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Bloomberg: Iran Destroyed Nearly $1 Billion Worth of US MQ-9 Reaper Drones

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Bloomberg reported on Thursday that during the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran that began on February 28, Iranian forces destroyed more than two dozen US MQ-9 Reaper drones, or nearly $1 billion worth of the unmanned aircraft. The number represents about 20% of the Pentagon’s MQ-9 inventory....

House Republicans Block Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution That Was Expected To Pass

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) House Republicans on Thursday canceled a vote on a War Powers Resolution to end President Donald Trump’s war against Iran as it became clear they didn’t have the votes to defeat the measure. The delay means that the House won’t take up the bill until after...

Trump Says He’s Sending 5,000 Additional Troops to Poland

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Thursday that he will send 5,000 additional troops to Poland, the same number of troops the Pentagon has announced it plans to pull out of Germany. “Based on the successful Election of the now President of...

Two Men Charged with Creating AI-Generated Porn Under New Law Targeting ‘Deepfakes’

(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using artificial intelligence to create nude videos and photos of female celebrities under a newly enacted law meant to halt the spread of deepfake pornography. Cornelius Shannon, 51, and Arturo Hernandez, 20, were both arrested Tuesday for generating sexually explicit AI...

Woman at Center of Sprawling Minnesota Fraud Gets Nearly 42-Year Prison Sentence

(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence — nearly 42 years — to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration. Aimee Bock ran Feeding Our...

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as National Intelligence Director

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Fox News reported Friday that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has submitted her resignation due to her husband having a rare form of cancer. "Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026," she wrote, according to Fox. "My husband, Abraham, has recently been...

Farmland Prime for Data Centers, But at What Cost?

(Lauren Jessop, The Center Square) Data center developers are increasingly targeting agricultural land for new projects, and residents in affected communities are mounting opposition, concerned about the industrialization of their farmland. At the same time, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration is pursuing two priorities that can be difficult to balance: attracting...

Rubio Says Chance of a ‘Peaceful Agreement’ With Cuba Is ‘Not High’

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Thursday that the chances of reaching an “agreement that’s peaceful” with Cuba are “not high,” comments that come after the US indicted a former Cuban president, setting up a pretext for a potential attack. “They’re not going to be...

Florida’s AG Launches Criminal Probe into ChatGPT Over FSU Shooting

(Headline USA) Florida's attorney general on Tuesday opened a rare criminal investigation into OpenAI's ChatGPT over whether the artificial intelligence app offered advice to a gunman who killed two people and wounded six others last year at Florida State University. Attorney General James Uthmeier said that prosecutors had done an...

Trump Media Company Replaces Ex-Congressman Nunes as CEO after Stock Plunge

(Headline USA) The Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as the leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth. Devin Nunes, a former California congressmen in Donald Trump's first term,...

Trump Postpones Signing Artificial Intelligence Order Out of Concern it Would Hurt the AI Industry

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump called off a signing ceremony Thursday for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull America’s edge on AI technology. Trump said he was postponing the signing because he did not like what he saw in the order’s text. He announced...

DNC Releases Postelection Autopsy that Criticizes Kamala Harris

(Headline USA) Kamala Harris “wrote off rural America" during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient “negative firepower," according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released on Thursday by the Democratic National Committee. The committee's chair, Ken Martin, shared the 192-page report only after facing intense...
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