(Headline USA) Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeated Rep. Lauren Boebert for a Colorado U.S. House seat on Friday, ousting a three-term Republican and staple of conservative media.
Laubacher is a former Navy rear admiral. Her win in the 4th Congressional District race is just one of several surprising Republican losses in...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration has declared three Guatemalan gangs to be terrorist groups for financing violence and crime with proceeds from drug trafficking.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday imposed the terrorist designations on Los Lorenzanas, Los Huistas and Los Mendoza, all of which the U.S. says have...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Authorities arrested former University of Texas at Tyler student Ciro Stephen Tomlian, 19, following an alleged assault at a Turning Point USA gathering Tuesday, according to The College Fix. He faces two aggravated assault counts and one count of assault causing bodily injury. A jail...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh filed a 178-page appeal on Monday, asking to have his conviction overturned on the grounds that he didn’t receive a fair trial.
Routh was the man found hiding in some bushes at Trump’s golf course on Sept. 15, 2024. As Trump...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Thursday that the US didn’t need to reach a deal with Iran and that he directed Vice President JD Vance to put his focus on domestic issues rather than diplomacy with the Islamic Republic.
Trump also claimed in...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Interest costs on the national debt totaled $1.4 trillion in fiscal 2026, according to an audit of Treasury's books released by the Government Accountability Office. About $1.1 trillion of that was paid out to bondholders, with the rest credited to federal trust funds the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Everybody is convinced that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again in December. With October’s hot CPI print, some analysts even think the central bank will bump rates by 50 basis points.
Meanwhile, Americans are leaning on high-interest credit cards to make ends...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukraine has asked its Western backers to provide 10 years of funding to maintain an 800,000-strong Ukrainian military as part of a potential peace deal to end the war, AFP reported on Wednesday.
According to the Kyiv Post, the request was raised during the first day of...
(José Niño, Headline USA) At least 11 people working for the National Security Agency or U.S. Cyber Command died by suicide during the fiscal year ending in September, according to Bloomberg’s investigation. The findings prompted private congressional and White House inquiries into workforce conditions and mental healthcare.
The deaths involved...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Atlantic celebrated a federal judge’s ruling Tuesday that temporarily halts most the discovery requests in FBI Director Kash Patel’s defamation lawsuit against the publication.
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted The Atlantic’s request to pause discovery as he considers the magazine’s motion to dismiss the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Idaho man Alexander Scott Mercurio was sentenced to 216 months in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS.
Mercurio was arrested in April 2024 when he was 18 years old, after the FBI targeted him for years...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that there was “positive momentum” toward ending the Iran war as Tehran’s security chief accused the US of “manufacturing fake news” about diplomatic talks.
Trump made the comments in a post on Truth Social after speaking with Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh...