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(Austin Reed, The Center Square) Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, the 51-year-old Richland man and Department of Energy employee accused of attempting to provide material support to the Houthis, made his first federal court appearance Friday. Ellaboudy made his first appearance before a federal judge in downtown Richland on Friday morning following...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections — this time, to more than 20 million seniors, giving them $90 each to help pay for Medicare premiums. The announcement, made late Friday night by Trump on social media, comes after...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., may soon have to switch phone numbers. President Donald Trump publicly released what seemed to be Cotton's cellphone number Saturday as part of an online pressure campaign in a bid to get the GOP senator to back legislation making daylight saving time permanent. Trump...

(Headline USA)  Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her husband of 34 years. Noem, who was tasked with leading President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown from January 2025 to March 2026 and previously served as South Dakota's governor, is seeking a divorce from Bryon...

(Headline USA) A Massachusetts man was arrested Thursday in a federal case alleging he cyberstalked conservative podcaster and former Trump administration official Katie Miller, targeting her dozens of times with menacing phone calls and messages, according to court papers. Authorities say the man contacted Katie Miller at least 40 times...

(Headline USA) A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to the Houthi rebels, including by buying materials for homemade explosives and drones and traveling to Yemen, the Justice Department said Thursday. Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, of Richland, Washington, was arrested Thursday and is...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A Texas-based government watchdog group has filed a complaint against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his administration's use of taxpayer money on social media influencers in an effort to sway public support for his lefty agenda. In a letter to the New York...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) You can file this under the category of "things I never thought I'd need to write." Ladies and gentlemen, don’t give gold to a stranger in a Walmart parking lot, even if they say, “black bug!” Yes, this happened. In real life. It started last April when...

(Headline USA) Police on Thursday arrested a dual U.K.-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran. The 27-year-old man was arrested in central London on Thursday, and police have searched...

(Headline USA) Four astronauts rocketed into orbit Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian whose wife will give birth while he’s away. SpaceX launched commander Jessica Watkins and her crew for NASA after a three-week delay to fix their Dragon capsule’s leaking...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) A US official said Washington plans to send a third aircraft carrier and an additional Marine division to the Middle East.  Last month, The Atlantic reported the USS Theodore Roosevelt was preparing to deploy to the Middle East, with the Department of War preparing to maintain two...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Treasury market is in meltdown, and the sector propping it up could ultimately deepen the crisis. The 10-year Treasury yield surged to 5.33 percent overnight, the highest level since 2002. Gold Newsletter publisher Brien Lundin called it “a bond bloodbath.” The problem is nobody...