(Headline USA) A man was arrested on Thursday in the FBI's nearly 5-year-old investigation into pipe bombs placed outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and has been charged with an explosives...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US on Wednesday officially opened a new consulate in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, that is said to be the largest US consulate building in the world.
The compound sits on 206,000 square meters, or about 50 acres, and cost about $800 million...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Enhanced enforcement of immigration laws in North Carolina’s largest city resulted in more than 400 arrests.
Led by Gregory Bovino, chief patrol agent of the El Centro Sector of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, Charlotte’s Web began in earnest on Nov. 15 and carried through...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) An Afghan national accused of providing support to the Islamic State was arrested Wednesday in Virginia, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Jaan Shah Safi in Waynesboro, Va., with DHS accusing the suspect of providing support to the Islamic...
(Headline USA) One of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell 's most vocal accusers urged judges on Wednesday to grant the Justice Department's request to unseal records from their federal sex trafficking cases, saying “only transparency is likely to lead to justice.”
Annie Farmer weighed in through her lawyer, Sigrid S....
(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools continue with a new brief filed this week, backed by 46 members of Congress.
First Liberty Institute and Hacker Stephens LLP filed a friend-of-the-court brief this past week at the U.S. Court of...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, held five hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his advisers at the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss a potential peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, but the meeting ended with no...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told reporters on Tuesday that he wasn’t in the room when the order was given to launch a second strike that killed survivors on an alleged drug boat on September 2, as the Trump administration has shifted the responsibility for the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump sent a short handwritten letter to Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda leader who took power in Damascus with his group of jihadists, known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), nearly one year ago.
“Ahmed, you will be a great leader — and the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Israel's Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli accused Tucker Carlson of receiving payment from Qatar to promote anti-Israel content, then admitted he possesses no evidence to support the explosive allegation.
Political commentator Chris Menahan summarized the remarks. "Amichai Chikli, Israel Minister of Diaspora...
(Dave Mason, The Center Square) Aging or rehabilitated prisoners should be released sooner into society to save taxpayers' money.
This, according to a a group of Democratic New York congressional lawmakers who want the state to approve a controversial pair of bills that would make it easier for prisoners to...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications such as requests for green cards for people from 19 countries banned from travel earlier this year, as part of sweeping immigration changes in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard troops.
The changes were outlined in a...