(Headline USA) The U.S. military on Saturday announced its first troop deaths due to direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war, saying two were killed and another was missing in an attack on a base in Jordan.
They were killed Friday as the U.S. and partner forces defended...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department announced Tuesday that several jewelry dealers have been arrested for allegedly smuggling nearly $1 billion worth of gold jewelry into the U.S. without paying customs duties.
The U.S. has agreements with Oman and Singapore that allows jewelry made there to be imported duty-free....
(Headline USA) Lawmakers said Kathryn Ruemmler, the former top lawyer at Goldman Sachs and White House counsel to President Barack Obama, was not being truthful Wednesday about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, rejecting her testimony that Epstein had merely “used” her.
Ruemmler in her opening remarks told members of the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal agents took a San Jose State University graduate student into custody this week, accusing him of flooding the campus with phony bomb threats and bigoted notes that disrupted operations for months, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday, according to Patch.
Ziheng "Tony" Fang, 30,...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Monday he’s recommended that Lindsey Graham’s sister be named as his temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate.
Trump posted on social media that Gov. Henry McMaster should appoint Darline Graham Nordone to fulfill the rest of Graham’s term, which expires in January. Graham died...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) After nearly a monthlong absence, the mysteries surrounding the health status of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are just as opaque as when he was found unresponsive on June 14.
Video released Friday by CNN showed McConnell, the longtime Senate majority leader and frequent Trump obstructionist, being...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Representative Ro Khanna (D–CA) reports that he was held at gunpoint for more than an hour earlier this week during his visit to the occupied West Bank when Israeli settlers confronted his entourage as he toured a destroyed Palestinian village.
“We were at a village that...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Video newly obtained by CNN captures paramedics rolling a person on a stretcher out of Sen. Mitch McConnell's, R-Ky., Washington residence and lifting them into a waiting ambulance. The footage sharpens a question his staff has spent nearly a month dodging. What actually happened to...
(Headline USA) The writer E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million held in escrow since a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed but were denied an emergency order to block the payment from being made.
Trump...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Medicare and Medicaid funding accounted for almost $12 billion of services provided through assisted living facilities, according to a new report released by the Government Accountability Office.
The independent nonpartisan agency examined spending for services in assisted living facilities in 2024, the year with the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) On Sunday, Just the News reported on a striking new Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas working paper that ties the Biden era surge in illegal immigration to a sharp jump in housing costs. The outlet summarized findings that the migrant wave lifted employment while driving...
(Headline USA) Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its global workforce, including a large number of workers at its Xbox video game business.
The layoffs included 1,600 Xbox workers, with more to come this year in a broader reorganization designed to “reset” Xbox as it faces heightened competition,...