(José Niño, Headline USA) House Republicans have launched an investigation into whether coordinated groups are manipulating Wikipedia articles on sensitive geopolitical topics, including narratives about conflicts dealing with Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine.
James Comer, R-K.y., who is Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Nancy Mace, R-S.C.,...
(Headline USA) A man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump last year in South Florida is set to represent himself during a pretrial conference on Tuesday, as final preparations are made for trial.
Barring any delays, jury selection is scheduled to begin Sept. 8 in Fort Pierce federal court...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The DHS Inspector General has issued a report on the Secret Service’s counter-sniper team, finding that they’re overworked and not properly qualified.
The DHS OIG study was commissioned after President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated at his July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. In...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Chinese networks are laundering billions of dollars in drug cartel cash through the U.S. financial system, according to a new report from the Treasury Department.
Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said banks flagged about $312 billion in transactions from suspected Chinese money laundering networks from...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Although the Elon Musk-fronted Department of Government Efficiency has faded into the background, President Donald Trump’s efforts to ensure fiscal responsibility and exacting standards from federal government workers remain in full force---right down to the manual labor.
The former Manhattan real-estate mogul reverted back to his...
(Headline USA) Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York says he will not run for reelection next year, according to an interview published Monday night by The New York Times.
Nadler told the Times that watching then-President Joe Biden's truncated reelection campaign last year "really said something about the necessity for...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The U.S. military wants artificial intelligence to do what human propagandists cannot: create and spread influence campaigns at internet speed while systematically suppressing opposition voices abroad, according to internal Pentagon documents obtained by The Intercept.
The classified wishlist reveals SOCOM's ambition to deploy "agentic AI or...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Could the now-deleted LinkedIn profile of James Westman, the father of Minnesota mass murderer Robert “Robin” Westman, hold the key to understanding what pushed him over the edge?
Online sleuths, supported by the X-based artificial intelligence platform Grok, have confirmed that the elder Westbrook spent nearly...
(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) An X post from former Vice President Kamala Harris on this Labor Day has generated hundreds of mostly critical comments.
“When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day,...
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) President Donald Trump said he will be signing an executive order ending mail-in voting and requiring voter ID.
“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS,” Trump posted on Truth Social Saturday night. “I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Hackers have leaked apparent emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, many of them containing communications with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Barak’s association with Epstein has been known for years. The emails between them were posted on a site called Distributed Denial of Secrets—described...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US Army announced on Friday that it will be deploying the controversial Typhon missile system to Japan for drills in September, a move strongly condemned by Russia and China.
The Typhon, also known as Mid-Range Capability, is a land-based missile launcher that can fire nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles,...