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Thursday, October 15, 2026

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country. read more


Republican Rep. Andy Harris demanded that police remove a journalist from a press availability he was holding Tuesday night after a campaign forum with a Democratic challenger in Maryland, erroneously citing the state's wiretap law. read more


President Donald Trump told an Arizona crowd Wednesday that President Joe Biden is to blame for inflation, hours after the government reported that consumer prices had climbed again -- with gas prices driving the increase. read more


An analysis of publicly available data from the Justice Department shows repeated claims made by the FBI director are false or misleading. read more


Nearly two years after a Texas father fatally shot his 23-year-old daughter following an argument about Donald Trump, her mother is still trying to get answers, and a new report raises questions about how police handled the case. read more


Inflation has made basic goods hard to afford and attitudes toward inequality have changed, studies from the Pew Research Center showed. read more


Ukraine was blindsided by new limits placed on satellite connectivity inside the country that handicapped its ability to use military drones and defend against Russian attacks. read more


Michael Whatley's campaign has temporarily gone dark in North Carolina. The Republican Senate nominee does not currently have future linear TV ad reservations booked in the race, a highly unusual move less ... read more


The Pentagon is expanding its fight against drug traffickers, even as the plans recall a long and bloody history of U.S. intervention in the region. read more


Wednesday, October 14, 2026

New restrictions on the speed at which some of Ukraine's weapons can travel and stay connected to the Starlink internet network have disrupted Ukraine's battlefield "missions", President Volodymyr Zelensky's adviser has warned. S read more


Greenland's government pushed back against President Donald Trump's claim on Wednesday that "massive oil, gas and mineral exploitation is getting ready to begin" in the Arctic territory. read more


Republicans have lost hope for a last-minute surprise that will substantially change midterm math that's increasingly adding up against them. read more


Donald Trump is a "corrupt, senile felon" whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton, "godfather" of the technology, in a wide-ranging interview where he doubled down on recent warnings that AI models pose an existential threat to humanity and scoffed at claims the industry could regulate itself. read more


All indications are that Republicans are headed for massive defeat in elections that Trump has deliberately made a referendum on himself: "MAGA, pretend that I am on the ballot." So what will he do when Americans show what they really think of him? read more


Despite several Americans facing the government's wrath over damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a report obtained by the Washington Post says basic steps were not followed to ensure success of $14.7 million remodel. "Investigators said some of the damage likely occurred because workers were still applying the coating just a day before the pool was refilled on June 4. The material required 72 hours to cure fully." read more


Democratic Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, whose home was raided by immigration agents this week as part of a federal criminal investigation into her, has become the 17th Democrat to be probed during President Donald Trump's second term. read more


 

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