National

By Andrew Rice and Ava Ott | The Center Square (The Center Square) - A major winter storm is expected to bring significant snowfall and widespread disruption across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast this week, according to forecasters monitoring the system. The storm is projected to intensify as it moves east, generating heavy snow, strong winds, and hazardous travel conditions that...

By John O’Brien | Legal Newsline WASHINGTON – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is asking for answers from one of the lawyers pushing climate-change cases against Big Oil, wondering how he had access to materials an activist group gives judges as part of a training program. That program is possibly intended to sway courts to rule in favor of the...

By Elyse Apel | The Center Square (The Center Square) – Federal officials made two arrests in connection with a protest that disrupted a Sunday morning service in St. Paul. U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi made the announcements Thursday morning. “So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities...

By Brett Rowland | The Center Square (The Center Square) – President Donald Trump wants a much larger military budget despite the Pentagon's continued failure to accurately account for its spending. Trump proposed a $1.5 trillion budget for the Department of War after talks with lawmakers. "This will allow us to build the 'Dream Military' that we have long been...

By Mark Stricherz | The Center Square (The Center Square) — Since 2020, fraudsters have scammed at least $36 billion and as much as $3 trillion in tax money from federal entitlement programs, dwarfing the amount federal prosecutors claim was stolen in Minnesota's federal food aid scandal known as Feeding Our Future, an investigation by The Center Square found. The...

By Andrew Rice | The Center Square (The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up two cases over whether individuals with felony records can be permanently disarmed under the Second Amendment. The court declined to hear Zherka v. Bondi and Duarte v. U.S. Each challenge targets laws banning individuals with felony convictions from possessing...

By Brett Rowland | The Center Square (The Center Square) – New research shows Americans are paying almost the entire cost of President Donald Trump's tariffs, directly challenging his repeated assertion that foreign nations absorb the burden. Nearly all tariff costs fall on American importers and consumers, underscoring that Americans – not foreign entities – are covering the expense, according...

By Andrew Rice | The Center Square (The Center Square) – One year ago Tuesday, President Donald Trump told the nation its “golden age” had arrived, promising to spend his second term restoring stability at home and abroad through deportations, tariffs, and cutting government waste. “For American citizens, January 20th, 2025, is Liberation Day,” he said during his inaugural address...

By Orphe Divounguy | The Center Square contributor The week ahead begins with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a moment that invites reflection not only on civil rights, but on how economic systems function – and malfunction – when opportunity is unevenly distributed. That reflection is not merely philosophical. A substantial body of economic research shows that discrimination and segregation...

By Elyse Apel | The Center Square (The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a protest that disrupted a Sunday morning church service in Minnesota. Video posted by Black Lives Matter Minnesota, one of the organizers for the event, shows anti-ICE protestors disrupting a service at Cities Church in St. Paul. Protesters chanted “ICE out” and “Justice...