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(Headline USA) Christa Pike was scheduled to be executed. But after two injections, she kept breathing. She made snoring sounds, she talked, she said her arm was hurting. Pike, sentenced to die for torturing and killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, said as her scheduled lethal injection began that she was...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Pentagon told The Center Square its Golden Dome missile shield will protect the entire homeland for $185 billion. The Congressional Budget Office estimates a notional system consistent with the administration's missile defense goals could cost about $1.2 trillion over 20 years, roughly $9,300 for...

(Headline USA) A surprise decision by the U.K.'s counterterrorism police to release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot at a U.S.-operated air force base in England has deepened questions and uncertainty about the incident. Police confirmed Tuesday that no explosives were found in three vans...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The office of Special Counsel Jack Smith carried out an urgent process to purchase digital storage and management software for evidence in the weeks after it indicted President Donald Trump in June 2023. The purchase of “Axon Investigate,” revealed Monday by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, raises...

(Headline USA) A powerful nor’easter battered the Northeast again on Sunday, flooding coastal communities and leaving tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power as forecasters warned that another round of high tides could inundate vulnerable shorelines. The slow-moving storm, which killed a New York City housing authority worker when...

(Headline USA) In the latest twist in Anthropic's dispute with the Pentagon, a federal appeals court on Friday rejected the artificial intelligence lab's challenge to the government's labeling of it as a supply chain risk. The decision allows the Pentagon to continue to remove Anthropic’s Claude models from its systems...

(The Center Square) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has filed hundreds of state-mandated “transparency” reports intended to disclose millions of dollars donated to third parties at her behest, but at least 23 filings reviewed by The Center Square show her requesting money from "Anonymous." Anonymous donations are legal in some...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Advocates of the growing network of AI-driven surveillance cameras argue the technology can help make communities across the U.S. safer. But the controversial cameras have also wreaked havoc on the lives of innocent American citizens, including Florida resident Lindsey Isaacs, who spent 13 days in...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has approved reimbursing Texas $7.5 billion for costs incurred by the state's border security operations during the Biden administration's border crisis. It's the first time Texas has received such a reimbursement, thanks to a new federal law. Gov. Greg Abbott...