(Headline USA) The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk made his first in-person court appearance Thursday as his attorneys pushed to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case.
Defense attorneys also revealed that they will seek to disqualify the Utah County Attorney’s Office from handling the case. According...
(Headline USA) Members of Congress clashed Thursday over President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in American cities, with Republicans saying the deployments were needed to fight lawlessness while Democrats called his move an extraordinary abuse of military power that violated states’ rights.
Top military officials faced questioning over...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA—Decarlos Brown Jr., who allegedly stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on a Charlotte train on Aug. 22, had his first appearance in federal court on Thursday in a case that carries the death penalty.
Brown is in state custody and faces a murder charge...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House on Wednesday passed the $901 billion 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the sweeping annual military spending bill that will be combined with a supplemental bill passed earlier in the year to bring the total US military budget to over $1 trillion.
The bill passed...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Erika Kirk forcefully shut down unsubstantiated claims surrounding the senseless murder of her late husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, during a Wednesday interview on Fox News.
Kirk appeared on Outnumbered to promote Charlie’s book, Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life, which he reportedly...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The New York Times editorial board released a video on Monday calling for the US to “prepare for the future of war” and urged the Pentagon to take drastic steps to be better prepared for a potential fight with China, a conflict that could quickly turn...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On the heels of two train stabbings—one of them deadly—the Charlotte City Council has approved a $3.4 million contract for a Texas-based public relations firm to improve the image of its public transportation system.
The city council voted anonymously Monday to approve the contract for the...
(Headline USA) From late 2020 to 2023, Michigan man William Null was facing charges related to his alleged involvement in the purported militia plot to kidnap the state’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer—a case dubbed the “fed-napping” plot due to the heavy-handed role played by undercover FBI provocateurs.
Null was acquitted in...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Two US Navy F/A-18 fighter jets were spotted by flight trackers on Tuesday flying deep inside the Gulf of Venezuela, a body of water surrounded by Venezuelan territory on three sides, marking the latest US provocation amid threats of a potential regime change war aimed at ousting...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The DOJ announced Tuesday the launch of an investigation into the safety conditions within Colorado prisons, following a reported attack against Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk imprisoned over 2020 election-related charges.
Peters, the only Republican serving a prison sentence for objecting to the 2020 election, faced...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro refused to walk back his rebuke of former Vice President Kamala Harris after she claimed she passed him over as a running mate because he appeared overly ambitious.
Shapiro previously told The Atlantic that Harris was trying to “sell books and cover her ass” following revelations...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A high school student in Charlotte, North Carolina was criminally investigated over a memorial she painted to honor conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated on Sept. 10, according to a lawsuit over the matter.
The student, Gabby Stout—she’s only identified by initials in court...