(Headline USA) President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day. This year has seen a flurry of activity to address it.
Part of Trump's executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits, takes aim at...
(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) Efforts to try to get Hezbollah to agree to disarm appear to have failed, with Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem announcing Wednesday evening that the group will not agree to give up its weapons, its land, or its right to resist.
Lebanon’s government has been in talks with Hezbollah...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) U.S. Rep Mark Green, R-Tenn., announced his official resignation on Friday, July 4, a date he said he selected on purpose.
Green, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said in June he was stepping down from Congress for an opportunity in the private sector....
(José Niño, Headline USA) Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, was walking downtown Monday night when multiple gunmen opened fire, making him the 85th homicide victim in Washington D.C. in 2025.
The young congressional intern hailing from Granby, Massachusetts was reportedly walking near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center when multiple suspects exited...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump could soon be added to Mount Rushmore. That is, if Interior Secretary Doug Burgum accepts a request from Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn.
Ogles urged Burgum to consider adding Trump to the iconic monument, citing the president’s achievements, including the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill, increased military...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday and said after the call that he didn’t “make any progress” on the issue of the Ukraine war.
“We had a call, it was a pretty long call, and we talked about a lot of things, including Iran....
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's thinking of staging a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards 20,000 spectators to celebrate 250 years of American independence.
“We have a lot of land there,” said Trump, a UFC enthusiast who has attended several of its mixed martial...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI has released another batch of records about the March 2023 Nashville elementary school attack that killed six people, including three children. According to the records, Biden’s Justice Department declined to investigate the matter as a federal hate crime, despite calls from Republicans in Congress...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A newly declassified CIA memo revealed that top officials within the Obama administration deliberately manipulated intelligence to exaggerate Russia’s purported 2016 election interference. This set the stage for the years‑long Trump‑Russia collusion probe.
The review, commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May 2025, reassessed the 2016 Intelligence Community...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Trump-led DOJ has charged four individuals in connection with the violent anti-ICE riots that broke out in June in Oregon.
The defendants, some allegedly caught on video, spent several weeks targeting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and assaulting federal officers, prosecutors said in a press...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon has halted shipments of some air defense missiles and other munitions to Ukraine over concerns that US stockpiles have gotten too low, POLITICO reported on Tuesday.
The report said the decision was driven by Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense for policy, a China hawk who wants...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Senate on Tuesday advanced a massive spending package, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” by President Trump, that includes $150 billion in extra military spending.
The bill passed in a vote of 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, as three Republicans — Senators Rand...