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Biden Rejects Nippon Steel’s Proposed Deal to Acquire US Steel

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden has rejected the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel—affirming his earlier vow to block the acquisition of Steeltown USA’s most storied steel company. “We need major U.S. companies representing the major share of US steelmaking capacity...

Jill Biden Continues Family Tradition of Receiving Expensive Diamonds from Asian Nations

(Headline USA) Although Hunter Biden was pre-emptively pardoned last month to protect against any criminal charges from his more than decade-long influence-peddling operations, that did not stop members of the Biden family from continuing the family tradition---including those living in the White House. President Joe Biden and his family were given...

China Says No One Can Stop Its ‘Reunification’ w/ Taiwan

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his New Year's speech on Tuesday that no one can stop China's "reunification" with Taiwan. The communist leader stated that he plans to occupy and annex Taiwan less than a month before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. "The people on both...

‘Iranian Assassination Plot’ Defendant Has Been in Solitary Confinement Since July

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Asif Merchant, the Pakistani man busted for hiring two undercover FBI agents to be “hitmen” in an Iranian-sponsored assassination plot against Donald Trump, has been held in solitary confinement under squalid conditions since his July 12 arrest, his attorney said in a letter last week. “The...

Military Court Shoots Down Last-Ditch Effort to Hold 9/11 Terrorists Accountable

(Headline USA) A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's overtures to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a U.S. official said. The decision puts back on track the agreements that would have the three men...

Yellen Admits to Letting China Hack the U.S. Treasury Dept. amid Major Security Breaches

(Headline USA) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, already in the hotseat for her failed economic stewardship in allowing inflation to run rampant, faced mounting criticism following reports that China had hacked into America's sensitive data ahead of the incoming Trump administration. Chinese hackers remotely accessed several U.S. Treasury Department workstations and...

Biden Announces Another $2.5B Handout for Ukraine

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States will send nearly $2.5 billion more in weapons to Ukraine as his administration works quickly to spend all the money it has available to help Kyiv fight off Russia before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. As of the end of the fiscal year 2024...

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Go Under the Knife for Major Surgery

(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly went under the knife Sunday for prostate removal surgery. On Wednesday, the 75-year-old leader of embattled Israel was “diagnosed with a urinary tract infection resulting from a benign prostate enlargement” at Hadassah Hospital, according to a statement from his office reported by CBS...

Gov’t Issues Photos of Biden with Son’s Associates Days Before Leaving Office

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The federal government has released previously unseen photographs of President Joe Biden, then vice president, with his son Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners, just days before leaving office for President-elect Donald Trump.  These photos, obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests by America First Legal (AFL), contradict...

9th Telecoms Firm Hit by Massive Chinese Espionage Campaign, White House Says

(Headline USA) A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday. Biden administration officials said this month that at least...

Pentagon Admits to Lying about True Number of Troops in Iraq and Syria

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Pentagon has admitted that it has more troops deployed in Iraq and Syria than what it previously disclosed to the public—the latest in a long list of Defense Department lies about its activity in that region. The Pentagon’s admission about Syria was made last week...

Trump Doubles Down in Trolling World Leaders, Formally Renames ‘Panama Canal’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump fired back at Panama President José Raúl Mulino in their dispute regarding the control of the Panama Canal, which the United States constructed in the early 1900s.  The canal was handed over to Panama by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 after the signing of the...
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