(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...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) More than two dozen individuals were arrested Wednesday after unlawfully storming the U.S. Capitol in protest of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” prompting demands that prosecutors treat the chaos with the zero-tolerance approach used after Jan. 6.
Capitol Police said 34 people were taken into custody, including...
(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...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The Republican-led House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to a man described as former First Lady Jill Biden's "work husband" to determine how sharp former President Joe Biden was in office.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., issued the subpoena to Anthony...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Immigration accounts for recent population growth in the U.S. as its native population ages, according to a Thursday article in the Washington Post. While children still outnumber older adults nationwide, the share of older adults is rapidly increasing, according to the Post, whose reporting was...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Jewish New Yorkers stranded in Israel need the state’s help evacuating the war-torn region, according to a group of legislative Republicans who want Gov. Kathy Hochul to do something about it.
In a letter to Hochul, Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt and members of the Senate...
(Headline USA) The head of the federal government agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants the mortgage giants to consider accepting a homebuyer's cryptocurrency holdings in their criteria for buying mortgages from banks.
William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, ordered the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A senior US military official told Congress on Tuesday that the US Navy used munitions at an “alarming rate” while defending Israel from Iranian missiles during the 12-day war that Israel started with massive strikes on Iran.
Adm. James Kilby, the acting chief of naval operations, was...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Wednesday that he would bomb Iran again if the country restarted its nuclear enrichment program, but he insisted that he doesn’t think that will happen.
The president made the comments on Sunday at the NATO summit in The Hague. When asked if Tehran rebuilding...