(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday took a jab at Vice President JD Vance on Twitter/X by reacting to side-by-side photos of the two from their high school years. But the mockery quickly backfired after users posted a brutal comeback photo.
Newsom’s photo showed him well...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former FBI Director James Comey is reportedly under investigation by the Justice Department. Apparently, he’s been listening to pop star Taylor Swift to cope.
In a bizarre five-minute speech on Substack, Comey disclosed his longtime fandom of Swift. He said he went to his first Swift...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Trump administration has ordered the deployment of US air and naval forces to the Southern Caribbean Sea to “address threats from Latin American drug cartels,” Reuters reported on Thursday, citing two sources briefed on the decision.
The report didn’t specify what sort of action the US forces...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Congress has spent more money than it has collected for the last two decades, allowing the U.S. debt to top $37 trillion for the first time.
Experts expected the U.S. to pass the $37 trillion mark months ago. The Treasury Department marked the milestone in...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) In an interview with Axios on Monday, President Trump provided backing for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to escalate in Gaza, suggesting that Israel needed to ramp up the pressure on Hamas.
The report said that Trump stopped short of directly endorsing the Israeli government’s plan to...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected the idea of ceding territory to Russia to end the war in Ukraine, as President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are preparing for a summit that will be held this Friday, August 15, in the US state of Alaska.
“Ukrainians will...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump has ordered the US military to take direct actions against Latin American cartels, including conducting operations on foreign soil. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has labeled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro the leader of a cartel and is offering a $50 million reward for...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The FBI on Thursday agreed to assist with arresting Texas Democrats who fled the state to prevent the Texas House from reaching a quorum and conducting official business.
On Sunday, more than 50 Democrats fled the state, many to Chicago, to prevent a House vote...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York City mayoral nominee and Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has tried to walk back his previous calls for defunding the NYPD as he campaigns for a job that would put him in charge of the nation's largest police department.
Since he jumped into the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Democrats are recycling the same inflammatory rhetoric that Republicans say led to both assassination attempts against President Donald Trump.
Reps. Al Green, D-Texas, and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., made the unhinged remarks just over a year after Trump narrowly survived a shooting at a July 2024 rally.
“There are no circumstances...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to order the full Israeli military occupation of the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media reports on Monday, which means a significant escalation of the genocidal war is likely coming.
According to Ynet, President Trump has given Netanyahu a “green light...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Israeli military is drawing up plans to escalate its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip that will soon be presented to Israeli political leadership, Haaretz reported on Sunday.
An Israeli official said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is pushing for the release of hostages as part...