly refuse to obey. Specifically, Jacobs said Knox County will not honor Biden’s executive order...
