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White House Appoints Interim CDC Director; Standoff Continues with Former Director
(The Center Square) The White House has appointed Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill as interim director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Washington Post has reported. The attorneys for its just-terminated director maintain she has not been fired and will not resign. At a press briefing Thursday,…
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Saudis Can’t Dodge Lawsuit over Their Role in 9/11
(Headline USA) A federal judge in New York on Thursday rejected Saudi Arabia’s latest effort to dismiss civil claims that it supported the 9/11 hijackers. Judge George B. Daniels said in a written opinion that his decision pertained to jurisdiction rather than the merits of the claims against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. However, he found…
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Slain J6er Ashli Babbitt to Receive Military Funeral Honors
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protestor who was killed at 35 by an officer during the event. Babbitt, a 14-year Air Force veteran, was shot and killed by then-Lt. Michael Byrd while crawling through a window in the Capitol…
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US-Funded Hunger Monitor Concurs With UN-Backed IPC That Famine Is Occurring in Gaza
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A US government-funded hunger monitor has concurred with the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) that famine is taking place in the Gaza Strip. The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net), which has historically been funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), issued a report on August 22, the…
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Report: ‘Dark Money’ Group Funding Pro-Democrat Influencers
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Those social media influencers pushing Democratic talking points? They may have been paid off by a shady group funded by dark money. A secretive group called Chorus has paid influencers as much as $8,000 each in exchange for pro-Democrat videos, according to bombshell WIRED reporting. WIRED reported Wednesday that the operation,…
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FBI Director’s Girlfriend Sues Ex-Agent over Unsubstantiated Claim That She’s a ‘Mossad Agent’
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel’s girlfriend, country music singer and conservative commentator Alexis Wilkins, has filed a lawsuit against former bureau agent Kyle Seraphin over his unsubstantiated claim that she’s an agent for the Mossad—Israel’s national intelligence agency. Seraphin made the claim on last Friday’s episode of his online show. The clip…
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Senior Israeli Official Accused of Child Sex Offense Skips U.S. Hearing
(José Niño, Headline USA) A senior Israeli official facing allegations of child sex crimes in the United States did not attend a scheduled court hearing, after returning to Israel several weeks earlier, raising fears that he may be attempting to evade prosecution. According to a report by Al-Jazeera, Tom Artiom Alexandrovich’s attorney, David Chesnoff, told…
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Embattled Fed Governor Sues Trump Over “Illegal” Firing
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) A Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging her firing was “unprecedented and illegal.” Trump fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, appointed by President Joe Biden, on Monday after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte alleged she committed mortgage fraud. Pulte said Cook owns…
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Trump HHS Tells States to Remove Gender Ideology From Sex Ed or Lose PREP Funding
(Tate Miller, The Center Square) The Trump administration directed 46 states and territories to remove gender ideology from their sex ed materials or else face possible termination of federal Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) funding, with a family advocate praising the move. Policy director for family advocacy group American Principles Project Paul Dupont told The…
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Trump Administration Asks Military Base Near Chicago for Support on Immigration
(Headline USA) The Trump administration asked a military base outside of Chicago for support on immigration operations this week, offering a clue of what an expanded law enforcement crackdown might look like in the nation’s third-largest city. The Department of Homeland Security asked Naval Station Great Lakes for “limited support in the form of facilities,…
