by Just the News | Dec 8, 2022
by Madeleine Hubbard WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian prison in a prisoner exchange for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, according to multiple media reports Thursday morning. President Joe Biden said Griner is safe and on her...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Dec 8, 2022
A Virginia restaurant owner denied service to a Christian organization about 90 minutes prior to its private party because the group is pro-life and embraces one-man-one-woman marriage. Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation of Virginia, which holds...
by The Center Square | Dec 8, 2022
by Scott McClallen Come January, Democratic majorities in Lansing will try to repeal right-to-work – Republicans’ flagship policy adopted when they controlled the Legislature and governor’s office. Next week will mark the 10th anniversary of Michigan...
by Hannah Poling | Dec 8, 2022
Ohio lawmakers amended a bill Tuesday that stops biological men and boys from high school and middle school from participating in women and girls’ sports. The amendment removed a provision that could have required students to undergo “internal and external”...
by The Center Square | Dec 8, 2022
by Andrew Powell Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has no plans to back down against corporate behemoth Walt Disney Co. after speculation that laws put in place in April to dissolve the company’s self-governing power were going to be scaled back. In March, then Disney...
by Neil Jones | Dec 8, 2022
State Senate President-elect Warren Petersen (R-Gilbert) announced Tuesday his plan for helping Arizonans struggling with raising prices catch a break. “Government has done extremely well over the last few years by adding a record amount of revenue....
by The Center Square | Dec 8, 2022
by Scott McClallen Minnesota’s Management and Budget estimate a general fund budget surplus of $17.6 billion for the fiscal year 2024-25 biennium. “Strong collections and lower-than-projected spending add to the FY22-23 surplus,” the agency said. “Economic...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Dec 8, 2022
The chairman of the U.S. Bishops Catholic Education Committee said in a recent interview that policies created to align with gender ideology have “no place” in Catholic schools and institutions. Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Washington, told the National Catholic...
by The Center Square | Dec 8, 2022
by Anthony Hennen Natural gas prices are climbing, but overall production in Pennsylvania has lagged year-over-year. The latest report from the Independent Fiscal Office says prices in the third quarter of 2022 jumped almost 95% compared to the same period last...
by Bradley Vasoli | Dec 8, 2022
U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI-8) this week urged the head of the career-networking website LinkedIn to prohibit the platform from posting job openings at companies posing security threats to America. Gallagher, who sits on the House Permanent Select...
by Neil Jones | Dec 8, 2022
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Wednesday his office requested a warrant of execution for Arizona death row inmate Aaron Gunches. “The rule of law is for all of our society to uphold,” said Brnovich. “We must never cease to pursue...
by Hannah Poling | Dec 8, 2022
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Northeast Ohio found that individuals are setting up labs with pill presses to produce fentanyl pills inside their homes. According to the DEA, generally, in a lot of cases, cartels produced the pills in Mexico and then...
by Rachel Alexander | Dec 8, 2022
As the protests and litigation continue in Arizona, challenging the results of the 2022 midterm election where four Trump-endorsed candidates lost, some are looking at history to understand how the litigation may end. In 1916, a contentious gubernatorial race in...
by Kaitlin Housler | Dec 8, 2022
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced Wednesday that his office filed a Complaint and Assurance of Voluntary Compliance relating to the state’s multi-million dollar settlement with electronic cigarette maker JUUL Labs, Inc. “JUUL was, until recently,...
by Kaitlin Housler | Dec 8, 2022
The National Park Service (NPS)announced Monday the designation of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as an American World War II Heritage City. NPS’ American World War II Heritage Cities Program ”honors the contributions of local towns, cities, counties and their citizens...
by The Center Square | Dec 8, 2022
by T.A. DeFeo Georgia hasn’t collected its gas tax since March, as Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a series of legislation and executive orders to place a moratorium on collections. “Those prices have a huge impact on the economy as a whole,” National...
by Kaitlin Housler | Dec 8, 2022
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced Tuesday that he led a coalition of 25 states and the District of Columbia in filing an amicus brief at the United States Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Google. The state’s amicus brief urges the Supreme Court to...
by Laura Baigert | Dec 8, 2022
Metro Nashville Council on Tuesday increased the city’s hotel occupancy tax. The increased funds from the tax hike are required by state law to be used solely for the construction and future capital improvements and the associated debt service of a new enclosed...
by Star News Staff | Dec 8, 2022
by Edward Ring In the Federalist, James Madison famously warned against the “tyranny of the majority,” but it is unlikely he could have envisioned what we face today. Twenty-first-century America is dissolving before our eyes, as a tyrannical coalition of...
by Star News Staff | Dec 8, 2022
by Eric Lendrum During testimony last week, Anthony Fauci admitted that one of the reasons he repeatedly shot down any theories of the COVID-19 virus originating through a lab leak in Wuhan, China was because he did not want to risk escalating tensions between...
by RealClearWire | Dec 8, 2022
by John Murawski Wedged in the southern flank of Virginia, Charlotte County is home to some 11,500 people who live amidst rolling hills and family farms, pastures and sawmills, a historic Civil War battlefield, and four townlets tinier than many suburban...
