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(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...

(Headline USA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for another wave of strikes on Iran after Tuesday's midterm elections in the United States, according to two regional officials and a third person familiar with the matter. A return to full-scale war with Iran could help Netanyahu to form an...

(Headline USA) A 20-year-old woman with a pilot's license was among nine people killed when a small jet crashed and exploded in South Florida, her family said. Camila Corteleti told the New York Post and New York Times that her daughter, Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, was the copilot flying a Learjet...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) The former leader of the FBI’s Chicago field office has filed a lawsuit claiming he was forced to resign because “false and defamatory statements” by U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros created political pressure. Douglas DePodesta filed the suit Monday in...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Spending on the two U.S. intelligence budgets hit a record $109 billion in fiscal 2026 but still landed $6.5 billion below what the Trump administration requested, the largest shortfall in 14 years of figures published by ODNI. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Tucker Carlson claimed in a post on X on Sunday night that the Trump administration is considering launching a nuclear strike targeting Pickaxe Mountain in central Iran and that the president is expected to make a decision by November 7. “Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The American Community Survey estimated the nation’s immigrant population at 50.4 million in 2025, only slightly above the previous year’s 50.2 million. Steven Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, highlighted the figures in a new analysis describing a substantial slowdown after an...

(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...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold is acting weird. It sold off steeply Friday, despite falling bond yields and a modestly weaker dollar. Paradoxically, the mainstream continues to blame weakness in the gold market on inflation worries. So, investors are dumping their inflation hedge. As I said, gold is acting weird. Or maybe...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Drug Enforcement Administration special agent David Howell has given his first televised interviews since he went public as a whistleblower to expose the DEA’s policy of allowing hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and May 2025. Howell’s...