(Headline USA) The Trump administration granted Syria sweeping exemptions from sanctions Friday in a big first step toward fulfilling the president's pledge to lift a half-century of penalties on a country shattered by 13 years of civil war.
While broad, the administration's actions could possibly be reversed. Syrians say they...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Trump administration released on Thursday a 72-page report exposing the presumed key drivers behind the childhood chronic disease crisis.
Led by the Department of Health and Human Services, the report identified poor diet, accumulation of environmental toxins, lack of physical activity, chronic stress and overmedicalization as...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A Democratic member of Congress once invited the father of accused terrorist Elias Rodriguez to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress in March.
Elias, a violent pro-Palestinian activist, now faces murder charges after allegedly gunning down Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim on Wednesday.
“Free, free Palestine,” he...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) .Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi has said in a letter to the UN that Tehran would hold the US responsible for any Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities.
The letter was a response to recent media reports that said Israel was preparing for a strike on Iran’s...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) Los Angeles’ deputy mayor for public safety has pleaded guilty to calling in a fake, anti-Israel bomb threat to himself in October.
Brian Williams, who was charged by federal prosecutors Thursday, faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
Mayor Karen Bass announced in December that...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump threatened fresh tariffs on the European Union and iPhone maker Apple on Friday, prompting a sell-off on Wall Street.
Trump said trade talks with the European Union, which represents 27 nations, are "going nowhere." The president said he was recommending a 50%...
(Headline USA) The has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed Friday.
Under the “agreement in principle" that...
(Headline USA) Federal investigators on Friday were combing a San Diego neighborhood a day after a private jet carrying a music executive and five others crashed there and are presumed dead.
Miraculously, everyone on the ground escaped safely, officials said, including a family of four who fled with their dogs...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The wife of former Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport Executive Director Bryan Malinowski has sued the ATF for killing her husband in a March 2024 predawn raid.
Maria Malinowski’s 236-page lawsuit names the ATF agents who killed Bryan over what amounted to a paperwork issue. Those...
(Headline USA) Rapper Kid Cudi testified Thursday that Sean “Diddy” Combs broke into his Hollywood Hills home in 2011 after finding out he was dating Combs' ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, and said he was sure Combs was behind the firebombing of his car weeks later.
Speaking at Combs' federal...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Chinese student Liluyue “Arnold” Xu entered the U.S. in December 2019 on a student visa. Since then, he’s apparently become an aspiring bodybuilder, social media influencer, and alleged steroid dealer.
In an indictment filed Wednesday, Xu was charged with one count of illegally possessing firearms as...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Along with being accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump last September, Ryan Routh also faces charges of illegally possessing a firearm as a felon, and for possessing a rifle with an obliterated serial number.
Last month, Routh’s attorneys filed a motion to dismiss those charges on Second...