POLITICS

(José Niño, Headline USA) Roy Cooper, the Democrat who once governed North Carolina and now chases a Senate seat, put a former Bloods gang member onto a criminal justice reform group he formed in 2020, according to a Fox News report.  He created that Racial Equity in Criminal Justice task...

(José Niño, Headline USA) With the 25-year mark since September 11 approaching, the Trump administration has quietly scrubbed several high profile Al Qaeda affiliated operatives off its terrorism sanctions list, according to Max Blumenthal's reporting in The Grayzone.  Among them is Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric whose career involved funneling...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New court filings appear to paint a very different picture of convicted killer Karmelo Anthony than the one his supporters and defense attorneys have presented, with new alleged racist, homophobic and gun-related images and messages emerging. The documents, reported by the Daily Mail on Monday, were part...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal judge in California is facing scrutiny from the Trump administration after ordering the release of a Salvadoran national wanted for aggravated murder in his home country. Jinsook Ohta, a district judge for the Southern District of California, ordered the release of David Antonio Aviles Perez,...

(Headline USA) A member of the Georgia National Guard deployed in Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s task force to fight crime has been arrested for pulling a gun on a fellow Guard member in an alleged dispute over regulation haircuts. Zion Mitchell, 21, was arrested earlier this...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US on Tuesday launched more strikes against Iranian oil tankers, and the Iranian military vowed it would respond, marking another escalation of the war. A US official told Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin that the United States launched strikes against tankers near Kharg Island, deep inside...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) University of Illinois Chicago researchers say heightened federal immigration enforcement corresponded with about $1.26 billion in foregone retail and restaurant activity in Cook County, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dismissed the correlation between a good economy and illegal immigration. Matthew Wilson co-authored the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) An illegal alien now sits behind bars, accused of causing a wrong way crash that ended the lives of a mother and her adult daughter in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to a report from Breitbart News. The tragedy reportedly occurred inside a sanctuary jurisdiction that generally...

Chris Wade, The Center Square) A coalition of 9/11 family members, first responders and elected officials on Tuesday urged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend Friday's memorial marking the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. In a press briefing on the steps of City Hall, survivors of...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court in December will hear arguments in cases on semi-automatic gun bans in Illinois and Connecticut, immigration detention centers, voting rights in Arizona and parental rights related to transgender children in Washington state. Justices on the high court released the December argument...

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) President Donald Trump posted a photo on Sunday of a map renaming New Mexico to “New America.” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, slammed the president for that post in one of her own. “New Mexico’s name isn’t up for debate—it’s been ours since...

(Headline USA) An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said. The suspect knocked volunteers to the ground and was arrested with “multiple weapons,” Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman Chris Anderson...