by Admin | Feb 4, 2023
Associated Press The United States on Saturday downed a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America and became the latest flashpoint in tensions between Washington and Beijing. An operation was...
by Admin | Feb 4, 2023
New York Post President Biden and his administration knew for nearly a week that a Chinese spy balloon was hovering in U.S. airspace — but kept the incursion secret, fearing it would derail Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Feb 4, 2023
Former President Donald Trump announced a plan Tuesday to protect the nation’s children from the “child abuse” of “chemical, physical, and emotional mutilation” at the bidding of radical gender ideology. “The leftwing gender insanity being pushed on our children is an...
by Hannah Poling | Feb 4, 2023
A Pickerington woman is suing Nationwide Children’s Hospital, saying she was wrongfully fired because she refused to get the COVID-19 immunization. She asserts that the hospital ought to have honored the request for a religious exemption she made as a Christian....
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 4, 2023
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced the Memphis Police Department (MPD) will undergo an independent, third-party review following the beating death of Tyre Nichols on January 7. In a weekly newsletter, Mayor Strickland (pictured right) announced, “To honor Tyre and...
by The Center Square | Feb 4, 2023
by T.A. DeFeo Georgia’s consumer protections against debt collectors are among the worst in the nation. That’s according to a new report from the National Consumer Law Center, which gave The Peach state an “F” for its protections. The...
by Neil Jones | Feb 4, 2023
State Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa) announced Thursday that there would be a new bipartisan Committee on Director Nominations in the Senate to make decisions regarding Governor Katie Hobbs’s executive appointments. “Agency directors have a...
by The Center Square | Feb 4, 2023
by Andrew Powell Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he’s calling a special session that will deal with Disney’s autonomy and other issues “in a week or two.” He made the announcement during a news conference in Milton concerning broadband...
by The Center Square | Feb 4, 2023
by Tom Gantert At a time when fare revenue and passenger trips have plummeted, the Minneapolis transit system has given its employees pay increases. Top administrators at Metro Transit saw significant pay increases by as much as $55,000 in case from 2020 to...
by The Center Square | Feb 4, 2023
by Scott McClallen Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill into law that aims to move the presidential primary to earlier in the 2024 primary season. Whitmer said the change would boost the economy. Senate Bill 13 advances Michigan’s primary from the second Tuesday...
by Just the News | Feb 4, 2023
by Charlotte Hazard Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin has a 56% approval rating among state voters, according to a recently released survey. The Mason Dixon survey released Thursday shows Youngkin’s approval rating his highest since taking office last...
by The Center Square | Feb 4, 2023
by Anthony Hennen Pennsylvania remains one of six states that still levy an inheritance tax, but an old plan to gradually phase it out resurfaced last month. Senate Bill 75, sponsored by Sen. Michele Brooks, R-Greenville, would reduce the sibling inheritance...
by The Center Square | Feb 4, 2023
by Tom Gantert The U.S. economy added 517,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate dropped to 3.4%, the lowest since May 1969. By comparison, there were 260,000 jobs added in December 2022 and the 517,000 was the largest increase since 568,000 in July 2022,...
by Star News Staff | Feb 4, 2023
by Trevor Schakohl Two Republican members of Congress introduced a bill Wednesday that would prohibit nonresident aliens, companies and other entities associated with the Chinese government from buying agricultural land in the U.S. Washington Reps. Cathy...
by Just the News | Feb 4, 2023
by Ben Whedon Memphis has fired a sixth police officer in connection with the death of Tyre Nichols. The decision to terminate Preston Hemphill stemmed from an internal investigation that ultimately found he violated multiple department policies during...
by Star News Staff | Feb 4, 2023
by Mary Margaret Olohan The NWEA, which says it provides map-testing assessments to Roman Catholic dioceses and almost two thousand Catholic schools across the country, features articles on its website encouraging educators to help students to “come out” and...
by Star News Staff | Feb 4, 2023
by Victor Davis Hanson Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions. Both the...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 4, 2023
Davidson County Republican Party Chairman Jim Garrett announced he will not seek chairmanship in the group’s upcoming reorganization meeting and endorsed Lonnie Spivak to succeed him as chairman. In an email to Davidson County Republicans on Friday, Garrett wrote, “I...
by M.D. Kittle | Feb 4, 2023
A long-time Memphis law enforcement source tells The Tennessee Star rumors about guards at the Shelby County Division of Corrections being involved in street gangs have been circulating for years, although he knows of no correction officer implicated in such a crime....
by Just the News | Feb 4, 2023
by Charlotte Hazard Article III Project founder and President Mike Davis says he doubts House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan will hold Big Tech accountable for its abuse of power for colluding with the federal government. “Jim Jordan has no...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 4, 2023
Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joined a group of Senate Republicans in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court pushing back on the Biden administration’s student-loan debt relief program. During the fall of last year, President...
