(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military blew up another boat in the waters of Latin America on Wednesday, an attack that comes amid growing congressional scrutiny of the bombing campaign.
US Southern Command said in a statement on X that its forces conducted a “lethal kinetic strike” on a vessel...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had won its war, but was in a never-ending conflict.
The Israeli leader told The New York Times’ Dealbook Summit, “We won this war. But it’s never ending. It’s like if you have cancer and you take it...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth violated multiple protocols and federal law in the “Signalgate” affair in March, according to Pentagon watchdog the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Defense.
In a report commissioned by Congress, the office concluded that Hegseth stepped outside his...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Under the Biden administration, the greatest number of illegal border crossers at the U.S.-Canada border were reported in U.S. history, breaking records nearly every month for four years, The Center Square first reported.
While record high numbers dropped under the Trump administration, illegal entries still...
(Headline USA) One of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell 's most vocal accusers urged judges on Wednesday to grant the Justice Department's request to unseal records from their federal sex trafficking cases, saying “only transparency is likely to lead to justice.”
Annie Farmer weighed in through her lawyer, Sigrid S....
(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools continue with a new brief filed this week, backed by 46 members of Congress.
First Liberty Institute and Hacker Stephens LLP filed a friend-of-the-court brief this past week at the U.S. Court of...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced a War Powers Resolution aimed at blocking President Donald Trump from launching a war with Venezuela without congressional authorization.
The bill was introduced by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Adam Schiff (D-CA), who sponsored the previous resolution,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, held five hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his advisers at the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss a potential peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, but the meeting ended with no...
(Bethany Blankley , The Center Square) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took more action Tuesday against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Abbott on Tuesday requested the Treasury Department investigate CAIR for its alleged terrorist ties and suspend its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit status.
Abbott and Texas lawmakers have led the charge to...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) After a story was published last week claiming that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat to kill those remaining, both Hegseth and the Pentagon reiterated their defense of the War Department’s actions as completely legal.
Pentagon...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said local officers will intervene in certain scenarios during the Trump administration’s deployment of ICE agents searching for Somali illegal aliens.
O’Hara said the intervention could occur if residents feel threatened or if any rights are violated, particularly in situations involving masked...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened Monday to yank millions from Minnesota if Governor Tim Walz fails to revoke the non-domiciled commercial driver licenses exposed as unlawful in a federal audit.
Duffy said that Minnesota could lose $30 million in federal highway funding after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration found that one-third of Minnesota's...