Saturday, July 11, 2026

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Rapidly Growing Wildfire in Los Angeles County Prompts Evacuations in Remote High Desert

(Headline USA) A fast-spreading blaze prompted evacuation orders Friday afternoon in a sparsely populated area of Los Angeles County. The brush fire sparked around 1 p.m. under dry and scorching hot conditions in a remote high desert region about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northeast of LA, according to the LA...

Trump Threatens Iran after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Funeral Saw Open Calls for his Killing

(Headline USA) U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Saturday after the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saw open calls for his killing, further underlining the tensions gripping the Middle East as an interim deal to end the war buckles under repeated crossfire in the region. Trump made...

Fifth Circuit Upholds Texas Instate Tuition Ban for Illegal Foreign National Students

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Nearly one year after a lower court ruled that Texas universities providing in-state tuition to illegal foreign nationals was illegal, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision. On Thursday, a panel of three judges ruled 2-1 affirming the lower court’s decision and dismissed...

8 Indicted in Planned Attack on White House UFC Event

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Eight men have now been indicted by a federal grand jury for charges related to an alleged plot targeting the UFC cage-fighting event at the White House in June.  Though the defendants are from different states, all eight were indicted together Thursday in Columbus, Ohio,...

Federal Deficit Reaches ‘Astounding’ Levels

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Only nine months into fiscal year 2026, the U.S. government has already borrowed $1.4 trillion, surpassing the entire federal deficit of the previous fiscal year. The federal government collected $4.2 trillion over the past nine months and spent or lost a total of $5.5 trillion,...

Report: $225M in K-12 Fraud Found Across Six Years

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) More than $225 million in fraud was reported by state education departments and school districts from 2019 to 2026, according to a new report. Open the Books, a federal spending watchdog, and the State Financial Officers Foundation, analyzed six years’ worth of reports from the...

Trump: Ceasefire with Iran Over as Talks Continue

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The ceasefire with Iran is over as talks with the Islamic Republic continue, President Donald Trump said Friday. Trump's post on social media follows a tumultuous week of increased strikes in Iran after the Islamic Republic targeted cargo ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a...

Jasmine Crockett Won’t Go Quietly, Calls Election Loss ‘Racist’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Soon-to-be former Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed racism played a role in her Texas Democratic Senate primary loss, calling the race “racist” while responding to her “haters.” Crockett made the remarks while speaking at the Global Black Economic Forum on Tuesday, addressing her March 3 defeat to Texas...

WATCH: Mitch McConnell Carried Out on a Stretcher

(José Niño, Headline USA) Video newly obtained by CNN captures paramedics rolling a person on a stretcher out of Sen. Mitch McConnell's, R-Ky., Washington residence and lifting them into a waiting ambulance. The footage sharpens a question his staff has spent nearly a month dodging. What actually happened to...

Lefty ‘Reporter’ Slammed After Appearing to Blame Platner Sexual Abuse Accuser

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A left-wing “reporter” came under fire Wednesday after attempting to contextualize one of the sexual abuse allegations against former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner by publishing a text message from one of his accusers. Ryan Grim, co-host of the Breaking Points podcast and a “reporter” for Drop...

Mamdani Wants ICE Abolished After Fatal Houston Stop

(José Niño, Headline USA) Immigration and Customs Enforcement should cease to exist, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared Thursday, seizing on a lethal encounter in Texas to press one of the progressive left's oldest demands, Just the News reported. An agent shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, shortly before 7...

Sen. Grassley Says Jack Smith’s Team Mishandled Classified Material

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Federal officials who investigated President Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case may have themselves mishandled classified material, according to newly released documents. The alleged mishandling by officials within the Biden-era DOJ and the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith suggests “hypocritical” and “careless behavior,” according...
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