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(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) President Donald Trump is nominating Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma as the next Homeland Security Secretary. On Thursday, the second-term Republican decided to reassign Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the special envoy for the Shield of the Americas.  Multiple reports circulated prior to the...

(Johnny Edwards, The Center Square) The Georgia police department that fired an officer for asking a biological male to stay out of a women’s restroom will begin putting all its officers through sensitivity training this month. The mandatory "LGBTQIA+" class will push several tenets of transgender ideology that remain...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Lawmakers introduced a bill to require greater transparency on the national debt and GDP. Reps. Lloyd Smucker, R-Penn., and Jared Golden, D-Maine, introduced the Debt-to-GDP Transparency and Stabilization Act on Wednesday. The legislation would require the president to submit reports in his annual budget requests...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Senate on Wednesday voted against advancing a War Powers Resolution aimed at halting further US military action against Iran without authorization from Congress amid the major US-Israeli bombing campaign in the country. The resolution, introduced by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Rand Paul (R-KY), failed in a...

(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey discussed volatility in the gold and silver markets amid escalating geopolitical tensions and broader financial market turmoil. Maharrey opened by criticizing mainstream financial media coverage of a recent selloff that occurred as...

(Headline USA) Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas acknowledged for the first time Wednesday having an affair with an aide who later died after setting herself on fire, a revelation that came on the same day the House Ethics Committee announced it was initiating an investigation into the congressman. Gonzales, appearing...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Reid Hoffman once shared his "ice cream" with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — “either for yourself or for ‘the girls,’” according to newly unearthed emails.  Hoffman, the billionaire LinkedIn co-founder and prominent Democratic donor, is under fire as hundreds of pages from the DOJ-released...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Texas state Rep. James Talarico may have won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate against Rep. Jasmine Crockett, but he still has one more fight ahead: his old tweets, which have complicated his recent pitch as a moderate Democrat.  Talarico, recently crowned the victor of the Democratic...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed Wednesday morning that the leader of an Iranian unit that attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump has been “hunted down and killed.” To date, the U.S. government has produced no solid evidence that Iran made any such attempt. “Iran...

(Mark Stricherz, The Center Square)  A number of U.S. representatives like to be driven in style, billing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for limo service from their office accounts, an investigation by The Center Square found. Six U.S. representatives charged taxpayers nearly $30,000 to hire chauffeured limousines in the...

(Headline USA) ​​Authorities in Cleveland were working Wednesday to identify two young half-sisters whose bodies were found buried inside suitcases on the city's east side. The bodies were recovered on Monday in the city's Collinwood neighborhood after a tip from a dog walker, according to police. One of the girls...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said on Tuesday that he was “fearful” that the Trump administration would put “boots on the ground” in Iran as the war the US and Israel launched on Saturday continues to escalate. “I just want to say that I am more fearful than...