A Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania is pushing a sweeping plan to eliminate school property taxes by creating a multibillion-dollar education endowment fund. The proposal would replace the roughly $16 billion collected annually from taxpayers for public schools.
Hurricane Erin, now a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph, is churning north-northwest off the East Coast, driving dangerous storm surges and forcing evacuations along North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is facing criticism after wrongly claiming that President Donald Trump allowed into the U.S. a migrant truck driver now charged with vehicular homicide in a Florida crash that killed three Americans.
Across England, patriotic groups are raising Union Jacks and St. George’s flags in quiet defiance of the country’s mass migration agenda. Yet left-wing councils in cities like Birmingham and London have rushed to strip the flags down, citing “safety” concerns — even as they have tolerated Palestinian flags flying for months at a time.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) has officially signed legislation ending taxpayer funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the state’s higher education system. The measure, SB 796, permanently bars public universities from using state funds to support DEI initiatives or mandating ideological training based on race, sex, or other identity categories.
Google could soon face a historic breakup as a federal judge prepares to rule on remedies in the government’s landmark antitrust case against the search giant. Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled last year that Google illegally monopolized the search market, is considering drastic measures that may include forcing the company to sell its Chrome browser.
