Category: US

Lebanon’s President Flies to Trump’s White House With a Hezbollah Disarmament Plan in Hand Lebanese President Joseph Aoun departed for Washington on Saturday to meet President Trump at the White House, the first visit by a sitting Lebanese head of state in nearly 20 years and his first face-to-face meeting with Trump [4]. Aoun, a…

ICE Agent’s “Troubled Past” Raises New Questions After Deadly Maine Shooting ICE officer David Brouillette, who fatally shot Colombian national Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero during a traffic stop in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, is facing renewed scrutiny after relatives told the Associated Press he had a documented history of violent behavior and mental illness, including…

Trump Threatens to Tariff Canada Over Wildfire Smoke as Air Quality Chokes the Midwest President Trump threatened Friday to add the cost of wildfire smoke pollution onto existing tariffs on Canada, writing on Truth Social that Canada’s “Willful Negligence” in forest management has become “a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars” [1,…

Deputy Used Police Spy Cameras to Track People He Knew — Now He’s in Jail DeKalb County Sheriff’s Sergeant Kabiru Salawu, who had worked for the agency since 2009, was fired and arrested Saturday on a felony charge of violating his oath of office and a misdemeanor charge of misusing license plate data, after an…

Two Dead, One Missing: Trump Vows to “Punish” Iran as Congress’s War Powers Vote Gets Ignored U.S. Central Command announced Saturday that two American service members were killed and a third remains missing in action after Iran launched ballistic missiles and drones at a base in Jordan, marking the first U.S. combat deaths from Iranian…

Epstein Survivors Call Todd Blanche ‘Condescending’ After DOJ Meeting Forced by GOP Senator Jeffrey Epstein survivors met with acting Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche at the Justice Department on Thursday, July 16, 2026, a sit-down demanded by Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who had refused to commit to a favorable Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Blanche’s…

Trump’s Election Warning Draws Fire From Democrats — and Doubts From His Own Base President Trump delivered a primetime address on July 16, 2026, citing newly declassified documents that he said showed the American election system is “so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it.” He alleged China had illegally obtained…

House GOP Unveils Stopgap Funding Bill — and Immediately Splits Its Own Party House Republican leaders released the text of a “clean” continuing resolution on Friday, July 17, 2026, that would fund federal agencies at current levels through Dec. 4, 2026, and avert a government shutdown when funding lapses later this year. Speaker Mike Johnson…

US Strikes Expand to Iran’s Bridges and Railways as War Drags Into Sixth Night The United States carried out a sixth consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran on July 17, 2026, expanding its target list beyond military sites to include six highway and railway bridges in Hormozgan province, a railway junction station in Bandar Abbas,…

ICE Agent Who Killed Colombian Father Had History of Violence, Ex-Wives Say Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian national, was fatally shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer David Michael Brouillette during a traffic stop in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13, 2026. Brouillette, 37, joined ICE in late 2025 after previous work as…