by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News, Uncategorized
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by Hayley Feland | Nov 13, 2021 | Battleground States, The Upper-Midwest, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) has put 500 National Guard troops on standby leading up to the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. According to a press release from Evers office, the guard members are reporting for State Active Duty following an...
by Chris Butler | Nov 13, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
Federal officials have sentenced a former employee of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Memphis to 10 months in federal prison for assaulting two VA Police officers. Officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee...
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Julie Kelly Unprecedented: It is the word most often applied to the events at the Capitol on January 6. In his remarks that afternoon, as the chaos was still ongoing, Joe Biden warned that “our democracy is under unprecedented attack.” House Speaker Nancy...
by RealClearWire | Nov 13, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Kirk Allen and John Kraft Few would argue the United States, or any country for that matter, was prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, even though, starting in 2003, the U.S. devoted $5.6 billion to fund Project Bioshield, running through 2013, and another...
by Kaitlin Housler | Nov 13, 2021 | News, Tennessee, The South
The University of Tennessee (UT) announced on Thursday a new proposed initiative that would allow military-affiliated students–veterans, active-duty military personnel, reservists, Tennessee National Guard members, and Army and Air Force ROTC cadets to attend a...
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News, Uncategorized
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
by Kendall Tietz FBI Director Christopher Wray “made it clear” during an October speech that FBI agents “would not be attending school board meetings” and the Bureau “would stay in its own lane,” a former agent who saw the speech told the Daily Caller News...
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
by Harry Wilmerding Median home prices surged in the third quarter of 2021 in almost every housing market in the U.S., the National Association of Realtors said in a report Wednesday. The median price of a single-family home increased in 182 out of the 183...
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
by Kaylee Greenlee Around 30% of Department of Homeland Security employees won’t be fully vaccinated before the federal deadline, My RGV reported on Tuesday. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees needed to receive their second COVID-19 vaccination...
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
by Julie Kelly In a 34-page ruling issued Tuesday night, D.C. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan denied Donald Trump’s request for injunctive relief to prevent the January 6 Select Committee from obtaining privileged information currently housed at the National...
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
by Thomas Catenacci The carbon footprint of COP26, the ongoing United Nations climate summit, is expected to double that of the previous conference held in 2019, according to a report. The two-week COP26 conference, which is entering its final days in Scotland,...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
A new timeline of events in the controversial National School Boards Association (NSBA) letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland shows that the NSBA was in contact with the White House before sending the letter to President Joe Biden. Emails obtained by a...
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
by Harry Wilmerding A record 4.4 million people quit their jobs in September, and job openings remained near a record high as labor shortages continue throughout the country. Roughly 3.0% of U.S. workers left their jobs in September, a jump from August, when...
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
by Debra Heine Someone from the Department of Justice appears to have tipped off the New York Times about recent raids on current and former employees of Project Veritas, and leaked privileged communications between founder James O’Keefe and his lawyers to the...
by RealClearWire | Nov 13, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Ross Pomeroy The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the national public health agency of the United States, so it made sense that during a once-in-a-century pandemic the agency would be given a leading role. With that leadership, however, came...
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
by Laurel Duggan Yale University nearly doubled its number of administrators from 2003 to 2019 while only bringing in an additional 600 students, according to the Yale Daily News. Yale now has an approximately equal number of students and administrators, the...
by The Center Square | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
by Casey Harper Skyrocketing inflation and consumer costs are hurting President Joe Biden’s and Congressional Democrats’ hopes to pass another major spending bill through the reconciliation process. The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics...
by Cooper Moran | Nov 13, 2021 | Battleground States, Michigan, The Upper-Midwest
Michigan State Senator Lana Theis (R-Brighton) on Wednesday penned a letter to Auditor General Doug Ringler, calling for a series of audits to be conducted within the state’s nursing homes. Specifically, the call for the investigation seeks to review the...
by RealClearWire | Nov 13, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Aimee Viana It is not a novel concept that family engagement is one of the strongest predictors of children’s school success. Studies over the past 50 years demonstrate a positive relationship between family engagement and student achievement for students of...
by Star News Staff | Nov 13, 2021 | National, News
by Debra Heine Despite massive public interest in the court proceedings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, this week, Facebook has blocked search results for the name “Kyle Rittenhouse.” Facebook shows zero posts when the query “Kyle Rittenhouse” is entered into the...
