by Susan Berry, PhD | Feb 22, 2022
In a letter to the House Speaker and Senate President Friday, President Joe Biden extended the national COVID-19 emergency pandemic indefinitely. “There remains a need to continue this national emergency,” Biden wrote, adding: The COVID-19 pandemic...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Feb 22, 2022
A report by an organization that tracks Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools says that 23 of the top 25 medical schools at universities across the countries have some form of CRT program. The University of Michigan Medical School is among them. “The...
by Star News Staff | Feb 22, 2022
by Auguste Meyrat As school districts start dropping the mask mandates, removing pornographic books from their libraries, and explicitly prohibiting critical race theory, it’s clear that the parent protests are working. School boards, even in progressive...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Feb 22, 2022
The Tennessee Secretary of State’s office has posted their updated list of individuals who have begun collecting petitions to run for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District seat. Fourteen candidates are collecting petitions for the 5th Congressional...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Feb 22, 2022
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) introduced legislation Wednesday to protect a doctor’s right to treat patients and to reassert that the federal government’s agencies have no authority to restrict lawful prescribing or dispensing of FDA-approved or Right to Try drugs....
by Bradley Vasoli | Feb 22, 2022
Some Pennsylvania lawmakers are proposing that the commonwealth offset some of the inflationary burden on residents by pausing certain taxes. One bill State Senator Lisa Boscola (D-Bethlehem) is currently drafting would stop sales taxation in June and July 2022...
by Cooper Moran | Feb 22, 2022
A husband and wife, Jonathan and Diana Toebbe, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to communicate restricted data, as the husband attempted to disclose confidential information to someone he believed was a representative of a foreign government. Originally, Jonathan Toebbe...
by Chris Butler | Feb 22, 2022
Members of the Williamson County-based Tennessee Stands are warning the public that a new bill making its way through the Tennessee General Assembly that purports to protect religious liberty does the opposite. Legislators say that the bill, HB 1867, and its companion...
by Laura Baigert | Feb 22, 2022
A bill scheduled to be heard by the House Commerce Committee on Tuesday would enter Tennessee into an interstate compact with Arkansas and Mississippi for the greater Memphis region, creating a quasi-governmental and public entity of unelected commissioners that will...
by The Center Square | Feb 22, 2022
by Mary Stroka Two Minnesota DFL legislators announced a bill to cap state-regulated health plans’ co-pays for certain prescription drugs at $25 per month. The bill Rep. Michael Howard, DFL-Richfield, and Sen. Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul, if passed, HF 3592,...
by Chris Butler | Feb 22, 2022
Governor Brian Kemp said Saturday he’s not taking sides on whether Buckhead and Atlanta should formally separate. Buckhead City Committee CEO Bill White responded to Kemp’s comments and said now is the time for Republican legislators to act. But Kemp said he...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 22, 2022
The Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) backlog has been reduced by nearly 89 percent, according to a Monday statement by the governor’s office. The embattled agency was targeted by the incoming administration’s “day one game plan” as a...
by Cooper Moran | Feb 22, 2022
Eight individuals were arrested for attempting to buy sex during an anti-human trafficking operation that took place in the northeastern region of the state, according to Attorney General Dave Yost. The mission, Operation Fouled Out, involved the Ohio Organized...
by Star News Staff | Feb 22, 2022
by Peter Cordi With midterm elections this year, Ohio’s 2022 congressional redistricting plans are under scrutiny. The state lost one congressional district last year, bringing the total number down to 15. The Ohio Supreme Court recently struck down new...
by Steve Stewart | Feb 22, 2022
A proposed amendment to the already controversial Parental Rights in Education bill requiring parental involvement on sensitive student issues has drawn more criticism from LGBTQ advocates. The sponsor of the bill, Republican Representative Joe Harding,...
by Star News Staff | Feb 22, 2022
by Spencer Dalke Professor Gregory Manco has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, St. Joseph’s University, citing undue discrimination after a previous student of his complained to the institution about what she perceived to be racist activity on...
by Star News Staff | Feb 22, 2022
– – – Photo “U.S. Border Patrol Arrests Aliens Illegally Entering the United States” by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
by Star News Staff | Feb 22, 2022
by Victor Davis Hanson Canada is now governed by absurdism, and it is symptomatic of an ailing Western elite. Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week invoked martial law to arrest and financially destroy truckers on the charge that their...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Feb 22, 2022
An Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Monday issued an endorsement to one of her counterparts in Wisconsin. “I’m proud to endorse my good friend Rebecca Kleefisch,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former press secretary to then-President Donald...
by RealClearWire | Feb 22, 2022
by Andrew Wilford All taxpayers are dealing with a disastrous filing season this year, with the IRS backed up on processing millions of returns and refunds from last year and communication from the agency nonexistent at best. But some taxpayers will have an added...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Feb 22, 2022
In a now-viral video an unidentified man encouraged a national strike in every Canadian business sector, along with active support for those who are opposing COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates in the country. “You’ve seen what’s...
