(Headline USA) A former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” spent months planning his escape from an Arkansas prison, and said lax security in the kitchen where he worked allowed the convicted murderer to gather the supplies he needed, an internal review by prison officials released Friday...
(Headline USA) New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to hide a romantic relationship with her bodyguard, who is accused of being paid as if he was working even when they met alone in apartments and traveled to vineyards for wine tasting.
Cantrell...
(Headline USA) Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Terry Cole, as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” as she carries out President Donald Trump's decision to take over the Washington police department.
Bondi said she's giving Cole the powers of police chief and the Metropolitan...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) In an interview published by The Times of Israel on Wednesday, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee justified the Israeli military’s shooting of unarmed Palestinians attempting to get aid in the Gaza Strip.
Defending the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Huckabee downplayed the reports of people being killed...
(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...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A newly declassified email exposed former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper dismissing serious warnings from a top intelligence official about compromising standard procedures in the 2017 assessment on alleged Russian interference.
The email shows Clapper brushing aside concerns from former National Security Agency Director Mike...
(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...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A newly unearthed FBI memo shows that agents seemingly had a strong case against then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for trading political favors in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation when she was Secretary of State—but that top Justice Department officials prevented the bureau from...
(Headline USA) Police are investigating whether the armed robbery of a Brinks truck on Tuesday outside a Philadelphia-area store is related to four other attacks on armored vehicles in and around the city this summer.
Two armed males got away with between $700,000 and $800,000 in the midday Tuesday heist at...
(José Niño, Headline USA) From COVID-19 lockdowns to the Gaza genocide, Jenin Younes has never been afraid to challenge government overreach, no matter which party is in power. As a prominent civil liberties attorney, Younes has built a reputation for defending the First Amendment against the censorship-industrial complex.
In this...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he considers himself to be on a “historic and spiritual mission” and that he is “very” connected to the idea of “Greater Israel,” a vision for significant Israeli territorial expansion in the region.
In the modern political context,...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) The Pentagon activated a military intelligence unit in South Korea. The move comes after the US established a second fighter “super squadron” on the Korean Peninsula.
According to a statement from the US Army, the 528th Military Intelligence Company (MICO) is now operating in South Korea....