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(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Gov. Greg Abbott, House Speaker Dustin Burrows and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced on Friday their commitment to bring greater transparency and accountability “to rogue local prosecutors who refuse to enforce Texas law.” The news comes after Abbott has proposed creating a new office of...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) President Donald Trump is set to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House this week. Xi’s state visit to Washington, D.C. follows Trump’s visit to China in May, where the president’s visit was met with a backdrop of Chinese pageantry. Trump is expected...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump will meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani when Trump travels to the city for the upcoming U.N. General Assembly. The meeting is scheduled for Monday and at Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence, according to Anna Bahr, Mamdani’s communications director. Bahr said the two will...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Sunday said that he was still deciding how to move forward on the Iran war and whether or not to blow up the “entire nation,” as the Iranian military is warning that it has information that the US will resume attacks on the Islamic...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A group of Hollywood celebrities drew mockery online after joining forces for a short video pledging to uphold the U.S. Constitution ahead of Constitution Day. Jamie Lee Curtis, Noah Wyle, Robert De Niro and Ramon Gerard Estevez appear in the nearly 40-second video for the so-called Oath...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA)  Much has been said about President Donald Trump's Friday decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, but some of Trump's supporters are pointing to the loudest critics' own records of disputes over press access. Left-wing figures immediately accused Trump of violating the...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Lawmakers and the Trump administration are investigating the odd disappearance of a U.S.-bound shipment of F-35 fighter jet components from Australia, which were originally meant to be repaired on U.S. soil, according to new reporting by Politico. The report, published Friday and citing three anonymous sources, noted...

(Headline USA)  The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that other jurors wouldn't listen to him, according to a statement released by his lawyer Friday in his first public comments on the...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) The State Department approved a $24.3 billion sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia. The announcement comes as the Gulf kingdom is requesting military assistance from its allies as it fights a war against Ansar Allah in Yemen.  The sale includes 48 F-35s and 49 engines (48 equipped...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square)  Suspended U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro appeared in both state and federal courts this week in Minnesota for initial hearings. On Friday, Castro pleaded not guilty in a hearing before the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on six federal charges of...

(Headline USA)  A Florida woman who was paid $750,000 by a fund for people sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to falsifying records she used in her application for the money. Jennifer Percival, a scholar who has written books on autism, entered the plea in federal court in...

(Headline USA) A man initially accused of being a high-profile al-Qaida figure and who was tortured in CIA custody appeared Thursday at a hearing to review his detention at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he has been held for 20 years without charges. A U.S. government...