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December 19, 2025

U.S. Launches Operation Hawkeye Strike After ISIS Kills American Troops

The United States military has carried out a major retaliatory offensive against ISIS targets in central Syria, nearly one week after a deadly ambush in Palmyra claimed the lives of two Iowa National Guard soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter. Reuters+1 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on social media that …

December 18, 2025

Georgia Lawmakers Grill Fani Willis Over Trump Prosecution Fallout

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appeared Wednesday before the Georgia State Senate Special Committee on Investigations to answer months of questions surrounding her prosecution of former President Donald Trump and others in the now-dismissed 2020 election interference case. After more than a year of legal wrangling, Willis testified for …

December 18, 2025

Dr. Harvey Risch Named Chairman of the President’s Cancer Panel

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has officially appointed Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., as the new chairman of the President’s Cancer Panel, a high-profile advisory group responsible for monitoring and reporting on the National Cancer Program’s progress to the president. The panel was first established under the …

December 18, 2025

Trump State Department Declares War on ‘Destructive Ideologies’

In a controversial departure from decades-long practice, the U.S. State Department under the Trump administration has announced significant changes to how its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices will define and classify human rights issues. Officials say this represents a fundamental shift in what the United States considers violations …

December 18, 2025

EP251210 The Woke Right’s War on Israel & Zionism w/ Karys Rhea

“Today Brian O’Shea talks with guest Karys Rhea about the huge uptake in anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-Zionist attacks that have increased rapidly since the assassination of Charlie Kirk and earlier since October 7, 2023. Many of these attacks seem to be coming from those who call themselves Conservatives and / …

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