by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
– – – Photo “General Colin Powell” by Charles Haynes CC2.0
by Cooper Moran | Oct 18, 2021 | Arizona, Battleground States, The West
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich on Thursday penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, demanding an investigation into Facebook’s connection to illegal immigration. In the letter, Brnovich expressed a concern over the tech...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Oct 18, 2021 | Tennessee, The South, The Tennessee Star
BRENTWOOD, Tennessee – The National Constitution Bee is set to convene Saturday, as students from across the state and the country gather in Brentwood to test their knowledge of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. At stake is the title...
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Jeff Webb During the latter part of the 20th Century, Americans became accustomed to hearing stories of shortages of basic items in the Soviet Union. The metaphor of “waiting in line for bread” came to signify anything where a state-managed effort led to...
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
by Eric Lendrum In East Lansing, Michigan, multiple elementary schools have announced the sudden cancellation of the celebrations of two beloved holidays, Halloween and Valentine’s Day, baselessly claiming that these holidays represent discrimination against...
by Chris Butler | Oct 18, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
Meagan Hanson, a Republican running in a competitive race to unseat incumbent Georgia U.S. Representative Lucy McBath (D-GA-06), this week reported she’s raised more than $300,000 in the first quarter of her bid for Congress. This, according to an emailed press...
by The Center Square | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
by Casey Harper A series of economic struggles that have grown increasingly worse this year will likely have a significant impact on the holiday season, many economic experts predict. After President Joe Biden gave remarks from the White House this week, one...
by Eric Burk | Oct 18, 2021 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
A Fox News poll released Thursday found 51 percent support for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and 46 percent support for GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin among likely voters. A Trafalgar Group poll released the same day found Youngkin and...
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | Battleground States, Ohio, The Midwest
– – – Photo “US Embassy, Haiti” by Jason Rosenberg. CC BY 2.0.
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
by Kendall Tietz For the first time in nearly 50 years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress results showed that the reading and mathematics scores of 13-year-old students fell from 2012 to 2020. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)...
by Kaitlin Housler | Oct 18, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
On Thursday, Tennessee’s Sports Wagering Advisory Council (SWAC) met to interview three final candidates for its vacant executive director position. After a thorough final interview process, the council chose to extend an offer to candidate Mary Beth Thomas....
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
by Kaylee Greenlee Millions of illegal immigrants could have access to amnesty, assistance with college tuition, various tax credits and waived grounds for inadmissibility to the U.S. under the Democrats’ proposed reconciliation bill. The reconciliation bill...
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
by Sebastian Hughes State Department evacuation flights out of Afghanistan will resume by the end of the year, a senior State Department official told The Wall Street Journal. The operation to retrieve U.S. citizens and Afghan allies left behind will require...
by The Center Square | Oct 18, 2021 | Battleground States, Ohio, The Midwest
by J.D. Davidson With rankings near the bottom in five key categories, Ohio stands as one of the least safe states during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recently released report. WalletHub, a personal finance website, ranked Ohio the fifth-least safe...
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
– – – Photo “IRS building” by Joshua Doubek CC BY-SA 3.0.
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Zachary Marschall, PhD There is no faster – or more amusing – way to make a campus radical lose his composure than to fuss about the importance of cultural literacy. The term “cultural literacy,” made popular by the controversial scholar E.D. Hirsch,...
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
by Harry Wilmerding U.S. retail sales increased in September, beating expectations amid growing inflation and supply chain disruptions, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday. Retail sales increased 0.7% in September, beating experts’ estimates of 0.2%,...
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
by Debra Heine A Chicago police union boss has instructed officers to defy the city’s upcoming COVID-19 vaccination reporting mandate, and predicted that at least half of the police force could be taken off the streets, this weekend. Chicago Mayor Lori...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Oct 18, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Juvenile Judge Donna Scott Davenport will no longer hold her position as adjunct professor at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) following a recent lawsuit. The suit claims that Davenport sent nearly 1,500 students to jail, regardless of the crime....
by Star News Staff | Oct 18, 2021 | National, News
by Thomas Catenacci Democrats have inserted numerous provisions and subsidy programs into their $3.5 trillion budget that would benefit green energy companies and speed the transition to renewables. The Build Back Better Act would invest an estimated $295...
