(Ken Silva, Headline USA) At the first hearing for alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson in September, 4th District Court Judge Tony Graf has issued a gag order on both the prosecution and defense—preventing them and any witnesses they want to use from speaking to the public.
Judge Graf’s order...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US is planning to establish a military base in Damascus, Syria, Reuters has reported, as the Trump administration continues to strongly back the new Syrian government that’s led by former al-Qaeda leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.
The report said that the US will establish a military presence at...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A US State Department spokesperson told Shafaq News on Wednesday that the US is not withdrawing from Iraq but shifting its military role to a “bilateral relationship” under a deal that will end the mission of the US-led anti-ISIS coalition in the country.
The official made the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US is asking the UN Security Council to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader, and other members of his government, before he visits the White House next week, The Associated Press has reported.
Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, was...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) In another highway operation targeting dangerous drivers, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Oklahoma Department of Public Safety arrested 70 foreign nationals driving on interstate highways in Oklahoma.
In two days, they arrested drivers from 15 countries – all in the U.S. illegally. The...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump said Tuesday that federal food benefits won't go out until the government reopens, a statement at odds with what his administration has said publicly and told federal judges who ordered the government to use emergency funds to keep benefits flowing.
Trump made...
(Arthur Kane, The Center Square) Job perks like an on-call doctor, on-site daycare and millions of dollars for food, beverages and bottled water sound like something offered to employees of big tech firms.
But actually, taxpayers are paying for those perks for members of Congress and often their staff, an...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) For the 14th time, U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday filibustered Republicans’ funding bill to reopen the government, guaranteeing that the ongoing shutdown, now on its 35th day, will be the longest in U.S. history.
The government has remained closed since Oct. 1, after Democratic senators...
(Headline USA) A second monkey has been shot and killed and authorities said Tuesday that they were still searching for a third missing monkey a week after their escape from a truck that overturned on a Mississippi highway.
Someone shot the monkey after seeing it cross the highway on Monday evening...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, said in an interview with Bloomberg that US military “escalation” is the only way to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and confirmed that she is in contact with Trump administration officials.
When asked if...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) British news channel BBC “doctored” President Donald Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, to make it appear he called on supporters to riot at the Capitol before lawmakers certified the 2020 election.
The alteration was exposed in an internal memo first reported by British newspaper The Telegraph. The doctored footage...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan released documents directly undercutting claims by disgraced former FBI Director James Comey that his criminal indictment is part of President Donald Trump’s political vendetta.
The documents, filed on Monday by Halligan and her top deputy, Tyler Lemmons, revealed that Comey knew one...