The billion dollar prison phone call industry could soon face new regulations. That’s because some, like The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, contend telecommunications companies have long been charging “predatory” fees for phone and video calls from inmates. For decades, phone providers have offered kickbacks to prisons and local governments using the money they…

A deadly shooting in Paris killed 3, inflation has slowed and thousands of flights have been canceled thanks to the historic winter storm. These stories and more highlight Straight Arrow News’ midday rundown for Friday, Dec. 23, 2022.  Shooting in Paris leaves three dead A shooting inside a Kurdish cultural center in Paris is being…

Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, has released documents that show internal communications between Twitter employees in charge of content moderation in the run-up to the 2020 elections. The files — released to Substack writer Matt Taibbi and posted on Twitter in a series of screenshots — have been dubbed the “Twitter Files.” According…

A majority of the conservative-leaning Supreme Court appears sympathetic to an evangelical Christian web designer who is refusing, based on her religious beliefs, to provide services to same-sex couples planning to wed. Lorie Smith is seeking an exemption from a Colorado state law that bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. She claims there…

The U.S. government has several safeguards and protocols in place to guard against a catastrophic attack. Aside from the presidential line of succession, the designated survivor protocol is enacted for State of the Union addresses and Joint Sessions of Congress. But what if the worst happened — a terror attack like 9/11 or a natural…

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a free speech case regarding gay marriage. In 303 Creative v. Elenis, website designer Lorie Smith is preemptively suing the state of Colorado over its Anti-Discrimination Act that bars businesses from discriminating against people for their sexual orientation. Smith wants to post a message on her website to explain…

Montana’s attorney general wants YouTube to restore some videos that the streaming giant removed. Austin Knudsen said some Democratic lawmakers and others in the federal government are pressuring YouTube to routinely remove politically unfavorable speech. The Montana attorney general sent a letter Wednesday to YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, expressing his concern over YouTube’s removal of…

A new record has been set at the southern border, as the Department of Homeland Security revealed Border Patrol agents encountered more than 2.3 million immigrants in the 2022 fiscal year. It’s a 37% increase compared to last year and more than five times the number of encounters from 2020. Customs and Border Protection said…

With only a few weeks remaining until the Nov. 8 midterm election, liberals and conservatives are gearing up to cast their votes. Polls indicate America is more divided than at any point in the last 40 years with few areas overlapping on major issues. Straight Arrow News contributor Ruben Navarrette argues that there are even…

According to a press release from Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, he and Missouri Attorney Eric Schmitt have added 47 defendants to a lawsuit accusing the federal government of colluding with social media companies to censor freedom of speech. According to the press release, the additional defendants include “top officials at the Centers for Disease…