(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause was in the national interest.
Trump personally signed the legislation just last month and his move came just two days before a...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit from John Brennan that sought to force the Justice Department to preserve investigative records so that the former CIA director can challenge any eventual criminal case against him as a selective and malicious prosecution.
A lawyer for Brennan conceded during...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. inflation rose 0.6% in September for an annual rate of 3.7%, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The September rate marks a significant increase from the overall 3.4% inflation in July and August. The price index for gasoline...
(Headline USA) The White House publicly asked for U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation on Tuesday as she faced mounting accusations of improper conduct, and she announced within two hours that she was quitting, ending days of talk and speculation about her professional fate. Guilfoyle insisted that she...
(Therese Boudreux, The Center Square) With the federal government borrowing $2 trillion over the past 12 months, 88% of U.S. voters say addressing the federal deficit is important – yet they disagree on what the best solution is, new polling shows.
When federal spending in a year is higher than...
(Headline USA) Authorities are charging Eric Lewis, 35, with homicide for the alleged killing of a police officer early Saturday morning, according to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.
Shane Seiber, 40, was shot and killed in west Philadelphia after responding to a report of a man with a gun, police said....
(Headline USA) Eight people were killed Friday in a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, police said.
The shooter was also dead, and there was no threat to the public, the city said. Authorities didn't provide more details.
“I have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years,” Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah...
Vice President JD Vance cast doubt on Friday whether the Pentagon will livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan in December but told reporters that if it is livestreamed, “I’m not going to be watching it.”
The Republican vice president said, “I don’t know that that’s actually...
(Headline USA) Some sharp reversals kept financial markets unsteady on Thursday, as oil prices rose and U.S. stock indexes finished mixed.
The S&P 500 fell 0.5% for a second straight loss after setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 51 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump, facing protesters and a poor political climate, fought to rally Texas voters behind embattled Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Wednesday night in a bid to stave off a blue wave in the nation's most populous red state.
Speaking to a packed Freeman Coliseum, Trump also clarified...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US is refueling Saudi fighter jets as part of its support for Riyadh’s war in Yemen, a US official has told Al Jazeera, marking an escalation of US involvement in the conflict.
The US refueling of Saudi warplanes was one of the most controversial aspects of...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) U.S. bombers being moved back to the U.S. from the UK are the latest in American military assets being shifted in Europe, as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told The Center Square that he expects more troops to be moved back to the Western...