(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump’s plan to develop a new massive missile defense system for the US, dubbed the “Golden Dome” or the “Iron Dome for America,” is expected to cost $500 billion over the next 20 years, CNN reported on Monday, citing an estimate from the Congressional Budget...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Authorities have arrested a 33-year-old Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office maintenance worker in connection with the escape of 10 jail inmates, the Louisiana Attorney General's office said Tuesday.
Sterling Williams admitted to law enforcement that one of the escapees “advised him to turn the water off in...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Members of Congress and others gathered in the White House Rose Garden Monday for President Donald Trump’s ceremonial signing of first-of-its-kind federal legislation to criminalize “revenge porn,” or the sharing of nonconsensual explicit images online.
First Lady Melania Trump actively advocated for the bill –...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The Manhattan Institute once celebrated Glenn Loury’s ideas, until he criticized Israel.
Loury, one of the country’s most prominent black economists and public intellectuals, was fired from the Manhattan Institute after criticizing Israel’s conduct in Gaza.
The move has ignited a fierce debate about the boundaries of acceptable...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Justice Department has agreed to pay several million dollars to the family of Ashli Babbitt, the beloved veteran and MAGA activist killed inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Babbit’s husband, Aaron, and her family will receive $5 million, according to The Washington Post.
Judicial Watch, the...
(Headline USA) Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver is being charged with assault after a skirmish with federal officers outside an immigration detention center, said New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, who also announced Monday that she was dropping a trespassing case against the Newark mayor whose arrest led to the disturbance.
Interim...
(Headline USA) The creator of the Dilbert comic strip, which was canceled by most newspapers two years ago after he spoke out against anti-white racism, said Monday that he has been diagnosed with the same aggressive prostate cancer as former President Joe Biden.
“I have the same cancer that Joe Biden...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The Republican multitrillion-dollar budget reconciliation package may undergo significant edits before reaching the House floor after party leaders conceded to holdouts’ demands.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., wants the 1,116-page policy bill to pass the House before Memorial Day next Monday, but fiscal hawks on...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a lower court’s ruling, allowing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to end a federal “temporary protected status” (TPS) designation for roughly 300,000 Venezuelans released into the country by the Biden...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Moody's knocked down the U.S. credit rating to AA1 on Friday, projecting Congress won't be able to reduce the nation's growing debt.
Moody's was the last credit-rating agency to keep the U.S. at a top AAA rating. That changed Friday, with Moody's joining S&P Global...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Guy Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, California, has been identified by the FBI as the suspect in the apparent car bombing Saturday that damaged the clinic in the upscale city of Palm Springs in the desert east of Los Angeles, and killed Bartkus in the...
(Headline USA) Many crew members on the Mexican navy tall ship that suffered a deadly collision with the Brooklyn Bridge have flown home from New York, officials said Monday.
Seven officers and 172 cadets who were aboard the Cuauhtemoc training vessel arrived early Monday at the port of Veracruz, where...