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(Headline USA) The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction sought by California officials who opposed President Donald Trump’s...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Wednesday that US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, marking the latest US escalation in its push toward a regime change war aimed at ousting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker...

(Headline USA) More and more people are turning to GoFundMe for help covering the cost of housing, food and other basic needs. The for-profit crowdfunding platform's annual “Year in Help” report, released Tuesday, underscored ongoing concerns around affordability. The number of fundraisers started to help cover essential expenses such as...

(Headline USA)  Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department’s requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financier’s sexual abuse. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman reversed his...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has launched a new website for Americans to use to search and locate criminal foreign nationals who’ve been arrested in their neighborhoods. DHS’ “Worst of the Worst” provides information about an initial 10,000 criminal foreign nationals who’ve been arrested...

(Dave Mason, The Center Square) Paramount Skydance has made a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. The bid is for $77.9 billion in equity value and has an enterprise value of $108.4 billion. Paramount's offer is the latest battle in a bidding war that appeared to end Friday when Netflix...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Congress has released its 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and is preparing to pass the sweeping spending bill, which will give President Trump a total military budget of over $1 trillion. Earlier this year, a supplemental for an additional $156 billion was included in the so-called “Big...

(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) Cincinnati taxpayers are on the hook for an $8.1 million settlement of a lawsuit stemming from the 2020 George Floyd-murder protests in the city. City Manager Sheryl Long called the settlement of the class action suit a good financial decision. The Cincinnati City Council Public...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) A federal judge has approved the release of grand jury materials from the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted child sex offender and close associate of Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer’s Tuesday decision grants the Department of Justice’s request that grand jury transcripts, exhibits...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A viral video featuring a racist Cinnabon employee may have been a false-flag operation, according to one well known investigative journalist. A video from the Dec. 5 incident in Ashwaubenon, Wisc., appeared to show a “racist Karen” spouting racial epithets after initially mocking the hijab of...

President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, resigned Monday as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, leaving the job after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully. In a statement posted on social media, Habba assailed the court's ruling as political, but said...

(Headline USA) Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be critical to Democrats’ long-shot hopes of reclaiming a Senate majority in next year’s midterm elections. Crockett, one of Congress’ most outspoken Democrats, jumped into the...