UN eyes Red Sea threats, Trump pushes Gaza talks, Russia advances in Ukraine—here's your SOFREP Morning Brief for Wednesday, July 16, 2025.

The president could send the military into other cities, but his most dangerous weapon might be the newly empowered ...

Mayor Karen Bass and local leaders slam federal raids in LA, calling them unconstitutional attacks on the city’s immigrant communities.

The Pentagon said Tuesday it is ending the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles, accounting for nearly half of the soldiers sent to the city to deal with ...

Calling ICE’s action to clear MS-13 gang members out of the park “a political stunt,” Bass demanded the agents leave. She later told the media the sweep was “un-American.” For those who don’t know, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal grand jury indicted a Minnesota man Tuesday on charges that he fatally shot a prominent ...

MacArthur led Grace Community Church in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sun Valley for more than five decades.

People of a certain age might remember the songwriter Jimmy Webb’s weirdly compelling “MacArthur Park,” with its refrain that ...

Mayor Karen Bass complained on camera about the sweeping immigration enforcement raid in the city’s MacArthur Park by ICE ...

But rather than dismiss it as the product of an eccentric crank, I realize now that I should have understood the letter as a ...

An anti-vax crackpot is in charge of the nation’s health care and medical research system. Trump’s Big Bonehead Bill calls ...

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