FOREIGN AFFAIRS

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., faced a wave of backlash after they were captured on television smiling and laughing during New York City’s solemn 9/11 commemoration ceremony Friday. The two socialist darlings appeared to rejoice as families and loved ones mourned...

(Headline USA) Several dozen presidential briefing documents declassified Friday, the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, detail intelligence government officials had gathered about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida leading up to the hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people and upended American national security. The documents illustrate security analysts' tracking...

(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) President Donald Trump said Americans should expect the war against Iran to continue through November’s midterm elections, predicting the conflict will end shortly afterward. Meanwhile, the Department of War is preparing to maintain a major US military presence in the Middle East through the end...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) CBS News reported on Thursday that Iran’s strikes on a US base in Jordan, which it launched overnight Tuesday into Wednesday in retaliation for the US attack on multiple Iranian oil tankers, damaged multiple US military aircraft. Sources told the outlet that the heavy missile attack on...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Southern Command said in a statement that its forces bombed an alleged drug-running boat in the Caribbean on Thursday, killing at least three people. SOUTHCOM called the people it killed “narco-terrorists,” a term the Pentagon has employed in its attempts to justify what are extrajudicial executions...

(Headline USA) The price of diesel is hitting record highs just when many U.S. farmers need it to power combines, tractors and other equipment to harvest two of the nation's largest commodities, soybeans and corn. The spike adds to an already tough year for these farmers, who also faced higher...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The CIA has released a set of reports from the late 1990s and early 2000s, showing that the agency warned the Clinton and Bush administrations of a possible attack from Al Qaeda. The reports, released Friday, the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said at the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday night that if Iran had a nuclear weapon, he would have politely called up the Supreme Leader instead of “bombing the crap” out of the country. “If they had a nuclear weapon,...

(Dave Mason, The Center Square) Terror struck America on Sept. 11, 2001, when 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized four Boeing jets and turned them into missiles, killing almost 3,000 people. The hijackers arrived in the U.S. on tourist visas with cash and travelers checks they got in the Middle East. They...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein set off a firestorm this week when he posted a clip of Hillary Clinton on X, captioning it "Hillary Clinton suggests October 7 was an inside job."  The clip features Clinton saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "wanted to see what they...

(Headline USA) Six Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of over $6 million through online romance scams will be extradited to the United States on Friday, South African police said. The men, who were arrested in the South African city of Cape Town...

(Headline USA) Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived. A judge recently set a 2028 date for Mohammed...