FOREIGN AFFAIRS

(John Weeks, Antiwar.com) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, during a Congressional hearing on Tuesday, said a failure to appropriate $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) budget constitutes the “greatest threat” to US national security. Hegseth, joined by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine and...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The New York Times reported Friday that President Donald Trump made the last-minute decision to switch airplanes when leaving a NATO summit in Turkey earlier this month due to a purported assassination threat coming from Iranian proxy forces. “He had flown into Ankara on the new...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Donald Trump has also signaled that he may bomb Picakaxe Mountain, known as Kolang Kouh, where US and Israeli officials have claimed there may be underground nuclear activity, claims Iran has denied. Israeli media reported on Wednesday that the US informed Israel that it intends to...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York City authorities said the attacks of two people stabbed in separate incidents in the Upper West Side on Thursday are being investigated as possible hate crimes. The New York City Police Department said it arrested Raul Morales, 51, after he stabbed an unidentified...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed three leftist nonprofits over more than $39 million routed to them by Marxist technology magnate Neville Roy Singham, Fox News reported. The letters—published on Tuesday—went to People's Forum Inc., BreakThrough News, and Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Chairman Jason...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the nuclear agreement the US and Saudi Arabia signed on Thursday will only move forward if Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel, a statement that came after backlash from Israeli officials over the deal. Trump also said the deal won’t...

(Headline USA) Laura Loomer, an ardent ally of President Donald Trump with a reputation for incendiary social media commentary, sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday after a dramatic turnaround on the war that could have political reverberations back in Washington. Loomer had spent years minimizing Russia's invasion...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House on Wednesday passed its version of the massive $1.15 trillion 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes Section 219 (formerly Section 224), a provision to further integrate the US and Israeli militaries, a scheme Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described as “my...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Last Friday was the 30th anniversary of the July 17, 1996, explosion of Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800—a tragedy that claimed the lives of 230 people traveling from New York City to Paris, France. The U.S. government has maintained for decades that the TWA 800...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing off threats to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits the city in September for the U.N. General Assembly meeting.  In a video posted on social media Tuesday night, Mamdani said his administration considered every...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) For a 10th consecutive night, the U.S. is carrying out strikes on Iran, targeting the Islamic Republic’s ability to attack commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Following the announcement of three U.S. service members killed in action resulting from Iranian strikes, President Donald Trump...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) EcoHealth Alliance founder Peter Daszak and recently retired university professor Ralph Baric were both collaborators with the Wuhan Virology Institute in China—where COVID-19 is suspected by some researchers to have originated. Daszak and Baric may also have been FBI informants, according to an April 2025 letter...