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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon has raised combat pay for US troops for the first time since 2002, Task & Purpose has reported, as the Iran war continues and another round of escalation between the US and Iran appears to be coming. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced the pay increase last...

(Headline USA) Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday, the latest criminal case on the southern island where the heavy American troop presence has remained a sensitive issue. The Okinawa prefectural police said they arrested a 20-year-old Marine...

(Headline USA) The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog said Wednesday that the central bank has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors. A variety of missteps by the Fed's Board of Governors and staff inflated the cost of...

(Headline USA) The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued there wasn't enough evidence to prove she was responsible for killing her three children. During Clancy's first trial, which ended Sept. 4 with a deadlocked...

(Headline USA) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced some major changes to the U.S. military on Wednesday in what he called his “State of the Force” address, including establishing a new drone command and cutting 20% of the nation’s generals and admirals. The Pentagon also will launch an effort to study...

(Madeline Shannon, The Center Square) Gov. Gavin Newsom early Tuesday signed several bills to protect California’s immigrants, crack down on private jails and prisons, and keep U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers out of the state’s police departments. The package of bills, 21 in all, were all authored by Democratic...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A volunteer search collective in western Mexico says it recovered at least 1,600 baby teeth from a suspected clandestine burial site, but Mexican authorities say they have no official record of such a discovery. The competing claims have fueled demands for an independent forensic investigation,...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Sunday that he was “rejecting” a proposal from Iran to end the war and fully open the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, comments that came after The Wall Street Journal reported that he’s expecting to resume bombing Iran after the midterm elections. “I’m...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Republicans in competitive midterm races are confronting voter anger over surging fuel costs, with little time left to deliver meaningful relief. The Wall Street Journal report identified expensive diesel and gasoline as an increasingly serious electoral problem, especially across rural states where farming and trucking...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden administration wielded the DOJ as a weapon to target its political opponents in Congress, repeatedly bypassing constitutional protections to obtain their phone records and other private communications, a new House report concluded. The aggressive efforts to target Republican lawmakers are detailed in a 57-page interim...

(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....

(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...