(Headline USA) From a surprising heatwave in California to blizzards burying parts of the Midwest and storms rolling into the East Coast, chaotic weather on Monday put more than half the nation’s population in the path of extreme cfonditions.
Airport delays and cancellations piled up in some of the nation’s...
(Headline USA) Democratic senators pressed the U.S. government’s top intelligence official at annual worldwide threats hearings Wednesday about the war with Iran, including whether she had advised President Donald Trump that Tehran was likely to block the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial passageway for oil and gas from the...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) President Donald Trump told reporters that he believes he will take Cuba. Washington has cut the island off from fuel imports, causing a blackout.
“I do believe I’ll be…having the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor,” Trump said on Monday. “Whether I free it,...
(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) The US-Israeli war against Iran is already expanding into Lebanon with an Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon, but Reuters is now reporting that the Trump Administration is keen to drag Syria into the conflict as well, encouraging its Islamist government to invade Lebanon and fight...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized the US’s NATO allies, saying they were “making a very foolish mistake” for not entering the US-Israeli war against Iran, as his calls for other countries to send warships to open the Strait of Hormuz have been rejected.
“NATO is making...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former Special Counsel Jack Smith targeted more Republican lawmakers and conservative figures than previously known, newly unearthed documents show.
Smith, tasked by the Biden administration with prosecuting Donald Trump after 2021, has faced scrutiny since 2025, when bombshell disclosures revealed he targeted GOP lawmakers as well as dozens...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A State Department cable reviewed by The Washington Post reveals that senior Israeli officials privately warned American diplomats that Iranian demonstrators will "get slaughtered" if they rise up against their government, even as Israel publicly encourages a popular revolution.
The cable, distributed by the U.S. Embassy...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The United States expressed its anger when Great Britain revealed two years ago that China hacked its voter registration databases. But American intelligence concealed its own secret at the time, having known since 2020 that Beijing also obtained access to American voter registration data, according...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Hours after Joe Kent announced his resignation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest of the Iran war on Tuesday, senior White House correspondents reported that administration officials were telling a very different story about the departing official.
Jacqui Heinrich, the Senior White House...
(Headline USA) A shooting at a U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico on Tuesday left one person dead and another wounded, according to military officials.
The Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, in southern New Mexico, was put on lockdown at about 5:30 p.m. because of reports of an...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israel “would never” use a nuclear weapon when asked about comments from David Sacks, the White House’s AI and crypto czar, who recently suggested that Israel might consider the nuclear option if the war with Iran continues to escalate.
“Israel...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) More than 200 US troops have been wounded in the Middle East since the US and Israel launched the war with Iran on February 28, a US Central Command spokesman said on Monday, as the conflict continues to rage across the region.
CENTCOM spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins...