POLITICS

(José Niño, Headline USA) The U.S. government has handed out citizenship faster than it handed out deportation orders over the past year, according to publicly available statistics. The Twitter/X account AF Post drew a comparison between two immigration statistics this week that circulated widely, and federal records back up each...

(Headline USA) A man charged with intentionally setting a wildfire that’s destroyed hundreds of buildings in and around Washington state's second-largest city was contacted by law enforcement about two fires last year, though he wasn't charged in either, court documents show. Aaron F. Farinacci, of Spokane, was arrested Monday and...

(Randy Diamond, The Center Square) Although former Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes served only 18 months in office, he’s taking away a lucrative severance package worth around $700,000 as questions remain about his departure. The package is well in excess of his $370,000 yearly salary. While the package was first disclosed...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Todd Blanche's nomination to be United States attorney general on Tuesday was advanced by a Senate committee. Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a 12-10 vote, advanced Blanche's nomination to the Senate floor after an extended controversy over various aspects of his candidacy. Sens. John...

(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump held up the breakdown along Spain's frontier with Morocco as a preview of what awaits American voters if Democrats take back power, according to a report by Ben Whedon of Just the News. Illegal aliens have flooded the Spanish exclave of Ceuta over...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have brought criminal charges against four foreign nationals who cast ballots in New Jersey elections, and the Department of Homeland Security is now spotlighting the cases as evidence of a broader problem, according to a report by John Binder of Breitbart News. DHS announced...

(David Beasley, The Center Square) President Donald Trump on Monday did not call on an Ohio Republican Congressman to resign his seat even though the congressman’s former father-in-law – a Republican U.S. senator from Ohio – had done just over the weekend. The congressman, U.S Rep. Max Miller is divorced...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A senior US military officer has asked analysts to come up with “new” ways to “punish” Iran, CNN has reported, as President Donald Trump’s war and recent airstrikes have failed to force the country into capitulation. “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure...

(Headline USA) Kay Granger, the first Republican woman from Texas to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and who served for nearly three decades, died Sunday at the age of 83, her son J.D. Granger said. House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a post on X that throughout...

(Headline USA) he House Ethics Committee recommended Monday that the House censure Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., after finding that he engaged in persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female aides in his congressional office. A censure registers the House’s deep disapproval of a lawmaker's conduct that does not...

(Headline USA) Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, state health officials announced Monday, the first deaths confirmed in the United States related to the microscopic parasite. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said both people had underlying health conditions that may have been impacted...

(Headline USA)  Investigators on Monday were trying to determine what led a 24-year-old man to open fire at an Idaho fast-food restaurant over the weekend, in an attack that left three people dead and seven others wounded before authorities say he killed himself. Police Chief Matthew Hicks said Sunday detectives...