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(Headline USA) Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced in Manhattan to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning. Weinstein’s sentencing for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley followed a legal odyssey spanning more than six years. His 2020 conviction was...

(Headline USA) Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown plans to accept a plea deal on an attempted murder charge in Miami that avoids prison, as part of an agreement that his lawyer said Wednesday was too good to turn down. Brown is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 30...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The National Security Agency reportedly has at least three pages of secret records on “QAnon”—the internet personality from which numerous conspiracy theories emanated, mostly during the first presidency of Donald Trump. According to the conspiracy theories, QAnon is a highly placed federal official with a “Q Clearance.”...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, two long-time associates of Jeffrey Epstein now in charge of handling the deceased billionaire sex criminal’s estate, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reported Wednesday that federal prosecutors in Manhattan...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump's AI-fueled vision for a drone port he intends to install atop the new White House ballroom includes missile-bearing unmanned aerial vehicles and gun-toting troops, ostensibly to protect the 18-acre complex and the nation’s capital. A few hundred feet away, a drone port, run by the U.S....

(Headline USA) A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Utah threw out more than 300 mail ballots that were being sent to voters for the state's June primary, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said during a news conference that Damon Matai Seei was arrested Tuesday...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Hackers have taken between two and three terabytes of data from the FBI in a massive cyberattack, according to the tech publication 404 Media. The hackers, known as the ShinyHunters, reportedly took the personal information of thousands of FBI employees—including their names, home addresses, phone number,...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) With the November midterm elections only six weeks away, the Trump administration is already implementing ballot security and fraud prevention measures, Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter told the media Tuesday. Despite a federal judge recently blocking the Trump administration’s attempts to tighten security...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Monday issued another warning to the US, saying that if the United States bombs Iran again, Iranian forces would expand the “geography of the war.” “If another aggression takes place, there will certainly be significant changes in our defense and...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold is on the path toward $10,000 an ounce. It’s not a matter of if, but when. That’s the view of State Street Investment Management head of gold strategy Aakash Doshi. In an interview with Kitco News, he said investors should be thinking beyond...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The U.S. government continues to ratchet up its use of the dollar as a foreign policy tool, even as the weaponization of the dollar has accelerated de-dollarization. On Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced plans to effectively ground Iran’s commercial airlines, saying that...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A new poll from The Economist/YouGov found that a majority of registered US voters support impeaching US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) of Kentucky introduced a resolution to remove him. The poll, conducted from September 18 to September 21, found that 51%...