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(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...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Trump administration continues to enforce federal immigration law by revoking visas of foreign nationals who commit crimes and pose a national security threat. In roughly 20 months, the U.S. State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas of foreign nationals who “violated the terms...

(Arthur Kane and Jared Strong, The Center Square) In the past decade, government grants to nonprofits and the number of nonprofits that receive tax money has doubled, raising questions about whether public money is being wasted, an investigation by The Center Square found. In 2016, federal, state and local governments...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) When Anthony Fauci was leading the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he frequently touted how the vaccines were safe for pregnant women. But behind closed doors, Fauci apparently had second thoughts behind, according to text messages released from his COVID-era iPhone. The text messages, which...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected for the second time a 15-point disarmament plan for Hamas that was announced by President Trump and the so-called “Board of Peace” on July 30. “Israel does not accept the 15-point document,” Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet...