(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – After more than three and a half years of a border crisis, Texas followed Florida on a key immigration issue, this time to determine how much taxpayers are footing the bill for illegals receiving medical care in public hospitals. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a three-page Executive Order directing the Texas Health…
(Christian Wade, The Center Square) — A legislative push to lift New York‘s lifetime ban on convicted felons serving on juries has been given the green light by the office that oversees the state’s court system. The Democratic-controllled state Legislature approved the Jury of Our Peers Act last year, which will allow felons who have…
(Headline USA) An African American Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was critically injured by Black Lives Matter rioters outside the city’s police station during an event memorializing the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, police said Saturday. Ferguson police chief Troy Doyle said Officer Travis Brown suffered a severe brain injury Friday after…
(Elias Irizarry, Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz held a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday marking their first appearance in the state of Nevada, additionally announcing their first policy initiative. Harris declared that, if elected, she would “eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.” However, the concept…
(Christen Smith, The Center Square) Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday he too faced a big choice during the running mate vetting process for Vice President Kamala Harris. “I love being governor of Pennsylvania,” he said. “I believe every Pennsylvanian should have the freedom to chart their own course and the opportunity to succeed and, in…
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) As Vice President Kamala Harris ascends to the Democratic presidential ticket, her niece, Meena Harris, is poised to profit significantly, much like how the Biden siblings have benefited from President Joe Biden’s prominence. A Politico report titled “‘Ambitious girl’: How Kamala Harris’ niece turned political proximity into a budding business empire” suggests…
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have slapped Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez, founder and president of Smartmatic, with bribery and money laundering related to the 2016 presidential election in the Philippines. Two other executives, Jorge Miguel Vasquez and Juan Andres Donato Bautista, also face charges in connection with what prosecutors claimed was a scheme to “retain and…
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A “hero” middle school teacher stormed out of his home, half-naked and armed, to save a 15-year-old girl from a brutal assault and attempted rape. The teacher, David Garza, quickly intervened when he heard the girl screaming for help on July 28, shortly after she exited a public bus. The man reportedly…
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A mother of an American soldier who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on June 29, 2006, when he was just 19 years old, called Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz a coward because he was expected to lead her son’s team into combat but got out not…
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Foreign actors have been flooding TikTok, the app owned by Chinese communists, with “false” and “incendiary” videos targeting Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The Wall Street Journal published its new report, in which the news source identified 91 accounts on TikTok with overseas connections posting malicious lies about…