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Real Cost of Iran War Likely Double the $25 Billion Figure the Pentagon Gave to Congress

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The $25 billion estimate the Pentagon gave to Congress on Wednesday regarding the cost of the Iran war is a lowball figure that doesn’t include the cost of repairing the destruction at US bases across the Middle East, CNN has reported. Sources told the outlet that factoring...

Immigration Arrests are Plummeting

(Headline USA) ICE arrests have fallen in recent months, and the number of people in immigration detention has dropped from a high of roughly 72,000 in January to 58,000 this week, according to The Associated Press. But in a sign of its continued determination, ICE in budget documents says it plans...

Identities of More SPLC Informants Revealed

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The New York Post has uncovered the identities of two more Southern Poverty Law Center informants as the Justice Department looks to prosecute the group for secretly paying Nazis and Klansmen to serve as spies. The DOJ’s indictment lists nine different informants, but doesn’t name them....

Bodega Worker Who Spoke Out on Crime in Viral Video Killed in NYC Shooting

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) “Just take care of my kids.”   Those were the final words of Abdul Saleh, a New York City bodega worker before he died after being shot by a man reportedly known as a menace around the neighborhood.  In any other case, Saleh’s death at 28 would have been...

With Few Employment Prospects, Afghan Men Are Digging for Gold

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) What if you could just pull money out of the ground? That’s exactly what men are doing in the Hindu Kush mountains of eastern Afghanistan. They are scouring the rocky Kunar riverbed for flecks of gold. Here in the U.S., people pan for gold for...

Rogue Civil Rights Commission Refuses to Recognize Trump Appointees

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A federal agency that is supposed to be bipartisan appears to have gone rogue and declared itself outside the law, refusing to recognize changes to its leadership made by President Donald Trump. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights includes eight members, four of whom are appointed...

Mississippi Gov. Reveals Plan to Redistrict Bennie Thompson Out of Office

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves pledged on Friday to convene a special session of the state legislature in order to eliminate the congressional seat held by notorious ex-Jan. 6 Committee chairman Bennie Thompson, a Democrat. https://twitter.com/tatereeves/status/2047786136568021192 Reeves referenced a potentially landmark Supreme Court decision, Louisiana v. Callais, which...

Cost of Iran War Not Included in Pentagon’s $1.5 Trillion Budget Request

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The cost of the US war with Iran was not included in President Donald Trump’s request for a massive $1.5 trillion military budget for 2027, according to a Pentagon budget official. “This budget was formulated, honestly, before we went into conflict with Iran,” Jules Hurst III, the...

70% of Farmers Cannot Afford Fertilizer

(José Niño, Headline USA) Seven out of every ten American farmers say fertilizer has become so expensive that they cannot purchase enough to meet their needs this year, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation. The survey gathered responses from more than 5,700 farmers across...

Harvey Weinstein’s Rape Retrial Opens in New York, the Third Time this Case has Gone to Trial

(Headline USA) Prosecutors once again portrayed Harvey Weinstein as a onetime Hollywood power player who used his sway as a tool of sexual assault, repainting a familiar but fraught picture Tuesday at a rape retrial nearly eight years after the former movie tycoon’s arrest. “This case will come down to...

Trump Defends Iran War in Series of Posts on Truth Social

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Monday issued a series of posts on his Truth Social account defending his war with Iran and a potential diplomatic deal that he may reach with Tehran, though the state of the negotiations remains unclear. The president started with a post where he...

Pentagon Has Approached US Automakers About Helping Manufacture Weapons

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Two major US car makers have been approached by the Pentagon about the possibility of helping the US government manufacture military equipment, as the Trump administration seeks a significant boost in arms production. The discussions were first reported by The Wall Street Journal last week, which said...
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