POLITICS

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) With optimism high among MAGA Republicans that a reckoning is nigh for corrupt coup conspirators and election-meddling officials, some turned their attention this week to George Soros-backed Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold. Among other things, a damning audio recording emerged that showed Griswold deliberately covered...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The recent purchase of CyberArk by Palo Alto Networks not only marks one of the year’s largest tech deals; it also highlights the growing role of Israeli military intelligence alumni in US technology firms.  According to a report by Murtaza Hussain of Dropsite News, Palo Alto Networks,...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Fueling suspicions of yet another deep-state conspiracy being waged against President Donald Trump by seditious neocons, one-time GOP activist and lawyer George Conway was among the first to show up during the FBI’s raid on former national security adviser John Bolton. Conway---who stayed with his wife,...

(The Center Square, Bethany Blankley) The Texas Senate passed HB 4, the state’s congressional redistricting plan, which changes nearly all districts and could flip up to five seats from blue to red. It passed along party lines Friday by a vote of 18-11, according to the Senate Journal record. The bill...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat candidate for Virginia governor, came under fire after one of her supporters waved a racist sign targeting Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, a black Republican running for the same office. The sign, reportedly held by activist Anita Martineau, appeared outside a school board...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) As comfort-food restaurant Cracker Barrel continues its long-running mission to become the next Bud Light under “girlboss” CEO Julie Felss Masino, Democrats are pouncing on the opportunity for a rebrand of their own. https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/1958659652708716776 “We think the Cracker Barrel rebrand sucks too,” the party posted on an...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A leftist think tank center has circulated a memo telling Democrats which woke buzzwords to get rid off ahead of the 2026 primary elections. The memo, written by Third Way and titled “Was It Something I Said”, targets language long embraced by the left and the...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell told the Justice Department last month that she and her accomplice, Jeffrey Epstein, helped start the Clinton Global Initiative—the conduit allegedly used by Hillary Clinton to trade political favors for monetary donations. Maxwell revealed Epstein’s ties to the Clinton Foundation when...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Reuters reported on Thursday that Russia’s demands for a peace deal in Ukraine include Ukrainian forces withdrawing from the Donbas, a guarantee that Ukraine won’t join NATO, and for Ukraine to keep Western troops out of the country. Russian sources told Reuters that Putin had compromised on his...

(Headline USA) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the El Salvadorian gang MS-13, was released from jail in Tennessee on Friday so he can rejoin his family in Maryland while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges. The Salvadoran national’s case became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda after...

(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) President Donald Trump says Chicago is next on his list of cities to focus on cleaning up crime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Lf-uKO4P3RE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecentersquare.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecentersquare.com&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE In December, after Trump was elected to a second non-consecutive term, Danielle Carter-Walters used public comments at a Chicago City Council meeting to call for the Trump...

(Caroline Boda, The Center Square) The U.S.’s foreign-born population shrunk this year for the first time since the 1960s, new data released Thursday from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found. After rapidly growing for more than 50 years, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. reached a record high...