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(Headline USA) U.S. stocks rebounded Friday and regained much of their losses for the week after oil prices eased off their recent spurt. An update on inflation across the United States that came in close to economists’ expectations, even if prices are still rising too quickly for everyone’s liking,...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) Nearly nine months after allegations of widespread daycare fraud first emerged in Minnesota, state Republicans are criticizing Democrats for inaction as newly-released court records show officials received early warnings in at least one case. House Speaker Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, said Minnesota Democrats have...

(Liam Hibbert, The Center Square) Gubernatorial candidates in Nevada have stressed the need to regulate artificial intelligence-powered automated license plate readers. Their comments came late this week after a Nevada legislative committee voted unanimously at a recent meeting to draft a bill with legal guidelines for ALPRs, which include Flock...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) CBS News reported on Thursday that Iran’s strikes on a US base in Jordan, which it launched overnight Tuesday into Wednesday in retaliation for the US attack on multiple Iranian oil tankers, damaged multiple US military aircraft. Sources told the outlet that the heavy missile attack on...

(Headline USA) Six Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of over $6 million through online romance scams will be extradited to the United States on Friday, South African police said. The men, who were arrested in the South African city of Cape Town...

(Headline USA) Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived. A judge recently set a 2028 date for Mohammed...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Eleven months into fiscal year 2026, the U.S. government has added $2 trillion to the national debt, borrowing $168 billion during August alone, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. The federal government has collected $4.8 trillion and spent $6.8 trillion, generating a deficit already higher than...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal grand jury indicted a man whom authorities allege was behind a voting fraud scheme in the infamous Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The indictment, announced Thursday by the DOJ, alleges that James Brass, 47, paid homeless individuals in Skid Row to sign ballot...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) It is a good day to be named Michael Cohen. The controversial convicted felon could soon benefit from President Donald Trump’s mercy in the form of a presidential pardon. Trump said he is open to considering pardoning Cohen, his former personal attorney, when asked by reporters Wednesday afternoon. Fielding...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A 29-year-old Mexican national, Luis Carlos Davalos-Lopez, admitted guilt in an El Paso federal court to a charge of conspiring to smuggle migrants into the country, according to a Justice Department announcement released last Friday. Prosecutors say he teamed up with several accomplices to funnel...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Disgraced former first son Hunter Biden's entry into the cryptocurrency market quickly crashed after he announced the so-called $LAPTOP meme coin on Tuesday. Biden announced the token, a reference to his controversial laptop, in an X post that garnered nearly 5 million views. But despite the attention,...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) A special interest group is not happy with news that Nevada’s secretary of state received seven election-related subpoenas from the FBI. All Voting is Local said this marks a “dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to control state-run elections” in the U.S. “As the...