(Bethany Blankley The Center Square) As the death count in the Independence Day flooding in central Texas has now surpassed that of Hurricane Harvey, with dozens of children reported dead and missing who were camping at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texans are asking why a warning system wasn't...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On Sunday night, Axios published footage of billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s prison wing from the night before he was found dead in his cell in the early hours of August 10, 2019.
As Headline USA has explained, the footage does not provide evidence that Epstein...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating a study funded by the Biden administration on alcohol guidelines for Americans, as the U.S. Health and Human Services Department prepares to release its five-year dietary guidelines for Americans.
In January, the Interagency Coordinating Committee...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israel wants assurances from the US that if it agrees to a 60-day Gaza ceasefire deal, it could restart its genocidal war if it deems that its conditions are not met in negotiations with Hamas, Middle East Eye reported on Friday, citing Israeli media.
Under the potential deal,...
(Headline USA) Three people were killed and 10 others injured in a shooting early Monday in a South Philadelphia neighborhood, authorities said.
The three people who died were adults, and two of the wounded were juveniles, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel told reporters. The shooting happened shortly before 1 a.m. along...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the early hours of July 4, a flash flood swept through an area of Hill Country dotted with summer camps and small towns about 70 miles northwest of San Antonio. At least 68 people died in Kerr County, and 10 girls from one camp...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump's plan to create a sovereign wealth fund that's the world's envy remains undefined.
In the meantime, Norway's Government Pension Fund Global is among the largest in the world, with more than $1.8 trillion in assets.
In February, Trump told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It’s official: foreign-born billionaire Elon Musk has launched the “America Party” after being ousted from the Republican Party—a move reportedly brought on by his drug abuse, erratic behavior and personal attacks against President Donald Trump.
Musk said last week that he’d create a new political party...
(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...
(Headline USA) Rescuers scoured a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris Saturday in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors, including 27 girls who have not been seen since their camp was slammed with a wall of water in a historic flash flood.
The flooding...
(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...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) State data shows the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention carried out only one brush clearance operation in the Pacific Palisades before the deadly Palisades Fire killed 12 Americans and destroyed 6,837 structures, highlighting the state’s slow progress in forest management.
This single Cal...