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(José Niño, Headline USA) U.S. aerospace and defense shares have lagged the broader market as investors reassess whether President Donald Trump’s proposed $500 billion military spending expansion can survive the November midterm elections. The Financial Times reported that Wall Street is increasingly pricing in a Democratic congressional breakthrough and...

(Headline USA) The FBI is investigating reports of an “incendiary device” being thrown at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in downtown Atlanta on Tuesday night. There were no reports of injuries or significant damage, the FBI said in a statement. “FBI personnel and evidence response technicians are on site collecting...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign appeared to stand by an ad that featured his Democrat opponent Amy Acton's estranged mother to attack her as a "liar." The ad in question features Donna Stearns Arthur accusing her Democrat daughter of lying about her past. The two...

(Headline USA) Across 38 seasons of “The Simpsons,” the Halloween-themed “Treehouse of Horror” episodes have always been a treat of spooky stand-alone storylines. On Sunday, the show surprised viewers with a major resurrection: Apu, the beloved Kwik-E-Mart operator who had not been heard for the better part of a decade,...

(Headline USA) A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on a quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples. Five of the world’s space agencies joined forces for the five-year mission that will attempt to land a robotic prospector plus a rover on Phobos, the larger and closer...

(Headline USA) The parents of one of three children killed in last week's shooting at an elementary school in Oregon have hired attorneys to investigate the school's protocols and how the teenage gunman got his weapon. Rhoam Summer, 5, was one of three children killed along with a teacher in the...

(Headline USA) Police in California are investigating the theft of trading cards worth at least $963,000 that were taken from a FedEx truck parked outside of a company that verifies memorabilia. The truck was broken into on Oct. 13 near Professional Sports Authenticator, also known as PSA, which authenticates trading cards,...

(Mark Stricherz, The Center Square) A former policy director for First Lady Michelle Obama was paid nearly $700,000 in total compensation last year despite revenue to the taxpayer-funded refugee resettlement organization plummeting by nearly $130 million, an investigation by The Center Square found. Krish O’Mara Vignarajah is the CEO of Baltimore-based Global Refuge, a faith-based...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are set Tuesday to unveil a $25 million program to encourage the public to blow the whistle on suspected fraud in the federal government as they ramp up an existing effort to end the abuse of federal programs and dollars. Under...

(Headline USA) Police in Chicago took a man into custody after shots were fired outside a downtown federal building early Tuesday, authorities said. No one was injured and there was only minor damage to federal property, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. Police and federal agents responded to Chicago’s...

(Headline USA) A shooting in a neighborhood near a mosque in Ohio’s capital city left one person dead Monday but was not connected to the house of worship or those who were inside, police said. Federal and local authorities descended on the area as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) A former Fed insider has sold all his bank stocks, and he’s piling money into gold. Christopher Whalen has worked for over three decades as a writer and financial analyst in Washington, along with a stint as a researcher at the New York Fed....