by Star News Staff | Aug 11, 2023
by Charlotte Hazard A federal judge on Friday sided with Donald Trump, rejecting a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith for a protective order that would have imposed some speech restrictions on the former president as he runs in the 2024 election. U.S....
by Just the News | Aug 11, 2023
by Charlotte Hazard In a dramatic shift, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss was being upgraded to a special counsel to investigate the Biden family finances. The decision means the probe into Hunter...
by Kaitlin Housler | Aug 11, 2023
In episode 15 of his newest production, “Tucker on Twitter,” former Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson sat down with former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who was the acting chief during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Ep. 15 Former Capitol Police...
by Tom Pappert | Aug 11, 2023
A Maricopa County judge dismissed a lawsuit initiated by the Arizona Democratic Party (AZDP) aiming to revoke the ballot access of the nascent No Labels Party in Arizona prior to the 2024 elections. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper threw out the...
by M.D. Kittle | Aug 11, 2023
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Chalk it up to “Scottmentum”? That’s what one pollster calls South Carolina U.S. Senator Tim Scott’s political rise in Iowa, where he is moving up the polls and, it appears, eroding support for No. 2 GOP presidential candidate, Florida...
by The Center Square | Aug 11, 2023
by Anthony Hennen As the federal farm bill gets debated in Congress, Pennsylvania lawmakers and agricultural leaders hope to see a boost in research funding along with action to improve broadband internet and child care in the rural reaches of the state. Senate...
by Hannah Poling | Aug 11, 2023
Norfolk Southern agreed to enhance safety measures for workers cleaning up the site of its February derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the rail giant agreed with the federal government and...
by Star News Staff | Aug 11, 2023
by Anthony Gockowski Former Republican donor Anton “Tony” Lazzaro was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison Wednesday for sex trafficking multiple minor girls. “Anton Lazzaro was a predator who hid in plain sight. He was a sex trafficker who camouflaged his...
by Star News Staff | Aug 11, 2023
by Hayley Feland Twin Cities-based retailer Best Buy is running discriminatory professional development programs that are open to non-white employees only, according to reports. A whistleblower shared screenshots of an internal company memo on the programs with...
by Rachel Alexander | Aug 11, 2023
The Arizona Supreme Court launched a Task Force on Countering Disinformation in 2019 that is raising concerns. It is the first state court system in the country to establish one. The task force has issued two reports with recommendations since its launch. The task...
by The Center Square | Aug 11, 2023
by Lauren Scott Arizona Republicans are split on their support for former President Donald Trump, with some saying they only support the president and not the party. Half of Arizona Republicans consider themselves supporters of the Republican Party, while 25%...
by The Center Square | Aug 11, 2023
by Morgan Sweeney So far this year, the Eastern District of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Virginia has secured convictions in 14 cases of COVID fraud, where defendants were responsible for more than $11.3 million in calculated loss, Karoline Foote, a...
by The Center Square | Aug 11, 2023
by T.A. DeFeo Atlanta received a failing grade for its charter school funding gap. A new report from the School Choice Demonstration Project, an educational research project within the University of Arkansas’ Department of Education Reform, examined funding...
by Star News Staff | Aug 11, 2023
by Reagan Reese The Florida Department of Education (DOE) told schools Wednesday that an Advanced Placement (AP) Psychology course at the center of a controversy meets state law and can be taught, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News...
by The Center Square | Aug 11, 2023
by Leonard Robinson Michigan’s local school districts establish their own policies on informing parents of a child’s gender choice. States like New Jersey and California have been involved in legal disputes about if parents should be notified about...
by Kaitlin Housler | Aug 11, 2023
The Tennessee Titans released a new video giving fans a look into its new $2.1 billion stadium, expected to be operational in 2027. The team also unveiled a new website with information on how fans can invest in season tickets for the new stadium. Made for us, made...
by TC Weber | Aug 11, 2023
The Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) awarding Students First Technologies (SFT) a contract to manage the state’s Education Savings Account (ESA) program continues to raise concerns. “Our government owes citizens the responsibility of providing the...
by Kaitlin Housler | Aug 11, 2023
Over 25 million pounds of invasive carp have been removed by commercial harvest since 2018 in five Tennessee reservoirs, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA). In June, TWRA’s Tennessee Carp Harvest Incentive Program (TCHIP) reached a milestone...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Aug 11, 2023
National Catholic leaders said the FBI’s probe of Catholics, as revealed by documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee, went far beyond a so-called rogue agent in a single field office in Richmond, as was explained in testimony by agency Director Christopher...
by Star News Staff | Aug 11, 2023
by Victor Davis Hanson Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed. A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain....
by Star News Staff | Aug 11, 2023
by Mary Lou Masters President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and other Democrats are tapping into a new database that provides contact information for nearly every voter in America for 2024, Axios reported Thursday. The Democratic Data Exchange (DDx) has...
