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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have discussed the possibility of resuming large-scale attacks against Iran before the US and Israeli elections, according to a report from Axios. The report, which cited unnamed US and Israeli sources, said that the two leaders had held...

(Headline USA) An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company's technology. The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested Friday, a...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Justice Department has agreed not to prosecute a former CIA analyst who in 2024 was accused of serving as a secret agent for South Korea’s intelligence service, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said Sue Mi Terry had shared nonpublic government information, facilitated access...

(Headline USA) The Social Security Administration projected Wednesday that the annual cost-of-living adjustment for older adults and people with disabilities will go up by 3.6% beginning in 2027, with some recipients complaining that is not enough to offset soaring prices. The adjustment translates to $75 extra per month for the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing renewed scrutiny in his Senate campaign after a Wall Street Journal report described his attendance at a Dubai New Year gathering with his girlfriend and two Americans who had been indicted on federal health care fraud charges and...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A Department of Homeland Security watchdog review released earlier this month found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement acted on only a small share of millions of potential visa overstay cases from fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2024 when Joe Biden was president. The Center...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday that it’s imposing $1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. The fines on America’s second-biggest bank amount to the third-largest in the department’s history. “When a bank of this size fails to meet its...

(Headline USA)  The White House publicly asked for U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation on Tuesday as she faced mounting accusations of improper conduct, and she announced within two hours that she was quitting, ending days of talk and speculation about her professional fate. Guilfoyle insisted that she...

(Headline USA) CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve a Justice Department case alleging it unlawfully dispensed medically unnecessary prescriptions of highly addictive opioids, officials said Tuesday. The settlement resolves a lawsuit brought in 2024 that accused the healthcare giant of providing massive...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States and Israel “might have gone too far” with the killing of Iranian leaders, suggesting it was complicating negotiations with the Islamic Republic. Trump made the comments at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, while repeating his usual claims...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square)  More than half of Americans reported being concerned about noncitizens voting in November, according to The Center Square Voters' Voice Poll, with the 2026 midterm elections only three weeks away. The Center Square’s Voters Voice Poll found that 54% of registered voters are at least...

(Headline USA)  Duane “Keffe D” Davis was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur who was gunned down off the Las Vegas Strip over 30 years ago. Davis, 63, was convicted in August of first-degree murder with the use...