FOREIGN AFFAIRS

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former senior adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was sentenced to 38 months in prison on Wednesday for conspiring to steal trade secrets for the People’s Republic of China. The ex-Fed official, John Harold Rogers, 63, of Vienna, Virginia, was arrested in January 2025. A...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted what he described as the growing threat of left-wing terrorism Thursday at a ministerial he convened at the State Department comprising representatives from over 60 countries. The summit comes months after the Trump administration designated Antifa a domestic terror...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) In a primetime address Thursday, President Donald Trump highlighted the need for election integrity while accusing China of meddling in U.S. elections, citing over a dozen states that he said have been compromised. Trump began his address by touting the achievements of his administration, citing...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., has put White House officials on notice that he intends to torpedo every rule hitting the House floor until President Donald Trump drops adviser Alex Bruesewitz, NOTUS reported, citing three sources. For weeks Fine has worked his colleagues with the same message,...

President Trump is still refusing to acknowledge that the US was responsible for the strikes that hit an elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, on February 28, an attack that massacred over 100 school children, claiming in a Fox News interview that it’s possible no one will ever know...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Washington DC on Saturday night to attend the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham and will also seek a meeting with President Trump, according to Israeli media. Israeli officials told The Jerusalem Post that Netanyahu’s visit would be centered around Graham’s...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Vice President JD Vance appeared on an episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast that came out on Wednesday and was asked why President Trump keeps claiming that a deal has been reached with Iran but then goes back to bombing the country. The interview, recorded on Tuesday, comes as...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal bureaucrats rewrote a deadline on their own timetable, and hundreds of thousands of foreign workers kept their paychecks. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services delayed the day that immigrants from seven countries wracked by violence and disaster may lawfully work here, The Connecticut Mirror reported. The...

(Headline USA) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that he is rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops, calling it necessary to allow them to operate at their "absolute best.” The new screenings will be conducted annually as part of service members' required medical screenings for those...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square)  U.S. inflation decreased by 0.4% in June, for a seasonally adjusted total of 3.5% over the year, driven by rapidly falling energy costs, according to a new report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Inflation rose by 0.5% in May before declining 0.4%...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Saudi-led forces bombed the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, reigniting the war with Yemen’s Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, which has been in a state of ceasefire that has held relatively well since 2022. The attack was claimed by Yemen’s so-called “internationally recognized government,”...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The United States appears to be on the cusp of returning to full-scale strikes against Iran after pounding the Islamic Republic over the weekend, stemming from Iranian aggression over control of the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump told Fox News Monday that the U.S....