(Dan McCaleb, The Center Square) President Donald Trump on Sunday declared a major disaster in Texas as at least 67 people have died and dozens remain missing after torrential rainfall caused historic flooding along the Guadalupe River in the state's Hill Country.
“These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) An American security contractor who previously worked at aid distribution sites inside Gaza run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has told the BBC that he witnessed his co-workers fire live ammunition at unarmed, hungry Palestinians who posed no threat.
In one incident, the contractor...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Africa Command said in a press release on Thursday that its forces launched multiple airstrikes in southern Somalia between June 27 and June 30, a time when Somali media reported major battles between a US-backed force and al-Shabaab.
It’s unclear how many strikes AFRICOM launched during the...
(Headline USA) Sean “Diddy” Combs got a standing ovation from fellow inmates when the music mogul returned to jail after winning acquittals on potential life-in-prison charges, providing what his lawyer says might have been the best thing he could do for Black incarcerated men in America.
“They all said: ‘We never...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump's plan to create a sovereign wealth fund that's the world's envy remains undefined.
In the meantime, Norway's Government Pension Fund Global is among the largest in the world, with more than $1.8 trillion in assets.
In February, Trump told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It’s official: foreign-born billionaire Elon Musk has launched the “America Party” after being ousted from the Republican Party—a move reportedly brought on by his drug abuse, erratic behavior and personal attacks against President Donald Trump.
Musk said last week that he’d create a new political party...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day. This year has seen a flurry of activity to address it.
Part of Trump's executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits, takes aim at...
(Headline USA) Rescuers scoured a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris Saturday in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors, including 27 girls who have not been seen since their camp was slammed with a wall of water in a historic flash flood.
The flooding...
(Zachery Schmidt, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, reintroduced a bill this week that aims to help areas affected by illegal immigration.
The First Responders Emergency Assistance Act would establish emergency grants for law enforcement and first responders in areas that receive a high volume of calls related to...
(Headline USA) Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration's intended destination, South Sudan.
The immigrants from Cuba, Laos,...
(Dan McCaleb, The Center Square) At least 27 people are dead and dozens remain missing after flash floods overwhelmed communities along the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country.
The death toll climbed Saturday after three missing campers from Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, were found dead. Search and rescue teams continue...
(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) Efforts to try to get Hezbollah to agree to disarm appear to have failed, with Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem announcing Wednesday evening that the group will not agree to give up its weapons, its land, or its right to resist.
Lebanon’s government has been in talks with Hezbollah...