(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks, the cost to taxpayers for the U.S. War on Terror is approaching $10 trillion.
Initial costs for two conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan were more than $8 trillion. An additional $2 trillion will be incurred by U.S....
(Headline USA) Two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees were among eight people killed when a small plane crashed in foggy weather near a remote military radar site on the southwestern coast of Alaska.
The two pilots and six passengers who died in the crash around midday Thursday were not...
(Headline USA) An airplane pilot died Wednesday after a violent collision with a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter near a runway at a small airport, but both state troopers aboard the helicopter survived, authorities said.
The plane was coming down on the runway and veered into the helicopter that was near...
(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) The nation’s two largest teachers' unions directed thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to Democratic members of key congressional education committees, according to federal campaign finance records reviewed by The Center Square.
The congressional members whose campaigns received the money supported legislation favoring schools and...
(Headline USA) U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds won the Republican nomination for Florida governor and former Rep. David Jolly picked up the Democratic nod in Tuesday's primaries, setting the stage for a fall campaign to replace outgoing Gov. Ron DeSantis and decide the state's future political direction.
DeSantis, a leading conservative figure...
(Headline USA) Explosions rocked an Ohio industrial recycling business Tuesday morning, sparking a large fire that drew a swarm of emergency responders. Two workers were unaccounted for and a few others had minor injuries, officials said.
The Toledo Fire & Rescue Department said there were two explosions at Brent Industries shortly...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Sunday said that he had ordered US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his relationship with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea,...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) After years of investigating aviation security, retired federal investigators and 9/11 whistleblowers argue terrorism threats are very real and unless greater security measures are implemented, another similar terrorist attack could happen again.
One of them, a former U.S. Air Marshall and Federal Aviation Administration security...
(Headline USA) A Massachusetts mayor was arrested Friday and charged with fraudulently obtaining a pandemic loan and using the money to fund his election campaign as well as pay off high-interest mortgages on several of his properties and personal taxes.
Lawrence Mayor Brian DePena was charged Friday with one count...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The aircraft carrier USS George Washington is preparing to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a scheduled Middle East deployment, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, news that comes as families of military personnel aboard the Lincoln have reported that sailors have attempted to...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal employees can once again access TikTok on government equipment after officials determined the platform's revamped ownership structure removes the security risks that led to the original prohibition. Bloomberg reported that the shift came after TikTok's U.S. business moved under the control of American investors.
The...
(Headline USA) Moderate Democrat David Crowley won the Wisconsin primary for governor, defeating a democratic socialist who fell short while trying to deliver another win for progressives in a battleground state.
Crowley, the Milwaukee county executive, is vying to become Wisconsin’s first black governor and pitched himself as the candidate best...