Local Politics

(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas says the $1.9 trillion bill passed by Democrats in the House and Senate allocates $1 trillion to non-conoravirus-related relief spending, including payments to noncitizens and incarnated felons.

(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Public Safety launched “Operation Lone Star” over the weekend after a surge of people at the Texas-Mexico border continued to try and get into the U.S. in response to Biden administration policies.

(The Center Square) – Illinois' two U.S. senators, Majority Whip Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, praised Saturday's passage of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief plan after their Saturday votes.

(The Center Square) – After a marathon session that lasted through the night, The U.S. Senate on Saturday narrowly passed a massive $1.9 trillion relief package that critics say contains hundreds of billions of dollars of wasteful spending unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic.

(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, whose district extends from the Rio Grande along the Mexican border to the San Antonio suburbs, is sounding the alarm about a potential border crisis in Texas.

(The Center Square) – Florida’s proposed "Combating Public Disorder Act" is one step away from House approval and transfer to the Senate, where the controversial “anti-mob” bill is likely to be adopted and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis before the 2021 legislative session adjourns in May.

(The Center Square) – A Corpus Christi, Texas-based nurse is challenging the dismissal of her case by the National Labor Relations Board's Acting General Counsel, Peter Ohr, who she alleges lacks the legal authority to do so.

(The Center Square) – Nursing homes in the U.S. are seeing the lowest number of new COVID cases since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began tracking the data in May 2020,according to a new report from the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL).

(The Center Square) – A slight decrease in the unemployment rate during January – from 6.7 percent to 6.3 percent – was offset by how few new jobs were created in the private sector and the prospect of what an increased federal minimum wage could do to the country’s fragile economy.