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Leaders at the Pentagon have significantly altered how military officials will speak with Congress after a pair of new memos issued last week. In an Oct. 15 memo, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his deputy, Steve Feinberg, ordered Pentagon officials -- including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- to obtain permission from the department's main legislative affairs office before they have any communication with Capitol Hill.
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More Americans are falling behind on their auto loan payments. Here's why.
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... Americans continue to fall behind on auto loan payments in the face of record-high car prices and high interest rates.
A recent study by VantageScore found that auto loan delinquency rates have increased by more than 50% over the past 15 years. The upward trend continues even as delinquency rates in other loan categories -- including credit card loans, personal loans and home equity loans -- have declined, according to the report.
"Back in 2010, auto loans were the least risky of all products at that point in time," Rikard Bandebo, chief economist at VantageScore, said in a recent video. "Now, as we look at 2025, it's actually " excluding student loans " the riskiest credit product." ...
@#10 ... This evening's debate will be significant, imo. ...
NYC's Final Mayoral Debate: Key Takeaways After Mamdani, Cuomo's Heated Clash"Updates
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... New York City's final mayoral debate kicked off with a bang on Wednesday as Democrat nominee Zohran Mamdani and former New York Governor and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo repeatedly clashed over their respective records and policies.
Cuomo attacked Mamdani's lack of experience, claiming that the candidate had never "accomplished anything," adding "you never had a job." Mamdani accused Cuomo of "creating his own facts" before laying into his record as governor, accusing him of failing to build enough new housing in New York City and branding him a "desperate man lashing out."
The bitter back-and-forth prompted moderator Errol Louis to remind the candidates that "they know how this works," and not to talk over each other. Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, who has refused to bow to a pressure campaign from some Republicans to leave the race to give Cuomo a better chance in the polls, accused his rivals of "fighting like kids in the school yard." ...
Trump's 'most transparent president' claim looks cloudy (2019)
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... President Donald Trump won't release White House visitor logs, he refuses to hand over his tax returns, he made staffers sign non-disclosure agreements and he's balking at congressional investigators.
Yet during a Rose Garden speech on Wednesday, he again proclaimed himself "the most transparent president" in U.S. history, adding to the reporters gathered before him, "I think most of you would agree." ...
@#25 ... The ballroom addition will be separated from the main building and positioned off the White House East Wing. "It won't interfere with the current building ... It'll be near it, but not touching it and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favorite," Trump said. ...
White House's entire East Wing to be demolished 'within days,' officials sa
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... The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished "within days," according to two Trump administration officials.
The demolition is a significant expansion of the ballroom construction project from what President Donald Trump said this summer.
"It won't interfere with the current building," Trump said on July 31. "It'll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of."
The New York Times first reported the extent of the demolition.
A White House official told NBC News the "entirety" of the East Wing would eventually be "modernized and rebuilt" while acknowledging the process is fluid.
"The scope and the size of the ballroom project have always been subject to vary as the process develops," the official told NBC News. ...
imo, Election Day cannot arrive soon enough ...