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(Headline USA) Tropical Storm Karina strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday and could become a major storm this week, forecasters said. The cyclone's center was at far out sea and was not threatening land. Karina had maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour, the Miami-based National...

(Headline USA) Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, apologized to the state's Jewish Democratic Caucus on Saturday for comments he made after an attack on a synagogue in March, which he tied to Israel's actions in the Middle East. “My comments may have been misconstrued to justify...

(Headline USA) The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar with the matter. The move away...

(Headline USA) A Kentucky woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that she intentionally damaged The World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Melissa Farris is scheduled to be arraigned next week on two felony counts. Grand jurors indicted her Thursday on charges...

(Headline USA) A U.S. military judge on Wednesday set a summer 2028 trail date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The trial is scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, 18 months later than the January 2027 start that prosecutors had...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It’s a bull market in gold vaults. The surging gold price has sparked a significant uptick in demand for physical bars and coins. And with so many investors stacking gold, they need someplace to store all that metal. Sharps Pixley told The Financial Times that its vaults...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Minnesota police on Tuesday allegedly raided the apartment where the son of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., resides while investigating his roommate in a weapons probe. Officers with the Minneapolis Police Department raided the home of Adnan Hirsi while investigating his roommate, Abdulrahman Tulle Abdi. Guns and ammunition...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) US and Taiwanese officials are alarmed at the status of the US military and its ability to fight a future conflict with China.  According to three sources speaking with The Washington Post, officials at Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACCOM) have expressed frustration with the dwindling military resources available to...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) Update: US officials told multiple outlets that President Donald Trump dispatched CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Russia to warn Moscow not to attack any NATO countries. Earlier this week, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that “unknown actors” could attack UK facilities producing weapons...

(Madeline Shannon, The Center Square) Republican lawmakers, independent journalist Nick Shirley and a large crowd of activists spoke out against a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law that some said would impede the work of journalists reporting on immigration services providers. Assembly Bill 2624, authored by Assemblymember Mia...

(Michael Carroll, The Center Square) A former Lee County English arts teacher who was suspended after posting about the death of political activist Charlie Kirk on a private Facebook account should be reinstated with back pay, an administrative judge has concluded. Judge Andrew Manko of the state’s Division of Administrative...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Massachusetts state representative Francisco Paulino, a Democrat, has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic relief funds from around April 2020 to December 2021. According to the federal indictment filed Tuesday, Paulino incorporated a company called Jackson Enterprise, and used that...