(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is challenging explanations that FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi lack full control of their agencies nearly a year into the Trump administration, particularly when it comes to their handling of Jeffrey Epstein investigation files.
Sen. Ron Johnson recently...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US is asking the UN Security Council to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader, and other members of his government, before he visits the White House next week, The Associated Press has reported.
Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, was...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed his top officials to submit proposals on the possibility of resuming what his defense minister called “full-scale” nuclear weapons tests in response to President Trump’s order for the US military to conduct nuclear tests.
It was unclear from Trump’s initial order,...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) In another highway operation targeting dangerous drivers, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Oklahoma Department of Public Safety arrested 70 foreign nationals driving on interstate highways in Oklahoma.
In two days, they arrested drivers from 15 countries – all in the U.S. illegally. The...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump said Tuesday that federal food benefits won't go out until the government reopens, a statement at odds with what his administration has said publicly and told federal judges who ordered the government to use emergency funds to keep benefits flowing.
Trump made...
(Arthur Kane, The Center Square) Job perks like an on-call doctor, on-site daycare and millions of dollars for food, beverages and bottled water sound like something offered to employees of big tech firms.
But actually, taxpayers are paying for those perks for members of Congress and often their staff, an...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) For the 14th time, U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday filibustered Republicans’ funding bill to reopen the government, guaranteeing that the ongoing shutdown, now on its 35th day, will be the longest in U.S. history.
The government has remained closed since Oct. 1, after Democratic senators...
(Headline USA) A second monkey has been shot and killed and authorities said Tuesday that they were still searching for a third missing monkey a week after their escape from a truck that overturned on a Mississippi highway.
Someone shot the monkey after seeing it cross the highway on Monday evening...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, said in an interview with Bloomberg that US military “escalation” is the only way to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and confirmed that she is in contact with Trump administration officials.
When asked if...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) British news channel BBC “doctored” President Donald Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, to make it appear he called on supporters to riot at the Capitol before lawmakers certified the 2020 election.
The alteration was exposed in an internal memo first reported by British newspaper The Telegraph. The doctored footage...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan released documents directly undercutting claims by disgraced former FBI Director James Comey that his criminal indictment is part of President Donald Trump’s political vendetta.
The documents, filed on Monday by Halligan and her top deputy, Tyler Lemmons, revealed that Comey knew one...
(Headline USA) Dick Cheney, the neocon who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.
Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said...