A few years ago, former US Senator Phil Gramm published a book that offers important insights into the status of low-income communities in the United States. Titled The Myth of American Inequality and scrupulously researched, the book evaluates U.S. household income by quintiles. It concludes that the bottom quintile (the lowest 20 percent) actually has ...

By fiscal year 2035, the national debt is set to surpass $53 trillion, or 120% of the nations Gross Domestic Product, according to a new estimate by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The updated number which CRFB reached by assuming that all current trade deals and tariffs remain in effect is$1 trillion more than projectedin the ...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday unveiled a massive reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community that will cut hundreds of positions inside her own office and put pressure on other spy agencies to do the same after bombshell revelations over politicized weaponization of intelligence. The current plan will cut about 40% of ...

Senior American intelligence officials concealed classified intelligence that COVID-19 came from a lab from the president and the public, granting Anthony Faucis inner circle extraordinary influence while silencing their own spy scientists, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. Evidence pointing to a lab leak included signals intelligence ...

An Indian national will face jail time and deportation after leading an illegal migrant smuggling scheme that ended horribly. Aryan Deshwal, a 21-year-old man from India, pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and five counts of alien smuggling,according tothe Department of Justice (DOJ). Deshwal attempted to smuggle five illegal ...

Justice Department Special Attorney for Mortgage Fraud Ed Martin has urged New York Attorney General Letitia James to resign as his office investigates her for potential mortgage fraud. Martinsent a letterto James' attorney, Abbe Lowell, on Aug. 12 in which he said James "would best serve the 'good of the state and nation' by resigning from office to ...

Despite many arguing the border crisis is over because illegal entries at the southwest border have dropped to their lowest level in recorded history, border-related and cartel crime is flourishing throughout the U.S. Federal, state and local law enforcement task forces are actively working to target and remove criminal actors continuing to profit off of ...

Jim Simons mathematical skills helped transform him from a prize-winning academic at Harvard and MIT into a legendary financier whose algorithmic models made Renaissance Technologies one of the most successful hedge funds in history.After his death last year, one of his consequential bequests went to his daughter, Liz, who oversees the Heising-Simons ...

I did my first full-length feature on Juna N Joey back in February of 2022, when they were 16 and 19 years old. Their parents are not musical at all, but they have a paternal grandfather who was an opera singer and a maternal grandmother who was part of a country band. Since then, the brother and sister duo have continued attending online school and now ...

While politics is pushing redistricting efforts in other states, Ohio is under a rule of the people to change congressional maps before the midterm elections. Thanks to a constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2018, congressional districts drawn without bipartisan support from the Ohio Redistricting Commission must be redrawn every four years. The ...

Democrat Boston Mayor Michelle Wu vowed on Tuesday to defy the Department of Justice (DOJ) by protecting criminal illegal immigrants in her city. The DOJ sent aletterto Wu and other Democratic mayors and governors across the U.S. stating that they must submit a plan that outlines their compliance with federal immigration laws by Tuesday. During a press ...

Missouri state Attorney General Andrew Bailey has announced he will be joining theTrump administrationas co-deputy director of the FBI. I am proud to announce I have accepted the role of co-deputy director of the FBI. I extend my thanks to@POTUSand@AGPamBondifor the opportunity to serve in the mission to Make America Safe Again. I will protect America and ...

The U.S. Department of Justice will comply with a subpoena for records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of a congressional investigation, Republicans announced. Earlier this month, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., issued subpoenas tomultiple high-profile Democrats including the Clintons ...

While Rolling Stone Magazine compared newcomer Billianne to a young Adele, I have to disagree. I found her voice more akin to an indie/pop version of Alison Krauss. Either way, this rising artist is someone to pay attention to as she has the voice of an angel. Billianne has more than 650,000 TikTok followers and 319,000 organic Instagram followers. Whatever ...

An Israeli government official was reportedly arrested to face charges of luring children to partake in sex, but was allowed to return to Israel before trial, according to multiple sources. Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, was one of eight people arrested on Friday by a multi-agency sting operation led by the Las Vegas Police Department (LVPD), which charged ...

Texas Democrats returned to the state on Monday, ending a two-week redistricting standoff with Republicans ahead of a new legislative session. The post Texas Democrats Return to State, Ending Redistricting Standoff Ahead of New Legislative Session first appeared on The Ohio Star.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is falling far behind Republicans in the race for cash as the party continues to pay off debt from the Harris-Walz 2024 presidential campaign, Politico reported Monday. Weighed down by lingering debt from the 2024 presidential election and low donorenthusiasm, the DNC reported just $15 million on hand by the end of ...

Families concerned about color additives in school lunches, at grocery stores and at fast-food counters can now reference a new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website that tracks the actions of companies that have pledged to phase them out, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)announced in ...

Oil companies facing a lawsuit from Boulder, Colorado, have petitioned the Supreme Court to review the case. In 2019, the city and county of Boulderfiled a lawsuitseeking damages from weather events, which they allege are caused by burning fossil fuels. They also accuse the oil companies of deceiving the public about the dangers of climate change. The post ...

Ive never felt more hopeful for the future of Western civilization than I did mere days ago, standing shoulder to shoulder with over 1 million Gen Zers from every corner of the globe, sandwiched together in the heart of Rome. Over cheers, laughter, and euphoric singing and dancing, I witnessed a sea of young, vibrant souls in Saint Peters Square poised to ...

When I interviewed Trey Calloway at CRS 2025, there was an instant kindred spirit, and I knew I wanted to do a full feature on him once the opportunity arose. Like so many of the artists I have interviewed, Calloway got his start singing at church. He knows that singing at church, especially when it's not one of those mega churches, is a safe place to try ...

Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are neck and neck in the states bruising GOP Senate primary contest, according to recent polling. Cornyn leads Paxton by one percentage point, 30% to 29%, with 37% of voters undecided in an Emerson Collegesurveyreleased Friday. The survey paints a starkly different picture of ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention center, called"Deportation Depot,"located at the state prison Baker Correctional Institution, the governorannouncedThursday. The announcement comes as a federal judge decides the fate of the state immigration detention center known asAlligator Alcatraz,located ...

A second Ohio county is facing a lawsuit for not releasing information pertaining to contracts with U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio wants public records from the Seneca County Sheriffs Office that relate to documents and communications connected to its agreement with ICE to handle federal immigration ...

Gerrymandering, the political practice of carving up awkward-looking legislative districts to benefit one partys political power, has slithered into the public conversation once again. The post Commentary: Pandering, Meandering, and Gerrymandering first appeared on The Ohio Star.