(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) Efforts to try to get Hezbollah to agree to disarm appear to have failed, with Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem announcing Wednesday evening that the group will not agree to give up its weapons, its land, or its right to resist. Lebanon’s government has been in talks with Hezbollah according to recent reports, built…

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(The Center Square) At least 27 people are dead and dozens remain missing after flash floods overwhelmed communities along the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country. The death toll climbed Saturday after three missing campers from Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, were found dead. Search and rescue teams continue to look for more than 20 girls…

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(Headline USA) Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended destination, South Sudan. The immigrants from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South…

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(Zachery Schmidt, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, reintroduced a bill this week that aims to help areas affected by illegal immigration. The First Responders Emergency Assistance Act would establish emergency grants for law enforcement and first responders in areas that receive a high volume of calls related to illegal immigrants. According to Gallego’s…

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(Headline USA) Rescuers scoured a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris Saturday in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors, including 27 girls who have not been seen since their camp was slammed with a wall of water in a historic flash flood. The flooding in Kerr County killed at…

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(Headline USA) President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day. This year has seen a flurry of activity to address it. Part of Trump’s executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits, takes aim at one of the main reasons…

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(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It’s official: foreign-born billionaire Elon Musk has launched the “America Party” after being ousted from the Republican Party—a move reportedly brought on by his drug abuse, erratic behavior and personal attacks against President Donald Trump. Musk said last week that he’d create a new political party if Trump’s “big beautiful” spending…

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(The Center Square) President Donald Trump’s plan to create a sovereign wealth fund that’s the world’s envy remains undefined. In the meantime, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global is among the largest in the world, with more than $1.8 trillion in assets. In February, Trump told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick they…

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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House on Thursday passed a massive piece of legislation, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” by President Trump, that includes extra military spending to bring the 2026 military budget over $1 trillion. The bill passed in a vote of 218-214, with only two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie (KY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA)…

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(The Center Square) President Donald Trump used an Independence Day celebration at the White House to sign his ‘big, beautiful bill.’ Trump and Republican congressional members delivered on the president’s July 4th deadline for the bill. The bill signing was preceded by a spectacular flyover of military planes, including B-2 stealth bombers, as the White…

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