by Just the News | Aug 5, 2024
by Ben Whedon The Supreme Court on Monday refused to delay former President Donald Trump’s sentencing or lift a gag order in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case until after the election, Reuters reported. Trump is currently...
by Just the News | Aug 5, 2024
by Nicholas Ballasy According to the Associated Press, the Nikkei closed down 4,451.28 points at 31,458.42 on Monday after it went down 5.8 percent on Friday, marking the worst two-day decline ever. Japan’s benchmark stock index dropped 12.4 percent on Monday...
by Tom Pappert | Aug 5, 2024
U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) on Saturday reportedly warned the presidential campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris that Governor Josh Shapiro holds “excessive” political ambitions. Fetterman contacted the Harris campaign to provide...
by Tom Pappert | Aug 5, 2024
Mesa Mayor John Giles, who is now the co-chair of the Republicans for Harris group, was once censured by his local Republican Party over another endorsement of a Democrat, and previously called former President Donald Trump an “idiot” on a hot microphone....
by Star News Staff | Aug 5, 2024
by Giovanna Johnson A frustrated group of Virginia Military Institute alumni, some of whom have previously spoken out against the institution’s growing embrace of DEI, have taken on a new battle. The disgruntled alumni have filed a civil rights lawsuit against...
by Just the News | Aug 5, 2024
by Terrance Kible Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote confirmed Judge Loren AliKhan to the federal bench for life after AliKhan helped along a defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. Ironically, according to Politico, Harris...
by The Center Square | Aug 5, 2024
by Kenneth Schrupp Apple has filed a motion to dismiss a case from the United States Department of Justice claiming that it monopolizes the smartphone market using anticompetitive practices making it harder to switch to another phone. Antitrust experts say this...
by Star News Staff | Aug 5, 2024
by Wallace White The executive director of a large LGBT nonprofit allegedly spent the organization’s money on a lavish personal lifestyle, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Sarah Kate Ellis, chief executive of GLAAD, an LGBT advocacy group, spent large...
by Star News Staff | Aug 5, 2024
by Eric Lendrum On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that the state of New Jersey’s ban on AR-15 rifles is unconstitutional. ABC News reports that U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan’s ruling was directly influenced by the precedent set by the Supreme Court in its...
by The Center Square | Aug 5, 2024
by Brendan Clarey A federal appeals court has ruled that the Biden administration can’t implement its Title IX rules in an additional four states, bringing the total number of statewide injunctions to 26. With a recent block awarded in Oklahoma on Wednesday and...
by The Center Square | Aug 5, 2024
by Casey Harper Shoplifting has soared in the U.S. in 2024, forcing many stores to leave cities and continuing a trend in recent years. Shoplifting has risen 24 percent in the first half of 2024 alone, according to newly released data from the Council on...
by Just the News | Aug 5, 2024
by Steven Richards The House Judiciary Committee has sent letters to over 40 American and foreign companies asking for documents related to what it claims are “collusive” activities as part of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM)....
by Star News Staff | Aug 5, 2024
by Jason Hopkins Half of Americans believe a large number of migrants entering the country poses a “critical threat” to the interests of the United States, and a majority favor expanding the U.S.-Mexico border wall, a Chicago Council survey found. Fifty percent...
by Star News Staff | Aug 5, 2024
by Roger Kimball Although the last few weeks have had their alarming aspects — chief among which was the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13, the odds-on favorite candidate for president — they have also had their amusing moments. In the latter...
by Just the News | Aug 5, 2024
by Terrance Kible Pennsylvania Gov. and Democratic vice president short-lister Josh Shapiro is defending his record on the Israel-Palestine conflict after an op-ed he wrote in college resurfaced. Shapiro says the op-ed no longer represents his beliefs. The...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Aug 5, 2024
Just a day after a convicted sex offender was released from a Tennessee prison, he allegedly attacked two women in separate incidents in Nashville, landing him back behind bars. Dontez Drew, 27, was released from the Hardeman County Correctional Facility on Wednesday...
by The Center Square | Aug 5, 2024
by Madeline Armstrong The highest level of Arizona’s uncontested incumbents since 2018 dominated Tuesday’s primary election. According to a report by Ballotpedia, 317 of the 488 July elections were uncontested – 65 percent. Of the nine congressional...
by Star News Staff | Aug 5, 2024
by Micaiah Bilger A Penn State University trustee who ran on a fiscal responsibility platform says he has been denied access to financial records about its $5 billion endowment. Now, after facing a “runaround” for years, Trustee Barry Fenchak said he...
