(Headline USA) A man was shot and killed by the FBI early Wednesday after holding 10 school employees hostage, including some who were tied up, and warning he had strapped explosives to himself and some of the hostages inside a Southern California office building, police said.
Authorities stormed the building...
(Headline USA) Mole people? Crocodile catchers? Mario brothers? A series of bizarre sightings of people popping in and out of New York City’s vast subterranean sewer system has the city wondering what exactly is going on, with police now probing the underground mystery.
Security cameras have recorded at least three...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Congress just proposed tying the United States military to Israel's armed forces more closely than ever before, Responsible Statecraft reported.
Buried inside the House version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act released Tuesday is Section 224, titled "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative." Ben Freeman...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House is expected to vote this week on a War Powers Resolution to end US support for Israel’s war in Lebanon, which has been a major impediment to ending the US-Israeli war against Iran.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), would end any US...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The proposed $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is no more.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed in remarks to the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that the Department of Justice is walking away from the initiative.
“We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche told lawmakers in...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Trump-led Department of Agriculture is battling a bed bug infestation that officials say may have been caused by employees’ negligence, with the same workers now demanding the right to stay home while collecting taxpayer-funded salaries.
The infestation, first reported Tuesday by NOTUS, appears to have affected...
(Headline USA) In a remarkable sign of the turmoil at CBS’s top-rated “60 Minutes,” correspondent Scott Pelley said CBS News head Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job, according to reports.
Pelley made his accusations in an introductory meeting...
(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has appointed members to a new council tasked with documenting the impacts of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS, two federal immigration enforcement operations that sparked controversy, litigation and criminal investigations that remain ongoing.
Walz, a Democrat, announced the appointments ...
(John Cole, The Center Square) As the debate around data centers continues in Pennsylvania, a pair of lawmakers have penned a letter pushing for answers and transparency at the federal level.
Last week, U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean, D-4th District, and Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, sent a letter to the Federal...
(Tim Clouser, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a $4 billion funding opportunity for homelessness services on Monday, shifting away from the Housing First model.
The notice of funding opportunity, or NOFO, for HUD’s Continuum of Care program, represents a major turning point in...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Tuesday responded to an Axios report that alleged President Donald Trump lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s escalations in Lebanon, saying that it was “all talk” and pointing out that the US could withhold military aid if...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that the United States isn’t producing enough anti-ballistic missiles and that he has requested a license for Ukraine to start producing Patriot missiles.
“There is not enough anti-ballistic missile production in the United States, and this could lead to a...