(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Quietly tucked inside Republicans’ funding deal to end the government shutdown is a provision wiping the congressional Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) scorecard, effectively forgiving nearly $3.4 trillion in deficits.
When Republicans passed their budget reconciliation bill in July, which included a permanent extension of the 2017 tax...
(Headline USA) A two-decade pattern of alleged sex trafficking by two luxury real estate brokers and their brother wasn't "just men behaving badly,” a federal judge said as she left their indictment largely intact and rejected defense efforts to minimize the gravity of crimes involving dozens of women.
In an...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump has sent a letter to the Israeli President Isaac Herzog asking him to “fully pardon” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his corruption case, a strong show of support for the Israeli leader, who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) After a reduction of 10% of flights in and out of the nation’s top airports, causing major travel disruptions, President Donald Trump is calling for air traffic controllers to get back to work.
Trump is demanding that air traffic controllers return to work, just as...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) “Numerous” confidential informants warned the FBI that there would be violence at the Jan. 6, 2021, protest-turned-riot, according to a new report from Just the News, which interviewed Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., about the matter.
Loudermilk, who heads the House Judiciary subcommittee that’s investigating Jan. 6,...
(Headline USA) U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a close Republican ally of President Donald Trump, announced Friday that she’s running for governor of New York, a place she depicted in a campaign launch video as being “in ashes” because of lawlessness and a high cost of living.
In her video,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The July 13, 2024, assassination attempt against Donald Trump sent shockwaves through the country. But according to a new book that covers the incident, Trump himself was as cool as a cucumber after a bullet came within millimeters of ending his life.
The book, Retribution: Donald...
(Headline USA) The grim task of finding and identifying victims from the firestorm that followed a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, entered a third day Thursday as investigators gathered information to determine why the aircraft caught fire and lost an engine on takeoff.
The inferno consumed the enormous...
(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) SNAP recipients in Ohio are expected to receive half of their regular monthly benefit allotment, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
However, there is still no plan for when that money will be distributed. Family Services on Tuesday said it has...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The USS Gerald Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, has left the Mediterranean Sea and is bound for waters near Venezuela as the US continues its military buildup in the Caribbean that’s aimed at ousting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The Pentagon first announced on October 24 that...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP after two judges issued rulings requiring it to keep the nation's largest food aid program running.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, had planned to freeze payments starting Nov. 1...
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Saturday declined to comment on whether the US was planning to bomb Venezuela amid a major US military buildup in the Caribbean and frequent strikes on alleged drug boats in the waters of Latin America.
“Appreciate the question, but, of course, we would...