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(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A conservative-friendly studio faces backlash after the star of one of its soon-to-be-released feature films went on an unhinged, profanity-laced rant calling President Donald Trump a “rapist” and pedophile. Utah-based Angel Studios, founded by four Mormon brothers in the Harmon family, was once touted as a...

(Headline USA) Former FBI Director James Comey urged a judge on Monday to throw out federal charges against him, arguing that a photo of seashells arranged on a beach he posted on social media was not a call to violence against President Donald Trump but protected political speech. Comey's lawyers...

(Headline USA) The teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a 2024 shooting at Georgia's Apalachee High School had a chaotic, lonely upbringing and immersed himself in an online community of people interested in mass shootings, a psychologist testified Monday. Colt Gray, 16, pleaded guilty Friday to 55...

(Headline USA) Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in jail at least two more weeks until their next hearing as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge said Monday. U.S. Magistrate Lauren Louis set...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Since July 7, four US troops have been killed, and more than 200 have been wounded in the Iran war, according to the Pentagon’s official casualty database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System. The four dead US soldiers include three who were killed in a July...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is joining a group of Democrats who are attempting to sue the White House over its refusal to follow a War Powers Resolution that was passed by Congress and directed President Donald Trump to end the war with Iran, Fox News Digital...

(Merrilee Gasser, The Center Square) Anthony Fauci would likely be viewed by a District of Columbia jury as "an almost divine figure," says second-term Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ahead of the doctor's voice from COVID-19 testifying at the U.S. Senate. The governor also said the media's fawning of him "fueled...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is telling county sheriffs they need to end agreements with ICE to honor civil detainer requests for suspected illegal aliens in response to the state's newly minted restrictions. In a letter to a dozen sheriffs in Broome, Madison, Nassau,...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The U.S. Department of Education stripped disparate impact provisions out of its Title VI regulations last week, The College Fix reported, ending federal treatment of race neutral school policies as civil rights violations whenever the resulting numbers break unevenly along racial lines. The Office for Civil...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Goldman Sachs has picked up on the fact that China is expanding its gold reserves far faster than the official data indicates. This probably comes as a surprise if you only follow mainstream financial news. Goldman is one of the few major financial actors...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Some have called Christopher Nolan’s remake of The Odyssey an epic conquest for the ages; others call it a three-hour golden fleecing. To some conservatives, it may seem a siren song, beckoning its unwitting moviegoers to engage in cultural destruction due to its historical revisionism of...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The cash crunch at the Democratic National Committee is so bad that DNC officials are begging their vendors to not to send bills until after the midterm elections, according to the New York Times. “The bookkeeping maneuver, which was described by three people briefed on it,...