POLITICS

(Headline USA) Bill Gates and the staff of his charitable foundation met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than two dozen times even as employees expressed concerns about the reputational risk of working with him, an external review commissioned by the Gates Foundation found. The conversations appeared to focus...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A man arrested by federal agents Monday for starting a large blaze outside a New York City immigration court was an "anti-government extremist" who told law enforcement officials he was willing to injure or kill people, authorities said. Andrew Arrabaca, 43, of Poughkeepsie, was taken...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) For a 10th consecutive night, the U.S. is carrying out strikes on Iran, targeting the Islamic Republic’s ability to attack commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Following the announcement of three U.S. service members killed in action resulting from Iranian strikes, President Donald Trump...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday said it was “best” for Israel to stay out of the current conflict between the US and Iran, as the US continues bombing the Islamic Republic, and Iranian missiles and drones continue to target bases in Arab states across...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The New York Times reported on Monday that the Pentagon didn’t disclose that US troops had been injured by Iranian attacks on Jordan in the week leading up to the missile strikes that killed at least two US soldiers and left one missing. US officials told the...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The White House on Monday shared the results of a poll from about three weeks ago that shows the majority of American voters supported the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which President Donald Trump has since declared is “over” as he has restarted the bombing campaign...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Apple has spent years selling itself as the privacy company, but a fresh lawsuit contends that one of its flagship privacy tools was essentially a vault with the door hanging loose. As Reclaim the Net tells it, a customer in California claims Apple went on...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) One of the Democratic candidates seeking to replace disgraced socialist Graham Platner cited an unusual motivation for the campaign: a desire to use the women's restroom. The candidate, self-identified transgender woman Ashley Webb, made the remarks on July 16, during the first debate after Platner exited Maine's...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A viral Information Liberation post alleges Senator Lindsey Graham orchestrated a high-pressure floor campaign to secure foreign assistance. The post claims former ambassador Michael Herzog said Graham called him “from the Senate floor” and asked him to obtain Israeli government pressure on three Republican holdouts....

(José Niño, Headline USA) MAGA influencer Rogan O'Handley landed at the center of a widening Washington betting scandal this week after a viral Twitter post from Aaron Fritschner, deputy chief of staff to Representative Don Beyer, D-Va., spotlighted fresh reporting from The Wall Street Journal. Fritschner wrote that "Congresswoman...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, (R-Fla.), set off a wave of concern this week when she posted on X on Saturday that classified records due out soon will implicate a former lawmaker in a foreign infiltration scheme.  "Some seriously disturbing declassified files will be coming out in...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A former Trump 2.0 official who was fired after claims that she was involved in a "sugar baby" relationship filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against her ex-boyfriend, alleging he orchestrated the accusations Julia Varvaro, who served as deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism in the second Trump...