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Illinois legalizes physician-assisted suicide; critics warn of moral, safety risks

(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1950, prompting strong backlash from medical, disability, religious and legal groups who say it was rushed and violates key ethical and legal protections. State Rep. Bill Hauter, R-Morton, a practicing physician, said Pritzker showed signs of hesitation but ultimately “his leftist ideology took over and he Read More…

House Passes Reforms to Unlock Full Potential of Working Families Tax Cuts

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a series of bills aimed at expanding the impact of the Working Families Tax Cuts by reducing regulatory barriers, streamlining permitting processes, and promoting economic growth. House Republicans framed the legislation as part of a broader pro-growth agenda to accelerate infrastructure, energy, and investment projects across the nation. “House Read More…

President Trump Signs Executive Order Establishing National AI Policy Framework

President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order this week aimed at creating a unified national policy framework for artificial intelligence (AI), addressing what the administration calls a patchwork of state regulations that threaten American innovation and competitiveness. The Order directs multiple federal agencies to take steps ensuring AI companies are not subject to inconsistent Read More…

Knudsen Urges AG Organizations to Deny Membership to Virginia AG-Elect Over “Abhorrent” Texts

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has called on the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) and the Attorney General Alliance (AGA) to deny membership to Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones, citing a series of “abhorrent” text messages Jones sent in 2022 that expressed violent fantasies toward his political opponent and the opponent’s children. The texts Read More…

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Illinois legalizes physician-assisted suicide; critics warn of moral, safety risks

(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1950, prompting strong backlash from medical, disability, religious and legal groups who say it was rushed and violates key ethical and legal protections. State Rep. Bill Hauter, R-Morton, a practicing physician, said Pritzker showed signs of hesitation but ultimately “his leftist ideology took over and he Read More…

House Passes Reforms to Unlock Full Potential of Working Families Tax Cuts

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a series of bills aimed at expanding the impact of the Working Families Tax Cuts by reducing regulatory barriers, streamlining permitting processes, and promoting economic growth. House Republicans framed the legislation as part of a broader pro-growth agenda to accelerate infrastructure, energy, and investment projects across the nation. “House Read More…

President Trump Signs Executive Order Establishing National AI Policy Framework

President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order this week aimed at creating a unified national policy framework for artificial intelligence (AI), addressing what the administration calls a patchwork of state regulations that threaten American innovation and competitiveness. The Order directs multiple federal agencies to take steps ensuring AI companies are not subject to inconsistent Read More…

Knudsen Urges AG Organizations to Deny Membership to Virginia AG-Elect Over “Abhorrent” Texts

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has called on the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) and the Attorney General Alliance (AGA) to deny membership to Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones, citing a series of “abhorrent” text messages Jones sent in 2022 that expressed violent fantasies toward his political opponent and the opponent’s children. The texts Read More…

House Republicans Introduce Bill to Lower Health Care Premiums, Expand Access

House Republicans unveiled the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, legislation aimed at reducing health care costs, expanding access, and increasing transparency across the U.S. health care system. The bill is expected to be considered by the House next week. “Nearly 15 years ago, the Democrats’ Unaffordable Care Act broke the American health Read More…

U.S. Lawmakers Urge Google, Apple to Remove Apps Tracking Immigration Agents

Lawmakers on the House Committee on Homeland Security are pressing Google and Apple to remove mobile applications that allow users to track federal immigration officers, citing concerns that such apps endanger Department of Homeland Security personnel. In letters sent Friday to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook, committee leaders highlighted ICEBlock, an Read More…

Trump Purchases More Than $82 Million in Bonds Since Late August

President Donald Trump has purchased at least $82 million worth of corporate and municipal bonds between late August and early October, according to newly released federal financial disclosures. The information, published Saturday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, details more than 175 financial transactions conducted by the president from August 28 through October 2. Read More…

Trump Administration Launches Investigation into Major Meat Packing Companies

President Donald J. Trump has directed the Department of Justice to investigate the nation’s largest meat packing companies for potential collusion, price fixing, and manipulation, with a focus on foreign-owned or heavily foreign-influenced firms. The probe targets the “Big Four” meat packers — JBS (Brazil), Cargill, Tyson Foods, and National Beef — which together control Read More…

Government Shutdown Enters Sixth Week

The federal government shutdown entered its sixth week this weekend, stretching into the longest in U.S. history and revealing the mounting toll of Washington’s political stalemate. With more than 1,000 flight cancellations nationwide for the second straight day and critical federal services strained, the crisis is now hitting ordinary Americans far harder than the politicians Read More…

Virginia Attorney General Race Comes Down to the Wire Ahead of Election Day

As Virginians head to the polls in the 2025 Attorney General election, the race between incumbent Republican Jason Miyares and Democratic challenger Jay Jones has tightened, drawing national attention and raising the stakes for conservatives across the state. For conservatives, the office of Attorney General is more than a political prize—it’s a frontline in the Read More…

Vance calls for Jay Jones to withdraw from race after leaked texts

(The Center Square) – Vice President JD Vance is calling for Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones to withdraw from Virginia’s Nov. 4 election after private text messages leaked in which Jones talked about shooting former House Speaker Todd Gilbert. The messages, first reported by National Review, include Jones writing in 2022 that Gilbert would Read More…

Eric Adams drops out of NYC mayoral race

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Energy will be returning to American taxpayers $13 billion in “unobligated wasteful spending” that was originally intended for former President Joe Biden’s climate agenda. In response, Larry Behrens from Power the Future told The Center Square that “by returning $13 billion, the Department of Energy under President Read More…

Secret Service spent $11 million on Hunter Biden travel detail

(The Center Square) – The Biden administration spent more than $10 million over three years on a security detail and related expenses for former First Son Hunter Biden after denying similar protections to other high-profile political figures, documents obtained by the Center to Advance Security in America and shared exclusively with The Center Square show. The Read More…

Daines Leads Bipartisan Push for Greater Transparency in CDFI Fund

U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) is leading a bipartisan effort to increase transparency and accountability in the federal Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, introducing the CDFI Fund Transparency Act alongside Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.). The legislation would require the Secretary of the Treasury to testify annually before Read More…

Trump HHS tells states to remove gender ideology from sex ed or lose PREP funding

(The Center Square) – The Trump administration directed 46 states and territories to remove gender ideology from their sex ed materials or else face possible termination of federal Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) funding, with a family advocate praising the move. Policy director for family advocacy group American Principles Project Paul Dupont told The Center Read More…

WinRed Posts Record GOP Fundraising

Republican candidates are increasingly turning to WinRed as their go-to fundraising platform, with new figures showing record-breaking growth across the 2024 election cycle. According to data released by the GOP-backed digital fundraising service, Republicans raised a total of $5.6 billion through WinRed over the past three election cycles, with contributions from 8.8 million individual donors. Read More…

Obama Administration Under Fire as Declassified Intel Questions 2016 Election Narrative

Newly declassified documents released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are reigniting fierce political debate over the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, with conservatives alleging they show top Obama administration officials helped fabricate the narrative of collusion to discredit then-candidate Donald Trump. The documents include a previously unreleased annex to the 2023 Durham report Read More…

Former Trump Official: Gabbard Confirmed ‘What We All Knew’ About Obama and Russian Collusion Hoax

As Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard continues to release declassified documents and public statements alleging that former President Obama and members of his administration played a central role in “manufacturing” the narrative of Russian collusion in an effort to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the charges, countercharges, and flat-out denials — including Read More…

Trump Commerce Secretary Lutnick says U.S. auto CEOs are ‘cool with’ higher tariffs than Japan

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed Detroit automakers’ concerns about President Donald Trump’s new trade deal with Japan. Lutnick said he spoke to U.S. auto manufacturing CEOs and that “they are cool with it.” The agreement Trump announced would see Japan accept a tariff of 15% on cars it exports to the U.S., in addition to Read More…

Update: Pres. Trump, Celebrities, Politicians Pay Tribute to Legendary Wrestling Icon Hulk Hogan

Celebrities, politicians, conservative commentators, and more are paying tribute to legendary wrestling icon Hulk Hogan after news surfaced of his death on Thursday. He was 71. Advertisement Hogan, born Terry Gene Bollea, suffered a possible “cardiac arrest” at his home in Clearwater, Florida, TMZ Sports reported. The WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) confirmed reports that he had Read More…

Mamdani Wants Gov’t-Run Grocery Stores in NYC. Here’s How Well That’s ‘Working’ in Kansas City.

Ronald Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Truer words were never spoken. Democrats have always embraced the idea of more government creeping into every aspect of the lives of Americans. But the up-and-coming new generation of the Democrat Party Read More…

Hulk Hogan, Wrestling Icon and Star of the Republican National Convention, Has Died at the Age of 71

Terry Bollea, better known to wrestling fans as the legendary Hulk Hogan, died early Thursday morning. He was 71 years old. Hogan’s passing was first reported by TMZ Sports, which stated emergency personnel were dispatched to his home in Clearwater, Florida, over a reported “cardiac arrest.” Advertisement He rose to fame in the 1980s as Read More…

French President Macron Sues Candace Owens in Ill-Advised Attempt to Defend His Wife’s Honor

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, filed a defamation lawsuit against podcaster Candace Owens on Wednesday because Owens has repeatedly claimed that Brigitte Macron is actually a man named “Jean-Michel Trogneux.” According to a 200-page complaint filed in a Delaware court, the Macrons object to Owens’s claim that Brigitte Macron “was born a Read More…

Obama DNI James Clapper Reveals He’s ‘Lawyered Up’ – and He’s Not a Happy Camper

Former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was asked about his reaction to allegations from the current Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, regarding the Russia Collusion hoax. Advertisement As we reported, Gabbard referred the matter to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation, and they’ve now formed a Strike Force on the matter.  Read More…

Greg Gutfeld Reaches His Breaking Point With Co-Host, Encapsulates GOP Anger Over Russia Collusion Hoax

Greg Gutfeld reached his breaking point with liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov on Wednesday, launching into a heated commentary on the double standards surrounding the Russia collusion hoax. In doing so, he perfectly encapsulated broader Republican frustrations, with Democrats claiming that history is being “rewritten.”  Advertisement Those cries have gone forth despite the fact that the Read More…

Willie Brown Throws Cold Water on Kamala Harris’ Chances of Becoming CA Governor

Kamala Harris’ former mentor and ex-boyfriend Willie Brown threw cold water on her chances to become California governor. Currently, the frontrunner is Steve Hilton, polling at 19 percent, followed by former congresswoman Katie Porter, polling at 18 percent. Advertisement A new statewide poll conducted by Stack Data Strategy shows gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx leading Read More…

Thursday Morning Minute: Trust Your Gut

Thursday, July 24, 2025 Good morning, and welcome to RedState’s “Morning Minute” — a brief glimpse at which stories are trending at the moment and a look ahead at what the day may bring. Consider this your one-stop shop for news to kickstart your day.  Advertisement TOP O’ THE MORNIN’ Red-Hot at RedState  Karoline Leavitt’s Read More…

Report: Hillary Clinton Was a Little ‘Psycho-Emotional,’ Given ‘Heavy Tranquilizers’ During 2016 Campaign

A declassified 2020 House Intelligence Committee report alleges that Russian intelligence claimed Hillary Clinton suffered from “psycho-emotional problems” and was on “heavy tranquilizers” during the 2016 presidential campaign. Advertisement The report, declassified and made public Wednesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, claims information on the former First Lady’s fragile emotional state was reportedly Read More…

Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell expected to meet with DOJ on Thursday

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is expected to meet with the Department of Justice. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said this week he wanted to ask the former British socialite what she knew about potentially other people who sexually abused girls and young women. Blanche previously served as a Read More…

How ‘Unverifiable’ Report Became Russiagate Dynamite

X Story Stream recent articles The Obama intelligence community’s claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized dirty tricks to try and help Donald Trump win the 2016 election was based on “one scant, unclear and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard [intelligence] reports,” according to a just-declassified report that had been Read More…