(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) As a record-breaking heat wave sweeps across the central and eastern United States, two cities central to American independence have canceled July 4 celebrations.
Philadelphia canceled its iconic Fourth of July parade, citing extreme heat warnings, as did Washington. D.C.'s city government. The federal government...
(José Niño, Headline USA) California State Senator Scott Wiener informed CBS News that pro-Palestinian demonstrators who accosted him at San Francisco's Trans March deployed antisemitic rhetoric that "went beyond free speech," Information Liberation reported on X.
"They I have 'Israeli handlers'—which is a classic anti-Semitic trope," Wiener explained during...
(José Niño, Headline USA) American authorities apprehended a Cuban citizen allegedly connected to a far reaching influence operation that organized political streamer Hasan Piker's trip to Havana, Bloomberg reported.
Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez, a resident of the United States for over a decade, currently remains in federal detention facing deportation...
(José Niño, Headline USA) House leadership prevented members from casting votes on a provision that would forge an unprecedented merger between the American and Israeli defense industrial bases, Responsible Statecraft reported Monday.
The Rules Committee controlled which of over one thousand proposed NDAA amendments would advance to floor debate and...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order to overhaul birthright citizenship as unconstitutional.
Justices on the high court ruled in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging the president’s February 2025 order stripping birthright citizenship protections from children...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Saturday said he is nominating Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, as the next director of Immigration and Customs and Enforcement.
Trump said on his Truth Social platform that his new pick for the immigration enforcement agency is a “PATRIOT with real operational experience,...
(Headline USA) Billionaire investor Leon Black said Friday that Jeffrey Epstein deceived him during a yearslong relationship in which he paid the disgraced financier $158 million, but insisted he committed no criminal wrongdoing as he appeared before the House Oversight Committee.
Black is the 16th person to appear before the...
(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) The former Los Angeles fire chief is suing Mayor Karen Bass for defamation related to the devastating Palisades Fire.
Kristin Crowley was removed from her position on Feb. 21, 2025, weeks after the blaze began. The fire, which hit the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The White House has summoned top Pentagon brass and chief executives from the nation's premier defense firms to a Wednesday meeting focused on rebuilding American weapons reserves that shrank dramatically during combat operations, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Deputy War Secretary Stephen Feinberg contacted industry executives earlier...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former White House COVID czar Anthony Fauci reportedly agreed earlier this month to testify before Sen. Rand Paul’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs—but he’s since changed his mind.
Sen. Paul said Monday on Twitter/X that he’s subpoenaed Fauci to testify since he’s not speaking voluntarily.
“Last week,...
(Headline USA) Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died Monday. He was 100.
Greenspan died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent...
(Headline USA) Newly released video from an officer's body camera and a surveillance camera at a Texas running track captures the moments after a teenage athlete fatally stabbed another teen from a rival team in the stadium bleachers during a high school meet last year.
Karmelo Anthony, 19, was convicted of...