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Trump to Nominate US Attorney Jay Clayton as Nat’l Intelligence Boss

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence. Trump announced the nomination on social media amid pressure from Congress to name a...

Trump Cancels Impending Strikes on Iran, Final Deal Pending

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Strikes planned against Iran for Thursday evening have been canceled by President Donald Trump, citing a deal with the Islamic Republic close to being finalized. “Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of...

Dems and RINOs Threaten FISA Lapse if Trump Doesn’t Pull Pulte

(Headline USA) A rare lapse in a law that gives the U.S. government vast spying powers appears likely after the House failed on Thursday to temporarily extend the program, in a protest of President Donald Trump's refusal to name a permanent head of the nation's intelligence agencies. Trump has doubled down...

US Wasn’t Sure If Iran Intentionally Downed Helicopter Before Trump Ordered Strikes

Axios reported on Wednesday that the US still had not determined whether Iran intentionally downed a US Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz before the US began bombing Iran on Tuesday night. For its part, Iran never took credit for downing the Apache, and Iran’s deputy foreign minister denied...

Ex-Taliban Commander Sentenced for Kidnapping and Killing Soldiers, Journalists

(Headline USA) A former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Tuesday for crimes including kidnapping a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and providing support that led to the deaths of three American soldiers. Haji Najibullah's sentencing capped a daylong proceeding in Manhattan federal court that featured a dramatic few...

Trump Threatens More Attacks on Iran After Exchange of Heavy Strikes

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump has issued a series of threats vowing to launch more attacks on Iran after the Iranian military targeted US bases in the region in response to US strikes across Iran’s southern Hormozgan province. On Wednesday morning, the president said on Truth Social that Iran has “taken...

FBI Seizes 13 Websites Allegedly Used by China to Recruit Americans

(Headline USA) The FBI has seized more than a dozen websites that officials say were part of a Chinese effort to target American workers who have access to classified or sensitive government information, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The 13 websites purported to be affiliated with consulting companies that advertised job...

Feds Charge 8 Pro-Palestinian Activists with Intimidation Conspiracy

(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Wednesday against eight pro-Palestinian activists who are accused of conspiring to run a criminal intimidation campaign against University of Michigan officials while trying to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel. The indictment describes threats and vandalism at officials' homes, some businesses...

Downed Helicopter Pilots Rescued by Drone; US Bombs Iran Afterward

(Headline USA) The U.S. military launched airstrikes Wednesday on Iran following the crash of an Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic. Tehran vowed to respond, again throwing into question efforts to reach a permanent ceasefire in the Iran war that's...

Army Apache Helicopter Crashes Near the Strait of Hormuz

(Headline USA) A U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter crashed early Tuesday near the Strait of Hormuz, but President Donald Trump said the two crew members aboard were not injured in the incident near the strategic waterway that Iran has effectively closed during the war. What caused the crash remains unclear in...

Dozens of U.S. lawmakers Demand Privacy Reforms as FISA Deadline Looms

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Congressional leaders are desperate to renew the federal government’s authority to conduct mass electronic surveillance before the authority expires, but dozens of lawmakers in both chambers are bucking a long-term extension unless it includes significant reforms. Dozens of Democrats and a significant handful of Republicans...

Netanyahu and Trump Are at Odds Over the War they Started Together

(Headline USA) Israel's latest strikes on Lebanon and Iran have made clear that U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who started the war in lockstep, want different things. Trump had publicly warned Israel not to strike Beirut in its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. When it did,...
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