Law and Government
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Rent control kills multifamily housing construction in MoCo
“How thoroughly did enactment of rent control kill off applications for new construction of multifamily (5+ units) housing in the…
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Tim Walz’s State Under The Microscope For Potentially Discriminatory Hiring Practices
By Ellie Fromm The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday it is opening an investigation into the state of Minnesota’s…
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Virginia Governor Youngkin adopted regulatory reforms saving $1.2 billion per year, reducing cost of building a home by $24,000
“With just 4 employees” in his regulatory office, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has “saved residents $1.2 billion per year” and…
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Mall Of America Shooting Suspect Got Light Sentence From Soros DA — Now Faces Two New Murder Charges
By Adriel Perez-Gonzalez Three years after a progressive prosecutor lightened his sentence in a 2022 murder at the Mall of…
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LA’s Minimum Wage Hike Could Destroy One Of Its Biggest Industries
By Ireland Owens Los Angeles’ minimum wage hike for workers in the tourism industry could potentially do more harm than…
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City-owned hotel was supposed to make millions. It lost over $140 million instead, at taxpayer expense.
In New York City, Democrats nominated a self-declared socialist, Zohram Mamdani, to be the next mayor. Mamdani wants city-owned grocery…
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Police Officer Shot In Neck Outside Texas ICE Facility, Multiple Suspects In Custody, Authorities Say
By Melanie Wilcox A Texas police officer was shot in the neck late Thursday night during an apparent coordinated attack…
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‘In A Matter Of Seconds’: Chicago Sees 18 People Shot, 4 Killed In Single Drive-By Shooting
By Melanie Wilcox Eighteen people were shot and four killed in a drive-by shooting outside a restaurant in Chicago’s River…
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Puerto Rico may recognize licenses from other jurisdictions, making it easier to move there
One of the biggest hurdles to interstate movement is the fact that states often don’t recognize occupational licenses issued by…
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Gas Crisis Looms Over California As Dems Continue To Impose Crippling Regs
By Audrey Streb Democrat policies and new regulations hiked California’s gas prices on Tuesday, and a slew of green energy…
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Indiana’s Governor Shares His State’s Secret To Tackling Runaway College Tuition Rates
By Jaryn Crouson As tuition costs soar to astronomical heights across the U.S., one Republican-led state is leading the charge…
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Civil Rights Group Urges HHS To Audit Hundreds Of Potentially Discriminatory Grants
By Katelynn Richardson The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is still funding hundreds of potentially discriminatory grants, a…
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State Department Ends Decades-Long Program Paying Under-Performing Diplomats
By Reagan Reese The State Department is ending a program that for decades has given benefits and funds to low-performing…
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Brazil Supreme Court strikes down law protecting free speech on the internet
“In a big setback for internet freedom in Brazil, the country’s supreme court has unilaterally swept away its law roughly…
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Judge Rules Trump Admin Can’t Block Asylum Claims For Migrants Who Cross Southern Border
By Katelynn Richardson A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration cannot prevent migrants who cross the southern…
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New York mayoral candidate’s proposal for government-run grocery stores won’t work, professor says
The Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, wants his city to run grocery stores. But historically,…
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Virginia School Expelled Jewish Siblings After Parents Blew Whistle On Classroom Antisemitism, Lawsuit Alleges
By Jaryn Crouson Three Jewish students were expelled from a Virginia school after their parents complained about the school’s failure…
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Senate Passes Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Bill After Holdout Supplies Critical Vote
By Adam Pack The Senate approved President Donald Trump’s landmark bill largely along party lines Tuesday morning after senators took…
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Senate ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ will increase the national debt, result in huge debt service costs, contains excessive tax cuts for people who don’t need it
“Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process to cut spending, extend the 2017 tax cuts, reform health care, increase border…
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GOP Effort To Strip Illegal Immigrants Of Taxpayer-Funded Benefits Fails In Senate
By Adam Pack Senate Democrats moved to block Republican efforts Monday evening to strip illegal immigrants of taxpayer-funded benefits within…
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2 Firefighters Killed In Ambush While Responding To Wildfire
By Harold Hutchison Two firefighters were killed and a third was fighting for his life Sunday when an alleged shooter,…
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‘Outright Massacre’: Senate GOP Takes Sledgehammer To Biden’s Green Energy Subsidies
By Adam Pack The Senate dealt a series of blows to solar and wind energy in the latest version of…
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Federal Appeals Court Ruling Sides With Trump’s Plans To Dismantle Institute Of Peace
By Melanie Wilcox A federal appeals court Friday lifted a lower court’s order that blocked President Donald Trump from moving…
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Some Colleges Might Get Exemption From Endowment Tax For Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
By John Oyewale A recent amendment to the Senate Republicans’ domestic policy megabill could see small colleges and universities across…
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Kids Shouldn’t Be Forced To Read LGBTQ Storybooks, Supreme Court Rules
By Katelynn Richardson The Supreme Court sided Friday with parents seeking to opt their children out of required LGBTQ storybook…
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Territory has strict gun control, and much higher murder rate than any state
“If gun control was truly effective in reducing crime, the U.S. Virgin Islands would be one of the safest places…
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SCOTUS curbs nationwide injunctions against Trump administration
By Katelynn Richardson The Supreme Court curbed lower courts’ ability to block policies issued by the Trump administration using nationwide…
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Law Professor Fired Over DEI Objections Is Reinstated
By Skye Graham America First Legal (AFL) secured a settlement with Ohio Northern University (ONU) to reinstate a law professor…
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U.S. cutting off support for global vaccine alliance
“The United States won’t contribute anymore to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, until the global health organization has ‘re-earned the public…
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Supreme Court Rejects Planned Parenthood’s Attempt To Stay On Red State’s Medicaid Program
By Katelynn Richardson The Supreme Court rejected Planned Parenthood’s bid Thursday to prevent its exclusion from South Carolina’s Medicaid program.…
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Court issues preliminary injunction against federal suspension of Harvard’s participation in student visa program
A judge in Boston issued a preliminary injunction preventing the government from suspending Harvard’s participation in the student visa program.…
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Lawsuit seeks to strike down the federal Hispanic-Serving Institutions grant program
“A group instrumental in overturning affirmative action at the Supreme Court has teamed up with Tennessee’s attorney general” to challenge…
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FBI Reportedly Probing 3 Hospitals For Allegedly Mutilating Kids In Trans Medical Procedures
By Emily Kopp The FBI is investigating a trio of children’s hospitals for allegedly and potentially violating a federal law…
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California Dems Blame Wildfires On Trump After Their Party Created Tinderbox Of Regs
By Thomas English As California braces for another wildfire season, forestry experts warn that decades of regulatory mismanagement — not…
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Trump And Wright Move To Speed Nuclear Expansion
By David Blackmon Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced an ambitious plan to have three small modular reactors (SMRs) built and…
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The Senate Should Pass The Recissions Package Quickly
By JD Foster The House acted with remarkable alacrity in passing President Trump’s $9.4 billion recissions package. If he keeps…
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