by Just the News | May 2, 2024
by Misty Severi Arizona’s Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs signed the repeal of the state’s Civil War-era near-total ban on abortion Thursday, a day after the legislation passed the state Senate. Two Republican state senators teamed up with all 14...
by Admin | May 2, 2024
Axios Smugglers in Mexico are increasingly using overloaded semitrailers to transport people trying to enter the U.S., often with deadly consequences, an investigation from Noticias Telemundo found. The situation lays bare the human toll of modern migration amid the...
by Tom Pappert | May 2, 2024
State Senator Amanda Cappelletti (D-Philadelphia) claimed as part of a Monday push to create a federal law to enshrine abortion access that 80 Pennsylvania abortion clinics have closed “in a relatively short period of time” since the overturning of Roe v....
by Kaitlin Housler | May 2, 2024
Tennessee U.S. Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07) introduced a bill this week that would prohibit federal funds from being used to finalize, implement, or enforce the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) interim final rule amending the...
by Tom Pappert | May 2, 2024
The Georgia State Ethics Commission referred Fulton County Commissioner Khadijah Abdur-Rahman to Attorney General Chris Carr after the commission determined she likely used campaign money for personal expenses, a Tuesday report exposed. Abdur-Rahman, who is an ally of...
by Kaitlin Housler | May 2, 2024
An Ohio judge extended the temporary restraining order preventing House Bill 68 from taking effect at the request of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio, which filed a lawsuit challenging the bill last month. House Bill 68 includes the SAFE Act, which...
by Kaitlin Housler | May 2, 2024
Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano (R-Franklin County) said that establishment Republicans need to come together during this election cycle to support and elect grassroots candidates and former President Donald Trump to office. Mastriano, who recently detailed...
by Tom Pappert | May 2, 2024
The University of Arizona (UA) reportedly called police to clear protesters and disperse the anti-Israel encampment that formed on its Tucson campus, with authorities arresting demonstrators and clearing their debris just after 2 a.m. on Wednesday. University...
by Star News Staff | May 2, 2024
by Jason Hopkins Nearly 200,000 migrants from four countries have flown into America’s biggest airports under a Biden administration parole program, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents reveal. The House Homeland Security Committee on...
by Peter D'Abrosca | May 2, 2024
Rideshare application drivers in Nashville and around the country went on strike Wednesday. “Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers are DONE with being pushed around by app companies. We’re sick of working 80 hours/week just to make ends meet, being constantly scared...
by Peter D'Abrosca | May 2, 2024
The Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA) is joining a lawsuit with several states and pro-Second Amendment groups against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), which says that the ATF is far too broadly interpreting a new law passed by...
by Just the News | May 2, 2024
by Kevin Killough The wind industry produce 2.1 percent less electricity in 2023 compared to the previous year. Total wind capacity in the U.S. has tripled from 47 gigawatts in 2010 to 147.5 gigawatts by the end of 2023. The wind energy industry managed to...
by Kaitlin Housler | May 2, 2024
The attorneys general of Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia have joined Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares’ lawsuit challenging the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) name, image, and...
by Star News Staff | May 2, 2024
by Will Kessler Many companies are looking to cut down on their debts as recent high inflation reports have made borrowing more expensive as the prospect of interest rate cuts by central banks diminishes, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Even...
by Star News Staff | May 2, 2024
by Scott McKay After I offered a perfectly accurate negative summation of current market/industry conditions when speaking on a business venture I can’t yet discuss (but that will be quite relevant indeed to the interests of our readers), I received an...
by Just the News | May 2, 2024
by Misty Severi The lawsuit comes after the New York Times filed their own suit against both companies in December. Authors such as Games of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin, John Grisham, and Jodi Picoult have also sued the companies for copyright...
by Star News Staff | May 2, 2024
by Jason Hopkins Oklahoma’s Republican governor signed a sweeping immigration enforcement bill into law, making the Sooner State the latest to confront the border crisis through legislative action. Gov. Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 4156 into law on...
by Kaitlin Housler | May 2, 2024
A man who pled guilty to vehicular homicide by intoxication and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon in connection with a boating collision on Norris Lake last year that resulted in the death of a child has been sentenced to eight years in prison, according to...
by Kaitlin Housler | May 2, 2024
Bernie Moreno, the Republican nominee in the Ohio U.S. Senate race, called out incumbent U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) for encouraging pro-Palestine protests on college campuses across the nation and in the Buckeye State, saying such demonstrations are “lawless...
by Kaitlin Housler | May 2, 2024
Republican Secretaries of State Committee selected Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose as chairman this week as the group announced its 2024 Executive Committee Leadership Team. LaRose, who previously served as committee vice chair, succeeds Kentucky Secretary of...
by Debra McClure | May 2, 2024
The first non-gas QuikTrip store on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta is closing in May partially due to concerns about the safety of customers and employees, the company said. QuikTrip (QT) Corporate Communications Manager Aisha Jefferson told The Georgia Star News...
