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(Sean Reed, The Center Square).An Exxon Mobil fuel refinery southwest of Chicago went offline over the weekend, causing a halting of production and driving already heightened fuel costs even higher for Midwestern motorists, who likely won’t see prices ease until days later. The cost for a regular gallon of fuel...

(Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel on Tuesday defended the bureau's loosening of hiring standards regarding an applicant's past experience with prostitution and bestiality, insisting that the changes were meant to enable victims of those acts to be considered for employment without fear of automatic disqualification. The subject arose during a...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The transparency organization Judicial Watch has sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for records about an ATF informant who warned the agency about a terrorist plot being planned in Oklahoma months before the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. The ATF informant in...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., faced a wave of backlash after they were captured on television smiling and laughing during New York City’s solemn 9/11 commemoration ceremony Friday. The two socialist darlings appeared to rejoice as families and loved ones mourned...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. inflation rose by 0.4% in August for an annual rate of 3.4%, keeping in track with July's data, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.  The index for gasoline rose 3.9% during the month, accounting for more than one...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The CIA has released a set of reports from the late 1990s and early 2000s, showing that the agency warned the Clinton and Bush administrations of a possible attack from Al Qaeda. The reports, released Friday, the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Thursday marks one year since the assassination of Christian and conservative leader Charlie Kirk, who will be honored during a Turning Point USA service in the evening. "The Freedom Built to Last Memorial Honoring Charlie Kirk" program will start at 6:30 p.m. Thursday Mountain time...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Roy Cooper, the Democrat who once governed North Carolina and now chases a Senate seat, put a former Bloods gang member onto a criminal justice reform group he formed in 2020, according to a Fox News report.  He created that Racial Equity in Criminal Justice task...

(Liam Hibbert, The Center Square) The list of noncitizen voters in Nevada has fallen to 185 from a potential list of nearly 16,000 after revisions from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But the department noted the 185 figure strictly refers to those who were manually reviewed during a labor-intensive...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security had a budget of about $31 billion in its first full year of operation. For 2027, the Trump administration wants $118 billion. Created in 2003 in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by folding 22 agencies...

(Headline USA) U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with missiles, the American military said Saturday, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.” The strikes — a day after U.S. President Donald Trump sought to minimize the conflict as “small...

(Headline USA) A judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial declared a mistrial Friday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in a case that sharply divided many Americans over whether the Massachusetts woman should be criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The trial generated intense interest for more...