POLITICS

(Headline USA) A shooting Thursday just outside the Republican Party of Virginia offices in Richmond had nothing to do with the upcoming midterm elections, police said. The party said in a statement posted online that a woman was shot around 1:45 p.m. directly in front of the building that houses...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A breach of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed information concerning nearly 42,000 employees, revealing personnel assignments across immigration enforcement and other federal agencies. In a Wednesday report, Mikael Thalen of Straight Arrow said the disclosure included names, telephone numbers, email addresses, and job...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., faces questions about whether her foreign policy positions conflict with business connections involving her husband’s employer. In a Drop Site report published on Wednesday, Ryan Grim traced those connections to Chinese defense companies subject to American restrictions. The reporting does not...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The New York Times reported Thursday that the FBI has had evidence for over 10 years that Rep. Ilham Omar, D-Minn., likely married her brother to obtain a green card. “The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama...

(The Center Square) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Wednesday evening denied the Trump administration's request for a temporary restraining order to force the state to segregate mail-in ballots that the federal government thinks could have been submitted by noncitizens. "Never before in American...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The Trump administration’s sweeping deportation claims face renewed scrutiny from at least one Republican congressman.  Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wants the Department of Homeland Security to explain exactly how many people it has removed and distinguish border enforcement from deportations originating inside American communities. John Binder...

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) The latest polling shows Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar leading Republican state House Speaker Lisa Demuth for Minnesota’s gubernatorial race. The average of the last four polls compiled by 270toWin report Klobuchar leading 48.3% to Demuth’s 41.5%. That is a difference of 6.8% and outside...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Halfway through early voting, 3,500 reportedly defective voter registrations have been identified in South Texas. That's according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which filed a Help America Vote Act election complaint with the Texas Secretary of State’s Office. The complaint alleges that 22 South Texas...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military is sending an additional Patriot missile system to Israel to beef up the country’s air defenses as part of preparations for a potential US-Israeli attack on Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday night. It’s estimated that the US has used about 1,700...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon’s estimate for the cost of the Iran war is now over $47 billion, 25% higher than its estimate from July, according to data obtained by Reuters, though the true cost of the conflict is significantly higher since the US War Department’s numbers leave out...

(Headline USA) A man who played a major role in defrauding a federal food program in Minnesota was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison, the latest punishment in a sprawling scheme to collect millions of dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic by claiming to have fed needy children. The depth...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Candace Owens has secured a procedural victory in her legal battle with Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, but the dispute over her false claims about France’s first lady is far from finished.  A Delaware judge dismissed the claims against Owens personally while allowing the case against her...