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Pentagon Seeks Record Budget Despite Failing Every Audit

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump is asking Congress to approve the largest military budget in American history for an agency that has never passed a financial audit. The Department of Defense, rebranded the Department of War by the Trump administration, says it has a new plan to...

Report: Israel Wants US Special Forces Operation To Seize Iran’s Uranium

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Israeli government wants President Donald Trump to order a US special forces operation to secure Iran’s uranium that’s enriched at the 60% level, according to a report from Axios, an operation that is fraught with risks and would mean the resumption of full-blown war in...

Ship Operator and Employee are Charged in Crash that Caused the Deadly Collapse of Baltimore Bridge

(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday in the 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, accusing the Singapore-based operator of a ship and a key employee of making critical decisions that led to the disaster and the deaths of six people. The indictment names Synergy Marine Pte Ltd.,...

Trump’s Proposed ‘Golden Dome’ Estimated to Cost $1.2 Trillion

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump's plan to put weapons in space — pitched as a "Golden Dome for America” missile defense program — is estimated to cost $1.2 trillion, according to a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, a far heftier sum than the initial $175 billion price...

Iran Warns the US Against Attacks on its Oil Tankers and Other Ships but Ceasefire Appears to Hold

(Headline USA) Iran's Revolutionary Guard navy on Saturday warned that any attack on Iranian oil tankers or commercial vessels would be met with a “heavy assault” on one of the U.S. bases in the region and enemy ships, even as a tenuous ceasefire appeared to be holding. Iranian state TV...

French Prosecutors Seek Charges Against Elon Musk and X Over Child Sexual Abuse Images

(Headline USA) French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and his social platform X for child sexual abuse images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by the platform's artificial intelligence system, Grok. The Paris public prosecutor's office said Wednesday it has opened an...

Hegseth Calls Inflating the Pentagon Budget by 50% to $1.5 Trillion a ‘Fiscally Responsible Investment’

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said in a post on X on Thursday that inflating the Pentagon budget by nearly 50% to $1.5 trillion for 2027 was a “fiscally responsible investment” as the Trump administration attempts to justify its record-shattering military budget request. “Thanks to President Trump’s...

A Note a Former Cellmate Says he Found After Epstein’s Suspected Suicide Attempt is Released

(Headline USA) A note Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the millionaire sex offender’s first suspected jail suicide attempt was made public Wednesday, years after being sealed and locked in a courthouse vault as part of an unrelated legal dispute. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains,...

Man Accused of Attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Home Pleads not Guilty to Attempted Murder

(Headline USA) The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of attempted murder and attempted arson. Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, wearing an orange jail uniform, did not speak as his attorney entered the pleas during...

Texas Cracks Down on Sketchy Chinese U.S. Citizenship Scheme

(José Niño, Headline USA) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking legal action against a Houston area birth tourism facility that allegedly helped more than 1,000 Chinese nationals secure American citizenship for their newborns, Breitbart reported. The suit names the De'Ai Postpartum Care Center along with operators Lin Suling and...

ActBlue Spends Millions on Travel, Security and Perks as Legal Scrutiny Grows

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Roughly $700,000 on a luxury retreat. Nearly $3 million on security and $5 million on travel. And about $800,000 in CEO pay. Those are some extravagant figures at the center of a new report scrutinizing fundraising giant ActBlue under CEO Regina Wallace-Jones. The organization now faces investigations from the...

Teacher Unions Spent Over $1B on Political Causes Since 2015

(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) National teachers unions have spent over $1 billion on political activity and advocacy since 2015, according to a new report by Defending Education. Both reports, shared with The Center Square, found the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association together directed $669 million...
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