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(Headline USA) Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has issued a formal order terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate conservatives persecuted during the Biden administration---a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general. A spokeswoman for Texas...

(Headline USA) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pitched President Donald Trump and other American officials on helping Ukraine win permission from tech titan Elon Musk to use his Starlink satellite communications system to guide strikes inside Russia. The push for expanded use of Starlink comes as Zelenskyy looks for alternate ways...

(Adam Herbets, The Center Square) Some of the biggest checks in California politics never touch a campaign account. Most of them were written because Gov. Gavin Newsom asked for the money, totaling more than $340 million. Elected officials are increasingly taking advantage of state laws that allow them to solicit...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A newly resurfaced interview from 2023 shows that Francesca Hong, the frontrunner to win Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, has mental health issues. https://twitter.com/PeterBernegger/status/2083375592020320503 Following the withdrawal of former Lt. Gov. (and failed 2024 Senate candidate) Mandela Barnes, the socialist-aligned Hong was enjoying a decisive lead going into...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The typically anti-Trump publication Newsweek asserted on the cover of its Aug. 7-14 newsstand edition that “Trump was right” in an article about his military action to arrest ex-Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/2083244317477339399 The cover illustration showed the U.S. president straddling the Gulf of America with one...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Far-left activists with apparent ties to the Democratic Socialists of America recently established their own autonomous zone in Wisconsin’s capital city, Madison. https://twitter.com/SchulteLaura/status/2083196716069609728 The tent cities have become a familiar sight in far-left cities where the destructive and disruptive occupation is openly encouraged by government officials. Investigative reporter...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A clip of Vivek Ramaswamy walking out on a libertarian youth convention tore through X this week, driven largely by a post from the account The Constitutionalist. The video catches Ohio's Republican nominee for governor watching a right leaning audience turn on him in the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A senior Trump appointee stands accused of pushing a State Department colleague and vowing to beat him inside the agency's Washington headquarters, according to a formal complaint the Daily Mail obtained. Ali Motamedi, a special assistant to the U.S. special envoy to Greenland, says Gavin Wax...

(Headline USA) Disgraced former Congressman George Santos agreed Friday to pay $35,000 to settle a federal investigation into his suspicious trades on the prediction marketplace Kalshi after he bet against his own plans to attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union. The onetime Republican lawmaker from New York said he...

(Headline USA) Seattle’s police chief resigned Thursday amid criticism that the city was slow to release key information about a fatal shootout at a food festival last weekend. Mayor Katie Wilson's announcement followed hours of speculation about whether Police Chief Shon Barnes would step down, as some of his supporters...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A widely circulated post from the Kobeissi Letter told followers that the United States’ richest 1 percent now hold 50.1 percent of all equity and mutual fund wealth. Kobeissi Letter tweeted, “BREAKING: The wealthiest 1% of US earners now own 50.1% of US equity and...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez offered a vague response Thursday after thousands of migrants stormed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, ordering government resources to the city while avoiding any direct mention the crisis. The crisis broke out Thursday afternoon as thousands of illegal aliens, presumably of...