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(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Thomas Crooks was seen at a “peaceful democratic political event” on July 11, 2024, just two days before allegedly trying to assassinate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to newly released FBI records. The records about Crooks and the political rally were included in a batch...

(Headline USA) Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties, civil liberties advocates and citizens across the U.S., announced Thursday that it is making changes to its platform intended to quell privacy concerns and address documented abuses of its system by some members...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon has admitted in its annual report on civilian casualties to Congress that it committed two large-scale massacres of civilians in Yemen during its bombing campaign against the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, last year, which War Secretary Pete Hegseth dubbed “Operation Rough Rider.” In...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Without tariff revenue to paper over excessive spending, the U.S. ran the biggest monthly budget deficit in five years last month. The Trump administration spent $432.31 billion more than it took in in July. It was the highest monthly budget shortfall since March 2021, amid the...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will be stepping down as the president’s top spokeswoman at the end of the month. President Donald Trump indicated that Leavitt, the mother of two, was resigning from her role to spend more time with her growing family after...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara last month was a ruse designed to derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday. The Washington Post first...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Newly declassified documents from the White House transparency task force reveal several top Republican and conservative figures were labeled “conduits” for Russian disinformation for their part in pushing for further investigations into allegations against the Bidens and ties to Ukraine. The code name, Round River,...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., notched her party's nomination in the race to replace Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday. Klobuchar will face off against Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth in November. Multiple media organizations called the Democratic primary for Klobuchar shortly before 8:30 p.m....

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s controversial pied-à-terre tax on second homes is in limbo after a state judge temporarily blocked its rollout and the city appealed that ruling.  The ruling issued Monday by state Supreme Court Judge Wayne Ozzi ordered the city to take...

(Johnny Edwards, The Center Square) A southern state that banned medical gender transition for children is funding a network of doctors and therapists who promote some of those same controversial treatments, an investigation by The Center Square found. A nonprofit called Charlotte Transgender Healthcare Group openly touts puberty blockers and...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Sen. Rand Paul has become Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s pawn. A few weeks ago, Bessent insisted all the gold is in the vaults at Fort Knox. "I haven't. People on my staff have. The treasurer has been to Fort Knox, and I'm happy to say...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different shots administered in...