(José Niño, Headline USA) DeCarlos Brown Jr., the African American man accused of fatally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train, has been found "incapable to proceed" on his state murder charge, the News & Observer reported.
Brown, 35, faces both state and federal murder charges...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) President Donald Trump once again tipped his hand to some of the U.S. government’s top-secret weaponry following a daring mission to rescue a downed F-15E airman, known only as “Dude 44 Bravo,” inside the Iranian border.
The operation over the weekend drew widespread acclaim, with even...
(Headline USA) A Long Island, New York architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years.
Rex Heuermann, 62, is charged...
(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) The ink was barely dry on last night’s two week ceasefire with Iran when Israel began what was their largest scale attack on Lebanon since the war began, with IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee saying Israel carried out strikes on over 100 targets in just 10 minutes.
Israeli...
(Liam Hibbert, The Center Square) California gas prices climbed as high as $6 a gallon as oil prices skyrocketed ahead of President Donald Trump's deadline on Iran to reopen oil trade routes in the Strait of Hormuz.
Prices rose in the Southwest before Trump on Tuesday evening announced a two-week...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Commercial ships will pass through the Strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.
Hegseth spoke alongside Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after the United States and Iran agreed to a...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Archbishop Paul Coakley, head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has condemned President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy a “civilization” in Iran and urged an end to the war, echoing Pope Leo XIV’s appeals for peace.
“The threat of destroying a whole civilization and the...
(Headline USA) California Rep. Eric Swalwell on Tuesday promised to aggressively push back on federal immigration officers if elected governor, vowing to make them ineligible for state jobs and take away their driver's licenses if they refuse to unmask while on duty.
“They think they’re invincible. They’re not,” Swalwell told...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump launched the war against Iran a little more than two weeks after he was briefed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Sources told the Times that the briefing took place in the White...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The recent failures of polls to accurately gauge the support for President Donald Trump have cast light on systemic surveying vulnerabilities such as sampling bias, phony poll weighting and other methodological flaws.
But an alarming guest essay that ran Monday in the New York Times called...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The United Kingdom may have no problem at all admitting anti-Semitic Muslims from the Middle East, but a successful black man from America who has expressed similar views in the past may be a bridge too far.
The country reportedly blocked the entry of rapper Ye...
(Headline USA) U.S. President Donald Trump pulled back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran late Tuesday, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate to a deal.
Trump said he was holding off on his threatened attacks...