House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says he believes the House has enough votes to hold U.S. Attorney GeneralMerrick Garland in contempt. "Absolutely," Comer answered when asked about the votes on the Wednesday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "I think the Judiciary Committee [is] going to do the same thing. We've worked ...

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge on Thursday that could have paved the way for a consumer protection regulator to be dismantled. The post Supreme Court Slaps Down Challenge That Could Have Gutted Financial Regulatory Agency first appeared on The Ohio Star.

Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin's gubernatorial victory in Virginia in November 2021, widely credited to his promise to restore parental rights in public schools in the Democratic-leaning state, set off panic in the national education establishment. Newly disclosed records reveal the American Federation of Teachers hired a prominent Democratic pollster ...

Telehealth has become a health care gamechanger for tens of millions of Americans. We all know the time and effort an in-person health visit takes travel to the appointment, time off work, hours spent in an office, follow ups that require us to do the whole process over again. But telehealth expansion in the post-COVID world has changed everything. The ...

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) ordered the removal of non-citizens from the state's voter rolls after more than 100 were found registered despite confirming their lack of U.S. citizenship. On Tuesday,LaRose directedall 88 counties to begin a removal process for non-citizens on Ohio's voter rolls following a review by his office's Public Integrity ...

With "Teacher Appreciation Week" now behind us, it's crucial that we pay close heed to the well-being of the students, and the news is not good. Gen Z-ers and the newest cropGeneration Alphaare struggling, and schools are the focal point of the problem. Anew report from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation surveyed more than 1,000 Gen Z students between ...

An agency of the District of Columbia held a training session last month to teach illegal immigrants and othernoncitizens how to vote, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch. News of the training session held by the local government in the nation's capital comes as House Republicans push a billwith the backing of Speaker Mike ...

Iran's strategic expansion in Latin America, by aligning itself with regimes that could represent a threat to democracy and regional stability, has become a concern for the region, according to a Tuesdayreportpublished by the Southern Command'sDilogo Americasmagazine. . While Iran's influence already extends to Brazil, where on November 8, 2023, Brazilian ...

There were 60 officers killed in the line of duty in 2023, the report said, one less than in 2022. But the total officers killed in the line of duty in the past three years were higher than any other three year period in the past two decades. An FBI report released Tuesday revealed that fewer law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty last ...

Inflation ticked down slightly year-over-year in April but still remained high as rising prices continue to take a toll on average Americans finances, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) release on Tuesday. The consumer price index (CPI), a broad measure of the prices of everyday goods, increased 3.4% on an annual basis in April and ...

George Mason University has at least 87 staffers working on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, according to an analysis by The College Fix. To put that in perspective, there are 59 full-time history and art history professors employed at the school. Of the 87 DEI posts, its a mix of employees and students with full-time or part-time positions working ...

Popular University 4 Gaza is a Telegram channel with over 8,000 subscribersand is run by members of NSJP, Palestinian Youth Movement and Writers Against the War on Gaza, according to a post on X, formerly Twitter. The channels admins distributeda document called the De-Arrest Primer on April 26 that provides tactics for resisting arrest, sometimes through ...

Former DEASpecial Operations Director Derek Maltz highlighted how strategic China is when it comes to attacking other countries, and claimed that the opioid crisis facing the U.S. is largely because of China and its connections with Mexican drug cartels that sneak it across the U.S. border. A former Drug Enforcement Administration official warned about the ...

Anybody who follows me or my column knows that I have a type. Traditional country music stirs my soul. When I find someone young who can do the same thing, I do my best to track them down. Zach Top is such an artist. His name kept showing up all over my feeds. When I heard the popular Sounds Like theRadio, I was thrilled and couldnt stop smiling. I ...

There are nearly twice as many registered Republicansin Ohio as Democrats, but most Ohio voters are not affiliated with any political party. Secretary of State Frank LaRose released the new numbers based on the March primary election. The post Majority of Ohio Voters Officially Unaffiliated with Party first appeared on The Ohio Star.

The World Professional Association forTransgender Health (WPATH) is the leading authority in the field of gender medicine. Its guidance is routinely used by top medical associations in the U.S. and abroad, while its standards of care inform insurance companies approach to coverage policies. But behind closed doors, top WPATH doctors discussed, and at times ...

Handy was convicted last year on two charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Pro-life activist Lauren Handy was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison on Tuesday for organizing a blockade at an abortion clinic in 2020 in Washington, D.C. The post Pro-Life Activist Sentenced to Almost Five Years in Prison over D.C. Clinic ...

A measure of wholesale inflation that tracks prices before they reach consumers surged to its fastest annual rate since April 2023, according to new data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The producer price index (PPI) rose 0.5 percent in April, totaling a 2.2 percent annual rate, far higher than estimates that the index would rise ...

Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sued Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, alleging the social media platform censored an election video on May 3. The Kennedy-supporting super PAC, American Values 2024,posted a 30-minute video titled, "Who Is Bobby Kennedy?," which the independent chargesInstagram and Facebook users were restricted from sharing. ...

Mere days after Columbia's presidenttestified the university was doing "everything it can" against antisemitism, extremist protestors tookover the campus,threatening and attacking Jewish students, encouraging others to become "martyrs" like the Hamas terrorists who committed the Oct. 7 massacre, and calling for Oct. 7 to become "every day" for Jews ...

When former Soviet KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov defected to the West from Russia, he set about exposing the strategies used within the KGB to spread propaganda and keep the Soviet people in line with the agenda of their political overlords. There were myriad tactics employed in this campaign of what today has been labeled mis- or dis-information. One of the most ...

Based on the latest available data and an enhanced version of a stress-tested methodology from a scholarly journal, a new study by Just Facts has found that about 10 percent to 27 percent of non-citizen adults in the U.S. are now illegally registered to vote. The U.S. Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the U.S. during 2022. ...

A few days ago, in examining Harvards problems and the ghost of its deposed and disgraced former president Claudine Gay, this column wrote: Education is supposed to be about reading, writing, and arithmeticeven at the college level. Once upon a time, and not that long ago, students at college read the classics to gain knowledge, learned to write stylish ...

A judge has struck down a New York county's ban on transgender athletes from participating in female sports, saying the county executive exceeded his authority by issuing the directive. The ruling by state Supreme Court Judge Francis Ricigliano overturns an executive order signed by Nassau County Chief Executive Bruce Blakeman in February that requires any ...

Congress has spent more money on interest so far this year than it has spent on both national defense and Medicare. The post U.S. Spending on Interest Tops National Defense, Medicare first appeared on The Ohio Star.