(Andrew Rice , The Center Square) The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a significant cut after January saw a better-than-expected report, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The unemployment rate remained steady at 4.4%. The rate only marginally increased from its 4.3% rate in January. Interestingly, health...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari has told Congress that he’s being blocked from investigating the Secret Service in relation to its failures to protect Donald Trump when he was nearly assassinated on July 13, 2024.
Cuffari’s complaint was made public shortly before DHS Secretary Kristin Noem...
(Headline USA) Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas said late Thursday he was withdrawing from his reelection race, after having admitted an affair with a former staff member who later died by lighting herself on fire, but he vowed to finish out his term in Congress.
He had faced calls from...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Emails released from the Jeffrey Epstein files show the sex trafficking billionaire worked Israeli connections to help his lawyer's daughter join an elite Israeli Defense Forces unit, The Grayzone reported Tuesday.
Epstein's request came in a June 29, 2011 email to Anat Barak, the daughter of...
(Headline USA) The allegation sounded like the stuff of spy movies: A Pakistani businessman trying to hire hit men, even handing them $5,000 in cash, to kill a U.S. politician on behalf of Iran 's powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
It was true, and potential targets of the 2024 scheme included...
(Headline USA) Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in Southern California and booked early Thursday, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s office, which didn’t say what charge she faces.
Messages seeking comment were left with the sheriff's office; the California Highway Patrol, which was identified as the arresting agency; and...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) President Donald Trump is nominating Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma as the next Homeland Security Secretary.
On Thursday, the second-term Republican decided to reassign Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the special envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
Multiple reports circulated prior to the...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Lawmakers introduced a bill to require greater transparency on the national debt and GDP.
Reps. Lloyd Smucker, R-Penn., and Jared Golden, D-Maine, introduced the Debt-to-GDP Transparency and Stabilization Act on Wednesday. The legislation would require the president to submit reports in his annual budget requests...
(Mark Stricherz, The Center Square) A number of U.S. representatives like to be driven in style, billing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for limo service from their office accounts, an investigation by The Center Square found.
Six U.S. representatives charged taxpayers nearly $30,000 to hire chauffeured limousines in the...
(Headline USA) Authorities in Cleveland were working Wednesday to identify two young half-sisters whose bodies were found buried inside suitcases on the city's east side.
The bodies were recovered on Monday in the city's Collinwood neighborhood after a tip from a dog walker, according to police. One of the girls...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Wednesday boasted of the “death and destruction” the US military can rain down on Iran, as reports say that US and Israeli airstrikes have killed over 1,000 Iranian civilians in just four days.
Hegseth said at a press briefing that the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The White House is expected to ask Congress for an extra $50 billion in military spending to replenish stockpiles of weapons used in the Iran war and other recent Middle East conflicts, Reuters has reported.
Sources told Reuters that Deputy Secretary of War Steve Feinberg has been...