(Headline USA) Crowds gathered in the sweltering heat Saturday to celebrate the United States' 250th birthday by watching famed competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut defend his world hot dog eating championship in Coney Island, where he downed 66 hot dogs in just 10 minutes. Miki Sudo defended her title as...
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) As a record-breaking heat wave sweeps across the central and eastern United States, two cities central to American independence have canceled July 4 celebrations.
Philadelphia canceled its iconic Fourth of July parade, citing extreme heat warnings, as did Washington. D.C.'s city government. The federal government...
(José Niño, Headline USA) California State Senator Scott Wiener informed CBS News that pro-Palestinian demonstrators who accosted him at San Francisco's Trans March deployed antisemitic rhetoric that "went beyond free speech," Information Liberation reported on X.
"They I have 'Israeli handlers'—which is a classic anti-Semitic trope," Wiener explained during...
(José Niño, Headline USA) JD Vance pulled in as much as $7.4 million during 2025 from royalties on his bestselling book combined with returns from investments and his venture capital enterprise, the Wall Street Journal reported after reviewing his most recent financial disclosure.
The vice president keeps drawing considerable sums...
(José Niño, Headline USA) American authorities apprehended a Cuban citizen allegedly connected to a far reaching influence operation that organized political streamer Hasan Piker's trip to Havana, Bloomberg reported.
Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez, a resident of the United States for over a decade, currently remains in federal detention facing deportation...
(Headline USA) Two people got to the top of the Empire State Building's antenna and unfurled a banner about “the power of love” at midday Wednesday, before starting to descend, embracing, taking selfies and ultimately being arrested.
Dressed in black and wearing masks — but not tethers, it appeared —...
(Shirleen Guerra, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Justice sued the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Virginia Department of State Police Wednesday, saying the state’s new law restricting the future sale and purchase of certain semiautomatic firearms violates the Second Amendment.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment applies to children born in the U.S. to mothers who are in the country illegally, there is a renewed effort in Congress to support a constitutional amendment to provide clarity to the amendment’s Citizenship...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., may be one of the youngest members of Congress, but a new report has put her college years back in the spotlight.
According to the California Post, the 38-year-old Democrat organized a "Latex Fetish Ball," participated in what the outlet described as...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state bans on biological men competing in women’s and girls’ sports.
The court upheld bans in Idaho and West Virginia that prohibited individuals who identified as transgender women and girls from competing in college and youth sports. Justices...
(Headline USA) New Jersey Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. disclosed Tuesday that he was being treated for depression during his unexplained four-month absence from the House, suggesting in a brief floor speech that he remained silent about his condition until now because he is a “private person by nature.”
Depression,...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Mike Benz, a former State Department official and prominent conservative podcaster, said that the recent decline in the influence of rap music seemed to be suspiciously synched to the Trump administration’s disruption of USAID’s financial pipeline.
The U.S. Agency for International Development was widely known for...