by Steve Stewart | Jan 12, 2022 | Battleground States, Florida, News, The South
The fiancé of Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried – Jake Bergmann – was distracted when on September 15, 2021 he drove his 2019 Ram 1500 Longhorn across the center-line of a two-lane road in northeast Tallahassee, destroying a neighbor’s $1,500...
by Bradley Vasoli | Jan 12, 2022 | Battleground States, Pennsylvania, The Northeast
Pennsylvania’s commonwealth court green-lighted the state Senate Republicans’ election probe this week; the state Supreme Court has meanwhile declined to take up the remapping of congressional districts. As a result of the commonwealth court’s ruling, the...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 12, 2022 | Battleground States, Florida, The South
The Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List announced its support Tuesday for legislation in the Florida Legislature that would stop late abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, according to a press release by the organization. The bill, H.B. 5 and S.B. 146, introduced by...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 12, 2022 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
Tea Party Patriots Action and Action Honorary Chairman Jenny Beth Martin slammed President Joe Biden’s speech in Georgia on “voting rights.” In the speech, Biden suggested that he supports the effort of far-left Democrats to alter the rules of...
by Eric Burk | Jan 12, 2022 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin completed his cabinet nominee picks on Monday with the announcement of Fauquier County Sheriff Robert Mosier to be Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, and recent Magellan of Virginia President John Littel to be...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 12, 2022 | Battleground States, Ohio, The Midwest
A Democrat U.S. Senate hopeful from Ohio declared his support for a Cleveland Starbucks store, which aims to become the retail giant’s first unionized coffee shop in the state. “Something big is brewing in Cleveland. Congratulations and solidarity...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 12, 2022 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Upper-Midwest
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (D-CA-23) vowed to remove a Minnesota congresswoman from her House Foreign Affairs Committee assignment if Republicans take back the lower chamber of Congress in 2022. “The Democrats have created a new thing where...
by Rachel Alexander | Jan 12, 2022 | Arizona, Battleground States, The West
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake unveiled a border security plan aimed at circumventing the federal government through the creation of an interstate compact. Titled “Defend Arizona: We will do what Washington will not,” her plan will bring states...
by Star News Staff | Jan 12, 2022 | Commentary, News
by Conrad Black Almost no one seems to grasp the colossal irony of the current American political condition. The uniquequality of it is that the country is divided between two political forces which, in the tedious hyperbole of contemporary political jargon,...
by Hayley Feland | Jan 12, 2022 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Upper-Midwest
A Brooklyn Park man was sentenced to over two years in prison and over $30,000 restitution last week for his participation in the May 2020 riots and arson. According to the District of Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office, “Samuel Elliott Frey, 20, and...
by Chris Butler | Jan 12, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
Tennessee state officials took charge of four Memphis schools a decade ago that struggled academically, and those same state officials hoped the schools would perform better than they did under local control. That did not happen. Under state control, those...
by Star News Staff | Jan 12, 2022 | National, News
by Sebastian Hughes David Sassoli, president of the European Union’s parliament, died in a hospital on Tuesday at the age of 65 after months of poor health, the Associated Press reported. Sassoli, a socialist and former Italian journalist, had been hospitalized...
by RealClearWire | Jan 12, 2022 | Commentary, News
by Paul Sperry When U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd went on “NBC Nightly News” to tell his side of shooting and killing unarmed Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt, he made a point to note he’d been investigated by several agencies and exonerated for his actions...
by Star News Staff | Jan 12, 2022 | National, News
by Ailan Evans The Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to form a special unit focused on the threat of domestic terrorism, a top official told lawmakers Tuesday. Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced the creation of the new unit in his...
by The Center Square | Jan 12, 2022 | National, News
by Bethany Blankley The prices of energy, crude and gasoline all increased in 2021 from 2020, the U.S. Energy Information Agency reports. Prices increased because of higher demand and a range of other factors. By the end of 2021, commodities on the energy index...
by Star News Staff | Jan 12, 2022 | National, News
by Ailan Evans Facebook parent company Meta will require its in-person workers to receive a booster shot in addition to a COVID-19 vaccine, the company announced Monday. By March 28, Meta employees must have received the booster to use the in-person offices of...
by Star News Staff | Jan 12, 2022 | National, News
by Eric Lendrum Despite the mainstream media hysteria over the Chinese coronavirus, a new poll shows that a broader swath of Americans continue to care more about inflation and other more direct economic issues. As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the...
by The Center Square | Jan 12, 2022 | National, News
by Joe Mueller Missouri’s Department of Economic Development (DED) recently previewed how Gov. Mike Parson plans to allocate the state’s $2.6 billion portion of federal pandemic funds. In late December, Maggie Kost, acting director of the DED, outlined major...
by Star News Staff | Jan 12, 2022 | National, News
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by The Center Square | Jan 12, 2022 | National, News
by Madison Hirneisen Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a plan to expand Medi-Cal coverage to many income-eligible residents regardless of immigration status on Monday as part of his 2022-2023 budget proposal. The plan, which Newsom hopes to see implemented in January...
by The Center Square | Jan 12, 2022 | National, News
by Casey Harper Ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on vaccine mandates expected as early as this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control is under increased scrutiny after recent comments about COVID-19 deaths. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky fell into...
