(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Senate on Wednesday passed the $901 billion 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the sweeping annual military spending bill that will be combined with legislation passed earlier this year to bring the total US military budget to over $1 trillion.
The bill passed in a vote of 77-20,...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The Trump administration awarded Silicon Valley data analytics firm Palantir Technologies a $300 million contract without competitive bidding to construct an AI powered system targeting alleged fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. This move has sparked widespread concern about surveillance overreach and discriminatory targeting...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) As law enforcement continues to search for a gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others five days ago, some conservative pundits are questioning whether the shooting was a targeted assassination of one of the school’s leading Republican students.
The murdered student in...
(José Niño, Headline USA) In the wake of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO Ted Deutch embarked on a high profile media tour that framed the atrocity as a mandate for global action against online speech.
The shooting which Australian authorities classified...
(Headline USA) Authorities have asked the public for any footage they might have of the gunman who fatally shot two students and wounded nine others at Brown University, even as they released a new video timeline and a slightly clearer image of a possible suspect.
Investigators provided no indication Tuesday that...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) After a roughly 10-month stint that left many of his supporters disappointed, Dan Bongino is set to quit his job as FBI deputy director, according to multiple reports.
Fox News reported Monday that Bongino is set to decide about his future in the next few weeks....
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) The Justice Department is required to make all of the Epstein files public by Friday, after months of back-and-forth between Congress and the Trump administration.
On Nov. 18, with almost unanimous support, Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. President Donald Trump signed the bill...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Washington Post published an investigation into alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson on Wednesday, revealing—among other facts—that Robinson was playing the online game “Wordle” less than an hour before Kirk was killed.
“It was the morning of Sept. 10. Robinson had guessed the answer —...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A journalist probing Pentagon leadership has found himself facing intimidation rather than answers.
Six weeks before publication, journalist Dan Friedman received an email from Jack Posobiec asking whether he had a “creepy fetish for Asian women”, according to a report by Mother Jones.
Posobiec said he planned...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Michelle Obama revealed Monday that she and her husband Barack were supposed to meet Carl Reiner and his wife before they were murdered by their son.
“We were supposed to be seeing them that night — last night — and we got the news,” Michelle Obama reportedly...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.
The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump,”...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Monday declared that the synthetic opioid fentanyl is a “Weapon of Mass Destruction,” signaling he may use the drug as a pretext for a war in Latin America.
“Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic,” an executive order signed by the...