(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) – Unless Congress suspends or raises the debt ceiling soon, the U.S. government could default on its $36.2 trillion debt by mid-July, according to the newest debt limit analysis.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, which published the analysis Monday, projects the “X Date” will occur somewhere...
(Headline USA) History buffs dove into thousands of pages of government records released online this week, hoping for new nuggets about President John F. Kennedy's assassination. They instead found revelations about U.S. espionage in the massive document dump that also exposed some previously redacted personal information.
The U.S. National Archives and...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) One of the largest human smuggling operations in U.S. history has been dismantled by federal and local law enforcement officers.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol and Inglewood Police investigators in California launched an investigation that led to the arrests of four Guatemalan human...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) A Los Angeles father who came home to find his house broken into says 911 had him on hold for 58 minutes.
The dispatcher answered within two minutes, then diverted him to a non-emergency hold for nearly an hour.
Evan Lovett, a creator of Los Angeles-focused...
(Headline USA) Top national security officials for President Donald Trump, including his defense secretary, texted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, the magazine reported in a story posted online Monday. The National...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Monday named his one-time defense attorney and current White House counselor Alina Habba to be the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.
Habba, who turns 41 Tuesday, takes over the interim post from John Giordano, whom the president said he's naming to be the U.S....
(José Niño, Headline USA) FBI director Kash Patel has plans to drastically downsize the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
According to a report by CNN, Patel plans to fire as many as 1,000 ATF agents” and transfer them over to the FBI. The ATF has roughly 2,600...
(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) Leftist comedian Bill Maher revealed he will be going to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump.
Maher made the revelation during his podcast Sunday.
While speaking with comedian Andrew Schulz, he said that singer Kid Rock was the one to tell Maher he needed...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) Updated federal data shows California gained 76% fewer jobs in 2024 than initially estimated, gaining only 60,000 jobs, instead of the earlier announced 250,000 jobs.
A 2024 state-funded report found that California private sector employment went into a downturn in 2022, with jobs growth only...
(Headline USA) Virginia lawmaker Jackie Glass said she got a "safety brief" when she joined the Legislature.
"I was told who not to go drink with, who not to be alone with and who to just watch out for," she said on the Statehouse floor in 2024. Addressing the male...
(Headline USA)Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love of Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday.
She was 49.
Love's family posted news of her death on Love's X account.
She had undergone recent treatment for brain cancer and received immunotherapy as part...
(Headline USA) Opening statements are scheduled Monday in the bribery trial of Nadine Menendez, whose prison-bound husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, complained she was being treated unfairly by Manhattan federal prosecutors.
Nadine Menendez, 58, was originally scheduled to go to trial last year along with the 71-year-old New Jersey...