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(Headline USA) U.S. gas prices jumped to an average of $4 a gallon again Monday as the U.S. and Iran launched more attacks. According to motor club federation AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now back to $4. The average price a year ago was $3.14...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Rules for thee, not for me. Such is the apparent mantra of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who last week flouted his former demand to believe all women --- even when they were implausibly recounting decades-old rape allegations to advance a political narrative. https://twitter.com/PollTracker2024/status/2077571180492439675 Even after the implosion of...

(Headline USA) Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, on Sunday announced the birth of their fourth child, the first born to a sitting vice president in more than 150 years. Born Sunday, Alec Neel Vance joins older siblings Ewan, 9; Vivek, 6; and Mirabel, 4. Vance announced...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Famed TV physician and pundit Drew Pinsky --- aka Dr. Drew --- offered his medical opinion that, if autopsy reports about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s cause of death were to be believed, Graham may have been the latest victim of a COVID vaccine injury. During a podcast...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A former FBI official is facing renewed scrutiny after allegedly acknowledging in 2020 that she ran a “shadow government” while working to prevent a tip about Chinese election interference from reaching then-President Donald Trump. At the center of the controversy is Nikki Floris, a former member of...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) President Donald Trump’s primetime speech Thursday on election fraud offered smoking-gun details --- long reported in conservative media outlets --- that proved Democrats colluded with hostile foreign governments, including China, to secure the 2020 election for Democrat Joe Biden. Newly declassified evidence showed that China not...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) RINO Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina faced a barrage of backlash from both his colleagues and constituents after declaring his abject refusal to support common-sense election integrity. https://twitter.com/SenTuberville/status/2062705892659761199 “It is beyond EMBARRASSING that ‘Republicans’ continue to block the SAVE America Act,” wrote Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala....

(Headline USA) A father and son are expected to face federal kidnapping charges after they zip-tied two U.S. Forest Service employees and held them at gunpoint inside a trailer in Northern California near Mt. Shasta. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said the two workers were conducting routine field operations in the...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  Congress got its housing overhaul across the line at 12 a.m. Saturday, and the president never touched it. CBS News reported that President Donald Trump kept his signature off the measure as leverage against the Senate, which has refused to move his elections bill, the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rhode Island shoppers should expect longer wait times at the grocery store. Reason reports the state now leads the country in restricting grocery self-checkout, after Gov. Daniel McKee put his name on the Restrictions on Self-Service Checkout Stations Act in late June.  The statute demands one...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) When Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., addressed reporters last month at a press conference regarding allegations of sexual misconduct, he appeared visibly uncomfortable and seemingly on edge. A new report may help explain why. Gallego, who faced scrutiny months earlier over his close ties to disgraced former Rep....

(Headline USA) SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket came within a second or so from blasting off on a test flight Thursday, but some of the engines failed to ignite, triggering a launch abort amid billowing clouds of smoke and vapor. Elon Musk, the company's founder and CEO, said two engines will...