POLITICS

(Liam Hibbert, The Center Square) Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has shortened the prison sentence of former county clerk Tina Peters, convicted of election tampering related to the 2020 election. The move follows months of pressure from President Donald Trump on the high-profile case, with Peters now eligible for parole on...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Thomas Kean Jr., (R-N.J.) has vanished from public life, missing from both Capitol Hill and the campaign trail for over two months while his office refuses to provide answers about his whereabouts, the New York Times reported. The Republican lawmaker last cast a vote in...

(José Niño, Headline USA) PayPal agreed to forgo roughly $30 million in transaction fees to settle a Justice Department probe into allegations that the financial services company adopted unlawful preferences for minority owned businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported. Justice Department officials had been investigating whether PayPal violated a federal...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Cuban government has said that it has run out of oil reserves under the ramped-up US oil embargo on the country, which has caused a devastating humanitarian crisis and widespread power outages across the country. “We have absolutely no fuel oil, absolutely no diesel,” Vicente de...

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Michigan House Republicans passed a resolution calling on Michigan Secretary of State and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson to release records tied to her past involvement with the Southern Poverty Law Center following a federal indictment against the organization. House Resolution 313, introduced by State...

(Headline USA) A Tennessee man who goes by the moniker Chud the Builder and is known for posting racist videos to social media was given a $1.25 million preliminary bond on attempted murder and other charges on Friday. Dalton Eatherly, 28, is accused of shooting another person in the middle...

(Headline USA) An Iraqi national accused of plotting at least 18 terror attacks in Europe in retaliation for the United States and Israel’s war with Iran, including firebombing a bank in Amsterdam and stabbing Jewish men in London, has been arrested and charged with supporting Iran-backed terrorist organizations. According to...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A domino effect of online comments turned a whistleblower’s claims about CIA document retrieval into viral rumors that the agency had raided Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s office. Her spokesperson, Olivia Coleman, is disputing the claims. "This is false - the CIA did not raid the DNI’s...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have been named by the White House as possible domestic terrorists, according to Trump's top counterterrorism official Sebastian Gorka, Ken Klippenstein reported on his Substack. Gorka, a former right wing influencer who now serves as a National Security Council principal, has...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Israeli government wants President Donald Trump to order a US special forces operation to secure Iran’s uranium that’s enriched at the 60% level, according to a report from Axios, an operation that is fraught with risks and would mean the resumption of full-blown war in...

(José Niño, Headline USA) American auto debt surged to $1.68 trillion by the close of 2025, marking a 37 percent jump from late 2018 when the total sat at $1.23 trillion, CNBC reported. A new analysis by The Century Foundation and Protect Borrowers provided the data exclusively to the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The Trump administration said Monday it would loan out 53.3 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to energy firms as fuel costs soar during the conflict with Iran, Just The News reported. The release comes after Washington agreed in March to put 172...