(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US oil companies want “serious guarantees” from the Trump administration before making large investments in Venezuela, according to a report from the Financial Times.
After launching the attack on Caracas that killed around 100 people and resulted in the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro, Trump said the US...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump has told The New York Times that he expects to “run” Venezuela for many years following the US attack on Caracas to abduct President Nicolas Maduro.
By “running” Venezuela, the president appears to mean controlling its oil industry and getting access to the country’s vast...
(Headline USA) The federal agent who shot and killed a driver who hit him in Minneapolis is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and who just months ago was hit and dragged by a vehicle...
(Headline USA) Two people were killed and six others injured in a mass shooting outside a Salt Lake City church Wednesday night while mourners were attending a memorial service inside, police said.
The shooting took place in the back parking lot of a house of worship for The Church of Jesus...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday that he wants a $1.5 trillion military budget for 2027, a 50% increase from his $1 trillion budget for 2026.
“After long and difficult negotiations with Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and other Political Representatives, I have determined...
(José Niño, Headline USA) An unidentified gambler has pocketed approximately $410,000 in profits after correctly wagering that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro would lose power, according to Reuters.
The speculator's Polymarket account accumulated positions in contracts linked to Maduro's removal under terms suggesting unlikely odds ahead of the weekend military operation....
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said the US had no plans to hold elections in Venezuela. He said elections are currently impossible, and the country must first be helped by the US.
“We have to fix the country first. You can’t have an election. There’s no way the people could...
(Headline USA) The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it launched what it described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the agency — with 2,000 federal agents and officers expected in the Minneapolis area for a crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is set to hold its first of two scheduled hearings Wednesday on the “fraud and misuse of federal funds in Minnesota.”
Three Republican Minnesota state lawmakers who “sounded the alarm” in the past on some of...
(Headline USA) CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Ames died Monday.
Ames, a 31-year CIA...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Venezuela’s acting president, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, issued a statement on Sunday calling for cooperation with the US after President Trump threatened her with a fate worse than President Nicolas Maduro’s if she did not do the US’s bidding.
“Venezuela reaffirms its commitment to peace and peaceful coexistence....