by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | National, News
by Ailan Evans Platforms owned by Facebook all experienced outages at the same time late Monday morning, and could not be accessed. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went down Monday morning, according to outage tracking site Downdetector. Facebook was...
by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | National, News
– – – Photo “Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0 and photo “The New York Times” by Joe Shlabotnik CC BY 2.0.
by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | National, News
by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | National, News
– – – Photo “Dr. Anthony Fauci” by Georgia Tech.
by Laura Baigert | Oct 4, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, National, The South
Eleven months after the November 3, 2020 election, a review of transfer forms provided to The Georgia Star News in response to an open records request reveals that the Secretary of State’s office in Georgia is missing chain of custody documents for 6,995...
by Cooper Moran | Oct 4, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
A group of Republican governors announced on Sunday that they will travel to Mission, Texas on Wednesday to hold a press conference on the ongoing border crisis. However, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee will not attend the press conference at the U.S. Southern...
by The Center Square | Oct 4, 2021 | Battleground States, The Upper-Midwest, Wisconsin
by Benjamin Yount A Republican lawmaker says plans to modernize Wisconsin’s unemployment office are about a year late, and not nearly enough. Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development on Wednesday announced a $16.5 million contract with Madison-based...
by Cooper Moran | Oct 4, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) sent a letter to all parents in order to address current “challenges” on the popular video app TikTok. The apparent “challenges,” which schools officials have spoken out against, have led to theft...
by Chris Butler | Oct 4, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
One member of the Georgia General Assembly wants a statue of Clarence Thomas on the state capitol grounds, but one Democrat vigorously opposes the idea and the way she stated her opposition left some people shocked. Georgia State Representative Donna McLeod...
by Bradley Vasoli | Oct 4, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
After the finalization of the U.S. Census every ten years, state and local governments set about redrawing their lawmakers’ and school directors’ district lines. Throughout this fall and winter, legislators across the state will toil over this process sure to...
by Eric Burk | Oct 4, 2021 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
Republicans have a good chance to retake the majority in Virginia’s House of Delegates, powered by historically-Republican voters in swing districts who were alienated by former President Donald Trump. To win the majority, Republicans need to protect what...
by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Ben Boychuk The winding road to American utopia is dotted with potholes, buckling bridges, leaking canals, and lit by flickering lights. To repave America’s highways, shore up her bridges, repair her waterways, and reinforce her power grid, the Democrats’...
by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | Arizona, Battleground States, The West
- – – Photo “Voting Box” by U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh CC BY-ND 2.0.
by The Center Square | Oct 4, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
by Jon Styf Tennessee continued its trend of growing a financial surplus as the state ranked sixth nationally for its fiscal health, according to Truth in Accounting’s annual Financial State of the States report. Using numbers that included data from the fiscal...
by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | National, News
– – – Photo “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris” by Joe Biden.
by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | National, News
by Ailan Evans Department store chain Neiman Marcus is sending notifications to millions of its customers telling them their personal data may be exposed. Neiman Marcus announced in a press release late Thursday that personal information, including names,...
by The Center Square | Oct 4, 2021 | Battleground States, The Upper-Midwest, Wisconsin
by Benjamin Yount Parents and taxpayers in Wisconsin are one step away from having a much easier time finding out where their local schools spend their money. Lawmakers in Madison have approved Senate Bill 373, which will collect financial information on public...
by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | National, News
by Ailan Evans YouTube deleted one of former Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s channels Thursday and denied his appeal to reinstate it, only restoring the account after Paul voiced his frustrations on Twitter. Paul posted two screenshots on Twitter Thursday of emails sent...
by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | Arizona, News, The West
by The Center Square | Oct 4, 2021 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
by Tyler Arnold Over the past five months, Virginia’s year-over-year employment growth has ranked well below the national average, according to a report published by economist A. Fletcher Mangum. Mangum, who is the CEO of Mangum Economics and serves on...
by Star News Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | National, News
by Anthony Gockowski Rochester parents and community members who refuse to wear masks during school board meetings will be banned from district property for one year. Rochester Public Schools Board Chair Jean Marvin announced the new policy during a Sept....
