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(Headline USA) Federal health officials on Friday said they have linked cases of a diarrhea-causing parasite tied to shredded lettuce to an additional four states, expanding the scope of the largest U.S. outbreak of cyclospora. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak first tied to Taco Bell...

(Headline USA) The Trump administration wants soldiers to consider becoming truck drivers when they leave the military to help replace the tens of thousands of immigrant drivers who lost their licenses in a crackdown this year. A new campaign launched Friday will promote programs that let veterans who recently drove...

(Headline USA) A federal indictment was unsealed Friday against 11 people in the smuggling deaths of seven migrants, including a 14-year-old boy, who were hiding inside a sweltering rail cargo container in Texas in May. Six people were found dead inside the shipping container in a rail yard in the...

(Headline USA) A teenager has pleaded guilty to all 55 counts, including murder, in a shooting nearly two years ago at Apalachee High School in Georgia that killed two students and two teachers. Colt Gray, 16, entered the plea Friday without having reached a deal with prosecutors. He had previously...

(Headline USA) A key Republican lawmaker says he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have made false statements to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department should consider prosecuting him. Lawyers for Smith deny the allegation and say he testified...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House on Wednesday passed its version of the massive $1.15 trillion 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes Section 219 (formerly Section 224), a provision to further integrate the US and Israeli militaries, a scheme Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described as “my...

(Headline USA) Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to her murder failed to eliminate her legacy but caused enduring fear and fury as he changed their lives forever. Fellow lawmakers and survivors...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) CNN reported Thursday that a Secret Service agent on Vice President JD Vance’s security detail has been put on administrative leave and is suspected of leaking information about his travel to a news site. According to CNN, the agent is suspected of leaking to MS NOW...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and over a dozen of his colleagues in the upper chamber have re-upped their calls to end the federal ban of marijuana. On Tuesday, Fetterman’s office sent out a press release announcing his support for the reintroduction of the Cannabis...

(zachery Schmidt, The Center Square) U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs defeated U.S. Rep. David Schweikert in the Arizona Republican primary for governor Tuesday. With 7% of Arizona precincts reporting, Biggs, R-Gilbert, received 71.5% of the votes, while Schweikert, R-Scottsdale, only got 16%. Biggs will now go up against Gov. Katie Hobbs, who...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The Trump administration is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday. The administration froze more than $867 million in Medicaid funds from California and more than $200 million...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Erika Kirk sat through five days of testimony in a Utah courtroom this month as prosecutors reconstructed her husband's killing, and people close to the family say she left carrying sadness rather than the rage she expected, according to the Daily Mail. The hearing placed her...