POLITICS

(Headline USA) Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeated Rep. Lauren Boebert for a Colorado U.S. House seat on Friday, ousting a three-term Republican and staple of conservative media. Laubacher is a former Navy rear admiral. Her win in the 4th Congressional District race is just one of several surprising Republican losses in...

(Headline USA) The Trump administration has declared three Guatemalan gangs to be terrorist groups for financing violence and crime with proceeds from drug trafficking. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday imposed the terrorist designations on Los Lorenzanas, Los Huistas and Los Mendoza, all of which the U.S. says have...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A Reuters investigation has examined whether gasoline trader John Addison’s relationship with Vice President JD Vance helped Vitol secure permission to market Venezuelan crude after January’s American military operation. A source told Reuters that Addison and Vance discussed potential oil sales during a December 27, 2025 ...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Authorities arrested former University of Texas at Tyler student Ciro Stephen Tomlian, 19, following an alleged assault at a Turning Point USA gathering Tuesday, according to The College Fix. He faces two aggravated assault counts and one count of assault causing bodily injury. A jail...

(Headline USA) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has finalized his divorce from his wife, Angela, one of his lawyers said Thursday. It comes nearly a week after Paxton, a Republican, lost his U.S. Senate race by double digits to Democrat James Talarico in one of the most expensive contests of the...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A Rutgers University student who once defended Turning Point USA in conservative media now accuses fellow members of the movement of assaulting her at a national summit. TPUSA flatly rejects her account. Megyn Doyle, 18, describes herself as the former vice president of the Rutgers TPUSA...

(Headline USA) Democrats in the Montana House have elected a transgender/nonbinary state representative as their minority leader and a well-known "trans advocate" to a top leadership post. State Rep. SJ Howell of Missoula is the first trans/nonbinary party leader in the U.S., state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, also of Missoula, posted on...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said on Monday that the “beauty” of the nearly five-year-old Russia-Ukraine war is the fact that the US is “paying Ukrainians to kill Russians.” Gallego, who joined the Senate last after serving in the House for about 10 years, made the comment on...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A new poll from Reuters/Ipsos has found that a majority of US adults, including the majority of Republicans, want Congress to pass legislation to end the Iran war, a conflict that’s been extremely unpopular among the American people. The poll asked if respondents would support or oppose...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukraine has asked its Western backers to provide 10 years of funding to maintain an 800,000-strong Ukrainian military as part of a potential peace deal to end the war, AFP reported on Wednesday. According to the Kyiv Post, the request was raised during the first day of...

(José Niño, Headline USA) At least 11 people working for the National Security Agency or U.S. Cyber Command died by suicide during the fiscal year ending in September, according to Bloomberg’s investigation. The findings prompted private congressional and White House inquiries into workforce conditions and mental healthcare. The deaths involved...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Atlantic celebrated a federal judge’s ruling Tuesday that temporarily halts most the discovery requests in FBI Director Kash Patel’s defamation lawsuit against the publication. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted The Atlantic’s request to pause discovery as he considers the magazine’s motion to dismiss the...