"What's up with the gold?" Obama asked. "He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory, just gold everywhere." read more
U.S. Army soldiers are training to bury fellow troops in temporary graves en masse for the first time in decades ... read more
A prominent Georgia Republican and Newnan businessman has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for a wire fraud charge connected with a massive Ponzi scheme, prosecutors say. read more
The U.S. national debt reached 100% of gross domestic product for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, hitting the triple-digit mark for the first time since 1946. read more
President Donald Trump claimed last week that people living near a Louisiana data center were paid $10,000. But a local TV station has found that no such payment exists. read more
President Donald Trump canceled upcoming rallies in Kansas and Iowa, two states with unexpectedly competitive Senate races, with less than a week to go in the midterm elections ... read more
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's alleged girlfriend, Tracy Duhon, a religious influencer from Louisiana, has largely been kept from public view during his campaign ... read more
Elon Musk is a "real genius", Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday after revealing the two are in "close" contact about satellite technology. read more
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pushed out the Pentagon's top planning officer as President Donald Trump weighs new strikes against Iran, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN. read more
Carbon Captured How the fossil fuel industry influenced climate research read more
According to TRM Labs, which tracks the industry, digital assets worth more than $6.3bn (4.7bn) have been taken from Binance by North Korean hackers. This would be the largest cryptocurrency hack to date -- and one of the biggest in financial history. read more
Questions around the legality of accepting Russian cargoes have made the fuel a tough sell. read more
Fortune Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid as Britain urges families to stockpile food and water ... read more
CNN polling across four key Senate races in the final days of the midterm campaign finds Democrats well-positioned in Michigan and Texas, with no clear leader in the races in Maine or Kansas. read more
Michael Sonnenfeldt: While Mr. Trump has been able to use his grip on domestic policy to undermine E.V.s, his foreign policy choices have done the opposite. read more
"The most striking aspect of discrete time liquids, both quantum and classical, is the idea that a discrete time crystal with a finite density of topological time defects can restore time-translation symmetry on average," write physicists led by Zuo Wang and Marios H. Michael of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Germany. read more
