POLITICS

(José Niño, Headline USA)  House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., has asked Jared Kushner to provide information about whether his private business interests conflict with his role advising President Donald Trump on Middle East diplomacy. The inquiry centers on Affinity Partners, the investment firm Kushner founded, and its...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) With the national average gas price hovering around $4.37 per gallon, some Republicans are pushing for a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax. Doing so would provide Americans some savings at the pump, but it would also cost billions each month and potentially hasten...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Barack Hussein Obama is headed to Michigan to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed, a man who, in newly unearthed social media posts and past writings, appeared to have nothing but harsh things to say about the former president. El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The 2024 killing of Mirna Arauz Soza, a 67-year-old grandmother, shocked Los Angeles and caused national outrage over soft-on-crime policies in the metro system. Now, two years after Soza was brutally attacked aboard a train, local officials are fighting to prevent the release of footage of...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump, facing protesters and a poor political climate, fought to rally Texas voters behind embattled Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Wednesday night in a bid to stave off a blue wave in the nation's most populous red state. Speaking to a packed Freeman Coliseum, Trump also clarified...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A new report from the Congressional Research Service has found that at least 81 US military aircraft have been damaged or lost in the Iran war since it was launched by the US and Israel on February 28. The report’s authors said the tally was compiled from...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing renewed criticism after releasing a statement on the third anniversary of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack that condemns the "horrific war crimes” while also accusing the Israeli government of committing "genocide" in response.  Mamdani released a short statement...

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya are neck and neck in the most-recent polling of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race. Peggy Flanagan, a Democrat, leads Michele Tafoya 44.8% to 43.3%, according to the average of the four most-recent polls compiled by 270toWin. There...

(Headline USA) Christa Pike, who regained consciousness almost six days after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her, is aware of what happened and “angry and confused,” one of her attorneys said Wednesday. Pike, 50, survived despite receiving two lethal doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30. She was sentenced to death...

(Headline USA) FBI agents thwarted a terror attack by a teenager on the Mall of America after supplying him with an assault rifle following months of text messages, authorities said Wednesday. The 18-year-old had been under investigation for nearly two years, trading messages with a confidential informant, before agents sold...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The feds have charged 16 immigrants in connection with illegal voting, false voter registration and other related offenses, the DOJ announced Monday. The cases originate from Florida, Louisiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota and involve allegations tied to several U.S. elections, including the 2022 Minnesota state general election, the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A classified CIA analysis reportedly warns that Israel could face serious internal unrest or even state failure as prolonged regional wars, growing economic strain, and political division converge before the country’s October 27 election. The assessment, described by Drop Site News and co-published with Capital...