POLITICS

(Headline USA) Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham, has been named as his temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate after his unexpected death over the weekend. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced at a news conference at the Statehouse on Monday that she will serve the remaining months on Graham's current...

(José Niño, Headline USA) When the United States and Iran struck a ceasefire on June 17, a senior U.S. official expected President Donald Trump's supporters to cheer. Instead, as Time reports, MAGA voices online shredded the deal, echoing one another in nearly matching phrasing within minutes. A few circulated an...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The U.S. House will vote this week on a bill making daylight savings time permanent, despite warnings from medical, education and safety organizations. The Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, which would end the nearly nationwide biannual clock changing and make daylight savings time permanent year-round,...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Saudi-led forces bombed the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, reigniting the war with Yemen’s Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, which has been in a state of ceasefire that has held relatively well since 2022. The attack was claimed by Yemen’s so-called “internationally recognized government,”...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square)  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported a criminal illegal immigrant despite an effort by the Minnesota Board of Pardons to prevent his removal. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which criticized the board for issuing a pardon for Tou Lue Vang on June 10, confirmed...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, reportedly agreed to an interview with national commentator Nick Fuentes that came close to erupting into a physical clash, according to a fresh TMZ report. Insiders told TMZ that Hunter, Fuentes, and Channel 5 host Andrew Callaghan met...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The United States appears to be on the cusp of returning to full-scale strikes against Iran after pounding the Islamic Republic over the weekend, stemming from Iranian aggression over control of the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump told Fox News Monday that the U.S....

(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) A national news report indicates an FBI investigation into Fulton County's 2020 election is intensifying.  Fulton County has not received any communication, notification or additional subpoenas from the FBI or the Justice Department about an increase in agents reviewing ballots, a spokesman for Fulton County...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Monday he’s recommended that Lindsey Graham’s sister be named as his temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate. Trump posted on social media that Gov. Henry McMaster should appoint Darline Graham Nordone to fulfill the rest of Graham’s term, which expires in January. Graham died...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday published a post on X mourning Lindsey Graham, who died at 71 on Saturday night, just one day after meeting with Zelensky in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Graham was one of Washington’s leading supporters of the proxy war in Ukraine,...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Hunter Biden, the only child in U.S. history to receive a presidential pardon from his father, praised the “rule of law” after winning a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne. At the center of the lawsuit were Biden’s claims that Byrne defamed him by alleging...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Former Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., may have seen her political career go up in smoke after a distant fifth-place finish in last month’s California gubernatorial primary. But the troubled ex-lawmaker still has plenty of flames to dispense. Porter, best known for allegedly dumping a bowl of steaming...