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(José Niño, Headline USA) The American war against Iran has cost about $38 billion and placed mounting pressure on crucial weapons inventories. A Financial Times report cited new assessments from the Congressional Budget Office and the Pentagon inspector general that detail the financial and military burden of the conflict. The...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Years before joining Donald Trump’s presidential ticket, JD Vance reportedly sought access to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and offered advice that could have helped her stop Trump. A new Vanity Fair profile says Vance repeatedly pursued contact with Jake Sullivan, then a senior Clinton policy adviser,...

(José Niño, Headline USA) An Iran-linked operation used Anthropic’s Claude model to collect information that could help target American naval forces in the Middle East, according to The Wall Street Journal. Anthropic said the group combined transponder data, military photographs, public websites, and commercial satellite imagery to monitor ships...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A 112-page report released by three Republican-led congressional committees raised shocking allegations against ActBlue, the Democratic Party's fundraising giant, over its reported unlawful efforts to accept foreign donations. Released Wednesday, the lengthy interim report alleged that ActBlue's policies designed to block what the House Judiciary Committee described...

(Headline USA) Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, a longtime Republican lawmaker from Arizona who shaped landmark water policies in the U.S. West and guided the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has died. He was 84. Kyl died Wednesday night from a neurological disorder, said Gordon James, a communications...

(Headline USA)  A Florida woman who was paid $750,000 by a fund for people sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to falsifying records she used in her application for the money. Jennifer Percival, a scholar who has written books on autism, entered the plea in federal court in...

(Headline USA) A man initially accused of being a high-profile al-Qaida figure and who was tortured in CIA custody appeared Thursday at a hearing to review his detention at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he has been held for 20 years without charges. A U.S. government...

(Headline USA) An F-16 fighter jet from Texas crashed in rural Michigan during a routine training exercise on Thursday, and the pilot ejected safely, a military spokesman said. Sgt. Derek Gutierrez, a public affairs specialist with the 149th Fighter Wing, said the pilot was receiving medical treatment at a local...

(Headline USA) A former senior budget official for Connecticut's Democratic governor is now a fugitive in Greece after fleeing the U.S. by boat and plane ahead of his sentencing for corruption, his lawyer and prosecutors told a federal judge on Thursday. Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, 70, also sent his attorney a...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump says the war in Iran may be ending soon as Tehran is begging to make a deal. He added that Iranian and American officials recently had direct contact. An Iranian official said talks between the United States and Iran will not resume until...

(Headline USA) The man who sprayed vinegar at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar during a Minneapolis town hall was sentenced Thursday to 14 months in prison after reaching a deal with prosecutors. The sentencing of 56-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak came nearly eight months after the Jan. 27 assault. At the time,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Two brothers who were falsely accused of being involved in the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are suing the FBI for manufacturing the case against them. The brothers, Michael and William Null, were found not guilty in September 2023 of aiding the 2020...