(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Monday that he would support an Israeli attack on Iran if Tehran “continues” its conventional missile program or if it works to rebuild its civilian nuclear program that was damaged by US airstrikes during the US-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic in June. The president made the comments at…

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(The Center Square) Ten days past the official Congressionally-set deadline to publish all federal files on sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, the U.S. Department of Justice is still releasing the documents piecemeal. Congress last month overwhelmingly passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated that the DOJ declassify by Dec. 19 all information pertaining to Epstein,…

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(José Niño, Headline USA) A Montgomery County, Pennsylvania elementary school principal is staring down the end of his tenure after a voicemail captured what district leaders and Jewish community advocates describe as antisemitic stereotyping, according to reporting from the JTA.  The principal, Philip Leddy of Lower Gwynedd Elementary School, acknowledged to the Wissahickon School District…

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(Chris Wade, The Center Square) The New York City Council is planning to override outgoing Mayor Eric Adams’ objections to a bill that would have granted sexual abuse victims an 18-month window to sue alleged perpetrators. The legislation, approved by the Council in November, carved out an 18-month “lookback” window for victims to file claims against abusers…

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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Two villages in Nigeria that were hit by US missiles as part of the first US strikes in Nigeria launched on Christmas Day were not the intended target, according to a statement from the Nigerian government. On Friday, Nigeria’s Information Minister Mohammed Idris said the strikes, which were launched by a US warship…

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(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown’s late 2018 series on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein contributed the Justice Department reopening its case against Epstein the next year. It looks like the DOJ also subpoenaed Brown’s flight records. Brown said she found her name in the recently released “Epstein files”—the trove of documents released…

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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has launched major military drills encircling the island of Taiwan, a step Beijing has made clear is a response to the US recently approving more than $11 billion in arms sales for Taipei. According to CGTN, Chen Binhua, a Chinese government spokesman, said the drills were aimed…

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(Headline USA)  President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a facility in South America as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the U.S. offered no other details. Trump made the comments in what seemed to be an impromptu radio interview Friday. The president, who called radio host John Catsimatidis during…

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(Headline USA) President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, as Washington looks to create fresh momentum for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza that could be in danger of stalling before a complicated second phase. Trump could use the face-to-face at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to try…

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(Headline USA)  A Utah judge on Monday ordered the release of a transcript from a closed-door hearing in October over whether the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk must be shackled during court proceedings. State District Judge Tony Graf said the transcript must be posted on the court docket by the end of the day.…

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