by Star News Staff | Oct 12, 2021
by Christopher Roach Ritual humiliation of social media companies is becoming something of a tradition. Most typically, social media CEOs are hauled before Congress, harangued for a day, promise to “do better,” and then go back to business as usual. Last week a...
by Star News Staff | Oct 12, 2021
by Star News Staff | Oct 12, 2021
– – – Photo “State Public Health Laboratory in Exton Tests for COVID-19” by Governor Tom Wolf. CC BY 2.0.
by Cooper Moran | Oct 12, 2021
U.S. Senate candidate and former NFL running back Herschel Walker raised $3.7 million in the first five weeks of his campaign. Walker, who immediately gained an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, is running in a contentious GOP primary with the...
by Star News Staff | Oct 12, 2021
by Evan Stambaugh U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has given around $250,000 to two Minnesota organizations that will assist lawful permanent residents (LPRs) in becoming U.S. citizens. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith announced the funding...
by Chris Butler | Oct 12, 2021
Georgia’s September net tax collections totaled nearly $2.82 billion for an increase of $655 million, or 30.3 percent, compared to September of last year when net tax collections totaled $2.16 billion. This, according to a press release that Governor Brian Kemp...
by The Center Square | Oct 12, 2021
by Tyler Arnold A witness signature will be required for absentee ballots cast in Virginia in the gubernatorial election next month, but some Democrats are asking Gov. Ralph Northam to waive the requirement. Until last year, all absentee ballots were required...
by Hayley Feland | Oct 12, 2021
Wisconsin Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI-01) said in an interview with Newsmax that he will be voting ‘no’ on raising the debt ceiling. Steil said, “We have to stand firm against Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer’s attempts to spend us into...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Oct 12, 2021
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Yuma Sector late last week announced that it arrested a previously convicted and deported child sex offender attempting to reenter the United States. “Yuma Sector agents arrested a child rapist that illegally...
by Casey Owens | Oct 12, 2021
President Biden’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan and $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill has caused central Florida’s three Democratic Congress members to take different sides. U.S. Representatives Val Demings (D-FL-10) and Darren Soto...
by Admin | Oct 12, 2021
by Benjamin Yount The top Republican on the Wisconsin Assembly’s election committee says the special investigator looking into last fall’s vote doesn’t speak for her. Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R-Menomonee Falls) on Monday released a statement saying she opposes any...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Oct 12, 2021
The gubernatorial campaign for Republican Glenn Youngkin responded to former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, running for his second nonconsecutive term in that office, who once again denied that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in schools in Virginia....
by Hayley Feland | Oct 12, 2021
Minnesota Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN-01) is seeking answers regarding the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) alleged “attempts to silence parents.” Hagedorn announced his support for a letter, led by Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI-10), asking why the DOJ “is targeting parents...
by Rachel Alexander | Oct 12, 2021
During a House Oversight Committee hearing addressing the results of the audit of the independent Maricopa County ballot audit ordered by the Arizona Senate, one of the Maricopa County Supervisors who fought the audit admitted that hundreds of thousands of...
by Star News Staff | Oct 12, 2021
by Ben Zeisloft A student at Central Michigan University boasted on social media about defacing his conservative classmates’ chalk drawings. Anthony James — operating under the username “brownskinqueer” on Twitter — declared on September 29 that he spent...
by Hayley Feland | Oct 12, 2021
A group of parents from the Iron Range are suing the Rock Ridge schools for enacting a mask mandate. According to a report from The Star Tribune, 280 parents are involved. According to FOX 21, Rock Ridge schools enacted the mask mandate at the end of September....
by The Center Square | Oct 12, 2021
by Scott McClallen Two lawmakers introduced a bill that aims to provide long-term maintenance for roads. Republican Reps. Steve Carra of Three Rivers and Gary Eisen of St. Clair Twp. introduced House Bill (HB) 5369, aiming to require long-term contracts for...
by Cooper Moran | Oct 12, 2021
Former President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Robert O’Brien endorsed Blake Masters in the highly-contentious GOP primary to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate. In his statement, O’Brien cited the Arizona Republican’s work...
by Eric Burk | Oct 12, 2021
The Virginia Redistricting Commission hasn’t made a formal decision, but it seems to be moving on after missing a Sunday deadline to complete General Assembly maps. In a virtual meeting Monday, commissioners couldn’t take any votes, but they heard...
by Cooper Moran | Oct 12, 2021
Arizona Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright on Thursday requested additional information from the secretary of state’s office regarding the maintenance of voter registration lists. Citing that “many of the issues identified” in the...
by Grant Holcomb | Oct 12, 2021
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the city of Winter Haven has been awarded $9M for road improvement at the city’s Intermodal Logistics Center. The money was awarded to the city stemming from numerous sources, including the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund from...
