(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced he has canceled a planned House session for Thursday, sending lawmakers for an early seven-week recess and pushing back a vote to impeach US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth until after the midterm elections.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who introduced the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A federal grand jury in Minnesota returned two charges against Mukeshkumar Somabhai Chaudhari, an Indian national accused of falsely claiming American citizenship so he could participate in the November 5, 2024 general election. The Justice Department announced the indictment through its Office of Public Affairs...
(Headline USA) Donald Trump Jr.'s new wife, Bettina, is confirming that her May wedding weekend celebration was partially funded by a man with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a post on her Instagram page Monday morning signed by the couple, Bettina Trump wrote that the man, Umar...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump issued two fiery demands to the Smithsonian on Friday: install a 30-foot statue of George Washington and launch a five-year exhibition honoring his legacy.
Trump made the demands in two separate Truth Social posts, ahead of Constitution Day, which falls on Sept. 17, and months...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Thursday issued the strongest indication to date that embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., could face consequences in connection with allegations that she married her brother in a potential immigration fraud scheme.
Speaking with podcaster Benny Johnson at the GOP’s midterm convention,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Southern Command said in a statement that its forces bombed an alleged drug-running boat in the Caribbean on Thursday, killing at least three people.
SOUTHCOM called the people it killed “narco-terrorists,” a term the Pentagon has employed in its attempts to justify what are extrajudicial executions...
(Headline USA) The highest court in Massachusetts on Thursday issued a public reprimand against a district court judge who was accused of allowing an immigrant to escape U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
The case dates back to 2018 when Judge Shelley Joseph was accused of colluding with the immigrant’s...
(Headline USA) Democratic Sen. John Fetterman spoke to the Republican midterm convention via video Wednesday, an extraordinary escalation of the growing rupture between the Pennsylvanian and his party.
Fetterman spoke for just over one minute in a recorded video introducing his fellow Pennsylvania senator, Republican Dave McCormick, whom Fetterman called “a...
(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) University of Illinois Chicago researchers say heightened federal immigration enforcement corresponded with about $1.26 billion in foregone retail and restaurant activity in Cook County, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dismissed the correlation between a good economy and illegal immigration.
Matthew Wilson co-authored the...
(Headline USA) Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was scheduled to appear in court remotely Tuesday for a hearing on a claim that an accuser wants to recant allegations that Sandusky sexually abused him years ago.
The hearing is part of the latest bid by Sandusky’s lawyers to secure...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Democratic Party has long attracted peculiarly strange individuals who have been floated as potential presidential candidates, including convicted felon Michael Avenatti, disgraced former first son Hunter Biden, Jerry Springer and anti-Trump filmmaker Michael Moore. Add former CNN anchor Don Lemon to that list.
Lemon, now a...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Billionaire investor Leon Black skipped a sworn deposition before House investigators on Thursday and asked a federal judge instead to void the two subpoenas the Oversight Committee served on him in June.
His complaint landed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia the...