The United States just answered Iranian attacks on civilian ships with force. CENTCOM says U.S. forces struck more than 80 Iranian targets in a precise, coordinated campaign. President Donald Trump, speaking on the NATO sidelines, said the fragile ceasefire with Tehran is effectively “over.” This is the new reality: kinetic punishment paired with economic pain More

The shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE officer in Houston’s East End has set off another round of questions about immigration arrests, use of force, and who gets to decide the truth. The Department of Homeland Security says the man rammed an ICE vehicle and tried to use his car as a weapon, More

The Highland Park Peace Project has quietly turned a grief‑driven nonprofit into a public pressure machine. What started as a community response to a mass shooting has morphed into a searchable “Gun Accountability Scorecard” that labels companies as either “heroes” or “enablers” based on whether they do business with makers of modern semiautomatic firearms. That More

President Trump said he plans to remove Syria from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) list after meeting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on the sidelines of a NATO summit. That is a bold step. It matters. And yes, it will upset plenty of people in Washington who prefer penalties to results. Trump moves to More

The Justice Department just sent a clear, no‑nonsense message to every state: clean up your voter rolls or explain why you won’t. This week the Civil Rights Division — led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon — fired off near‑identical letters to election chiefs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The letters More

The federal takedown in South Los Angeles known as Operation Broken Blade should wake up every lawmaker who thought soft-on-crime policies were harmless talk. Federal prosecutors unsealed a 65-count superseding indictment this week and arrested roughly ten people tied to an alleged Hoover gang sex‑trafficking ring that preyed on adults and children along the Figueroa More