Legislation to make permanent the extension of telehealth services for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics has passed the Ways and Means Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill of U.S. Rep. Dr. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., and the Rural Physician Workforce Preservation Act he authored are also under consideration by the ...

A House committee is scheduled to examine the historic surge in Chinese illegal immigration next week, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability will hold a hearing on Thursday concerning the roughly 8,000 percent increase in Chinese illegal immigration ...

Recently, Democrats at both federal and state levels have passed or are considering regulations that will grant government health coverage to illegal residents. Bad move for both illegals and legal residents. The post Commentary: Government Health Coverage for Illegals is a Bad Idea first appeared on The Ohio Star.

Imagine a scientist who decided to reject every scientific experiment or study that had come before him and would trust only scientific principles that he demonstrated with his own experiments. Naturally, he would completely handicap himself. In his arrogance, hed accomplish very little with his science, since hed be hard at work re-demonstrating every ...

Gas prices have been elevated in recent months heading into summer, when prices are expected to rise even more. According to AAA, the average national price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $3.65 per gallon, up from $3.59 a month ago. The prices have fluctuated in recent days and are lower than the all-time high of $5.02 in the summer of 2022. ...

Two reports released Monday show that the U.S. combined Social Security trust fund is projected to deplete its reserves by 2035. The Trustees for Social Security and Medicare released annual reports on Monday. The Trustees projected the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund will exhaust its reserves in 2036. The Social Security Old-Age and Survivors ...

Robert Alt, president and CEO of the Buckeye Institute and lead attorney in the case, Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury, told The Ohio Starthat this Ohio case could rebalance federalism and rein in the Commerce Clause. He also noted that Ream could supersede the 1942 Wickard v. Filburn case, which significantly broadened federal regulatory powers under ...

by Roger Kimball   Some time ago, I participated in a conference about policing in an age of terror. One big topic was the place of informed hunches in the armory of the police. Was it okay, or was it culpably racist, for the police to act on educated hunches when going about their jobs?… The post Commentary: A Deep Dive into the Shame and Disgust that ...

Ohio and Kentucky announced Friday they received federal approval to move the $3.6 billion Brent Spence Bridge Corridor project forward without tolls. The environmental approval means the massive project connecting Cincinnati to Northern Kentucky moves ahead the project that transforms an 8-mile stretch of I-71/75 and includes a new companion bridge ...

As borrowing costs for student loans are already at unseen levels, rates are expected to rise even higher in the coming months to a high not seen in 16 years. According toABC News, the current interest rate on a federal undergraduate student loan, which is 5.5%, is expected to rise to 6.5% in July. This would mark the highest level since 2008. The borrowing ...

The federal government funded a multilateral research project investigating how populist politicians allegedly sowed disinformation and eroded public trust during the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Science Foundation (NSF) paid out a grant to support research investigating how populist politicians distorted COVID-19 pandemic health communication to ...

U.S. farmers confidence in the economy cratered in April, according to the latest monthly report from Purdue University. The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer for last month, which was released Tuesday, fell 15 points from March. At 99, the current score is the lowest the barometer has dropped since it reached 97 in June 2022. The post Report ...

Dozens of Duke University students on Sunday walked out of their commencement ceremony, some chanting "free Palestine," in protest of guest speaker Jerry Seinfeld for his support of Israel. The post Duke Students Walk Out of Seinfelds Speech in Protest of His Support for Israel first appeared on The Ohio Star.

The government has put together new rules to guide how U.S. spy agencies buy and use mounds of highly personal information from smartphone apps, automobiles and other connected devices. The newframeworkpolicy, from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, does not require agencies to get a warrant before buying or searching commercially ...

Nearly two years after Nina Jankowicz briefly led the Disinformation Governance Board at the Department of Homeland Security, sheslaunched an organizationdemanding transparency and the public release of documents about the public debate on disinformation. An interesting move, likely without true transparency in mind. My organization, Americans for ...

At just 11 years old, I watched as a midwife cared for my mother and delivered my baby sister. A spark burst into a flame inside of me, and I knew from that moment on that I wanted to be a part of the beauty and wonder of birth and be a mother myself one day. One of the most rewarding aspects of my now almost 40-year career as a nurse and a midwife has been ...

U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance wants to withhold federal money from colleges and universitiesacross the nationthat refuse to remove disruptive encampments from the campuses. The Ohio Republican said pro-Palestinian protesters that have emerged on campuses over the past several weeks hate America and called the encampments a national embarrassment. The post Vance ...

Mass migration has not delivered significant GDP growth per capita for the United Kingdom, but it has increased strain on the country, according to anew study. While illegal immigration recently hit record highs in the United States, legal immigration poses a significant issue for the U.K., where legal migration levels are more than 25 times the level of ...

Despite being stretched thin and understaffed, Border Patrol agents at the northern border continue to apprehend a record number of illegal border crossers. In the busiest northern border sector of Swanton, Border Patrol agents made history by apprehending the greatest number of illegal border crossers in sector history of 1,109 in March, according to U.S. ...

Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack has announced her resignation, making her the third leader of an Ivy League college to step down this year. Pollack,a computer scientist, made the announcement Thursday and said she'll leave the Ithaca, New York, school in June,according to The Hill newspaper. The post Cornell President to Step Down, Third ...

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon may have just indefinitely postponed Donald Trumps espionage and obstruction trial but that doesnt mean her federal courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida will lie dormant over the next few months. In officially vacating the existing May 20 trial datean impossibility considering the defendant will be in a Manhattan ...

Two elderly climate activists attempted to break the glass surrounding the Magna Carta on Friday. The protesters, affiliated with the disruptive protest outfit Just Stop Oil, used a hammer and chisel to break the glass enclosure holding the Magna Carta at the British Library, footage posted to X by the protest group shows. The enclosure sustained minor ...

At both the federal and state levels, elected leaders are paying more attention to national security threats stemming from Chinese-owned real estate in the United States. The totality of Chinese-owned real estate in the United States remains unknown and, under current law, is unknowable. For agricultural land, Chinese-owned acreage reportedly only ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will have to settle for school districts establishing respective cellphone policies rather than the state limiting use for students during the school day. In his State of the State address last month, DeWine called on lawmakers to establish statewide cellphone restrictions. Instead, the legislature passed a bill that would require ...

The House of Representatives finally acted Wednesday to remedy an injustice that has been getting worse as the number of illegal aliens coming into the United States has skyrocketed: the distortion caused by including noncitizens when determining how many House members each state gets. The HousepassedHR 7109, theEqual Representation Act, to mandate a ...