As competition between gas and electric utilities heats up due to clean energy-promoting policies that emphasize replacing gas with electricity, state regulators need to overhaul their approach to regulation, argue scholars at Stanford and the University of Notre Dame. A new white paper led by the Climate and Energy Policy Program at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment lays out a case for unifying electric and gas utilities and instituting coordinated planning to make...

A Texas man shelled out thousands of dollars at an auction to purchase a guitar with Taylor Swift's John Hancock on it — only to turn around and repeatedly swing a hammer at it just moments later as his fellow auction attendees cheered him on. On Saturday, hundreds gathered at the Ellis County Expo Center in Waxahachie, Texas, for the annual Ellis County Wild Game Dinner, a charity event established in 2018 to raise funds to support local "agricultural and rural education," according to an...

An influential former CIA executive is working to build momentum in Washington for a new U.S. intelligence agency that would focus solely on commercially available data, such as content on social media and tech platforms. Former CIA executive William “Chip” Usher issued a new call for the creation of an “Open Source Agency” in the pages of the CIA’s “Studies in Intelligence” journal in September, arguing that the U.S. intelligence community needs a 19th agency to reflect the realities of...

The movement to restrict student cellphone use in schools gathered even more momentum when the California governor signed a law Sept. 23 that will require all public schools to develop and adopt cellphone policies. California—home to the nation’s largest population of K-12 students—is the fifth state to pass a law requiring districts to adopt policies that will limit cellphones in schools, according to Education Week’s cellphone policy tracker. Growing frustration among teachers—as well as...

Donald Trump, who as president withheld hurricane aid to Puerto Rico and threatened to withhold wildfire assistance to California, on Monday falsely accused President Joe Biden of failing to help Hurricane Helene’s flood victims in western North Carolina and Georgia, having “left Americans to drown” in the South.

The UN Just Adopted The "Pact For The Future" Which Lays The Foundation For A New "Global Order" Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, While everyone was distracted, the global elite got exactly what they wanted. The UN adopted the “Pact for the Future” on September 22nd, and the mainstream media in the western world almost entirely ignored what was happening. Instead, the headlines urged us to just keep focusing on Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Sadly, the vast majority of...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Senator JD Vance will go head-to-head in their first and only Vice Presidential debate on Oct. 1. The debate will take place in New York City, hosted by CBS News at 9 p.m. Norah O’Donnell, CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor will host the highlight anticipated event alongside Face the Nation moderator and chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan, at the CBS Broadcast Center. Viewers can watch the action-packed debate on CBS, the CBS News...

With Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the wars in the Middle East have hit a turning point—though it’s hard to say what direction they’ll now take: toward some uneasy equilibrium or an escalation in the fighting. Historians and strategists disagree over whether a “decapitation” attack—the assassination of a leader—has much effect on the course of a war. But Israel’s recent tactics have gone well beyond decapitation. As a prelude to the bombing of an apartment complex just...

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney has struck down Georgia’s six-week abortion ban. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder A Fulton County judge has ruled that Georgia’s six-week abortion ban is unconstitutional under the state constitution, allowing abortions to be performed again in Georgia as before the law took effect. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney released his long-awaited ruling Monday on the broader question at the center of a lawsuit filed in...