(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Trump administration is cracking down on Mexican cartel-dug tunnels at the southwest border. The tunnels are built and used to smuggle drugs, weapons, people and other illicit contraband, authorities have found.
Two major finds this year were in the high traffic areas of El...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Senior military officials on Wednesday presented President Trump with options for potential military operations in Venezuela, including strikes on land, CBS News reported on Thursday.
The report, which cited White House officials familiar with the meeting, said that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the...
(Headline USA) With the longest U.S. government shutdown over, state officials said Thursday that they are working quickly to get full SNAP food benefits to millions of people, though it still could take up to a week for some to receive their delayed aid.
A back-and-forth series of court rulings...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The House Judiciary Committee is investigating the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General over its involvement in the FBI’s illegal seizure of Rep. Scott Perry’s cellphone in 2022.
The seizure was part of a joint investigation between the OIG and the DOJ under the anti-Trump Arctic Frost operation, which targeted...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US is planning to build a large military base in Israel on the Gaza border, according to a joint report from the Israeli investigative outlet Shomrim and the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
The report said that the construction of the base would cost about $500 million...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The congressional campaign of Jack Schlossberg, the “nepo” grandson of President John F. Kennedy, is off to a rough start.
Schlossberg is an online influencer whose résumé amounts to a Vogue op-ed. He has built an internet career out of coasting on his family name, taking cheap...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israel is seeking a 20-year military aid deal with the US and is looking to increase the annual amount of military assistance it receives from Washington, Axios reported on Thursday.
A 20-year deal would double the usual term for US-Israel military aid agreements. The current Memorandum of...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered his military on Tuesday to suspend intelligence sharing with the US over its bombing of alleged drug boats in the region.
In response to a report about the UK suspending intelligence sharing with the US in the Caribbean over the illegal bombing...
(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump defended H-1B skilled worker visas during a Fox News interview on Monday, sparking backlash from his MAGA base while highlighting tensions created by a controversial September ICE raid that detained hundreds of South Korean engineers at a Georgia battery plant.
The contentious exchange...
(Headline USA) A two-decade pattern of alleged sex trafficking by two luxury real estate brokers and their brother wasn't "just men behaving badly,” a federal judge said as she left their indictment largely intact and rejected defense efforts to minimize the gravity of crimes involving dozens of women.
In an...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The White House is exploring all of its options for sending Americans $2,000 tariff rebate checks, even as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a legal challenge to the president's use of tariffs.
"The White House is committed to making that happen," press secretary Karoline Leavitt...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) Since 2022, California’s main state pension fund has committed hundreds of millions of dollars to a Chinese venture capital firm that has been investigated by Congress for its close ties with the Chinese Communist Party.
Experts warn these investments are not only risky, given China’s...