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(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump challenged Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker to seek federal assistance after a bloody weekend left multiple dead and dozens injured across Chicago, Just the News reported. "Why isn't Governor Pritzker calling me for help," Trump wrote Sunday morning on Truth Social. "I could...

(Headline USA) “Toy Story” still has a friend in moviegoers. The fifth installment in the Pixar series debuted with $160 million in domestic ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, easily setting a new franchise record and notching the biggest opening weekend of the year. Launching 31 years after the original “Toy...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon has told Congress that it needs $80 billion to pay for the Iran war and other non-war-related costs, The Wall Street Journal has reported. The Pentagon had previously claimed that the war cost $29 billion as of mid-May, a number that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny,...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Multibillionaire Jeff Bezos griped to President Donald Trump about having made a bad investment in his 2013 purchase of the Washington Post, saying “The people there are terrible,” according to a new book by two reporters from the rival New York Times. https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/2067704286742528337 Jonathan Swan and Maggie...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Giving up the reins of the House of Representatives may have come at a cost for Nancy Pelosi, who reportedly lost at least $8 million in net worth in the year after stepping down from leadership. Pelosi saw the estimated net worth of her and her husband,...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft. The new aircraft eschews the Kennedy-era robin’s egg blue exterior of the old plane for a bolder look, with the underbelly of...

(Madeline Shannon, The Center Square) The controversial union-backed billionaire tax in California is officially heading to the Nov. 3 ballot. Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced the California Billionaire Tax Act exceeded the number of signatures it needed to qualify for the general election. The initiative aims to impose a one-time...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Another Muslim man has been charged with terrorism tied to a range of alleged crimes associated with claiming to raise support for charities and instead using the money to fund the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas. Reda Mazen Rida Sabassi, residing in San Diego, California, appeared...

(Headline USA) Prosecutors have filed a criminal charge against the chief engineer of a cargo ship involved in the deadly 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, accusing him of failing to notify the U.S. Coast Guard of hazardous conditions on the ship. Karthikeyan Deenadayalan was charged in U.S....

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Friday rejected former President Joe Biden's attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made with a ghostwriter. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich found that the public interest in the material outweighed whatever privacy rights Biden...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Secret Service received $1.17 billion last year to hire more agents and improve its security, but about $352 million of that amount is being redirected to pay for the White House ballroom construction project, according to the Washington Post. “The administration’s budget office on Friday...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A bitter feud has erupted among the social media personalities who helped propel Donald Trump back to power, with former allies now trading accusations about who is secretly taking money from foreign governments, according to the Daily Mail's investigation. The group of content creators that once...