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(Headline USA) One of two sheriff's deputies wounded in a firefight with a suspect in Washington state has died, and the other is not expected to survive, authorities said Wednesday. Deputies responded to a home in Spangle, a small farming community south of Spokane, on Tuesday afternoon after a woman told...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump has denied that he’s considering firing War Secretary Pete Hegseth after CBS News reported that the president had asked his top aides whether the Pentagon chief should keep his job after the Republican defeat in the midterm elections. The Atlantic also reported before the midterms that...

(Headline USA) Billionaire Leon Black on Wednesday filed a federal defamation lawsuit against California Rep. Robert Garcia for public comments the Democratic congressman made tying him to disgraced financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The court filing comes less than two months after the House approved a resolution holding Black in...

(Money Metals News Service) Gold’s sharp Friday sell-off caught investors’ attention. The metal fell below $4,000 an ounce even as bond yields declined and the U.S. dollar weakened modestly, conditions that would usually support gold. On the latest Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey explains what may have driven...

(The Center Square) Amid a devastating loss for Republicans Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump has remained defiant as he takes stock of his party’s showing. Trump, who stayed at the White House Tuesday, hosted a watch party in the East Room, flanked by members of his cabinet...

(The Center Square) President Donald Trump promised every American adult $5,000 if Republicans held Congress. Democrats won both chambers, according to results reported by The Center Square, and the condition Trump set for the payments, which would cost about $1.2 trillion for a single round, was not met. Trump made the...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) At least 20 Democrats received preservation letters as part of the Trump administration's investigation into the "decoy Dan Sullivan" scheme, an effort allegedly designed to confuse voters seeking to support incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan. Among the recipients of the letters was Marc Elias, a Democratic attorney...

(Headline USA) A frantic 911 call from the man who fatally shot a 16-year-old shooter who killed four people at an Oregon elementary school last month was released Tuesday to The Associated Press through a public records request. In a tense call lasting a little more than a minute, Kaylub...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Control of Congress is at stake in Tuesday's midterm elections, with Democrats seeking to overturn Republican majorities in both the U.S. House and Senate. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are on the ballot Tuesday, along with 35 Senate seats, including two special...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Monday touted the drop in oil prices as markets appear to be responding to reports of renewed diplomacy between the US and Iran through Qatar, though there’s still no sign of a breakthrough, and his post came around the same time the US bombed...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US bombed Iran’s Qeshm Island on Monday, The Wall Street Journal has reported, an attack that came as President Trump was downplaying the prospects of renewed full-scale war with the Islamic Republic ahead of the US midterm elections. Iranian media reported earlier in the day that five...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Americans buying health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces face another substantial price increase in 2027, compounding the strain that has already prompted millions to leave individual coverage.  In an October 30  New York Times report, Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger Katz described households struggling with...