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(Headline USA) A female postal worker shot two fellow female employees at the main post office in Iowa’s capital city Thursday before being captured nearby, authorities said. A male employee was injured in a fall while trying to escape. None of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening, police said. “They’re...

(Headline USA) A Mexican judge is accused of taking a $2 million bribe in exchange for releasing a suspected Canadian drug trafficker from custody in an investigation into a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring, U.S. officials said Thursday. Luiz Benítez Alcántara, 49, was arrested in Colombia on Sunday and faces a...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is vowing to pursue “justice and accountability” after winning reelection. The Democrat won Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District with 76.5% of the vote, a slight shift toward Republicans compared with the 2024 election. “We’re getting justice and accountability for every single Minnesotan...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Democrat LaKesha Womack unseated Republican Rep. Tim Moore for his congressional seat in North Carolina on Tuesday, despite her facing a felony charge for failing to return a rental car. Womack won the state’s 14th district, which covers part of Charlotte, with 51.1% of the votes...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Some Republicans have come up with a response to the Democrats' stunning November victories: try to strip incoming Democratic officials of some of their powers and leverage before they take office in January. The efforts echo the Biden administration's attempts to "Trump-proof" the executive branch before President...

(Misty Castile, The Center Square) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned Wednesday that Republicans could spend years recovering from their midterm election losses, with consequences for President Donald Trump’s ability to secure approval of judicial and Cabinet nominees. Speaking at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, the outgoing Republican governor described the...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) How do you like gridlock? There will likely be plenty of it in Washington, D.C. The Blue Wave swept across the political landscape, leaving Democrats in firm control of both congressional chambers. With a few elections “too close to call, the Democrats enjoy a 54-44 majority...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Lawyers for a man arrested when he was a teenager for attempting to provide support to ISIS have asked a judge for a relatively lenient sentence on the grounds that FBI informants encouraged their client’s terroristic behavior. The defendant, Alexander Scott Mercurio, was arrested in April...

(Headline USA) One of two sheriff's deputies wounded in a firefight with a suspect in Washington state has died, and the other is not expected to survive, authorities said Wednesday. Deputies responded to a home in Spangle, a small farming community south of Spokane, on Tuesday afternoon after a woman told...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump has denied that he’s considering firing War Secretary Pete Hegseth after CBS News reported that the president had asked his top aides whether the Pentagon chief should keep his job after the Republican defeat in the midterm elections. The Atlantic also reported before the midterms that...

(Headline USA) Billionaire Leon Black on Wednesday filed a federal defamation lawsuit against California Rep. Robert Garcia for public comments the Democratic congressman made tying him to disgraced financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The court filing comes less than two months after the House approved a resolution holding Black in...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The so-called "blue tsunami" in Iowa and Texas was powerful enough to sweep at least two Democrats to victory despite both candidates having suspended their campaigns months earlier. In Texas, Democrat Ericka Lomick defeated Republican Alan Blaylock with 51% of the vote in their race for state...