FOREIGN AFFAIRS

(José Niño, Headline USA) The American war against Iran has cost about $38 billion and placed mounting pressure on crucial weapons inventories. A Financial Times report cited new assessments from the Congressional Budget Office and the Pentagon inspector general that detail the financial and military burden of the conflict. The...

(José Niño, Headline USA) An Iran-linked operation used Anthropic’s Claude model to collect information that could help target American naval forces in the Middle East, according to The Wall Street Journal. Anthropic said the group combined transponder data, military photographs, public websites, and commercial satellite imagery to monitor ships...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A 112-page report released by three Republican-led congressional committees raised shocking allegations against ActBlue, the Democratic Party's fundraising giant, over its reported unlawful efforts to accept foreign donations. Released Wednesday, the lengthy interim report alleged that ActBlue's policies designed to block what the House Judiciary Committee described...

(Headline USA) A man initially accused of being a high-profile al-Qaida figure and who was tortured in CIA custody appeared Thursday at a hearing to review his detention at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he has been held for 20 years without charges. A U.S. government...

(Headline USA) A former senior budget official for Connecticut's Democratic governor is now a fugitive in Greece after fleeing the U.S. by boat and plane ahead of his sentencing for corruption, his lawyer and prosecutors told a federal judge on Thursday. Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, 70, also sent his attorney a...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump says the war in Iran may be ending soon as Tehran is begging to make a deal. He added that Iranian and American officials recently had direct contact. An Iranian official said talks between the United States and Iran will not resume until...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Conservative commentator CJ Pearson has registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to represent XTEND Reality, an Israeli company that develops autonomous drone technology. The agreement will pay him $20,000 each month, per a Politico report based on newly submitted federal disclosures. The filings show that...

(Headline USA) An Islamic State group member was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison for aiding the terrorist organization that took credit for a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and about 160 Afghans at the Kabul airport five years ago during the American military’s chaotic...

(Headline USA) The intelligence services of the Russian Federation are plotting to carry out targeted killings in the U.S. and in European nations supporting Ukraine, federal authorities said Tuesday in announcing they'd thwarted a plot to kill a prominent Russian dissident believed to be living in Washington, D.C. Five people...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced he has canceled a planned House session for Thursday, sending lawmakers for an early seven-week recess and pushing back a vote to impeach US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth until after the midterm elections. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who introduced the...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Trump administration is planning to move forward with a massive military aid package for Israel that will include 40,000 2,000-pound bombs, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, as the US continues to support Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza and its wars and occupations in the...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square)  A coalition of Michigan Jewish leaders says it is concerned by the lack of response from U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed after requesting five commitments from him. Spearheaded by the recently-launched group Nonnegotiable Michigan, the five commitments address what the statewide campaign calls “baseline...