SOCIAL MEDIA

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Bloomberg reported on Thursday that top Pentagon officials have expressed that they will withhold the release of an internal report on the US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, which massacred at least 120 children, through the midterm elections. According to an...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military has drawn up new strike plans against Iran that include potentially using the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” according to a report from CNN. The MOAB is the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal...

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit from John Brennan that sought to force the Justice Department to preserve investigative records so that the former CIA director can challenge any eventual criminal case against him as a selective and malicious prosecution. A lawyer for Brennan conceded during...

(Headline USA) FBI employees fired for their roles in the weaponized investigation of President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued on Thursday to get their jobs back.  The complaint adds to the growing list of legal challenges to the mass terminations under FBI Director Kash...

(Headline USA) The Trump administration sued California election officials Thursday, asking a judge to bar the state from counting mail-in ballots for next month's midterm elections from people the federal government has identified as “likely” noncitizens until their status can be confirmed. The lawsuit comes after the Justice Department said...

(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) Ohio’s universal school choice plan took another hit in the courts Thursday. The 10th District Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that the state's EdChoice and EdChoice Expansion voucher programs are unconstitutional. Again, the court stayed the opinion, allowing the programs to continue while...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) FBI agents in north Texas have disrupted a North Korean espionage ring targeting U.S. companies. The scheme involves illegally obtaining information from U.S. companies to facilitate the country’s sanctioned weapons program, federal authorities allege. The case “is about far more than fraud,” U.S. Attorney Ryan...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. inflation rose 0.6% in September for an annual rate of 3.7%, according to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.  The September rate marks a significant increase from the overall 3.4% inflation in July and August. The price index for gasoline...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Former Vice President Kamala Harris remains the top choice for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination among nearly 30% of Democratic and left-leaning independent voters surveyed, with her support holding virtually unchanged over the past year, according to The Center Square’s latest poll. The Center Square...

(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...