(Madeline Shannon, The Center Square) The grandson of the man who oversaw the invention of the atomic bomb spoke out Wednesday morning in support of nuclear energy development in California.
Charles Oppenheimer's testimony before the state Senate Energy and Utilities Committee was part a push by state Democratic lawmakers to...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) U.S. states and territories made a collective $10 billion in improper payments to SNAP recipients nationwide in fiscal year 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports.
The average error payment rate, which includes both over- and underpayments, was roughly 10.6%, well above the congressionally set...
(Headline USA) A rural area of Northern California experienced its strongest earthquake since 1940 on Wednesday morning, causing some injuries but no immediate reports of major damage, officials said.
The epicenter of the quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6, was about 7 miles northwest of the agricultural town of Willits,...
(Headline USA) A chief of staff to former New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been charged with accepting more than $100,000 in bribes to steer a lucrative migrant shelter contract to a Queens hotel, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Frank Carone’s arrest Wednesday was the latest in...
(Headline USA) A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians has been charged with murder in the shooting of her parents at their Pennsylvania home on her 30th birthday, and a prosecutor said Wednesday that authorities don’t believe she was acting alone.
Michelle Zajko, who has been jailed in...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Senate on Tuesday approved a House-passed concurrent War Powers Resolution directing President Donald Trump to end hostilities against Iran, marking the first time Congress has approved a concurrent resolution under the 1973 War Powers Act directing the termination of an unauthorized war.
In previous years, Congress...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) CNN reported on Tuesday that the pilot of a US F-15 fighter jet that was shot down over Iran during the US-Israeli bombing campaign in April reported seeing a swarm of Iranian drones in a formation that resembled a jellyfish before he ejected from the aircraft.
Sources...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The Daily Wire opened discussions to secure over $100 million in fresh capital while the conservative media powerhouse grapples with vanishing subscribers and costly programming failures, Semafor reported.
Highmount Capital, a firm founded by two Koch Industries veterans, leads negotiations for an investment round pricing Ben...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The White House has summoned top Pentagon brass and chief executives from the nation's premier defense firms to a Wednesday meeting focused on rebuilding American weapons reserves that shrank dramatically during combat operations, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Deputy War Secretary Stephen Feinberg contacted industry executives earlier...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A Peruvian man initially linked by DHS to an alleged vehicle assault against an ICE officer during an enforcement operation in New Jersey is now considering legal action after saying he was wrongly identified in the incident.
The apparent confusion stems from a June 15 operation at...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Shoppers bracing for elevated beef costs face an increasingly dire situation as multiple crises converge on the North American cattle industry, Fortune reported.
A screwworm infestation that ravaged Mexican livestock has now entered American territory, compounding damage from prolonged drought that pushed the U.S. cattle population...
(Ford Turner, The Center Square) Two powerful forces, money and silence, have been stirring hearts and minds as well as controversy in a 240-year-old township near a scenic bend of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania.
All of it is tied to the artificial intelligence-data center boom.
Rural residential property owners...