(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to provide Ukraine with billions in additional military aid and increase sanctions on Russia, a move that comes as the more than four-year-old war between Russia and Ukraine is escalating.
The Ukraine Support Act passed in a vote...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday was asked whether Israel has nuclear weapons and acknowledged that “most of the world assesses that they do,” but also reaffirmed the US policy of not acknowledging the existence of Israel’s nuclear stockpile and secret weapons program.
Rubio made the...
(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday dismissed a murder charge against an Arkansas man who won the GOP nomination for sheriff while awaiting trial for the shooting death of his teenage daughter's alleged abuser.
The ruling came weeks before Aaron Spencer, who will be on the November ballot, had been set...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Central banks were once again net gold buyers in April, after large sales pushed gold accumulation into negative territory in March.
In March, global central bank gold reserves fell by 27 tonnes, driven by big sales by Turkey and Russia. The tide turned in...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) A lot of people are feeling economic pain right now. As I recently wrote, the American consumer is broke, stressed, and buried in debt.
However, the official government data doesn’t seem to reflect this pain. Sure, there’s some price inflation out there, but it’s not...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Hunter Biden for president in 2028? President Donald Trump suggested the idea shouldn’t be ruled out too quickly.
Rumors have swirled about a potential 2028 candidacy by Hunter, the disgraced son of former President Joe Biden, after he hinted at the idea on X.
Hunter has recently taken...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A social media influencer with millions of followers went viral Wednesday, but not for the usual reason. Instead, Jesse Ridgway and his wife drew widespread criticism after announcing they had aborted their unborn child following a Down syndrome diagnosis.
The backlash against Ridgway, also known online as “McJuggerNuggets,”...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Nancy Pelosi berated a reporter for a conservative news platform after being asked about her failure to request the deployment of the National Guard ahead of the Jan. 6 protest on the U.S. Capitol.
The target of Pelosi’s verbal attacks was Alison Steinberg, a congressional correspondent for...
(José Niño, Headline USA) UFC Middleweight champion Sean Strickland claims he was barred from attending UFC Freedom 250 at the White House because he criticized Israel and President Donald Trump, and plans to show up anyway with his championship belt and a bullhorn to protest outside the gates.
UFC Freedom...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump has told his aides that he may restart the full-scale bombing campaign against Iran if US troops are killed, The Wall Street Journal has reported, as the United States and Iran have traded multiple rounds of attacks despite a nominal ceasefire.
The report came...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Wednesday downplayed Iranian attacks that targeted US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, saying they may have been “slightly provoked” since the US launched strikes against Iran beforehand.
“There’s a reason for everything, and we hit them pretty hard last night,” the president told...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked House lawmakers as “unpatriotic” for passing a War Powers Resolution that would direct him to end the war with Iran, which he launched with Israel without congressional authorization, in violation of the US Constitution.
The bill passed on Wednesday in a...