Tim Pearce

WASHINGTON - Covington Catholic high school student Nicholas Sandmann is suing The Washington Post over its coverage of a January incident involving himself and Native American protester Nathan Phillips. Attorneys for…

SPRINGFIELD - Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill Tuesday raising the state’s minimum wage from $8.25 an hour to $15 by 2025, The Hill reported. Pritzker signaled Thursday that he would sign the bill after it passed…

NEW YORK - Amazon announced a new green project Monday to ship half of all packages with net zero carbon by 2030 after the company ended a contentious plan to build a campus in New York. Amazon’s latest project, called “Shipment…

EUROPE - The Catholic Church has officially recognized that it has internal guidelines in place governing procedures when clerics father children, The New York Times reports. The admission may be the first of its kind and comes days…

WASHINGTON - U.S. farmers are filing for Chapter 12 bankruptcy at the highest rate in at least a decade as agriculturists feel pressure from trade wars and low commodity prices, The Wall Street Journal reported in February. The…

AURORA - At least four police officers and multiple civilians are injured after a shooter stormed a manufacturing company in Aurora, Illinois, Friday, The Aurora Daily Herald reports. At least one civilian might be dead. Multiple…

CHICAGO - The Chicago home of Al Capone, the Prohibition-era mob boss, is going up for sale again in time for the 90th anniversary of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, an infamous hit job thought to be orchestrated by Capone. Capone…

NEW YORK - Amazon may forfeit part or all of its $3 billion incentive package to build a new headquarters in New York City after local residents put up a spirited resistance to the company’s plans. The fallout between Amazon and the…

NEW YORK - The U.S. solar industry lost roughly 18,000 jobs in the past two years, from roughly 260,000 jobs in 2016 to about 242,000 jobs in November 2018, according to the National Solar Jobs Census. The Solar Foundation has…

NEW JERSEY - Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey attacked President Donald Trump Monday for treating illegal aliens that drive under the influence of drugs or alcohol as criminals. Democratic lawmakers…

CALIFORNIA - The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the Trump administration Monday in a case challenging its use of waivers to bypass environmental regulations in constructing parts of the border wall. The state of California…

EL PASO - If congressional Democrats suffered the way the family of Dan Ferguson, an angel dad, has, funding for a border wall would have been approved months ago, Ferguson told “Fox & Friends” hosts Monday. Ferguson’s daughter…

RICHMOND - Black Virginians overwhelmingly think Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam should remain in office despite the recent scandal over one of his 1984 medical school yearbook photos showing two people dressed in blackface and…

NEW YORK - Amazon is reportedly rethinking its promise to build a headquarters in New York City after receiving pushback from local officials and residents, sources told The Washington Post. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and NYC…

NEW YORK, NY - Federal oil and gas lease sales earned roughly $1.1 billion in 2018, nearly tripling the previous record set a decade ago, Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced Wednesday. Oil and gas lease sales…

PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania Democrats are worried about the short-term future of their political machine after authorities charged a Philadelphia labor leader with numerous counts of embezzlement, bribery and theft, Politico reports. …

NEW YORK, NY - The U.S. economy added 304,000 jobs while the unemployment rate rose slightly to 4 percent in the first month of 2019, according to Department of Labor (DOL) data released Friday. January marks the 100th straight…

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Testifies Fiscal Year 2019 Budget, Mar 13 2018 , CSPAN WASHINGTON - Federal investigators released a report Thursday finding “no evidence” former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke committed misconduct while…

TEXAS - Nearly a dozen illegal immigrants at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas are refusing to eat as part of a hunger strike against alleged verbal abuse by guards, The Associated Press reported. ICE…

NEW YORK, NY - Amazon will try to thwart efforts to unionize its New York City workforce after the company builds one of its two new headquarters in Queens, Amazon Vice President Brian Huseman said. …

NEW YORK, NY - Hundreds of current and former BuzzFeed employees are demanding the media company pay recently laid-off staff for paid-time-off they accrued before being laid-off from the company. The BuzzFeed News Staff Council…

WASHINGTON - U.S. economic freedom rose to the highest level in eight years in 2019, hopping up six spots on The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom. The Heritage Foundation released the updated list of countries, from…

A Noose was found hanging in the bathroom of the Toledo, Ohio General Motors plan as well as racial slurs on the walls, according to CNN. OHIO - Nooses, racial slurs and “White’s Only” signs added to a hostile work environment in a…

NEW YORK, NY - Small business owners have “grave concerns” over a recent Democratic House bill that would more than double the federal minimum wage in less than five years. House Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday that…

CALIFORNIA - Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX is cutting 10 percent of its workforce in an effort to cut down on costs and waste, The Los Angeles Times reported. Musk – as SpaceX CEO – and company President Gwynne…