(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The new U.S. Attorney for DC, Edward Martin, has dropped the remaining outstanding cases against Jan. 6 defendants—including a possible federal provocateur, John Emanuel Banuelos, who fired two shots into the air during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising.
Banuelos was identified immediately after Jan. 6,...
(Matt Lamb, Headline USA) President Donald Trump wants to make federal buildings beautiful again.
Amidst a flurry of executive orders on DEI, gender, and energy, Trump also signed an executive order Monday requiring new federal buildings to be "beautiful."
"Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture" required the General Services Administration to create...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The day after President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Treasury said it would need to employ "extraordinary measures" to avoid hitting the debt limit.
In a letter, outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said extraordinary measures would begin Jan. 21.
Because of that limit, Yellen said she...
(Dan McCaleb, The Center Square) President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order banning the federal government from taking any action to restrict Americans free speech rights.
Although such a prohibition is already enshrined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, that did not stop the Biden administration...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Days after a smooth confirmation hearing, the U.S. Senate on Monday unanimously approved Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for America’s next secretary of State.
All 99 of Rubio's Senate colleagues voted for him. Following precedent, he declined to vote for himself.
Representing Florida since 2010, Rubio has served...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) As the debate rages over Pete Hegseth’s nomination to become President re-elect Donald J. Trump’s secretary of Defense, the former soldier and broadcaster’s critics still claim that he is a closet white nationalist.
Hegseth’s foes get jumpy over a tattoo on his chest. The Jerusalem Cross that...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) First Son Barron Trump, 18, set social media ablaze Monday after he extended handshakes to former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at his father’s inauguration.
Barron Trump, the youngest of the president’s children, made a “power move” by setting aside political hostilities to be...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) President Donald Trump danced around with a U.S. military sword Monday night during the cake-cutting ceremony at the Commander-in-Chief ball.
Trump moved to the beat of his staple song, “Y.M.C.A.” by the Village People, as Vice President JD Vance, who also held a sword, stood next to...
Editor’s Note: As part of our ongoing effort to highlight propaganda and media bias at the Associated Press, Headline USA is providing the unedited version of serial left-wing editorializer Nicholas Riccardi's unhinged rant about Monday's Inauguration Ceremony, which ran as a news article in the AP's Top News section.
The views...
Update: The original headline of this story reported that the DC Central Detention Facility still hadn't released the Jan. 6 protestors pardoned by Donald Trump. Around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the hostages finally emerged from the DC gulag. You can see the ongoing coverage of this here. The rest of...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Jacob Chansley, the Jan. 6 protester who went viral for wearing a horned hat and face paint as he entered the Senate chamber, revealed his first move Monday after President Donald Trump pardoned 1,500 Jan. 6 prisoners—and Democrats won’t like it.
Chansley, known as the “Q’Anon Shaman,”...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Vivek Ramaswamy has fallen out of favor with many Trump supporters in recent weeks over his controversial remarks criticizing American culture and calling for more immigration, and on Monday he confirmed that he’s stepping away from the Trump administration’s semi-public Department of Government Efficiency—Elon Musk’s venture...