The CEO of Steward Health Care told senators Wednesday that despite a subpoena he would not appear before a bipartisan Senate committee next week to answer questions about the financial dealings of his bankrupt hospital chain. In a bipartisan vote in July, a Senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions authorized the subpoena mandating de la Torre to be present on Sept. 12 for testimony in Washington, D.C. Through an attorney, de la Torre requested that the hearing be rescheduled...

A statewide teachers union aims to bring an "Educator's Bill of Rights" to the Legislature in 2025 that includes a call to repeal legislation that allows for "hostile state takeover of districts by an appointed education commissioner" as part of a right to democratic representation. Texas AFT, representing 66,000 members, pointed to the initiative as a way to retain educators. The departures make daily tasks harder for remaining staff and leaves students without necessary support and services,...

Universities are reopening for the 2024-25 academic year with a host of protest guardrails designed to head off the anti-Israel mayhem that enveloped campuses last year, and it won’t be long before they find out whether their policies pass the test. Bans on outdoor camping have been enacted at multiple schools nationwide, including the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California system, a response to the pro-Gaza encampments...

A federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges that a Tennessee-based media company which played home to several prominent right-leaning online commentators was secretly a Russian government-backed influence operation. The company is accused of receiving nearly $10 million from employees of Russia Today (RT), a Russian state-backed media company, as part of “a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging,” according to Attorney General...

The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has accepted the rules of next week's debate against Republican Donald Trump, including microphones being muted when it is not a candidate's turn to speak, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Pro-Palestinian activists are growing increasingly frustrated with Vice President Harris as she remains in public lockstep with President Biden on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, but some are holding out hope that she would take a harder line on Israel once potentially in the White House. Harris has not indicated that she would waver in weapons sales to Israel and has not shown breaks with Biden’s handling of the war, aside from slight changes in rhetoric when addressing the human suffering in...

Most of the agents on former President Trump’s protective detail during his Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13 were Homeland Security personnel who had little protective training, according to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). Hawley told Fox News’ Jesse Watters Tuesday night that he had been informed by a whistleblower that the day Trump was almost assassinated, he was mostly guarded by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents who had only received a short and glitchy online training session...

A House panel has subpoenaed Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz over charges of hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID-relief fraud. The House Education and Workforce Committee issued the subpoenas against the Minnesota governor and multiple state and federal departments on Wednesday, NBC News first reported. Mr. Walz, Minnesota Education Commissioner Willie Jett, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong have been asked for documents about...

by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute: “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes It’s not easy being a child in the American police state. Danger lurks around […]

by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream: If the ground under your feet is moving “up to 10 inches a week”, that might be a sign that it is time to relocate.  What is currently taking place in Rancho Palos Verdes is perhaps the most extreme example of the geophysical instability that is plaguing much […]