(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A Ukrainian official announced on Thursday that the US and Ukraine had signed a “memorandum of intent” to move forward with an economic deal that would give the US a piece of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals and other natural resources.
“We are happy to announce the signing,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The United States military has started removing hundreds of troops from Syria but will leave over 1,000 in the country, at least for now, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
US officials told the Times that the US was shuttering three of its eight bases in...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday visited with oil and natural gas producers in Midland, Texas, to highlight the Trump administration’s plan to “unleash American energy.”
Zeldin is traveling nationwide to highlight EPA deregulatory efforts in individual states....
(Headline USA) Amid rural Louisiana’s crawfish farms, towering pine trees and cafes serving po’boys, nearly 7,000 people are waiting at immigration detention centers to learn whether they will be expelled from the United States.
If President Donald Trump’s administration has its way, the capacity to hold tens of thousands more...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Donald Trump’s mission to gut USAID is exposing fault lines inside the State Department, pitting loyalists against moderates and testing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s allegiance to the president’s agenda.
The State Department is reportedly split between officials loyal to President Trump and those aligned with...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Last month, President Donald Trump told Newsmax that he was recently briefed on last year’s attempts on his life, and that he believes the FBI’s story that his two would-be assassins acted alone.
“They don’t seem to think there was anything other than abnormal people,” he...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) President Donald Trump again called for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates Thursday morning.
In a post on Truth Social, the president chastised Fed Chairman Jerome Powell for not having cut rates in 2025.
“The is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump declined an Israeli plan to attack Iran with US support as soon as next month in favor of attempting diplomacy with Tehran over its civilian nuclear program, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The report said Israel developed plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A recent promotion within the National Security Council has ignited backlash from within Donald Trump’s own movement, spotlighting ideological rifts within the Trump administration.
At the center of the controversy is Ivan Kanapathy, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and Mandarin-speaking Asia expert, who now serves...
(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump personally intervened to prevent Elon Musk from attending a classified Pentagon briefing on China, igniting a firestorm over national security, business interests, and government transparency.
According to a report by Axios, President Donald Trump personally intervened to block Elon Musk from receiving a...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The ouster of Dan Caldwell from the Pentagon may have been triggered by a leak investigation—but to many inside Trump world, it looks more like the sidelining of a dissenting voice within the administration.
Dan Caldwell, a senior advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The Justice Department is under fire from gun rights advocates for continuing to prosecute pistol brace owners, even as it claims to be reviewing the controversial rule.
The DOJ is currently prosecuting a case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia involving the...