(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The 2015 ISIS-inspired shooting at a contest to draw the Prophet Muhammed in Garland, Texas remains one of the starkest examples of the FBI provoking a terrorist attack.
In that case, FBI informants had been monitoring the shooters for years, the bureau allowed one of them...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered his first address since Iran’s ceasefire with Israel and took a defiant tone, saying his country would “never” surrender to the US.
Khamenei claimed victory over the US and Israel after the 12 days of battle. “I offer my congratulations on the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to meet with President Trump at the White House in the coming weeks after the 12-day US-Israeli war on Iran, Axios reported on Thursday.
Israeli officials said that Netanyahu wants to “celebrate” the joint bombing campaign with Trump, as the Israeli leader is...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) In a long post on his Truth Social account on Wednesday night, President Trump called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to come to an end in a strong show of support for the Israeli leader, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for his...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Saying eradication of dangerous gangs such as Tren de Aragua goes well beyond individual arrests, a North Carolina congressman’s proposal would create a six-month plan identifying tactical methods, funding and origins.
The strategy, leadership and presence of criminal threats by the multi-country gang would be...
(Headline USA) Two smugglers convicted of federal charges in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas in 2022 face up to life in prison when they are scheduled to be sentenced Friday.
Felipe Orduna-Torres and Armando Gonzales-Ortega are to be the first...
(José Niño, Headline USA) On Tuesday, a congressional hearing on antisemitism turned into a heated debate over ideology, social media, and the safety of Jewish Americans.
The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight held a heated hearing titled “Rising Threat: America’s Battle Against Antisemitic Terror,” which brought together lawmakers, activists,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) For years after the Oct. 1, 2017, Las Vegas mass shooting, officials said that body cam footage of the first officer to enter gunman Stephen Paddock’s hotel room didn’t exist. But earlier this month, such footage was published by the YouTube channel Las Vegas Shooting...
(Elyse S. Papel, The Center Square) Following push back from a growing coalition of politicians and public interest groups, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, proposed an amended version of his plan to sell off public lands.
While the previous proposal would have required the government to auction off between 2.2 million and...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Department of Homeland Security announced this week that someone who served as an “Iranian Army sniper” was among the 11 Iran nationals recently rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. However, the purported sniper’s wife says he’s a supporter of President Donald Trump and...
(Steve Wilson, The Center Square) The cost for the U.S. strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, known as Operation Midnight Hammer, likely cost taxpayers more than $200 million, according to analysis by The Center Square of open-source data on flight hours, per-weapon costs and other expenses.
The strikes, which used B-2 Spirit...
(Caroline Boda, Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court handed down four more rulings Thursday, including a 6-3 decision solidifying states’ right to block abortion services from receiving Medicaid funding.
The justices also gave opinions on challenging a deportation ruling, DNA testing in a capital murder case and...