(José Niño, Headline USA) When the United States and Iran struck a ceasefire on June 17, a senior U.S. official expected President Donald Trump's supporters to cheer. Instead, as Time reports, MAGA voices online shredded the deal, echoing one another in nearly matching phrasing within minutes.
A few circulated an...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, continued his longstanding battle with the Disney-owned ABC network last week, denouncing its DEI practices and blatantly partisan programming.
Carr --- who found himself at the center of controversy last year for allegedly pressuring the network to...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Former Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., may have seen her political career go up in smoke after a distant fifth-place finish in last month’s California gubernatorial primary.
But the troubled ex-lawmaker still has plenty of flames to dispense.
Porter, best known for allegedly dumping a bowl of steaming...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Only three states --- Maine, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin --- have both a Republican and a Democrat-adjacent senator currently representing them in Congress.
Of those, it may be safe to say that only Pennsylvania has a split senatorial delegation that genuinely gets along.
Centrist Republican David McCormick and...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) With the SAVE America Act facing an uphill climb even before the unexpected death of Sen. Lindsey Graham on Saturday, President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to find a legislative workaround that would allow them to close election-integrity loopholes.
One solution may be targeting...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The stunning transformation of Great Britain in recent years --- from a beacon of decorum and stiff upper lips to a cautionary tale of wokeness run amok --- has been blamed on everything from socialism to satanism.
However, Rupert Lowe, a member of the British Parliament...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The Fort Worth Police Department was under heavy fire from online critics after a viral video showed officers brazenly infringing on the First Amendment rights of a pair of Christian preachers protesting a “Pride” event.
In one viral video amplified by Libs of TikTok, Sgt. Sarah...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The long-expected implosion of Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s senatorial campaign has led to plenty of head-scratching and finger-pointing, with the perplexed punditry seeking to assign blame after weeks spent vouching for the alleged Nazi rapist.
Not surprisingly, some were eager to deflect from the underlying dearth...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Since last month’s approval for a corporate takeover of CNN’s parent company, Warner Brothers, by Paramount Skydance and its Trump-friendly CEO, David Ellison, the notoriously left-slanted network has been braced for the inevitable fallout.
A humiliating on-air mistake that involved quoting a fake member of Congress...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) America’s fleeting interest in soccer may once again have abated following a humiliating World Cup defeat to Belgium last Monday, in a game that saw President Donald Trump become personally involved over a red-card dispute.
But the high-profile flop in the first elimination round was not...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) After nearly a monthlong absence, the mysteries surrounding the health status of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are just as opaque as when he was found unresponsive on June 14.
Video released Friday by CNN showed McConnell, the longtime Senate majority leader and frequent Trump obstructionist, being...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardon for offenses related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest does not apply to the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC headquarters the night before, a judge ruled on Monday.
Lawyers for the pipe bomb...