(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military is preparing for the possibility that the US-Israeli war against Iran lasts until September of this year, according to a report from POLITICO, far beyond President Donald Trump’s initial four-week timeline.
The report said that US Central Command is asking the Pentagon to send...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said in an interview with Axios on Thursday that he must have a say on who is chosen as Iran’s next leader following the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, contradicting other administration officials who say the US’s goal is not...
(Headline USA) Cleveland police expect to charge a 28-year-old woman in the investigation into the remains of two girls found buried in suitcases earlier this week, a department spokesperson said Thursday.
Sgt. Wilfredo Diaz said police detained the woman Wednesday evening after detectives completed initial interviews and examined evidence.
The woman,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The teenager who killed his parents as part of a plot to assassinate President Donald Trump was sentenced on Thursday to two life prison sentences without the possibility of parole.
Nikita Casap, now 18, told the court that he’s accepted Jesus as his Lord shortly before...
(Headline USA) The allegation sounded like the stuff of spy movies: A Pakistani businessman trying to hire hit men, even handing them $5,000 in cash, to kill a U.S. politician on behalf of Iran 's powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
It was true, and potential targets of the 2024 scheme included...
(Headline USA) Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in Southern California and booked early Thursday, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s office, which didn’t say what charge she faces.
Messages seeking comment were left with the sheriff's office; the California Highway Patrol, which was identified as the arresting agency; and...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) President Donald Trump is nominating Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma as the next Homeland Security Secretary.
On Thursday, the second-term Republican decided to reassign Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the special envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
Multiple reports circulated prior to the...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Lawmakers introduced a bill to require greater transparency on the national debt and GDP.
Reps. Lloyd Smucker, R-Penn., and Jared Golden, D-Maine, introduced the Debt-to-GDP Transparency and Stabilization Act on Wednesday. The legislation would require the president to submit reports in his annual budget requests...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Senate on Wednesday voted against advancing a War Powers Resolution aimed at halting further US military action against Iran without authorization from Congress amid the major US-Israeli bombing campaign in the country.
The resolution, introduced by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Rand Paul (R-KY), failed in a...
(Headline USA) An Arkansas man accused of killing his teenage daughter's alleged abuser won the Republican nomination for local sheriff while waiting to stand trial for murder in his rural county, where he ran on a message of seeing the failures of law enforcement.
Aaron Spencer defeated Lonoke County Sheriff John...
(Headline USA) Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas acknowledged for the first time Wednesday having an affair with an aide who later died after setting herself on fire, a revelation that came on the same day the House Ethics Committee announced it was initiating an investigation into the congressman.
Gonzales, appearing...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Reid Hoffman once shared his "ice cream" with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — “either for yourself or for ‘the girls,’” according to newly unearthed emails.
Hoffman, the billionaire LinkedIn co-founder and prominent Democratic donor, is under fire as hundreds of pages from the DOJ-released...