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(Headline USA) The allegation sounded like the stuff of spy movies: A Pakistani businessman trying to hire hit men, even handing them $5,000 in cash, to kill a U.S. politician on behalf of Iran 's powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. It was true, and potential targets of the 2024 scheme included...

(Headline USA) Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in Southern California and booked early Thursday, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s office, which didn’t say what charge she faces. Messages seeking comment were left with the sheriff's office; the California Highway Patrol, which was identified as the arresting agency; and...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) President Donald Trump is nominating Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma as the next Homeland Security Secretary. On Thursday, the second-term Republican decided to reassign Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the special envoy for the Shield of the Americas.  Multiple reports circulated prior to the...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Lawmakers introduced a bill to require greater transparency on the national debt and GDP. Reps. Lloyd Smucker, R-Penn., and Jared Golden, D-Maine, introduced the Debt-to-GDP Transparency and Stabilization Act on Wednesday. The legislation would require the president to submit reports in his annual budget requests...

(Mark Stricherz, The Center Square)  A number of U.S. representatives like to be driven in style, billing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for limo service from their office accounts, an investigation by The Center Square found. Six U.S. representatives charged taxpayers nearly $30,000 to hire chauffeured limousines in the...

(Headline USA) ​​Authorities in Cleveland were working Wednesday to identify two young half-sisters whose bodies were found buried inside suitcases on the city's east side. The bodies were recovered on Monday in the city's Collinwood neighborhood after a tip from a dog walker, according to police. One of the girls...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Wednesday boasted of the “death and destruction” the US military can rain down on Iran, as reports say that US and Israeli airstrikes have killed over 1,000 Iranian civilians in just four days. Hegseth said at a press briefing that the...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The White House is expected to ask Congress for an extra $50 billion in military spending to replenish stockpiles of weapons used in the Iran war and other recent Middle East conflicts, Reuters has reported. Sources told Reuters that Deputy Secretary of War Steve Feinberg has been...

(Headline USA) ​​Two men arrested Monday in connection with a weekend shooting that wounded nine people inside a Cincinnati nightclub now face federal charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the southern district of Ohio said Tuesday. Franeek Cobb, 24, and Derrick Long, 29, each face federal charges for illegally possessing...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) An Iranian drone attack on a hotel in Bahrain injured at least two US Department of War employees, The Washington Post reported on Monday, citing a State Department diplomatic cable. “Two US DOW personnel were injured,” the cable said. No other details were included in the cable,...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said that the US launched a war against Iran because Israel was planning to attack, an admission that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steered the US into the conflict. “It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It’s well-known Jeffrey Epstein canon by now: His former butler took his address book, tried selling it for $50,000, and wound up being busted in an undercover FBI sting operation. The butler, Alfredo Rodriguez, was charged with obstruction of justice and infamously received the same...