(Headline USA) House Speaker Mike Johnson is rebuffing pressure to act on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, instead sending members home early for a month-long break from Washington after the week's legislative agenda was upended by Republican members who are clamoring for a vote.
Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said Tuesday...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Trump administration removed the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey after federal judges ousted Alina Habba from the post, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday.
Habba’s 120-day term as U.S attorney ended earlier this week, though she had asked federal judges to let her remain in the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Barack Obama responded to President Donald Trump’s fiery remarks accusing the former Democratic president of treason for seemingly orchestrating the launch of the Russian collusion hoax.
In a statement, Obama spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush called Trump’s accusations—first exposed by DNI Tulsi Gabbard—“outrageous” and “meritless.”
“Out of respect for the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Israeli Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that it had signed a $150 million contract to purchase hundreds of High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, commonly known as Humvees, in a deal financed by US military aid.
The Defense Ministry signed the deal with US manufacturer AM General, and the first...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that President Trump was “caught off guard” by Israel’s recent airstrikes in Syria and the Israeli tank shelling of the sole Catholic church in Gaza.
“He was caught off guard by the bombing in Syria and also the bombing of...
(TJ Martinell, The Center Square) Washington state’s Medicaid spending has quintupled, or increased five times over, since the 2013-15 biennium, according to an analysis by The Center Square.
Along with that increased spending, the number of those on Medicaid has climbed, though some health care experts note that despite this...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Last October, Headline USA exclusively obtained the autopsy and toxicology reports for alleged Trump shooter Thomas Crooks after a months-long legal battle.
At the time, the toxicology results didn’t seem to indicate much about Crooks’ state of mind—they showed that he had elevated levels of lead,...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The U.S. is withdrawing from UNESCO, the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, saying that the organization has “strayed from its founding mission.”
State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce announced the U.S. withdrawal from the organization, saying it is “not in the national interest of...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has introduced a bill to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
Cruz introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act again this year after doing so in 2015, 2017, 2020 and 2021. U.S. Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, R-Florida, introduced companion...
(Headline USA) The Department of Justice wants to interview Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the financier sexually abuse underage girls and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence, a senior official said Tuesday.
If Maxwell “has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI...
(Headline USA) Former President Joe Biden's son Hunter is lashing out against Democratic elites and others over the way he says his father was treated during last year's presidential campaign.
Hunter Biden spoke publicly in recent interviews about last year's election, when Joe Biden ultimately dropped his bid and Donald Trump...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
The digital document dump includes more than 240,000 pages of records that had...