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(Headline USA) A U.S. Army unit is offering its troops a special bonus if they reenlist soon: four extra days off timed around the November release of the video game Grand Theft Auto VI. Commanders of the 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, believe free time to...

(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) “No serious dispute” is possible against an arrangement of seashells spelling out 86 47 on a North Carolina beach as a potential threat against President Donald Trump, says the U.S. Department of Justice. Former FBI Director James Comey posted a photograph from the Outer Banks...

(Headline USA) Five news reporters and two members of the military who were invited to an event at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California were briefly detained at gunpoint by security officers who thought they were gate crashers, according to local news reports. The incident happened Monday ahead of an...

(Headline USA) An airplane pilot died Wednesday after a violent collision with a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter near a runway at a small airport, but both state troopers aboard the helicopter survived, authorities said. The plane was coming down on the runway and veered into the helicopter that was near...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In a transparent effort to manipulate the bond market, the U.S. Treasury announced it would double the size of its “liquidity support” buybacks. According to the announcement, the Treasury Department will increase buybacks of Treasury securities in the 10-20 and 20-30-year maturity sectors from...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) 154 days. That’s how long it took the Trump administration to add another $1 trillion to the national debt. As of August 18, the national debt stood at $40,047,425,768,420.22. Let’s try to put the debt into some perspective. Over the last 22 weeks, the federal government has...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Michael Caruso, the suspended clerk of courts for Palm Beach County, remained behind bars for another night after authorities charged him with sexually abusing a young relative, according to a CBS News report. Caruso, who previously oversaw the county's clerk's office, appeared in court restrained...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A precinct level analysis of Michigan's Democratic Senate primary has drawn attention to a voting bloc that analysts say now supplies much of the energy behind progressive candidates in the Midwest, namely college graduates earning well below what their credentials once promised. Ryan McComb, a data...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A Texas federal judge has struck down the Biden administration's signature restriction on untraceable firearms, finding the regulation violates two separate constitutional guarantees roughly 17 months after the Supreme Court let it stand on narrower grounds. Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor of Fort Worth ruled...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The American Action Network, a leading outside group tied to House Republican leadership, plans to roll out a $22 million advertising push on Thursday spanning 41 congressional districts, according to an Axios report. The move signals how GOP strategists intend to lean on tax policy...

(Money Metals News Service) The United States is closing in on a milestone that would have been almost unimaginable not long ago: $40 trillion in national debt. That staggering figure framed the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, as host Mike Maharrey examined what he calls the economy’s “debt...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military is considering reducing its military presence in the Persian Gulf, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, as many of its bases in the region have been badly damaged by Iranian attacks. Many of the US bases in the Gulf had been evacuated before the...