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(Headline USA) Christa Pike was scheduled to be executed. But after two injections, she kept breathing. She made snoring sounds, she talked, she said her arm was hurting. Pike, sentenced to die for torturing and killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, said as her scheduled lethal injection began that she was...

(Headline USA) The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued there wasn't enough evidence to prove she was responsible for killing her three children. During Clancy's first trial, which ended Sept. 4 with a deadlocked...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former FBI agent who was once the handler for tech billionaire Peter Thiel, and who later criticized the bureau for allegedly suppressing investigations into ties between Rudy Giuliani and Russian intelligence assets, was criminally charged in over an alleged domestic violence incident, Headline USA...

(Headline USA) A Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in his car by a federal immigration agent in Texas will remain in custody on charges that he assaulted an officer while trying to evade arrest, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Dustin Howell said that the case against Wilber Rafael Garces...

(Headline USA) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced some major changes to the U.S. military on Wednesday in what he called his “State of the Force” address, including establishing a new drone command and cutting 20% of the nation’s generals and admirals. The Pentagon also will launch an effort to study...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Pentagon told The Center Square its Golden Dome missile shield will protect the entire homeland for $185 billion. The Congressional Budget Office estimates a notional system consistent with the administration's missile defense goals could cost about $1.2 trillion over 20 years, roughly $9,300 for...

(Joelle Webb, The Center Square) Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is suing the federal government as part of a second legal battle against the construction of immigrant detention centers in the state. The lawsuit was filed in an attempt to stop or temporarily delay the construction of a detention facility...

(Headline USA) A surprise decision by the U.K.'s counterterrorism police to release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot at a U.S.-operated air force base in England has deepened questions and uncertainty about the incident. Police confirmed Tuesday that no explosives were found in three vans...

(Madeline Shannon, The Center Square) Gov. Gavin Newsom early Tuesday signed several bills to protect California’s immigrants, crack down on private jails and prisons, and keep U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers out of the state’s police departments. The package of bills, 21 in all, were all authored by Democratic...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military is set to complete its withdrawal from its remaining bases in Iraq on Wednesday under a deal signed between the US and the Iraqi government in 2024. The US is officially ending the mission of the anti-ISIS coalition that began in 2014 after the US...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Ask pretty much anybody, and they’ll tell you we have an inflation problem. But what does that mean? And how did it happen? Most people have no clue. The first problem is that policymakers and the media use a very imprecise definition of inflation. For most people,...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The office of Special Counsel Jack Smith carried out an urgent process to purchase digital storage and management software for evidence in the weeks after it indicted President Donald Trump in June 2023. The purchase of “Axon Investigate,” revealed Monday by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, raises...