SOCIAL MEDIA

(Headline USA) Police on Thursday arrested a dual U.K.-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran. The 27-year-old man was arrested in central London on Thursday, and police have searched...

(Headline USA)  Rapper Rick Ross was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday and charged with battery related to a domestic violence accusation, authorities said. Ross, whose legal name is William Roberts II, faces a felony charge of battery by strangulation, as well as a misdemeanor battery charge, according to online...

(Headline USA) U.S. President Donald Trump won't say whether he thinks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be reelected when voters head to the polls later this month. The president, who sat down with Time magazine for a 75-minute interview published Thursday, sidestepped multiple questions about Netanyahu's reelection bid. Israelis...

(Headline USA) Four astronauts rocketed into orbit Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian whose wife will give birth while he’s away. SpaceX launched commander Jessica Watkins and her crew for NASA after a three-week delay to fix their Dragon capsule’s leaking...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) A US official said Washington plans to send a third aircraft carrier and an additional Marine division to the Middle East.  Last month, The Atlantic reported the USS Theodore Roosevelt was preparing to deploy to the Middle East, with the Department of War preparing to maintain two...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) The White House is threatening NATO allies Germany and France for refusing to release diesel fuel from their emergency inventories. “US officials said France and Germany could be cut off from future US diesel exports. Reuters first reported the US threat to its allies on Thursday after...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has received his federal security clearance for classified briefings, which comes nine months after he was sworn into office. Mamdani told reporters at a Wednesday press briefing that he has received official clearance from the Trump administration, following last...

(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Christa Pike survived two injections that were to be lethal, fulfilling a Tennessee death penalty sentence Wednesday evening and was taken to a hospital for care, according to her lawyers. Her condition remained publicly unknown at time of publication. It’s the second time the state has...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A surveillance technology firm associated with Hunter Biden laptop analyst Yaacov Apelbaum listed Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office among its customers in a 2019 marketing presentation, according to a Newsroom report. According to the Tuesday report, XRVision promoted facial recognition, video analytics, and artificial intelligence based surveillance tools...

(Headline USA) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced some major changes to the U.S. military on Wednesday in what he called his “State of the Force” address, including establishing a new drone command and cutting 20% of the nation’s generals and admirals. The Pentagon also will launch an effort to study...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Pentagon told The Center Square its Golden Dome missile shield will protect the entire homeland for $185 billion. The Congressional Budget Office estimates a notional system consistent with the administration's missile defense goals could cost about $1.2 trillion over 20 years, roughly $9,300 for...

(Joelle Webb, The Center Square) Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is suing the federal government as part of a second legal battle against the construction of immigrant detention centers in the state. The lawsuit was filed in an attempt to stop or temporarily delay the construction of a detention facility...