(Headline USA) The House passed one of Republicans' signature issues for the year on Thursday, approving legislation to require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote for federal elections, one of President Donald Trump's top election-related priorities.
Nearly all Democrats lined up against the bill.
Trump has long signaled a desire...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A new Pew survey has found that the majority of American adults — 53% — have an unfavorable view of Israel, a figure that has risen in recent years.
In March 2022, Pew conducted a similar poll that found 42% of US adults viewed Israel unfavorably. The rise...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) On Wednesday, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would begin screening the social media activity of immigrants for “antisemitism” as part of the Trump administration’s broad crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.
The USCIS, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said it would start...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Last month, the U.S. government filed a motion to unseal FBI surveillance records of Martin Luther King Jr.—part of what the Trump administration touted as its commitment to government transparency.
However, earlier this month, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference—the organization founded by MLK Jr.—filed a response in opposition to...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) President Donald Trump made ending the war in Ukraine a top talking point on the campaign trail and has worked to bring Kiev and Moscow to the table over the first two months of his second term. However, the talks have not reduced the fighting...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) On Wednesday, President Trump again threatened the possibility of the US taking military action against Iran and suggested Israel might “lead” the attack.
“If it requires military, we’re going to have military,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked if the US would attack if a...
(Headline USA) U.S. inflation declined last month as the cost of gas, airline fares, and hotel rooms fell, a sign that price growth was cooling even as President Donald Trump ramped up his tariff threats.
Consumer prices rose just 2.4% in March from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Thursday,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the wake of the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI launched a massive manhunt for a mystery accomplice to Timothy McVeigh known as “John Doe 2”—only to later claim that he never existed, and that McVeigh acted largely alone.
Nearly 30 years later,...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has long complained about restrictions that limit water flow for showerheads, making it harder for him to wash his "beautiful hair.''
In his first term, Trump directed that restrictions on showerheads be loosened, an action that former President Joe Biden reversed.
Now Trump is going to let...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Republicans in the House narrowly cleared a procedural hurdle to tee up a final vote on the Senate's amended budget.
The House passed the first version of the budget in February, which extended President Donald Trump's tax cuts for ten years, and then sent it...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) As the U.S. and China escalate their tariff rates in an all-out trade war, two congressional committees held a joint hearing Wednesday on the problem of the Chinese Community Party’s influence on American investment and possible solutions.
The Chinese Communist Party is embedded in Chinese...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On the eve of last November’s Election Day, the Biden-controlled Justice Department announced that it foiled a white supremacist terrorist attack on a Tennessee energy facility—a case that involved the use of at least five undercover informants and agents.
According to the DOJ, Skyler Philippi was planning to...