Friday, December 26, 2025

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Treasury Secretary Bessent Calls for Looser Regulations for the U.S. Financial System

(Headline USA) U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is proposing to overhaul a regulatory panel that monitors the nation's financial stability, by advocating for looser regulations. The Financial Stability Oversight Council, a U.S. body created in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, monitors risks to the financial system and...

Senators Clash Over Trump’s National Guard Deployments as Military Leaders Face First Questioning

(Headline USA) Members of Congress clashed Thursday over President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in American cities, with Republicans saying the deployments were needed to fight lawlessness while Democrats called his move an extraordinary abuse of military power that violated states’ rights. Top military officials faced questioning over...

Yet Another Democrat Indicted for COVID Relief Fraud

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal grand jury on Monday indicted a Georgia Democratic lawmaker over allegations she committed COVID-19 relief fraud, marking the second left-wing politician charged with similar crimes.  As alleged in the indictment, Sharon Henderson, who represents Georgia’s 113th district in the state House of Representatives, stole government funds intended to...

Open AI, Microsoft Face Lawsuit Over ChatGPT’s Alleged Role in Connecticut Murder-Suicide

(Headline USA) The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son's “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her. Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a...

Crypto Mogul Do Kwon to be Sentenced for Misleading Investors who Lost Billions in Stablecoin Crash

(Headline USA) Cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for misleading investors who lost billions when his company’s crypto ecosystem collapsed in 2022. Kwon, known by some as “the cryptocurrency king,” pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court in August to fraud charges stemming from Terraform Labs’ $40...

Trump Launches the ‘Gold Card’ Program

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Wealthy foreigners looking to come to the U.S. and obtain permanent residency can now do so through President Donald Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ visa program, which promises expedited entry to vetted applicants who give $1 million to the U.S. The government launched trumpcard.gov Wednesday, enabling people...

CA Spending $278M on ‘Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants’ This Year

(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) California is spending $278.4 million this year on its “Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants” program that provides state-funded payments largely to qualified elderly and disabled non-citizens who were rejected from the federal Supplemental Security Income program due to their immigration status, state records show. At...

Senate Democrats Unite to Condemn Tucker Carlson Over Controversial Podcast Interview

(José Niño, Headline USA) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just forced Republicans into an uncomfortable corner over antisemitism, and the silence from the GOP side of the aisle speaks volumes. On Monday, Schumer introduced a resolution condemning nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes for his antisemitic views and Tucker Carlson for...

House Passes Massive $901 Billion National Defense Authorization Act

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House on Wednesday passed the $901 billion 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the sweeping annual military spending bill that will be combined with a supplemental bill passed earlier in the year to bring the total US military budget to over $1 trillion. The bill passed...

Judge Orders Trump to End California National Guard Troop Deployment in Los Angeles

(Headline USA) The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction sought by California officials who opposed President Donald Trump’s...

New Book: Palantir Helped Israel Carry Out Its Pager Attack in Lebanon

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Technology developed by the US firm Palantir was deployed by the Israeli military during its attacks on Lebanon in 2024, including the infamous pager attack, which Israel has nicknamed “Operation Grim Beeper,” according to a new book. The book, a biography of Palantir co-founder and CEO Alex...

New York Times Editorial Board Urges US To Prepare for Future War With China

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The New York Times editorial board released a video on Monday calling for the US to “prepare for the future of war” and urged the Pentagon to take drastic steps to be better prepared for a potential fight with China, a conflict that could quickly turn...
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