(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Wednesday that US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, marking the latest US escalation in its push toward a regime change war aimed at ousting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
“As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker...
(Headline USA) More and more people are turning to GoFundMe for help covering the cost of housing, food and other basic needs.
The for-profit crowdfunding platform's annual “Year in Help” report, released Tuesday, underscored ongoing concerns around affordability. The number of fundraisers started to help cover essential expenses such as...
(Headline USA) Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department’s requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financier’s sexual abuse.
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman reversed his...
(Dave Mason, The Center Square) Paramount Skydance has made a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.
The bid is for $77.9 billion in equity value and has an enterprise value of $108.4 billion.
Paramount's offer is the latest battle in a bidding war that appeared to end Friday when Netflix...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday ruled out the idea of ceding any territory to Russia, a key term of a US-drafted peace proposal to end the war.
“Russia is insisting that we give up territories, but we don’t want to cede anything,” Zelensky told reporters after meeting...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Government unions across the country spent more than $900 million during the 2023-2024 election cycle, according to a new report.
The Commonwealth Foundation’s most recent report found the top four public sector unions: the National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, Service Employees International Union...
(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, under fire for failing to prevent a massive welfare fraud scheme in his state, was in Seattle on Tuesday as the special guest at Gov. Bob Ferguson’s fundraising luncheon, telling those in attendance Somalis were being "demonized" and vowing to...
(Headline USA) A stabbing at a central North Carolina high school Tuesday left one student dead and another injured, authorities said.
Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough said officers at North Forsyth High School in Winston-Salem sought assistance shortly after 11 a.m.
“We responded to an altercation between two students,” Kimbrough said at...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Two US Navy F/A-18 fighter jets were spotted by flight trackers on Tuesday flying deep inside the Gulf of Venezuela, a body of water surrounded by Venezuelan territory on three sides, marking the latest US provocation amid threats of a potential regime change war aimed at ousting...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The DOJ announced Tuesday the launch of an investigation into the safety conditions within Colorado prisons, following a reported attack against Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk imprisoned over 2020 election-related charges.
Peters, the only Republican serving a prison sentence for objecting to the 2020 election, faced...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro refused to walk back his rebuke of former Vice President Kamala Harris after she claimed she passed him over as a running mate because he appeared overly ambitious.
Shapiro previously told The Atlantic that Harris was trying to “sell books and cover her ass” following revelations...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A high school student in Charlotte, North Carolina was criminally investigated over a memorial she painted to honor conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated on Sept. 10, according to a lawsuit over the matter.
The student, Gabby Stout—she’s only identified by initials in court...