(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Pentagon officials have told their Israeli counterparts that the United States will begin a phased withdrawal of its troops from Syria within two months, the Israeli news site Ynet reported on Tuesday.
A senior Israeli official said that the US withdrawal could be partial, meaning only some...
(Headline USA) An IRS whistleblower who testified publicly about investigations into Hunter Biden’s taxes is reportedly expected to be promoted to IRS acting commissioner.
Gary Shapley, an IRS employee who testified to Congress as Republicans reviewed the business dealings of Joe Biden’s son, said he was retaliated against for cooperating...
(Headline USA) Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation, according to an email shown Tuesday on the second day of an antitrust trial alleging Meta illegally monopolized the social media market.
In the 2018 email, Zuckerberg wrote that he...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it’s investigating a startup that’s been launching balloons filled with sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere, allegedly as part of a scheme to “geoengineer the planet.”
According to the EPA, the company in question, Making Sunsets, has already launched...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said he wants to give money and an airplane ticket to any immigrant who is in the country illegally who chooses to “self-deport,” and work to get those who are “good” back in the U.S.
Trump, who campaigned on a pledge to carry out mass...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) New York Attorney General Letitia James infamously promised on the campaign trail in 2018 that she’d target Donald Trump if elected attorney general. After taking office, she launched a lengthy and broad investigation into Trump and his organization, accusing him of inflating his finances and property...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Trump appointee Pete Marocco has abruptly left his position as the State Department’s head of foreign aid after he helped oversee the elimination of staff, programs and funding at USAID.
Marocco in the role reportedly clashed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others in the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Israeli military is set to receive a “major new weapons shipment” from the US in the coming weeks to help prepare it for continued operations in Gaza and a potential attack on Iran, the Israeli news site Ynet reported on Monday.
The details of the arms shipment are unclear,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Monday suggested that Iran was slow-walking talks with the US and repeated his threat of military action if a deal on Tehran’s nuclear program isn’t reached.
The US and Iran held indirect negotiations in Oman over the weekend and are set to hold another round in...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) As Americans file their taxes at the last minute this April 15, the federal debt – and Americans’ federal debt burden – continues to grow.
While the federal government reports a national debt nearing $37 trillion, one budget watchdog says the figure is actually much...
(Headline USA) Former President Joe Biden is making a comeback... sort of.
The 82-year-old Democrat returns to the national stage Tuesday to elevate liberal concerns that President Donald Trump's agenda is threatening Social Security.
Biden has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the White House in January, which is typically the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump did not mince words in an Oval Office exchange with CNN host Kaitlan Collins over questions regarding the deportation of an El Salvadoran national—a move the Supreme Court later ruled to be an error.
On Monday, Collins pressed Trump on whether he would bring...