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Congress giving $1.1 billion to fix 46,000 broken bridges
Congress is on track to provide an additional $1.14 billion in 2023 to reduce the backlog of structurally deficient bridges. But that’s not even close to what’s needed to fix the problem. A 2021 report from the American Society of Civil Engineers said 46,154 structurally deficient bridges in the United States are in “poor condition”.… -
Grand jury indicts 2 in hacked Ring doorbell swatting scheme
A grand jury indicted two people in a swatting scheme in which the defendants are accused of hacking into Ring video doorbells, calling the cops by placing bogus emergency calls, and then live streaming the police response on social media. The pair are accused of doing this about a dozen times in a single week.… -
Congress negotiating $1.7 trillion funding bill ahead of Friday deadline
The federal government is preparing to spend $1.7 trillion next year. According to the newly released 2023 omnibus spending package, taxpayer dollars are being split, with $772.5 billion for non-defense spending and $858 billion in defense funding for the military. Congress is currently negotiating the final details and the numbers may change slightly. But lawmakers… -
Jan. 6 committee makes criminal referrals against Trump
The committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol made multiple criminal referrals to the Justice Department against former President Donald Trump. The committee said Trump is criminally liable for his role in the riot and the attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power to President Joe Biden. The committee said Trump… -
Border Patrol closes highway checkpoint as immigration surges
The Border Patrol shut down a highway checkpoint in the El Paso sector as the number of illegal crossings in the area skyrockets. Photos sent to Straight Arrow News by a source in El Paso show a checkpoint in New Mexico blocked off and unstaffed. The Border Patrol El Paso sector denied the shutdown was… -
House intelligence GOP and Democrats release dueling COVID reports
In another example of partisanship, Democrats and Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released separate reports on COVID-19. The committee’s work is supposed to be nonpartisan, but the dueling reports highlight what each party has expressed concern about. For Democrats, their concerns are intelligence collection and how the Trump administration handled it. For Republicans, it’s… -
House votes to let Puerto Rico decide statehood
The House of Representatives passed the Puerto Rico Status Act, a bill to give the island territory the chance to decide its own future. If fully approved and signed into law, it would set up a binding referendum on Nov. 5, 2023, in which Puerto Ricans would choose from among three options: statehood, independence, or… -
Biden administration prepares for end of Title 42 while being urged to keep it
There’s just one week left until the court-ordered end to Title 42 on Dec. 21. The pandemic-era policy allows the U.S. to deport immigrants who cross illegally almost immediately on public health grounds. When it ends, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has predicted there could be as many as 18,000 illegal crossings per day. But… -
Funding tops Congress’ to-do list before the end of the year
There are only 21 days until the 117th Congress ends and the 118th begins. The slate will be wiped clean, and they’ll start fresh with a new Republican majority in the House and a larger 51-49 Democratic majority in the Senate. As the clock winds down, Congress has a big to-do list, with items lawmakers… -
CBP: 16,000 immigrants cross the border in 48 hour span
U.S. Border Patrol had over 16,000 migrant encounters over the weekend, according to Chief Raul Ortiz. That includes a surge in El Paso, Texas, where the Border Patrol has averaged 2,460 daily immigrant encounters over the last three days according to the sector’s acting Chief Patrol Agent Peter Jaquez. On Sunday night alone, more than… -
Biden criticized for releasing Viktor Bout, merchant of death
The Biden administration is coming under heavy fire for its prisoner exchange of WNBA star Brittney Griner for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. While critics are happy Griner is on her way home, they are not pleased a man called the merchant of death is free. Bout was originally arrested in 2008, and extradited to… -
Who is Paul Whelan? The ex-Marine who didn’t come home with Griner
WNBA star Brittney Griner is free from Russia after a prisoner exchange in which the U.S. released convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the merchant of death. But in exchange for Bout, the U.S. originally wanted both Griner and ex-Marine Paul Whelan, who was arrested in Russia in 2018 and convicted on espionage… -
Supreme Court to decide validity of state legislature theory in Moore v. Harper
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could forever shape redistricting and federal elections in America. In Moore v. Harper, the justices are considering the validity of the independent state legislature theory, which states only legislatures have the authority to regulate federal elections and state courts cannot interfere. “The elections clause requires…
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