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(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...

(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...

(Joelle Webb, The Center Square) Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is suing the federal government as part of a second legal battle against the construction of immigrant detention centers in the state. The lawsuit was filed in an attempt to stop or temporarily delay the construction of a detention facility...

(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...

(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...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military is set to complete its withdrawal from its remaining bases in Iraq on Wednesday under a deal signed between the US and the Iraqi government in 2024. The US is officially ending the mission of the anti-ISIS coalition that began in 2014 after the US...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Ask pretty much anybody, and they’ll tell you we have an inflation problem. But what does that mean? And how did it happen? Most people have no clue. The first problem is that policymakers and the media use a very imprecise definition of inflation. For most people,...

(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...

(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,...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A Substack writer who publishes as Geoffrey Edevane accused conservative commentator Candace Owens on September 28 of keeping 4 adult dating profiles. Edevane, who posts on X as @EsoShaggy, laid out the allegations in a Substack article that runs 12 chapters on his Mystery Machine News...

(Headline USA) A Kentucky state trooper was fatally shot along an interstate highway Monday, and a suspect was later apprehended, state police said. Trooper Hayden Phillips was shot while patrolling along northbound Interstate 65 in Warren County, Kentucky state police said in a statement on social media. Phillips was based out...

(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...