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(Headline USA) Former Cuban President Raúl Castro is facing more charges in Florida related to the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles after the U.S. government indicted the former leader earlier this year. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday accused Castro, 95, of directing spies to...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) You can add spending cuts, DOGE, and fixing the budget with tariffs to the mountain of broken promises dominating the Washington, D.C. skyline. The Trump administration just ran the biggest budget deficit in five years. The final fiscal 2026 budget shortfall came in at $1.99...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her delegation spent more than $200,000 on an eight-day trip to Asia in September, averaging $26,000 per day. This is according to records obtained by The Center Square through a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the Michigan...

(Headline USA)  At least eight states are suing artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, saying the company's popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults in what prosecutors described as a reckless pursuit of profit. The company's chatbot model, ChatGPT, is giving dangerous medical advice, encouraging...

(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump issued unconditional pardons Tuesday to Alaska diesel mechanics Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming during a campaign rally in Wasilla, according to Just the News. The men had pleaded guilty in 2022 to federal Clean Air Act violations involving changes to vehicle emissions...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have discussed the possibility of resuming large-scale attacks against Iran before the US and Israeli elections, according to a report from Axios. The report, which cited unnamed US and Israeli sources, said that the two leaders had held...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing renewed scrutiny in his Senate campaign after a Wall Street Journal report described his attendance at a Dubai New Year gathering with his girlfriend and two Americans who had been indicted on federal health care fraud charges and...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square)  More than half of Americans reported being concerned about noncitizens voting in November, according to The Center Square Voters' Voice Poll, with the 2026 midterm elections only three weeks away. The Center Square’s Voters Voice Poll found that 54% of registered voters are at least...

(Headline USA) New restrictions have stripped Medicaid coverage from certain legal immigrants as part of broader federal changes to the health insurance program. The change effective Oct. 1 cut from Medicaid what is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of people who've immigrated to the United States, in the latest...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed that Russia and Ukraine agreed to halt attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure, repeating a claim he made nearly a month ago that turned out not to be true. “Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia...

(Headline USA) U.S. prosecutors unveiled sweeping new criminal charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday, accusing him and his wife of heading a state-sponsored system of repression responsible for the beating, asphyxiation and electric shock treatment of scores of victims, including several Americans. The torture charges add to...

(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) A group representing big tech companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, wants the Trump administration to scrap a proposed rule that would limit repeated patent challenges. The High Tech Inventors Alliance asked the administration to withdraw the proposal and met with the federal officials reviewing...