SOCIAL MEDIA

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square)  Birthright citizenship of immigrants' children is costing federal, state and local taxpayers $150.7 billion annually, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Half that amount covers education, with the rest spent on healthcare and nutritional assistance, according to FAIR. Policy analysts warn that broad constitutional...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have discussed the possibility of resuming large-scale attacks against Iran before the US and Israeli elections, according to a report from Axios. The report, which cited unnamed US and Israeli sources, said that the two leaders had held...

(Headline USA) An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company's technology. The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested Friday, a...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Justice Department has agreed not to prosecute a former CIA analyst who in 2024 was accused of serving as a secret agent for South Korea’s intelligence service, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said Sue Mi Terry had shared nonpublic government information, facilitated access...

(Headline USA) A Wyoming microbiology graduate student from China has been arrested on accusations she poisoned the tea of a colleague who had pending patents and with whom she didn’t get along, then tried to flee the country after police questioned her. Aili Wang, 32, was arrested Oct. 6 at...

(Headline USA) The Social Security Administration projected Wednesday that the annual cost-of-living adjustment for older adults and people with disabilities will go up by 3.6% beginning in 2027, with some recipients complaining that is not enough to offset soaring prices. The adjustment translates to $75 extra per month for the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing renewed scrutiny in his Senate campaign after a Wall Street Journal report described his attendance at a Dubai New Year gathering with his girlfriend and two Americans who had been indicted on federal health care fraud charges and...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A Department of Homeland Security watchdog review released earlier this month found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement acted on only a small share of millions of potential visa overstay cases from fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2024 when Joe Biden was president. The Center...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump poked fun on Monday at the ironic slogan “Gays for Palestine,” a label used to describe LGBT activists who protest what they view as Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Trump mocked the group at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, where he campaigned on behalf of...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday that it’s imposing $1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. The fines on America’s second-biggest bank amount to the third-largest in the department’s history. “When a bank of this size fails to meet its...

(Headline USA)  The White House publicly asked for U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation on Tuesday as she faced mounting accusations of improper conduct, and she announced within two hours that she was quitting, ending days of talk and speculation about her professional fate. Guilfoyle insisted that she...

(Headline USA) CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve a Justice Department case alleging it unlawfully dispensed medically unnecessary prescriptions of highly addictive opioids, officials said Tuesday. The settlement resolves a lawsuit brought in 2024 that accused the healthcare giant of providing massive...