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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A classified report from the US’s National Intelligence Council has found that even a large-scale US assault on Iran is unlikely to oust the Islamic government and military establishment, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. The intelligence report was completed about one week before the US and Israel...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Veterans die by suicide at roughly twice the civilian rate, despite the Department of Veterans Affairs spending more than $500 million a year to address the problem. In 2023, the rate of suicide for veterans was 35.2 per 100,000, up from 34.7 per 100,000 in...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The escalating war in Iran has already rattled global markets and driven oil prices to their highest levels since April 2024. If the conflict persists, the strain on the global economy deepens and the burden on U.S. taxpayers grows. With U.S. military operations costing more...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Recent legislation by GOP lawmakers highlighted a longstanding but little known loophole that allowed Chinese nationals to gain backdoor U.S. citizenship for their children via an Obama-era visa policy. Reps. Tom Tiffany, R-Wisc., and Chip Roy, R-Texas, introduced the One Nation, One Visa Policy Act in...

(Alton Wallace, The Center Square) American gasoline prices continued to rise on Friday and are up the most of any week since 2022. Iran widened attacks on energy-producing countries near its borders and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to shipping, dashing hopes for a quick resolution to a crisis...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Journalist Alan MacLeod argued that a Channel 4 headline reporting on Israel's latest invasion of Lebanon used "carefully constructed language aimed at manufacturing consent for Israeli atrocities," according to his post on X. Israel has ramped up operations against Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, in...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep.Thomas Massie, R-Ky., alleged the Trump administration orchestrated what he called a "360-pressure campaign" that included offering his staffers prestigious government positions and lucrative private sector jobs to undermine his push for releasing Jeffrey Epstein documents, The Daily Beast reported. The apparent goal was to strip...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Controversial Texas judge Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez will formally be out of a job this November after losing her Democratic primary bid while facing an indictment on allegations that she illegally ordered an attorney to be handcuffed in court. Speedlin-Gonzalez, a Democrat and openly gay judge, is currently suspended without pay from...

(Money Metals News Service) Money Metals podcast host Mike Maharrey recently spoke with Mark O’Byrne, founder of Tara Coins and a longtime authority on precious metals. Their conversation covered everything from the cultural symbolism behind O’Byrne’s Irish bullion coins to the deeper historical role of gold and silver as money. The...

(Andrew Rice , The Center Square) The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a significant cut after January saw a better-than-expected report, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  The unemployment rate remained steady at 4.4%. The rate only marginally increased from its 4.3% rate in January. Interestingly, health...

(Headline USA) Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas said late Thursday he was withdrawing from his reelection race, after having admitted an affair with a former staff member who later died by lighting herself on fire, but he vowed to finish out his term in Congress. He had faced calls from...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Emails released from the Jeffrey Epstein files show the sex trafficking billionaire worked Israeli connections to help his lawyer's daughter join an elite Israeli Defense Forces unit, The Grayzone reported Tuesday. Epstein's request came in a June 29, 2011 email to Anat Barak, the daughter of...