(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) National teacher unions continue to collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in membership dues, according to new federal filings with the U.S. Department of Labor.
The National Education Association, which reported 2,846,104 members from September 2024 through August 2025, reported approximately $454 million in...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Thursday convened the first meeting of his so-called “Board of Peace,” a body he formed to oversee the Gaza ceasefire, which Israel continues to violate, and appeared to threaten that a US attack on Iran could come within 10 days.
In a speech...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said on Wednesday that he will force a vote on a War Powers Resolution meant to prevent President Trump from attacking Iran without congressional authorization, as required by the Constitution.
The resolution was introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Khanna, and several other...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) I see a lot of people out there in the world of social media claiming that Trump is solving the debt problem. One woman insisted that "Trump is paying down the debt!"
However, despite all the talk about DOGE and spending cuts, despite all...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Tyler Boebert, the 20-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), received a second child abuse charge after his two-year-old son wandered from the congresswoman's Windsor home on Sunday, according to a report by The Daily Beast.
The incident follows a similar occurrence last July involving the...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey opened with a blunt reminder from Thomas Paine that cuts straight to the heart of today’s monetary debate.
“Money is money and paper is paper. All the inventions of man cannot make them...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Self-described comedian Stephen Colbert and Democrat James Talarico claimed the Trump administration blocked their interview on The Late Show. But CBS News clarified that the network, not the president, chose not to air the episode due to FCC equal-time rules.
Colbert had interviewed Talarico earlier this week, as Talarico runs...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Nine federal defendants accused in the July 4 ambush of a North Texas ICE detention facility secured a trial delay after a federal judge declared a mistrial stemming from a defense attorney’s courtroom actions.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman abruptly stopped the trial on Wednesday after defense attorney MarQuetta...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Trump administration is close to launching a major attack on Iran as it continues a massive buildup of military forces in the Middle East, according to a report from Axios reporter Barak Ravid.
Sources told Ravid that the potential US attack on Iran would likely be...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Republican Steven McNeel won the District 18 Georgia Senate post, staving off a Democrat who took the majority of the votes in the initial contest.
Former Fort Valley City Councilman LeMario Nicholas Brown received 40.58% of the vote in Tuesday's runoff, more than the nearly...
(Headline USA) Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, where the Meta CEO answered questions about young people’s use of Instagram, his congressional testimony and internal advice he’s received about being “authentic” and not “robotic.”
Zuckerberg's testimony is part of an unprecedented social media...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Conservative news commentator Tucker Carlson told the Daily Mail on Wednesday that he and his staff were “detained” in Israel after they interviewed America’s ambassador to that country, Mike Huckabee.
“Men who identified themselves as airport security took our passports, hauled our executive producer into a...