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  • CBS Cancels Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’

    (Headline USA) When he wasn’t pushing vaccines or crying about President Donald Trump, talk show host Stephan Colbert told the occasional joke—like when he cracked up his audience by claiming that CNN is “objective” news. That dismal era of late-night “comedy” is soon coming to an end. Colbert told his audience Thursday that CBS is…

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  • Trump Orders Unsealing of Epstein Files, Threatens Lawsuit after WSJ Hit Piece

    (Headline USA) President Donald Trump promised a lawsuit after The Wall Street Journal described a sexually suggestive letter that the newspaper says bore Trump’s name and was included in a 2003 album for Epstein’s 50th birthday. Trump denied writing the letter, calling it “false, malicious, and defamatory.” Trump also directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to…

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  • CBS Reporter Says He Has PTSD from Butler Rally—Not from the Shooting, but from Crowd’s Reaction

    (Ken Silva, Headline USA) CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane recently went on Meet the Press host Chuck Todd’s podcast to discuss his experience at the July 13, 2024, Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a gunman nearly took President Donald Trump’s life. MacFarlane told Todd that he has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the assassination…

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  • Israeli Tank Strikes Gaza’s Only Catholic Church, Killing Three and Injuring a Priest

    (Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) An Israeli military tank on Thursday struck the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, killing three people and wounding at least nine others. Two of the dead have been identified as Saad Salameh, the parish’s 60-year-old janitor, and Fumayya Ayyad, an 84-year-old woman who was receiving psychosocial support from the Catholic charity…

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  • Trump Administration Officially Defunds CA’s High Speed Rail

    (Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square)  The Trump administration officially terminated its funding of California’s 171-mile high speed rail segment in the state’s more sparsely populated Central Valley, citing an inability to complete the project by the 2033 deadline. The administration also noted there’s no plan for closing a $7 billion funding gap on the $36.3 billion segment.…

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  • Illegal Border Crossings Drop to Lowest Level on Record in June, Just Over 25,000

    (Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Illegal border crossings dropped to their lowest level in recorded U.S. history in June. Nationwide, 25,228 illegal border crossers were apprehended, the lowest monthly total in history, according to newly published U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. The greatest number apprehended were nationwide at land, sea and air ports of…

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  • 20 States Sue Trump Administration Over FEMA Cuts

    (Zachery Schmidt, The Center Square)  California, Arizona and Colorado, along with 17 other states, sued the Trump administration this week over its decision to close the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program. This program helps local communities nationwide protect themselves from natural disasters before they occur. In April, FEMA announced it was ending this program as part…

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  • Justice Department Accuses Man of Threatening Greene

    (Kim Jarrett, The Center Square)  A former employee with Voice of America is accused of threatening to harm U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., her staff and her family, the Department of Justice said Thursday. Seth Jason, of Edgewater, Md., is charged with influencing a federal official by threatening a family member, influencing a federal…

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  • Ex-FBI Agent Floats Rumor that Director Patel is a Closeted Homosexual Who Parties All Night

    (Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel is reportedly living with GOP donor Michael Muldoon in the billionaire’s Las Vegas home—an arrangement that’s raising some eyebrows within the bureau, according to former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin. Patel’s residence was reported in February by The Nevada Independent, which said at the time that he cast mail…

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  • BREAKING: President Trump Diagnosed w/ ‘Chronic Venous Insufficiency’

    (Headline USA) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday read a doctor’s letter about President Donald Trump that she said was intended to dispel health concerns about the swelling in his ankles and a makeup-covered hand. Leavitt said Trump noticed “mild swelling” in his lower legs and was evaluated by the White House medical…

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