(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump has said he’s undecided on moving forward with a massive $14 billion package of arms deals for Taiwan following his visit to Beijing and talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“I’ll make a determination over the next fairly short period. I’m gonna make a determination,” Trump...
(Headline USA) Sen. Bill Cassidy was decisively defeated in Saturday’s Republican primary in Louisiana, unable to convince voters that he deserved another term five years after voting to convict President Donald Trump during an impeachment trial over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
He finished behind U.S. Rep. Julia...
(Headline USA) The former secretary of public security for Mexico’s Sinaloa state appeared in a U.S. court Friday, days after his arrest in Arizona on charges he and other officials took bribes to help the Sinaloa Cartel smuggle vast quantities of drugs into the U.S.
Gerardo Mérida Sánchez, 66, was not...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A domino effect of online comments turned a whistleblower’s claims about CIA document retrieval into viral rumors that the agency had raided Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s office. Her spokesperson, Olivia Coleman, is disputing the claims.
"This is false - the CIA did not raid the DNI’s...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A California taxpayer-funded program under Gov. Gavin Newsom to provide incarcerated individuals with digital tablets was allegedly exploited to access pornographic material and even groom children outside prison walls, according to a report published Wednesday.
The Newsom administration awarded a $189 million contract for the tablets, which...
(Headline USA) FBI Director Kash Patel angrily lashed out at a Democratic lawmaker at a budget hearing Tuesday, calling allegations that he drinks excessively on the job and has been unreachable at times to his staff “unequivocally, categorically false.”
“I will not be tarnished by baseless allegations,” Patel told Sen....
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he wants to temporarily suspend the 18.4-cent federal gas tax, with Republican lawmakers in both chambers announcing plans to introduce legislation hours later, but key details including duration, cost offset, and a phase-back trigger remain undefined.
"I think it's...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Virginia Democrats are seeking to have the U.S. Supreme Court review the state high court’s ruling against their redistricted map, but the filing was marred by a series of typos that undercut the seriousness of the appeal.
State Democrats on Friday asked the Virginia Supreme Court to...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) More than 200 children were rescued and more than 350 child sex offenders arrested in one month in the latest Department of Justice targeted enforcement operation to find child sex abuse victims and arrest child sex predators.
The operations are nationwide and involve staff from...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment claims that anger over the Iran war may have driven suspected shooter Cole Allen to attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Reuters reported.
The preliminary report from DHS's Office of Intelligence and Analysis,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel reportedly has his own personalized branded bourbon. And when a bottle went missing in March, he threatened to “polygraph and prosecute his staff.”
The Atlantic revealed latest details on Patel’s enthusiasm for alcohol on Thursday, a little over two weeks after Patel...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) When Californians head to the voting booth on June 2 for the state’s open gubernatorial primary, they may come across a familiar name among the long list of candidates seeking to advance to the runoff: Barack Obama.
But the candidate is not former President Barack Hussein Obama....