(Headline USA) The Pentagon said Friday that it has reached deals with seven tech companies to use their artificial intelligence in its classified computer networks, allowing the military to tap into AI-powered capabilities to help it fight wars.
Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection and SpaceX will provide...
(Headline USA) A small plane crashed among trees in Texas Hill Country, killing all five people aboard, authorities said Friday.
The crash happened around 11 p.m. Thursday in Wimberley, a city about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southwest of Austin, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
“The pilot and four passengers...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Massive drug busts are continuing along the southwest border primarily in California and Texas. In roughly a dozen stops this month federal agents seized enough cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine to kill more than 32.7 million people.
California and Texas ports of entry are seeing increased...
(Headline USA) A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter to death nearly 50 years ago was executed Thursday evening.
James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was convicted of the July...
(Headline USA) The Onion’s plan to take over the Infowars platforms that Alex Jones built into a bullhorn of conspiracy theories and turn them into parody sites was in limbo again Thursday, after a court paused a proposed deal involving the satirical news outlet.
Infowars is facing liquidation because of...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) After weeks of delay, the U.S. House finally approved the Senate’s legislation reopening the Department of Homeland Security.
Once President Donald Trump signs the legislation, the 76-day DHS shutdown will end and all agencies except Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Police were warned of an impending terror attack before two terrorists killed 11 people in December in Australia, according to the New York Times.
The attack, which took place during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, was the country’s worst mass shooting in some three decades.
Citing a...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A years-long effort has resulted in the extradition of a Chinese national facing multiple espionage charges in Houston.
Chinese national Xu Zewei was extradited to the U.S. from Italy over the weekend and appeared before a federal judge in Houston on Monday.
He faces a nine-count...
(Headline USA) The man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and kill President Donald Trump took a picture of himself in his hotel room just minutes earlier, outfitted with an ammunition bag, a shoulder gun holster and a sheathed knife, authorities said Wednesday in...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in two cases to determine whether orders ending temporary protected status for Haiti and Syria are constitutional.
Justices on the court are hearing Trump v. Miot and Mullin v. Doe. The two cases challenge an order from President...
(By former FBI operative David Gletty) How many chances do we as Americans, and the U.S. president, need to give the Secret Service to help get him assassinated?
For most presidents, this would not be tolerated. But because it is Donald Trump, the leftist hate groups and the media seem...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Federal agents raided multiple businesses across Minneapolis Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged Somali-linked fraud, according to several reports. Among the locations targeted was the controversial Quality Learning Center.
The raids hit more than 20 locations, including childcare centers, under search warrants signed by...