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(Headline USA) China on Thursday announced rare sanctions against two U.S. defense companies over what it said is their support for arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy Beijing claims as its own territory to be recovered by force if necessary. The announcement freezes the assets of General Atomics...

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Montana's GOP senatorial candidate, Tim Sheehy, called out a Washington Post journalist who attempted to badger his friends and family into participating in a smear attack, the Daily Caller reported. Sheehy made public a voicemail transcript showing Post writer Beth Reinhard's repeated efforts to dig up dirt,...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Biden administration has finalized a regulation that could effectively ban the private sale of firearms. The rule from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives could effectively ban private gun sales by expanding the definition of who would be classified as a “dealer” under...

(Headline USA) Days after formally outlining his moderate stance on abortion, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said an Arizona Supreme Court ruling that scrapped the state's GOP-passed 2022 law banning abortions after 15 weeks in favor of an 1864 law that imposed a near-total ban was too extreme. Trump...

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents. For years, Australia has called on the U.S. to drop its prosecution against Assange, an Australian citizen who has fought U.S....

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson didn't mince words when she testified Thursday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on press freedom, telling members that they’re failing to hold U.S. intelligence agencies accountable. Attkisson was speaking in response to questions from Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-NY, about the committee’s proposed...

(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) Seattle Public Schools continues getting rid of its gifted and talented program in favor of what administrators say is a more inclusive, equitable and culturally sensitive program. Translation: The leftist city, suffering from what former President George W. Bush called the "soft bigotry of low...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Thursday on protecting investigative journalists from coercion, where former CBS reporter Catherine Herridge testified about a U.S. judge holding her in contempt and fining her $800 per day for protecting a confidential source. Much of the hearing was collegial...

(Headline USA) Humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions---and it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such a massive shift, declared the head of the United Nations climate agency on...

(Headline USA) Ever since Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ate mushrooms that can have psychedelic effects in Beijing last July, Chinese social-media users have been preoccupied with what she will eat next. With Yellen was back in China this week, having stopped in Guangzhou and Beijing, many people were less interested...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The National Guard, FBI and other agencies conducted an exercise involving a “frantic search for a nuclear dirty bomb” at a basketball and hockey arena in Trenton, New Jersey last month. As noted by The Intercept, the national security state has been conducting such exercises regularly...

(Headline USA) The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said on Tuesday that he was “very, very concerned” about China’s aggression toward Philippine forces near disputed islands in the South China Sea. The Chinese coast guard has repeatedly clashed with Philippine patrol vessels near the Philippines-occupied Second Thomas Shoal. Last month,...