POLITICS

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon has admitted in its annual report on civilian casualties to Congress that it committed two large-scale massacres of civilians in Yemen during its bombing campaign against the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, last year, which War Secretary Pete Hegseth dubbed “Operation Rough Rider.” In...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) More international buyers – and those in the U.S. on visas, purchased more homes in Texas last year than the previous year. International buyers bought about 7,780 Texas homes from April 2025 to March 2026, up from 7,500 the year before, according to the 2026...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Jewish advocacy group and antisemitism tracker the Anti-Defamation League launched a new initiative Wednesday aimed at helping university students, faculty and staff combat antisemitism on their campuses. The initiative includes two reports tracking “less visible” forms of antisemitism at universities, a confidential reporting mechanism for...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A layoff tracking firm has turned the H-1B fight into a map, and the map points at Texas. LayoffHedge tweeted, "The 8 fastest-growing H-1B districts in America are all Texas Republicans…" The post promotes a new study from the firm that assigns certified Labor Condition Applications...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal employees can once again access TikTok on government equipment after officials determined the platform's revamped ownership structure removes the security risks that led to the original prohibition. Bloomberg reported that the shift came after TikTok's U.S. business moved under the control of American investors. The...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will be stepping down as the president’s top spokeswoman at the end of the month. President Donald Trump indicated that Leavitt, the mother of two, was resigning from her role to spend more time with her growing family after...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that the United States has “total control” over the Strait of Hormuz and may “keep it” despite Iran continuing to demonstrate its control of the waterway and engaging in negotiations with Oman on its future. “The USA has total control over...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara last month was a ruse designed to derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday. The Washington Post first...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Newly declassified documents from the White House transparency task force reveal several top Republican and conservative figures were labeled “conduits” for Russian disinformation for their part in pushing for further investigations into allegations against the Bidens and ties to Ukraine. The code name, Round River,...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has effectively ended a Biden-era mass parole program after it dismissed a lawsuit against the Trump administration. The ruling is seen as a major victory for the Trump administration and for dozens of states that sued to...

(Headline USA) The man charged with killing Charlie Kirk shouldn’t get the death penalty because the shooter “hit the intended target” and no one else was endangered when the conservative activist was shot from a rooftop as he addressed a crowd of thousands at an event in Utah last...

(Headline USA) Moderate Democrat David Crowley won the Wisconsin primary for governor, defeating a democratic socialist who fell short while trying to deliver another win for progressives in a battleground state. Crowley, the Milwaukee county executive, is vying to become Wisconsin’s first black governor and pitched himself as the candidate best...