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(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) Update: US officials told multiple outlets that President Donald Trump dispatched CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Russia to warn Moscow not to attack any NATO countries. Earlier this week, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that “unknown actors” could attack UK facilities producing weapons...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) Staffers have begun returning to US diplomatic facilities across the Middle East. US embassies in the region have been at a minimal operational level for several months due to the ongoing war against Iran.  On Tuesday, the New York Times reported obtaining an internal State Department memo...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) California Attorney General Rob Bonta co-led a lawsuit Wednesday to block a new federal rule governing mail-in ballots. But a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who's now working at a think tank says the suit is unnecessary. Prompted by President Donald Trump’s Executive Order...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting into a Minnesota home was released from a jail in Texas Thursday after a federal judge refused to extradite him to Minnesota. ICE officer Christian Castro was in custody in Cameron County, Texas. Castro was arrested...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Former Border Patrol commander at large Gregory Bovino used a recent sitdown with Tucker Carlson to repeat a claim he has made for months, that the United States currently harbors 107 million people living here illegally. Bovino, who oversaw border operations from October 2025 until his...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) A local Missouri health department has told Kathy Kite, a grandmother who serves free breakfast to her neighbors from her home, that she will face legal action if she continues doing so without a permit. That letter came in July, and Kite has continued to...

(Headline USA) Social media influencer Tristan Tate took the witness stand in federal court on Thursday and said he and his brother Andrew can’t adequately defend themselves from criminal sex charges if they have to remain in a Miami jail while fighting extradition to the United Kingdom. Lawyers for the...

(Money Metals News Service) Most people have regrets. They make a bad decision, miscalculate, or miss an opportunity and later wonder what might have happened. Money Metals Midweek Memo host Mike Maharrey shared one of his own investment regrets. Around 2015 or 2016, he received one Bitcoin as payment for...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The Trump administration's attempt to quietly enlist sympathetic online voices for its messaging apparatus stumbled into public view this week, according to a report from Alternet.  The controversy centers on Jennica Pounds, who goes by "Data Republican" on X and commands an audience nearing one million...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Massachusetts state representative Francisco Paulino, a Democrat, has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic relief funds from around April 2020 to December 2021. According to the federal indictment filed Tuesday, Paulino incorporated a company called Jackson Enterprise, and used that...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) An Ecuadorian official confirmed that US Green Berets were engaged in anti-cartel operations. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump formed a coalition, dubbed Shield of the Americas, that was aimed at combating cartels in Latin and South America.  A local official told AFP and UPI that US...

(Headline USA) Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said a report released Tuesday on the lead-water crisis in the city is the final step her office can take toward accountability, years after a state Supreme Court ruling shut down criminal cases against a former governor and eight other people. Flint residents...