POLITICS

(José Niño, Headline USA) A firestorm of controversy has engulfed Brown University following the mass shooting that took place last Saturday.  Critics are now questioning whether the prestigious institution deliberately disabled security cameras, inadvertently creating blind spots that allowed the shooter to escape detection. According to the latest reports shared by...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square)  The U.S. House passed the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act in a party line, 216-211, vote Wednesday, sending the bill to its likely demise in the Senate. The bill, which will almost certainly fail to reach the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, is Republicans’...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square)  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and law enforcement partners continue to arrest MS-13 Salvatrucha Salvadoran transnational gang members and violent illegal foreign nationals in Nebraska. The latest MS-13 arrest this month was of a man known internationally as “Fantasma" (ghost), an alleged member of an...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The State Department on Wednesday approved a series of arms deals for Taiwan worth more than $11 billion, including multiple types of missile systems and munitions, an announcement that China has strongly condemned. If the sales aren’t blocked by Congress, which is unlikely to happen since there’s...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Southern Command announced on Wednesday night that it bombed another boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean as the Trump administration continues conducting extra-judicial executions at sea in the waters of Latin America. As usual, SOUTHCOM claimed without providing any evidence that the vessel was “engaged in...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The Trump administration awarded Silicon Valley data analytics firm Palantir Technologies a $300 million contract without competitive bidding to construct an AI powered system targeting alleged fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. This move has sparked widespread concern about surveillance overreach and discriminatory targeting...

(José Niño, Headline USA) In the wake of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO Ted Deutch embarked on a high profile media tour that framed the atrocity as a mandate for global action against online speech.  The shooting which Australian authorities classified...

(Madeline Shannon,  The Center Square) An arraignment for Nick Reiner, the son of actor/director Rob Reiner and Rob’s wife, Michele Singer Reiner, was postponed Wednesday to Jan. 7. Reiner, 32, appeared in court Wednesday morning in a Los Angeles courtroom. He waived his right to an immediate arraignment and "Yes,...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump is expected to announce plans to launch a war with Venezuela this evening when he addresses the nation at 9:00 pm EST, a high-placed source on Capitol Hill has told Antiwar.com. Also, earlier in the day, Tucker Carlson told Judge Andrew Napolitano that he has...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump defended White House chief of staff Susie Wiles after she granted unfettered access to leftist magazine Vanity Fair, which published a hit piece on Tuesday.  Wiles’s Vanity Fair interview, which spanned 11 months and included 12 sit-downs, was widely viewed as a major unforced error.   The piece featured cherry-picked...

(José Niño, Headline USA) In this Headline Geopolitics episode, José Niño interviews Stanislav Krapivnik, military-political analyst and commentator. Krapivnik shares his unique perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war, drawing from his extensive military background and experience in both the US and Russia. The conversation covers the historical roots of Western-Russian relations,...

(Headline USA)  Eleven firefighters and two other people were injured in a house fire explosion in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, officials said. Salisbury Fire Chief Bob Parnell said firefighters did not have life-threatening injuries but were getting treated for contusions, concussions and smoke inhalation following the fire Monday...