(Headline USA) Congress is set to take up the reauthorization of a divisive program that lets U.S. spy agencies pore over foreigners' calls, texts and emails, with supporters like President Donald Trump saying it has saved lives while critics point to longstanding concerns about warrantless surveillance of Americans.
A key...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Americans could soon pay more at the pump as the U.S.-Iran conflict disrupts oil markets, while lawmakers debate suspending the federal gas tax, a move Canada has just taken.
Similar plans have been discussed in the U.S., but have yet to advance. In early March,...
(Tate Miller, The Center Square) Concurrent with the Trump administration’s War on Fraud, a survey shows that most American voters believe government fraud is responsible for the nation’s high cost of living, with one expert saying that fraud is the “invisible tax.”
Utah Treasurer Marlo Oaks told The Center Square...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Disgraced former President Joe Biden on Tuesday awkwardly referred to a black man at a New York event as Barack Obama, the only black president in U.S. history.
Biden made the apparent comparison while unveiling his official portrait at Syracuse University College of Law when he singled...
(Alton Wallace, The Center Square) An unusually large number of crude oil tankers on the open seas has the American Gulf coast as a destination as the ships are redirected to load cargoes bound for markets around the world already experiencing shortages.
Second-term Republican President Donald Trump said Saturday on...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said on Monday that the US military has begun enforcing a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz as Iran has denounced the move as “piracy.”
US Central Command said the blockade will aim to impede the passage of all ships entering or leaving Iranian...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he spoke with Vice President JD Vance after the US-Iran talks in Pakistan and described the call as part of a daily report the Trump administration provides him.
“I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Eric Swalwell announced Monday that he will resign from Congress, just days after he was slapped with mounting accusations of sexual misconduct, including two instances of alleged sexual assault.
Swalwell’s post on X stopped short of conceding the allegations, but instead framed the decision to resign as necessary...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. Navy would swiftly begin a blockade of ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, after U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement.
U.S. Central Command announced that it will blockade all Iranian ports beginning Monday at 10 a.m....
(Headline USA) Police say one person was shot and killed and six others were injured in what they call a mass shooting at a Chick-fil-A in Union, New Jersey.
Investigators do not believe the attack at about 9 p.m. Saturday was random, according to a press release issued Sunday from the...
(Headline USA) Fellow Democrats are abandoning Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign for California governor in droves after allegations surfaced that he sexually assaulted a former staffer, with a growing number urging the congressman both to quit the race and resign his seat in Congress.
Swalwell has denied the allegations, which he...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A Secret Service trainee was arrested Wednesday for spying on his roommate, also an agent-in-training, with a hidden camera, according to ABC News.
“Police reports from Glynn County, Georgia, said the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center student, Joel Lara Canvasser, secretly filmed his suitemate's every move...