(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The true total of US national security spending in 2027 will exceed $2.5 trillion, far beyond the already record-shattering $1.5 trillion military budget President Donald Trump has requested, according to veteran defense analyst Winslow Wheeler.
Wheeler, who spent decades working in Washington for senators and the Government...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Fresh government statistics reveal that the American fertility rate reached a new minimum in 2025. This downturn continues a shrinking trend that has lasted for 20 years.
According to research from the CDC, the number of births per 1,000 women of reproductive age slid to 53.1...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump’s threats to wipe out Iran, “a whole civilization,” ended the restraint that Democrats have mostly practiced when it comes to questions of removing him from office in his second term.
By the dozens, Democrats came out to say that Trump should no longer serve in...
(Headline USA) The American economy, slowed by last fall's 43-day government shutdown, grew at a sluggish 0.5% annual pace from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in a downgrade of its previous estimate.
U.S. gross domestic product — the nation's output of goods and services — decelerated in...
(José Niño, Headline USA) DeCarlos Brown Jr., the African American man accused of fatally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train, has been found "incapable to proceed" on his state murder charge, the News & Observer reported.
Brown, 35, faces both state and federal murder charges...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) President Donald Trump once again tipped his hand to some of the U.S. government’s top-secret weaponry following a daring mission to rescue a downed F-15E airman, known only as “Dude 44 Bravo,” inside the Iranian border.
The operation over the weekend drew widespread acclaim, with even...
(Headline USA) A Long Island, New York architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years.
Rex Heuermann, 62, is charged...
(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) The ink was barely dry on last night’s two week ceasefire with Iran when Israel began what was their largest scale attack on Lebanon since the war began, with IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee saying Israel carried out strikes on over 100 targets in just 10 minutes.
Israeli...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s running mate, Adrienne Adams, funneled $435,000 in taxpayer dollars to a Brooklyn-based migrant shelter provider now under federal corruption probe, according to a Sunday report.
Adams, the former speaker of the New York City Council, used her office’s discretionary funding to steer...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US-Israeli strikes on Iran on Tuesday “completely destroyed” a Jewish synagogue in central Tehran, Iranian media has reported, as the bombing campaign continues to hit places of worship and other civilian targets.
Photos and videos of the aftermath show that the damage at the Rafi-Nia Synagogue, and...
(Tate Miller, The Center Square) An education group has uncovered that teacher’s union the National Education Association has given nearly two million dollars in donations since 2020 to an organization that trains for May Day school “walk-in” protests, as well as demands agendas such as “tax the rich” and...
(Merrilee Gasser, The Center Square) Drivers in Florida have gas prices above $4 per gallon for the first time in four years with crude oil prices rising almost 60% since the Iran conflict began, AAA says.
Second-term Republican President Donald Trump put out a strongly worded warning on social media...