FOREIGN AFFAIRS

(Headline USA) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pitched President Donald Trump and other American officials on helping Ukraine win permission from tech titan Elon Musk to use his Starlink satellite communications system to guide strikes inside Russia. The push for expanded use of Starlink comes as Zelenskyy looks for alternate ways...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Saturday night that he decided to hold off on launching major strikes on Iran that he said would have inflicted “military terror” on the country, which came after media reports said he was ready to significantly escalate the war. “The USA is locked and...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The typically anti-Trump publication Newsweek asserted on the cover of its Aug. 7-14 newsstand edition that “Trump was right” in an article about his military action to arrest ex-Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/2083244317477339399 The cover illustration showed the U.S. president straddling the Gulf of America with one...

(Headline USA) Michigan on Saturday joined Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks on nine of the state's water systems but an official said all systems were operating “safely.” Earlier this week, authorities said cyberattacks targeted over 30 water systems in Minnesota. The source of the attacks is being investigated, but they came amid...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A senior Trump appointee stands accused of pushing a State Department colleague and vowing to beat him inside the agency's Washington headquarters, according to a formal complaint the Daily Mail obtained. Ali Motamedi, a special assistant to the U.S. special envoy to Greenland, says Gavin Wax...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) During the 13th cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump’s second term, the president indicated he expects more back-and-forth strikes with Iran as he tells reporters he is “losing faith” in the Islamic Republic. The president expressed frustration with the Iranian regime, adding that “they do...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Long-term U.S. borrowing costs reached levels unseen in nineteen years this week after the Federal Reserve declined to tighten policy, and the Financial Times reports the move has widened investor doubt over the central bank's grip on inflation flowing from President Donald Trump's war in...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Central Command announced on Wednesday night that it began launching airstrikes against Iran, hours after President Donald Trump threatened a response to an Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan. CENTCOM described the attacks as a “powerful response” to the attack in Jordan, though...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Republicans face an unexpected threat in northeast Ohio, where a bitter feud between two of the state's most prominent conservatives now shadows a seat the party long treated as secure. The New York Times reported that domestic abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, have...

(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) The executive vice president of a coalition advocating for data center development says reversing course on incentives in Illinois could have “detrimental” economic consequences. Last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker told the Aspen Climate Summit he reversed course on offering tax exemptions to data centers to...

(Headline USA) Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved. After Graham was eulogized Tuesday in the nation's capital as an indefatigable dealmaker by the president, vice president and others,...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) After meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday to discuss the Iran war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the talks as “one of the best conversations” he’s ever had with the US president. “It was a meeting with full cooperation, with mutual support, with...