President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order to strengthen election integrity by ordering citizenship verification for Federal elections and modernizing and securing mail-in and absentee ballot procedures through the United States Postal Service. The Order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Social Security Administration, to compile and transmit to each S
The U.S. Central Command has refuted media claims that U.S. forces targeted a civilian region in the Iranian city of Lamerd on the first day of its military operations against the country. Several media outlets recently reported accusations of U.S. forces striking a sports hall and residential area...
American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson has been kidnapped in Iraq's capital Baghdad, reports say. 49-year-old Kittleson is a contributor to Washington, D.C.-based Al-Monitor, sending reports and analysis from the Middle East. "We are deeply alarmed by the kidnapping of Al-Monitor contributor...
NASA's Space Launch System rocket, carrying a four-member crew aboard Orion spacecraft, is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Wednesday for its historic journey around the Moon. NASA's first crewed mission under the Artemis program, Artemis II will send U.S. astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on an approximately 10-day jou
President Donald Trump will address the nation tonight to give an important update on the Middle East war. "Tomorrow night at 9PM ET, President Trump will give an Address to the Nation to provide an important update on Iran", White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt announced on social media Tuesday night. Earlier in the day, Trump gave an indication that the month-old war is approaching an
Oil prices fell below $100 per barrel following the comments from President Donald Trump Tuesday regarding ending the Middle East war. President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that the U.S. "will be leaving [Iran] very soon" and U.S. military operations targeting Iran could be over within "two weeks, maybe three." "But we're finishing the job. We want to knock out every single th
Chaos at airports across the United States is beginning to ease as TSA officers receive long-overdue pay amid the Department of Homeland Security Shutdown. Now in its 46th day, the DHS Shutdown has led to weeks of strain on Americans across the country. President Donald Trump signed an order declaring a national emergency to pay TSA officers, with their first paychecks in weeks reaching workers o
The U.S. State Department has announcd that it formally resumed operations at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, marking a new chapter in its diplomatic presence in Venezuela. The US embassy in the Venezuelan capital was reopened seven years after its closure over Washington's worsened relationship with the Nicholas Maduro regime. The U.S. Government also posted a new Ambassador to the Latin American c
The United Nations has condemned two consecutive days of deadly attacks on peacekeepers serving with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), amid rising hostilities between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants. Two Indonesian peacekeepers were killed on Monday, and two more were injured, in an...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, has issued an Advisory urging financial institutions to be vigilant about fraud schemes targeting government health care benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. This follows Secretary of the Treasury Scott...