(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have slapped Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez, founder and president of Smartmatic, with bribery and money laundering related to the 2016 presidential election in the Philippines. Two other executives, Jorge Miguel Vasquez and Juan Andres Donato Bautista, also face charges in connection with what prosecutors claimed…
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A “hero” middle school teacher stormed out of his home, half-naked and armed, to save a 15-year-old girl from a brutal assault and attempted rape. The teacher, David Garza, quickly intervened when he heard the girl screaming for help on July 28, shortly after she exited a…
(Christian Wade, The Center Square) Lawmakers in a suburban New York county have approved a bill banning masks in public places in response to anti-Israel demonstrations over the war in Gaza. Backers said the measure, approved Monday by the Republican-controlled Nassau County Legislature, would prevent violent protesters from shielding their…
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A mother of an American soldier who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on June 29, 2006, when he was just 19 years old, called Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz a coward because he was expected to lead her son’s team into…
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Foreign actors have been flooding TikTok, the app owned by Chinese communists, with “false” and “incendiary” videos targeting Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The Wall Street Journal published its new report, in which the news source identified 91 accounts on TikTok with overseas…
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A Muslim coalition in Iraq has pushed proposals to lower the legal age of marriage for girls to just nine years old, which resulted in a massive backlash from activists and rights groups who dared to oppose pedophiles. The Daily Mail reported that protesters demonstrated in…
(Headline USA) Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday, likely intending to help Vice President Kamala Harris. Iranian actors also have spent recent months creating fake news sites and…
(Headline USA) Federal investigators say they found the DNA of a retired Green Beret on some of the 60 automatic weapons he allegedly smuggled from Florida to South America as part of a failed 2020 coup attempt against Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro. The allegations were detailed in court papers…
(Headline USA) One of the last remaining U.S. House RINOs who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump and a candidate endorsed by the former president have advanced in Tuesday’s primary to the general election in Washington state’s 4th Congressional District. Rep. Dan Newhouse is seeking a sixth term in…
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold ETFs charted their strongest month since April 2022 in July. Globally, ETFs added 48.5 tons of gold to their holdings last month, with funds in every region reporting increases. A combination of gold inflows and a 4 percent increase in the price of…