(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump could soon be added to Mount Rushmore. That is, if Interior Secretary Doug Burgum accepts a request from Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn.
Ogles urged Burgum to consider adding Trump to the iconic monument, citing the president’s achievements, including the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill, increased military...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday granted a Trump administration request to deport eight noncitizens to South Sudan, a country where they have no ties.
The high court stopped an order allowing the foreign nationals to appeal removals to “third countries” where they say they...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday and said after the call that he didn’t “make any progress” on the issue of the Ukraine war.
“We had a call, it was a pretty long call, and we talked about a lot of things, including Iran....
(Headline USA) Famed Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been arrested for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application and will be deported to Mexico, where he faces organized crime charges, U.S. federal officials said Thursday.
The arrest came only days after the former middleweight champion lost...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's thinking of staging a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards 20,000 spectators to celebrate 250 years of American independence.
“We have a lot of land there,” said Trump, a UFC enthusiast who has attended several of its mixed martial...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Al-Monitor reported on Tuesday that talks between Israel and Syria have included discussions on the possibility of US troops deploying to areas of southwestern Syria that Israel captured following the regime change that ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Immediately after Assad was overthrown in December 2024, Israel...
(José Niño, Headline USA) In the debut episode of Headline Geopolitics, deputy editor José Niño sat down with Dr. Arta Moeini, Managing Director of the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy, to explore the unraveling of the liberal international order and the rise of multipolarity.
They also dug into the fallout...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Against all odds, U.S. House Republicans finally united around the Senate-revised “big, beautiful bill” and passed it in a 218-214 vote Thursday afternoon, sending the multitrillion-dollar budget reconciliation package to the president’s desk.
The bill’s passage marks yet another herculean feat by House Speaker Mike...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI has released another batch of records about the March 2023 Nashville elementary school attack that killed six people, including three children. According to the records, Biden’s Justice Department declined to investigate the matter as a federal hate crime, despite calls from Republicans in Congress...
(Headline USA) Four people have died from gunshot wounds and 14 others have been hospitalized following a drive-by shooting in Chicago, police said Thursday. At least three were in critical condition.
The shooting happened late Wednesday in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. Several media outlets said it happened outside a restaurant and...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A report from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz estimates that the US used 93 interceptors from its THAAD missile defense system to defend Israel from Iranian missiles during the 12-day US-Israeli war against Iran.
At $13 million per interceptor, that means the US launched an estimated $1.25 billion worth...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A newly declassified CIA memo revealed that top officials within the Obama administration deliberately manipulated intelligence to exaggerate Russia’s purported 2016 election interference. This set the stage for the years‑long Trump‑Russia collusion probe.
The review, commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May 2025, reassessed the 2016 Intelligence Community...