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(Headline USA) A Kentucky woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that she intentionally damaged The World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Melissa Farris is scheduled to be arraigned next week on two felony counts. Grand jurors indicted her Thursday on charges...

(Headline USA) A U.S. military judge on Wednesday set a summer 2028 trail date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The trial is scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, 18 months later than the January 2027 start that prosecutors had...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It’s a bull market in gold vaults. The surging gold price has sparked a significant uptick in demand for physical bars and coins. And with so many investors stacking gold, they need someplace to store all that metal. Sharps Pixley told The Financial Times that its vaults...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A fresh analysis of federal visa records suggests that H-1B sponsorship has evolved into something resembling a self-sustaining side hustle, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies.  The scheme works as follows: An H-1B holder forms a company, sponsors their own visa through...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) From very early on, it was apparent that performer Jason “Jelly Roll” DeFord was one of many Trojan horses being propped up by Music Row’s astroturfing studio executives. The 41-year-old ex-felon, who topped the scales at around 550 pounds, has a too-good-to-be-true back story, particularly when every...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Several leftist nonprofit organizations could lose their tax-exempt status under a new policy currently being developed within the Trump administration, several news outlets reported Thursday. Specifically, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the IRS could strip the tax-exempt status of entities such as George Soros’s Open Society Foundations,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is facing deportation, ICE announced Friday. "Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York," ICE said on Twitter/X. "He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Minnesota police on Tuesday allegedly raided the apartment where the son of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., resides while investigating his roommate in a weapons probe. Officers with the Minneapolis Police Department raided the home of Adnan Hirsi while investigating his roommate, Abdulrahman Tulle Abdi. Guns and ammunition...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) US and Taiwanese officials are alarmed at the status of the US military and its ability to fight a future conflict with China.  According to three sources speaking with The Washington Post, officials at Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACCOM) have expressed frustration with the dwindling military resources available to...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) Update: US officials told multiple outlets that President Donald Trump dispatched CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Russia to warn Moscow not to attack any NATO countries. Earlier this week, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that “unknown actors” could attack UK facilities producing weapons...

(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) Staffers have begun returning to US diplomatic facilities across the Middle East. US embassies in the region have been at a minimal operational level for several months due to the ongoing war against Iran.  On Tuesday, the New York Times reported obtaining an internal State Department memo...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) California Attorney General Rob Bonta co-led a lawsuit Wednesday to block a new federal rule governing mail-in ballots. But a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who's now working at a think tank says the suit is unnecessary. Prompted by President Donald Trump’s Executive Order...