by Debra McClure | Mar 2, 2024
State Senator Jason Anavitarte (R–Dallas), chairman of the Senate Majority Caucus, and State Senator Brian Strickland (R–McDonough), chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, proposed two new legislative initiatives that seek to change criminal procedures for...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Mar 2, 2024
The South Carolina Senate is debating a bill that would make minor changes to how judges are appointed in the Palmetto State. Currently, the state’s General Assembly, via its Judicial Merit Selection Commission, which consists of a “group of legislators...
by The Center Square | Mar 2, 2024
by J.D. Davidson More than 15,000 new concealed handgun licenses were issued in Ohio in 2023, even though the state stopped requiring concealed carry permits. Attorney General Dave Yost on Friday issued the state’s annual report on concealed handgun licensing...
by The Center Square | Mar 2, 2024
by Cameron Arcand A new report from the Common Sense Institute of Arizona determines that spending on homelessness in the Grand Canyon State is roughly $1 billion. The think tank analyzed data from both the public and private sectors to see how much was going...
by Star News Staff | Mar 2, 2024
by Kate Anderson A Montana judge ruled Thursday that three of the state’s laws limiting abortion were unconstitutional, according to the Daily Montanan. The laws banned abortion after 20 weeks and by way of telehealth services, as well as required a...
by Star News Staff | Mar 2, 2024
by Luke Sprinkel Democrats in the Minnesota House of Representatives advanced two gun control bills on Thursday that have Republicans, gun groups, and private citizens concerned. HF 4300, authored by Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn, D-Roseville, would set new laws for...
by The Center Square | Mar 2, 2024
by Carly Moran Michigan plans to send $219 million in tax credits back to taxpayers over the next few weeks, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently announced. Whitmer said a supplemental Working Families Tax Credit will be sent to Michigan families who already received...
by Star News Staff | Mar 2, 2024
A University of Virginia professor on Monday canceled her class to support a walkout on campus timed to coincide with voting on a student referendum calling on the school to divest from companies with ties to Israel. “I’m writing to let you know that I am canceling...
by The Center Square | Mar 2, 2024
by Benjamin Yount Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator says he’s not looking to become the next Republican leader, but he’s not ruling it out either. Sen. Ron Johnson told News Talk 1130 WISN’s Jay Weber he is focused right now on organizing the search for...
by The Center Square | Mar 2, 2024
by Andrew Powell Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Thursday that will publicly release grand jury documents, including those related to the late Jeffery Epstein. Before his death in a Florida prison cell, Epstein stood accused of running a...
by The Center Square | Mar 2, 2024
by Anthony Hennen Pennsylvania will receive hundreds of millions of dollars to plug defunct oil and gas wells that may pose health and environmental threats. And now, the state’s existing program is getting more scrutiny for how it prioritizes projects and uses...
by Star News Staff | Mar 2, 2024
by Eric Lendrum A new poll suggests that more Americans than ever before support the idea of building a wall along the southern border, as the mass migration crisis rages out of control and has cost more American lives. According to the Washington Free Beacon,...
by Star News Staff | Mar 2, 2024
by Victor Davis Hanson “We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.- A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 2, 2024
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) came to U.S. Representative Andy Ogles’ (R-TN-05) defense over comments he issued last month in response to an activist who pressed him on the situation unfolding in the Middle East, specifically between Israeli and Hamas forces...
by Star News Staff | Mar 2, 2024
by Steve Cortes Michigan is very much in play for November. Our new poll shows a dead heat, with Trump and Biden tied at 43% each and 14% undecided for this key swing state. With Trump leading comfortably right now in Georgia and North Carolina, a win in...
by Star News Staff | Mar 2, 2024
by Eric Lendrum On Thursday, the average long-term mortgage rate in the United States rose for the fourth week in a row, in a setback for Americans looking to potentially buy a home in the traditional homebuying season of spring. According to ABC News, mortgage...
by Star News Staff | Mar 2, 2024
by John Palomino El Salvador has accumulated more than $30 million in profits by retaining bitcoin reserves, after becoming the first country in Latin America to adopt this digital currency in an initiative led by President Nayib Bukele since 2021. Bitcoin, the...
