by Star News Staff | Jan 29, 2022
by Debra Heine The Biden administration is planning to recommend the experimental mRNA vaccines for babies as young as six months old, despite alarming safety signals and concerns that mass vaccination is making the pandemic worse. White House chief medical...
by Star News Staff | Jan 29, 2022
by Laurel Duggan A female swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania said the school brushed off her and her teammates’ concerns about sharing locker rooms with a male swimmer, the Daily Mail reported. She and her teammates felt uncomfortable sharing locker...
by The Center Square | Jan 29, 2022
by Joe Mueller Legislators are considering changes to Missouri’s teacher and non-certified school employee pension plans to alleviate pandemic-related teacher and staff shortages. HB2114, sponsored by Rep. Rusty Black, R-Chillicothe, will reduce restrictions on...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 29, 2022
Virginia’s attorney general released a legal opinion Friday saying that under Virginia law, vaccine mandates for college students are illegal. “Absent specific authority conferred by the General Assembly, public institutions of higher education in...
by The Center Square | Jan 29, 2022
by Mary Stroka Iowa schools must require masking when necessary as a reasonable accommodation for students with disabilities, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis ruled Tuesday. The court cited the Rehabilitation Act Section 504 in its...
by Grant Holcomb | Jan 29, 2022
Florida TaxWatch, a non-profit taxpayer research think tank based in Tallahassee, Florida, predicted in one of its latest reports that the runaway inflation facing the United States could subsist by the end of 2022. “Yet even with inflation reports signaling...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 29, 2022
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Thursday released his plan to spend the $2.9 billion surplus the state has due to increased tax revenue and federal coronavirus relief funds. The Democrat takes $1.7 billion to distribute directly to residents of the state...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 28, 2022
A five-judge panel on Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court stopped a provision that allows mail-in voting throughout the state, ruling the measure unconstitutional. Proponents of the lawsuit argued that any permanent change to the election code of the state...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 28, 2022
Viral images are circulating of a bridge collapse outside of Pittsburgh, just before President Joe Biden is slated to visit the city. Greg Barnhisel, a professor at Duquesne University, first posted images of the collapsed bridge over Frick Park in Point...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 28, 2022
A source inside the Virginia Capitol Thursday spoke exclusively to The Virginia Star about Wednesday’s tiff between Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), who claimed in an interview with The Washington Post that the governor was not...
by Bradley Vasoli | Jan 28, 2022
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) vetoed a proposed new congressional-district map passed by the Republican-run state legislature. The governor’s decision Thursday effectively turns over the selection of a new map to the state judiciary. The Republican-run...
by Eric Burk | Jan 28, 2022
Attorney General Jason Miyares announced a new policy to cut attorneys’ fees for debt collection on student loan debt at Virginia’s public colleges. Under Virginia law, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is responsible to provide debt...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 28, 2022
A militia member who is described as a leader of a surveillance operation in the plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is a paid informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to several reports. In September 2020, 12 men involved in the...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 28, 2022
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will distribute approximately 2 million KN95 masks to residents of the state through schools and local health organizations. The move follows an announcement from President Joe Biden that his administration will disperse 400 million...
by Neil W. McCabe | Jan 28, 2022
The second most senior Supreme Court associate justice decided to retire from the high court bench at the end of the court’s session in June, according to multiple media reports. There was no official statement from the Supreme Court, but White House Press...
by Grant Holcomb | Jan 28, 2022
Florida State Rep. Bryan Avila (R-District 111)’s HB 7, which is part of the legislature’s effort to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT), got approval from the House Judiciary Committee this week. The Republicans supported the bill entirely and Democrats opposed it...
by Star News Staff | Jan 28, 2022
by Victor Davis Hanson Americans want an autonomous Ukraine to survive. They hope the West can stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strangulation of both Ukraine and NATO. Yet Americans do not want their troops to venture across the world to Europe’s...
by Rachel Alexander | Jan 28, 2022
The Arizona state Senate Government Committee on Monday passed seven bills dealing with combating voter fraud. One of the biggest priorities in the Arizona Legislature this year is election integrity, due to concerns about fraud in the 2020 Arizona presidential...
by Star News Staff | Jan 28, 2022
by Ailan Evans Legislation designed to make the U.S. more competitive with China includes millions in appropriations for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The America COMPETES Act, introduced by House Democrats late Tuesday, is a companion to a...
by RealClearWire | Jan 28, 2022
by Paul Sperry As indictments and new court filings indicate that Special Counsel John Durham is investigating Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for feeding false reports to the FBI to incriminate Donald Trump and his advisers as Kremlin agents, Clinton’s role in...
by Star News Staff | Jan 28, 2022
by Harry Wilmerding The U.S. economy grew at a faster rate than was anticipated pace in the fourth quarter of 2021, benefiting from solid consumer demand before the slowdown caused by the Omicron coronavirus variant and supply chain disruptions. U.S. Gross...
