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(Headline USA) A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to the Houthi rebels, including by buying materials for homemade explosives and drones and traveling to Yemen, the Justice Department said Thursday. Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, of Richland, Washington, was arrested Thursday and is...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A Texas-based government watchdog group has filed a complaint against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his administration's use of taxpayer money on social media influencers in an effort to sway public support for his lefty agenda. In a letter to the New York...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said an Iranian proposal that would have led to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz was “not good enough,” adding that renewed US bombing of Iran after the midterm elections was “possible.” In an interview with Time released on Thursday, Trump was asked...

(John Weeks, Antiwar.com) US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced plans to create a new four-star combatant command to leverage AI in warfare.  During a “State of the Force” address at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Hegseth said the Autonomous Warfare Command (AUTOWARCOM) would be tasked with scaling...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) With Americans questioning the hundreds of thousands of AI-enhanced surveillance cameras across the country, one Republican lawmaker is introducing legislation to curb the worst abuses of the technology. The Stop Flock Abuse Act, which Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., announced he will release, targets the policies...

(Headline USA) The FBI has released a classified report to its workforce examining what it says are chapters from the bureau's history “where this institution fell short,” according to an internal message obtained Friday by The Associated Press. It was unclear what episodes from the FBI's past are chronicled in...

(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have charged a store clerk and his son with selling kratom that authorities believe is linked to the death of a University of Mississippi student, prosecutors announced Friday. The U.S. attorney's office in Mississippi said authorities established a link between the kratom derivative found at the...

(Headline USA) A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration. Republican David Rivera has been jailed since jurors found...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) You can file this under the category of "things I never thought I'd need to write." Ladies and gentlemen, don’t give gold to a stranger in a Walmart parking lot, even if they say, “black bug!” Yes, this happened. In real life. It started last April when...

(Headline USA) Christa Pike was scheduled to be executed. But after two injections, she kept breathing. She made snoring sounds, she talked, she said her arm was hurting. Pike, sentenced to die for torturing and killing 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, said as her scheduled lethal injection began that she was...

(Headline USA) The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued there wasn't enough evidence to prove she was responsible for killing her three children. During Clancy's first trial, which ended Sept. 4 with a deadlocked...

(Headline USA) U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday, a month before voters go to the polls in pivotal midterm elections at a time of discontent over the high cost of living and the state of the economy. Hiring...