(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) An apparently insider attack in the ancient Syrian city of Palmya has left a number of US casualties, after an apparent ISIS infiltrator to the local security forces attacked a joint US-Syrian patrol that was conducting a “field tour” of the area.
The gunmen opened fire on the...
(Headline USA) The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son's “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her.
Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just forced Republicans into an uncomfortable corner over antisemitism, and the silence from the GOP side of the aisle speaks volumes. On Monday, Schumer introduced a resolution condemning nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes for his antisemitic views and Tucker Carlson for...
(Headline USA) Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department’s requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financier’s sexual abuse.
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman reversed his...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) A federal judge has approved the release of grand jury materials from the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted child sex offender and close associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer’s Tuesday decision grants the Department of Justice’s request that grand jury transcripts, exhibits...
(Headline USA) Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be critical to Democrats’ long-shot hopes of reclaiming a Senate majority in next year’s midterm elections.
Crockett, one of Congress’ most outspoken Democrats, jumped into the...
(Headline USA) The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden weekslong cross-country drives. Rahmanullah Lakanwal's behavior deteriorated so sharply that a...
(Headline USA) A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to a recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.
Several medical and public health leaders decried the actions of the panel, whose current members were all appointed by U.S. Health Secretary Robert...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) CNN anchor Jake Tapper was accused of racial profiling and mocked for his shoddy reporting after claiming Thursday that the accused Jan. 6 pipe-bomber was white.
Following the announcement by the FBI that Brian Cole Jr. had been arrested in connection with the nearly five-year-old investigation,...
(Headline USA) A man was arrested on Thursday in the FBI's nearly 5-year-old investigation into pipe bombs placed outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and has been charged with an explosives...
(Dave Mason, The Center Square) Aging or rehabilitated prisoners should be released sooner into society to save taxpayers' money.
This, according to a a group of Democratic New York congressional lawmakers who want the state to approve a controversial pair of bills that would make it easier for prisoners to...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Authorities say a routine meal at a Virginia Beach restaurant set off a federal investigation into two brothers who allegedly discussed killing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
A Virginia assistant principal and his brother were taken into custody late last month after authorities said the pair...