(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Californians who defraud the taxpayer-funded welfare system could soon catch a break—so long as they don’t steal more than $25,000.
Legislation SB560—introduced by California Democratic state Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas on Friday—would effectively decriminalize welfare fraud up to $25,000, protect potential offenders from perjury charges and block prosecutors...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) On Tuesday, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions on companies and individuals based in Iran and China over their alleged role in procuring missile “propellant ingredients” for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“Iran’s aggressive development of missiles and other weapons capabilities imperils the safety of the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to demand full control of four Ukrainian oblasts claimed by Russia as a condition for a potential peace deal, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
The report said that President Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, sought to convince Putin to drop the demand and agree...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) After Ryan Routh was arrested last September for allegedly trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course, media outlets quickly discovered that Routh had been charged in 2002 with possessing a “weapon of mass destruction.”
According to local reporting from the time, Routh was...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) House Republicans unveiled a bill this week that would bring the 2025 US military budget to over $1 trillion.
The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) totaled about $885 billion, and the new supplemental bill drafted by the House and Senate’s armed services committees would add $150...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Over the first 100 days in his second term of office, President Donald Trump has signed five pieces of legislation into law, fulfilling some of his deregulation and immigration promises while preventing a government shutdown.
“The four words that best describe this administration so far...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Less than five months since taking office, President Donald Trump may have set his sights on a new role: pope, at least according to his recent jest.
During an exchange with a reporter on Tuesday, Trump was asked whether he had any favorites to replace Pope Francis...
(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a Milwaukee judge facing two federal charges for allegedly trying to help a man illegally in the country escape from immigration officials.
The order, released late Tuesday, said Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan faces two federal charges – one a...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has dismissed many of former President Joe Biden’s nominees to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, including Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Emhoff, who is Jewish and who led the Biden administration’s efforts to combat antisemitism, criticized Trump's action, saying, “Let...
(Headline USA) An official with the Islamic State group has been detained in Iraq, suspected of being involved with inciting the pickup truck-ramming attack in New Orleans that killed more than a dozen people celebrating the start of 2025, Iraqi authorities said.
Iraqi authorities had received requests from the U.S. to...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The purported champions of the "little guy," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, were caught living large aboard a $15,000-per-hour private jet en route to a “Fighting Oligarchy” rally.
Footage captured by Fox News shows the far-left New York congresswoman and her longtime democratic socialist ally stepping...
Amazon’s first batch of internet satellites rocketed into orbit Monday, the latest entry in the mega constellation market currently dominated by SpaceX's thousands of Starlinks.
The United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket carried up 27 of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites, named after the frigid fringes of our solar system beyond Neptune. Once released in orbit, the...