(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) State data shows the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention carried out only one brush clearance operation in the Pacific Palisades before the deadly Palisades Fire killed 12 Americans and destroyed 6,837 structures, highlighting the state’s slow progress in forest management.
This single Cal...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) U.S. Rep Mark Green, R-Tenn., announced his official resignation on Friday, July 4, a date he said he selected on purpose.
Green, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said in June he was stepping down from Congress for an opportunity in the private sector....
(Headline USA) Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees.
The Army has posted thousands of the warnings in...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday granted a Trump administration request to deport eight noncitizens to South Sudan, a country where they have no ties.
The high court stopped an order allowing the foreign nationals to appeal removals to “third countries” where they say they...
(Headline USA) Famed Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been arrested for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application and will be deported to Mexico, where he faces organized crime charges, U.S. federal officials said Thursday.
The arrest came only days after the former middleweight champion lost...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's thinking of staging a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards 20,000 spectators to celebrate 250 years of American independence.
“We have a lot of land there,” said Trump, a UFC enthusiast who has attended several of its mixed martial...
(Headline USA) Four people have died from gunshot wounds and 14 others have been hospitalized following a drive-by shooting in Chicago, police said Thursday. At least three were in critical condition.
The shooting happened late Wednesday in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. Several media outlets said it happened outside a restaurant and...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A report from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz estimates that the US used 93 interceptors from its THAAD missile defense system to defend Israel from Iranian missiles during the 12-day US-Israeli war against Iran.
At $13 million per interceptor, that means the US launched an estimated $1.25 billion worth...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Senate on Tuesday advanced a massive spending package, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” by President Trump, that includes $150 billion in extra military spending.
The bill passed in a vote of 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, as three Republicans — Senators Rand...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Trump administration has released more than 13,000 inadmissible noncitizens into the U.S. in the first four full months of his administration who arrived at ports of entries (POEs) nationwide, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data evaluated by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC),...
(Jon Syf, The Center Square) Kamala Harris is favored over Vice President J.D. Vance in a hypothetical 2028 presidential election, according to a new poll.
Harris was favored by 45% of respondents, Vance by 42% and 12% were undecided in a poll where Overton Insights asked 1,200 registered voters the...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) After a 27-hour voting session, Senate Republicans narrowly approved their amended version of the House-passed “big, beautiful bill” Tuesday, sending it back to the lower chamber for final approval.
But the Senate’s swath of controversial changes has alienated multiple House Republicans and upset delicate political compromises House...