(Ken Silva, Headline USA) After Ryan Routh was arrested last September for allegedly trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course, media outlets quickly discovered that Routh had been charged in 2002 with possessing a “weapon of mass destruction.”
According to local reporting from the time, Routh was...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) House Republicans unveiled a bill this week that would bring the 2025 US military budget to over $1 trillion.
The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) totaled about $885 billion, and the new supplemental bill drafted by the House and Senate’s armed services committees would add $150...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Over the first 100 days in his second term of office, President Donald Trump has signed five pieces of legislation into law, fulfilling some of his deregulation and immigration promises while preventing a government shutdown.
“The four words that best describe this administration so far...
Amazon’s first batch of internet satellites rocketed into orbit Monday, the latest entry in the mega constellation market currently dominated by SpaceX's thousands of Starlinks.
The United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket carried up 27 of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites, named after the frigid fringes of our solar system beyond Neptune. Once released in orbit, the...
(Headline USA) Bob Filner, a 10-term U.S. congressman whose long political career ended abruptly after he was elected mayor of San Diego and driven from office amid sexual misconduct allegations, has died. He was 82.
Filner passed away April 20 with his children by his side, according to an obituary published...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court seemed inclined to a narrow ruling on Tuesday in a law-enforcement accountability case over an FBI raid that targeted the wrong house.
While some justices appeared open to the argument that the family should be able to sue over the mistake that left them traumatized,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine that would begin May 8 at midnight Moscow time to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory against Nazi Germany in World War II.
“By order of Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has released text messages between Ryan Routh and an alleged human trafficker in Mexico about smuggling Afghans into the U.S. last year—arguing that such evidence should be presented to a jury as part of Routh’s larger plans to assassinate Donald Trump last...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump has said that the United States would be “leading the pack” in an attack on Iran if a deal isn’t reached on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Trump made the comment in an interview with Time Magazine that was published on Friday, when asked about the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Virginia Giuffre, who was one of the most vocal survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, reportedly committed suicide last Thursday—but her lawyer is raising questions about what really happened.
“When I got the phone call, I was like, are you joking? Because there was no sign that...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Julian Assange and his family traveled to Rome over the weekend and were among hundreds of thousands of people at the Vatican attending the funeral of Pope Francis, who was a supporter of the WikiLeaks founder.
“Now Julian is free, we have all come to Rome to...
(Headline USA) Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia announced on Monday he is stepping down as the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee and will not be seeking reelection next year due to his cancer returning, ending his long career in public life.
Connolly, 75, has served in Congress...