Congress Passes 45-Day Extension of Warrantless Spy Powers

Earlier this week, Israel announced that they’d begun their ground invasion of southern Lebanon. Early fighting was reported around the city of Khiam. That just continues to worsen, according to reports, and is starting to spread to other areas of the border region. In addition to Khiam, locals in the border village of Ayta al-Shaab […]

Trump: Iran Has Freed Detained American Woman In 'Goodwill' Gesture, After Days Of Bombing Summary Detained American woman freed by Iran; Trump: "appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran!" Pentagon announces second wave of strikes later Wednesday, the after initial 90-minute attack to start the day. Trump threatens wider strikes unless Iran returns to talks - says attacks to 'expand' next week. Wednesday saw 5th strait day of US bombardment on chiefly Iranian coastal sites. Iran hits US-Gulf bases and warns on regional oil exports, says it is in 'control' of Hormuz Strait. No evidence de-escalation: Tehran rejects talks...

Americans Are Getting Behind On Their Debts At A Very Frightening Pace Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, U.S. households are now 18.79 trillion dollars in debt. In 1980, U.S. households were just 1.4 trillion dollars in debt. Over the past several decades we have witnessed a household debt binge that is unlike anything that we have ever witnessed in our entire history. But if consumers could handle that debt load, there wouldn’t be such a high level of concern. Unfortunately, just like we witnessed prior to the...