(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Since early September, the US military has launched 21 such strikes, blowing up 22 boats, including 11 in the Caribbean and 11 in the Eastern Pacific. According to numbers released by the Trump administration, at least 82 people have been killed in the bombing campaign. The...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Sunday that the US “may be having discussions” with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, suggesting his administration has not entirely cut off diplomacy with Caracas as previous reports have said.
Trump made the comments when asked about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement that...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) An overwhelming majority of Americans believe freedom of speech is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new poll.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), through its National Speech Index, tracks attitudes toward free speech on a quarterly basis. The latest tracking...
(Headline USA) With the longest U.S. government shutdown over, state officials said Thursday that they are working quickly to get full SNAP food benefits to millions of people, though it still could take up to a week for some to receive their delayed aid.
A back-and-forth series of court rulings...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Reuters reported on Tuesday that European officials and other sources are concerned that, without more progress on the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal, the so-called “yellow line” dividing Israeli-occupied Gaza from the rest of the Strip will become a de facto border, meaning there will be an...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The Navy’s largest and newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, has arrived in the Caribbean region, according to spotters in the region.
U.S. Naval Institute News cited boat spotters in Puerto Rico who eyed the destroyer, USS Bainbridge, on Tuesday. The Bainbridge, part of...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday that Moscow was prepared to “respond appropriately” to Venezuela’s request for military assistance amid a US military buildup in the Caribbean, Newsweek has reported.
Zakharova also responded to reports that the US had drawn up different options for...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The FBI has issued a subpoena to Canadian domain registrar Tucows seeking to unmask the anonymous owner of Archive.today, a popular web archiving service used by millions worldwide.
The subpoena, dated last Tuesday and posted publicly on Archive.today's X account, states it relates to a federal...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US has once again flown heavy bombers over the Caribbean and near the coast of Venezuela, according to a report from Newsweek, which cited flight tracking data.
Two US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft made the provocative flight, marking the fourth time since October 15 that...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump said Thursday Americans should be thankful for his tariffs, which he said he has used to end wars that Americans would otherwise be fighting in.
Trump's remarks followed Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' characterization of the tariffs as "taxes on Americans"...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Deployment of the National Guard to help “stabilize a crisis situation and protect innocent lives” has been requested of first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein by Republican U.S. Reps. Rev. Mark Harris, Pat Harrigan and Chuck Edwards.
The congressmen say the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police’s...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) In less than a few months, 26 states have begun working with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to ensure only U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections now that states have access to an upgraded database with critical immigration information.
The USCIS has been...