(Headline USA) President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day. This year has seen a flurry of activity to address it.
Part of Trump's executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits, takes aim at...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) As foreign espionage threats continue in the U.S. and in Texas, a new bill becomes law Sept. 1 that prohibits foreign ownership of Texas land.
SB 17, filed by state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, passed the Texas legislature with bipartisan support and was signed into...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday granted a Trump administration request to deport eight noncitizens to South Sudan, a country where they have no ties.
The high court stopped an order allowing the foreign nationals to appeal removals to “third countries” where they say they...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Senate on Tuesday advanced a massive spending package, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” by President Trump, that includes $150 billion in extra military spending.
The bill passed in a vote of 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, as three Republicans — Senators Rand...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Trump-led DOJ busted two Chinese nationals for spying on U.S. Navy service members and bases, and for plotting to recruit others on behalf of the People’s Republic of China.
Prosecutors said that Yuance Chen, 38, and Liren “Ryan” Lai, 39, were arrested on June 27 and...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US military tanker aircraft refueled Israeli jets throughout the 12-day US-Israeli war against Iran to ease the burden on Israel’s limited and aging fleet of tankers, Israel Hayom has reported.
The report said that “hundreds of aerial refuelings were conducted for Israeli fighter jets flying to Iran” during...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Federal agents have so far arrested more than 2,700 members of transnational criminal organizations designated as foreign terrorist organizations, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday.
Among them are members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, which the Trump administration designated as an FTO...
(Headline USA) More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern U.S. states have now reported witnessing a mysterious object streak across the sky on Thursday, and the nation's space agency now believes it was a remarkably bright meteor known as a bolide.
Most sightings of the streak of light and fireball...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Axios reported that Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie is in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs as the sitting president’s political machine launches an aggressive campaign to unseat him in 2026
The move sends a clear warning to other GOP lawmakers: cross Trump, and you could be next.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1936574721312923803
Massie’s criticism...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The 2015 ISIS-inspired shooting at a contest to draw the Prophet Muhammed in Garland, Texas remains one of the starkest examples of the FBI provoking a terrorist attack.
In that case, FBI informants had been monitoring the shooters for years, the bureau allowed one of them...
(José Niño, Headline USA) On Tuesday, a congressional hearing on antisemitism turned into a heated debate over ideology, social media, and the safety of Jewish Americans.
The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight held a heated hearing titled “Rising Threat: America’s Battle Against Antisemitic Terror,” which brought together lawmakers, activists,...
(Headline USA) The head of the federal government agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants the mortgage giants to consider accepting a homebuyer's cryptocurrency holdings in their criteria for buying mortgages from banks.
William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, ordered the...