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The US Open, held at Flushing Meadow in New York City, witnessed the first Grand Slam titles of the career of Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff over the weekend. Djokovic beat Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3 in the men’s singles final while Gauff defeated Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the women’s singles final. …

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives are in a high-stakes game of chicken with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Democratic-controlled Senate as they race toward a Sept. 30 deadline to pass a funding bill to prevent a government shutdown. At its center is a demand from the conservative …

It was a sunny September morning twenty-two years ago when a devastating act of terrorism changed the lives of thousands of people around the world. The 9/11 attacks in the United States killed 2,977 people and thousands more were left grieving. Each year on the anniversary of the attacks, the world remembers the tragedy of …

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has pardoned Scott Smith, a Loudoun County father arrested during a protest at a Loudoun County School Board meeting in 2021. The pardon comes after a highly publicized incident, in which Smith protested the school district’s handling of two sexually motivated assaults on his daughter and another female student by a …

A new bill that could soon become law in California is drawing criticism from parents and conservative groups who say it will erode parental rights and is easily manipulated. AB 957 would require judges to consider whether a parent “affirms” a child’s gender identity or expression when determining child custody or visitation rights. It passed …

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared a 30-day ban on the open and concealed carrying of firearms in Albuquerque and Bernalillo counties in response to an 11-year-old boy who was killed on his way home from a baseball game Wednesday. The declaration has met with some resistance, most recently from Bernalillo County Sheriff …

President Biden has rolled back oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve (ANWR) and is planning to block future drilling efforts in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. In a statement released Wednesday, the Department of the Interior announced that the leases issued during the Trump administration had been rescinded and that 13 million …

The hit Christian-based movie “Sound of Freedom” is dominating the box office in 18 Latin American countries after it premiered on August 31st. The gripping film, led by actor Jim Caviezel and directed by Alejandro Monteverde, tackles the horrors of human trafficking and is now the number one movie across Latin America, according to a …

With the holiday shopping season upon us, Laramie County’s Sheriff Brian Kozak has come up with a unique solution to the recent rise in thefts – a “Wild West”-style posse of volunteers. The posse, decked out in cowboy hats and uniforms, will be patrolling the streets of Cheyenne multiple times a week, with the goal …

Lawmakers have expressed their concerns over the Biden administration’s recent decision to strip federal funding from school hunting and archery education programs across the country. In two letters sent to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and to the Senate Appropriations Committee, a coalition of bipartisan senators demanded that the Department of Education “interpret the language as …