by Rachel Alexander | Oct 21, 2021
The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is looking into complaints that employees working for the town of Gilbert misused their positions to push the “Marxist agenda of Black Lives Matter.” Gilbert Mayor Brigette Peterson said she just found out that...
by Cooper Moran | Oct 21, 2021
Governor Bill Lee on Wednesday spoke out against President Joe Biden’s federal coronavirus vaccine mandate, arguing the president has “politicized” the issue. Detailing the mandate has caused division throughout the country, Lee explained that...
by RealClearWire | Oct 21, 2021
by Jordan Adams Across the political spectrum, Americans are recognizing the importance not just of school choice but of what students actually learn in schools. Elected representatives have finally taken notice as well. In Michigan, the state legislature has...
by Chris Butler | Oct 21, 2021
Grand jurors this month indicted former Houston County Mayor George Clark and charged him with one count of official misconduct and one count of tampering with government records. Tennessee Comptrollers released a report Wednesday that accused Clark of...
by Cooper Moran | Oct 21, 2021
The National Institute of Health (NIH) on Wednesday sent a letter to Representative James Comer (R-KY-01), correcting claims that the U.S. had not funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. The assertions, made by NIH Director Francis Collins and NIAID Director...
by Kaitlin Housler | Oct 21, 2021
Tennessee lawmakers in the General Assembly introduced a bill Friday that would ensure that Tennesseans who quit their jobs over vaccine mandates receive unemployment benefits. Representative Rusty Grills (R-Newbern) is sponsoring the bill while Representative...
by Bradley Vasoli | Oct 21, 2021
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is sponsoring legislation with Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) to place a moratorium on gain-of-function (GOF) research, problems with which many believe played a role in the outbreak of COVID-19. GOF experiments enhance the severity or...
by Star News Staff | Oct 21, 2021
by Harry Wilmerding New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that all New York City municipal workers would be required to have a COVID-19 vaccination. All municipal employees, including police and firefighters, will have until Oct. 29 to receive...
by Star News Staff | Oct 21, 2021
by Eric Lendrum The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma over a recently-signed law that forbids the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools, according to CNN. The lawsuit represents a group...
by Star News Staff | Oct 21, 2021
by Eric Lendrum Assistant Secretary of Health Richard Levine, a man who identifies as a woman and goes by the name of Rachel, has been sworn in as the first “transgender” four-star admiral in America, as reported by the New York Post. On Tuesday, the...
by Star News Staff | Oct 21, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky Over 60% of Americans said that President Joe Biden’s policies were at least somewhat responsible for the accelerating inflation in the United States, a new poll shows. A Politico/Morning Consult poll released Tuesday shows that around 40% of...
by Star News Staff | Oct 21, 2021
by Debra Heine Southwest Airlines has scrapped its plan to put unvaccinated employees on unpaid leave while their exemption requests are under review, CNBC reported Tuesday. Unvaccinated employees who have applied for, but haven’t yet received a religious or...
by Star News Staff | Oct 21, 2021
by Ailan Evans Facebook is reportedly planning on rebranding and is set to announce a new company name next week, according to The Verge. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg intends to announce the new name at the Facebook Connect conference on Oct. 28, a source...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Oct 21, 2021
Facebook’s seemingly unending stream of bad publicity continued this week when it was fined nearly $70 million by the United Kingdom for what is being described as a deliberate lack of compliance in an antitrust investigation. The UK’s Competition and...
by Star News Staff | Oct 21, 2021
by Benjamin Braddock On August 24, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memo to senior Pentagon leadership announcing that he was implementing a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for all military service members. The day before, the FDA had issued...
by Cooper Moran | Oct 21, 2021
The Biden administration has been flying migrants in the dead of night to various locations throughout the United States and potentially to Ohio, according to a new Fox News report. First uncovered by the New York Post, the federal government has used a charter...
by Star News Staff | Oct 21, 2021
by Kendall Tietz A national, parent-led organization filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging policies at Wellesley Public Schools, which includes segregated “affinity groups” and a “bias reporting” program. Parents Defending Education (PDE) filed...
by Star News Staff | Oct 21, 2021
by Bradley Vasoli | Oct 21, 2021
Law-enforcement professionals and judges testified at a Georgia Senate hearing Wednesday largely to consider the impact of pretrial release on violent crime in Atlanta and elsewhere, with particular scrutiny being placed on “signature bonds.” Jeff Hamling, a...
by The Center Square | Oct 21, 2021
by J.D. Davidson A group of Ohio economists believes government subsidies for coal power plants create distortions in the market, eliminates competition and does not produce positive results, according to a new survey from Scioto Analysis. State leaders...
by Eric Burk | Oct 21, 2021
Virginia’s gubernatorial race is a tie among registered voters, according to a new Monmouth University poll, which found that Republican Glenn Youngkin has made gains against Terry McAuliffe since the university’s September poll. “Youngkin (46...
