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(Headline USA) More than seven months into the U.S. war with Iran, sharply higher fuel prices are making it more expensive to drive and fly and adding to the cost of some goods, prolonging the strain on American households as the midterm elections approach. Motorists and airline passengers have borne...

(Headline USA) A fast-moving fire fueled by high winds burned at least six homes in Southern California on Friday, engulfing expensive coastal properties and prompting thousands to evacuate. Black smoke — visible from miles away — billowed over tennis courts and swimming pools while firefighters doused blazing homes in San...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump took his midterm campaign blitz to the battleground Georgia on Friday and rallied with top Republicans in the state. In Dalton, the heart of conservative northwest Georgia, Trump praised Senate candidate Mike Collins and gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson as part of a larger White House...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause was in the national interest. Trump personally signed the legislation just last month and his move came just two days before a...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Trump administration's border security efforts are ongoing, including sending more National Guard troops to the southwest border. The most recent to be sent to Texas are from New York. Last week, 120 New York Army National Guard soldiers assigned to the 204th Engineer Battalion were sent...

(Headline USA)  At least eight states are suing artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, saying the company's popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults in what prosecutors described as a reckless pursuit of profit. The company's chatbot model, ChatGPT, is giving dangerous medical advice, encouraging...

(Headline USA) Six Flags Over Georgia is set to open its gates Friday evening for the first time since a man fell to his death from one of the amusement park's towering roller coasters. Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-year-old school employee from Atlanta, was thrown from the Goliath coaster...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., drew renewed attention after posting, then deleting, a message celebrating support from Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella. A Breitbart report said Salazar removed language pledging to act as a political voice for Colombians in Congress while leaving the president’s...

(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump said he may meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a November trip to Asia, reviving the possibility of direct diplomacy after years without a summit between the two leaders. The Epoch Times reported that Trump offered no details about a...

(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump issued unconditional pardons Tuesday to Alaska diesel mechanics Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming during a campaign rally in Wasilla, according to Just the News. The men had pleaded guilty in 2022 to federal Clean Air Act violations involving changes to vehicle emissions...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Bloomberg reported on Thursday that top Pentagon officials have expressed that they will withhold the release of an internal report on the US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, which massacred at least 120 children, through the midterm elections. According to an...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military has drawn up new strike plans against Iran that include potentially using the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” according to a report from CNN. The MOAB is the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal...