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(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) On the heels of a brutal loss by Republicans in the midterms, President Donald Trump defended his decision to strike Iran. The president was also asked about a social media post from Vice President JD Vance blaming the losses on the war with Iran, which...

(Headline USA) A former U.S. government contractor has admitted passing classified intelligence to Ethiopia that officials used in military operations, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday. Abraham Teklu Lemma, 54, supplied secrets to senior Ethiopian officials for more than two years urging them to deploy drones against fighters battling the...

(Headline USA) Florida authorities said two people were dead, including a suspect, after witnesses reported a shooting Wednesday at Citibank’s sprawling business complex that employs thousands in the Tampa area. More than 360 deputies swarmed the campus, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. TV video showed long lines of workers...

(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump already has a backup plan if Americans sour on him, and it involves running Israel.  TMZ reported that the president joked about moving there and taking over as prime minister during an Election Day appearance on Fox News on Tuesday. Trump built the joke...

(Headline USA) The Justice Department has escalated its investigation over an Alaska Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent, issuing a letter to a prominent Democratic attorney in Washington and others that they may be targets of the criminal inquiry, two people familiar with the matter...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) For the first time in history, the U.S. Department of Justice is monitoring voting in all 50 states. In a statement issued Tuesday morning, the DOJ said one if its most important missions “is ensuring election integrity, supporting free and fair elections, and protecting the...

(Headline USA) Federal authorities charged an Oklahoma City man with sending hundreds of letters containing white powder and ominous warnings about treason to public officials ahead of the 2024 and 2026 elections. The powders turned out to be nonhazardous — yeast or flour — though not all letters have been...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Palestinian man arrested in Louisiana last year for allegedly participating in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has signaled that he has an alibi. The alleged Oct. 7 attacker, Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi, revealed his alibi defense in a filing on Friday in...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Spending on the two U.S. intelligence budgets hit a record $109 billion in fiscal 2026 but still landed $6.5 billion below what the Trump administration requested, the largest shortfall in 14 years of figures published by ODNI. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Tucker Carlson claimed in a post on X on Sunday night that the Trump administration is considering launching a nuclear strike targeting Pickaxe Mountain in central Iran and that the president is expected to make a decision by November 7. “Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The American Community Survey estimated the nation’s immigrant population at 50.4 million in 2025, only slightly above the previous year’s 50.2 million. Steven Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, highlighted the figures in a new analysis describing a substantial slowdown after an...

(Headline USA) Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers as Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill. Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church...