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(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Inflation ranks among the top three issues for 46% of registered voters, a nine-point climb since March, while the national debt and government spending sit near the bottom at 13%. Voters put the debt near the bottom in a year the federal government ran a...

(Headline USA) More than seven months into the U.S. war with Iran, sharply higher fuel prices are making it more expensive to drive and fly and adding to the cost of some goods, prolonging the strain on American households as the midterm elections approach. Motorists and airline passengers have borne...

(Headline USA) A fast-moving fire fueled by high winds burned at least six homes in Southern California on Friday, engulfing expensive coastal properties and prompting thousands to evacuate. Black smoke — visible from miles away — billowed over tennis courts and swimming pools while firefighters doused blazing homes in San...

(Headline USA) A teacher threw her phone at the teenage gunman who killed four people at an Oregon elementary school Thursday, then tackled and fought with him — likely saving lives before he was shot by a man who followed him into the building, police said Friday. Bend Police...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., drew renewed attention after posting, then deleting, a message celebrating support from Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella. A Breitbart report said Salazar removed language pledging to act as a political voice for Colombians in Congress while leaving the president’s...

(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump said he may meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a November trip to Asia, reviving the possibility of direct diplomacy after years without a summit between the two leaders. The Epoch Times reported that Trump offered no details about a...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Bloomberg reported on Thursday that top Pentagon officials have expressed that they will withhold the release of an internal report on the US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, which massacred at least 120 children, through the midterm elections. According to an...

(Headline USA) FBI employees fired for their roles in the weaponized investigation of President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued on Thursday to get their jobs back.  The complaint adds to the growing list of legal challenges to the mass terminations under FBI Director Kash...

(Headline USA) Gail Spreen goes most days to Mass just a few blocks from her home in Chicago, but the service at Holy Name Cathedral on Wednesday — dedicated to Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV — felt different. “Knowing that everybody is behind him, it was very special to be there today,"...

(Headline USA) Federal authorities investigating Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar seized the Democratic lawmaker's phone and have issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to some of her relatives, according to the Associated Press. The subpoenas were reportedly issued for a grand jury collecting evidence in Minnesota as federal authorities...

(Headline USA) U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace's former fiance and two of his business associates were charged with sex crimes and voyeurism on Wednesday over an episode the South Carolina congresswoman described in detail during a speech last year on the House floor about how crimes against women are not investigated...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Previous revelations that Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained the personal information of nearly 5,000 pro-Trump donors, hundreds of conservative organizations and dozens of GOP lawmakers pale in comparison with the latest disclosure: Smith also swept up data on 639,000 Republican donors, voters and supporters. Senate Judiciary Committee...