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(Headline USA) President Donald Trump's AI-fueled vision for a drone port he intends to install atop the new White House ballroom includes missile-bearing unmanned aerial vehicles and gun-toting troops, ostensibly to protect the 18-acre complex and the nation’s capital. A few hundred feet away, a drone port, run by the U.S....

(Headline USA) A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Utah threw out more than 300 mail ballots that were being sent to voters for the state's June primary, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said during a news conference that Damon Matai Seei was arrested Tuesday...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Hackers have taken between two and three terabytes of data from the FBI in a massive cyberattack, according to the tech publication 404 Media. The hackers, known as the ShinyHunters, reportedly took the personal information of thousands of FBI employees—including their names, home addresses, phone number,...

(Headline USA)  The social media influencer “Clavicular,” who gained a following promoting the online “looksmaxxing” trend, has been charged in Massachusetts with allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl who told police she became heavily intoxicated after he gave her alcohol at his family's Cape Cod home. Braden Peters, 20, is charged...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Never-before-published photos offer a glimpse into how the FBI handled its searches for classified materials at Joe Biden’s Delaware home and the "Biden Center” in Washington, D.C., prompting critics to compare the orderly appearance of the searches with the chaotic raid of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago...

(John Cole, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., has offered his support for Sean Parnell as chatter continues that he could be a candidate to lead the U.S. Army. “There have been a lot of stories of late about @SeanParnellUSA being considered to be our next Secretary of...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A group of news networks began protesting President Donald Trump’s ban of Politico, MS NOW and CNN from the White House through a self-imposed suspension of their “pool” duties. The networks, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox, have historically taken turns recording the president during so-called pooled...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Republican candidates in redrawn congressional districts across the country have appeared to distance themselves from President Donald Trump in recent weeks. Across the country, 10 states successfully implemented new congressional maps through both legislative action and judicial litigation. As many as 13 congressional districts that...

(Headline USA) Before taking over the Justice Department investigation into foes of President Donald Trump, Joe diGenova decried the lack of progress in bringing indictments. Five months later, diGenova has left his position without charging a single case, clouding the future of an investigation that the Trump administration has pursued...

(Headline USA)  A man serving 130 years in prison for killing two teen girls in Indiana is asking an appeals court to overturn his convictions, saying that he confessed while he was having a psychological crisis and was unfairly barred from arguing at trial that the girls were killed...

(Headline USA) As Kamala Harris mulls whether to run for president again, she's throwing herself into the midterms by campaigning with fellow Democrats, starting with a Tuesday trip to Michigan on behalf of Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed. It’s an especially notable destination for the former vice president. Michigan was one...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square)  State and federal taxpayers are poised to spend more than $600 million on homeless prevention efforts in Illinois during the current fiscal year. A report released earlier this month by the Interagency Task Force on Homelessness and the Illinois Office to Prevent and End Homelessness...