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The Army Reserve has asked its commanders whether military police, medics and other support units could be made available as soon as late December to back potential military action aimed at Cuba, according to a new report. An internal Army message reviewed by CBS News sought feedback by Friday about the status of those forces, which would be “possibly needed in 90-120 days.” The missive does not mention Cuba, but the outlet cited multiple US officials who claimed anonymously that the Communist island is the focus of military planning. The message also does not say how many troops would be...

U.S. Treasury yields rose on Friday as recent selling pressure intensified following hawkish Federal Reserve commentary and stronger-than-expected economic data. The benchmark 10-year Treasury note was up more than 4 basis points to 5.209% after reaching its highest rate since June 2007 on Thursday. The 30-year Treasury bond was higher by more than 5 basis points at 5.516% after surging to levels not seen since 2004. The 2-year note yield was up less than 1 basis point at 4.897%. One basis point is equal to 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite directions. Investors also weighed a global bond...

W.H.Grampa@WHGrampa0🚨 THEY BURIED THIS VIDEO ONCE. DON’T LET THEM DO IT AGAIN. 🚨Jack Dorsey’s Twitter yanked it.That’s why it’s back.The compilation hits the Hillary years under Obama:Private server.Deleted emails.Classified traffic on a home-brew system.Clinton Foundation cash.The Comey “no intent” dodge.They called it a nothingburger.Then they banned the recap.If it was nothing, they wouldn’t have needed the mute button.Watch it.Save it.Share it.The cover-up was the tell.W.H.GSeptember 24, 2026TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~Hillary Clinton (CNN interview): Nothing, and I will underscore, nothing, that I was sent um...or that I sent was marked classified.Trey Gowdy (at hearing): Secretary Clinton said, 'I did not email any classified...

McDonald’s is spending billions of dollars to boost its franchises, an effort to cement its title as the leader in fast food amid growing competition. The chain announced Wednesday that it will invest $8.5 billion by 2036 on a series of initiatives, including remodeling restaurants, retraining its 2 million employees and adding new menu items to target high-protein eaters. About $5 billion will be spent in the next three and a half years alone, a combination of capital support as well as rent relief for franchises. It’s all part of a multiyear strategy to win back diners and capture more...

Want to know how the lights stay on at the low-major ranks of college basketball? Mississippi Valley State's 2026-27 nonconference schedule tells the tale. The Delta Devils -- fresh off a miserable 3-30 season -- will not play a home game until Jan. 9. Instead, they have 16 consecutive road games to kick-start the 2026-27 schedule with buy games galore. Mississippi Valley State will earn upward of $100,000 apiece to get smoked by the likes of Oklahoma, Washington, Oregon, Arkansas, Michigan, UConn, Ohio State, Texas Tech and Baylor. Yep, you read that right. The stacked schedule includes matchups against the...

A Chicago man who shot a Lyft driver during a carjacking attempt just days after completing a juvenile detention sentence for another carjacking has been sentenced to 15 years, court records show. Deandre Milons was arrested three weeks later after police caught him allegedly carjacking another driver. He received a 10-year sentence in that case. Milons was a Lyft passenger when he pulled out a gun and ordered the driver out of the car in the 7500 block of South Dorchester Avenue in Grand Crossing on July 10, 2024, prosecutors said. He allegedly racked the slide of the gun and...

Fox News senior strategic analyst Jack Keane joins Brian Kilmeade to discuss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's powerful United Nations address, Hamas' brutal tactics and his own recent 11-day visit to Israel. Netanyahu's powerful address to the United Nations sparks strong support as Fox News senior strategic analyst General Jack Keane joins Brian Kilmeade to analyze the conflict. Highlighting Israel's efforts to protect civilians, Keane rejects genocide allegations and details his recent 11-day visit to the region, including Gaza's extensive tunnel network. The retired general condemns Hamas for using human shields during the war.

California runs the nation’s largest welfare system, devoting more than $180 billion annually to food, health care, and other programs for the poor and downtrodden. To sustain the arrangement, the state imposes the nation’s highest tax rates. In theory, these programs are supposed to help struggling Californians. In reality, many serve large numbers of illegal immigrants. Today, California oversees a shadow welfare system that allows noncitizens to receive health care, rental assistance, college grants, tax credits, low-cost car insurance, and even smartphones on the taxpayers’ dime. We visited four public-services offices in Southern California, each of which admitted that illegal...

What happens when two massive hurricanes collide? It looks like we are about to find out. Hurricane Polo and Hurricane Odalys are heading directly toward one another. Meteorologists have some theories about what will happen as they slam into one another, but nobody really knows. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Nolo is poised to become Hurricane Nolo. We are being told that it could drop several feet of rain on some parts of Hawaii. Of course the east coast is not being left out of the chaos either. An absolutely huge nor’easter is already causing severe flooding on the east coast. We...

A new international coalition of 14 countries, the “Shield of the Americas,” has been formed to target cartels and transnational crime in the Western Hemisphere. There is “an immediate and universally shared threat in our hemisphere,” posed by “transnational narco-terrorist organizations, which endanger the peace and security of our hemisphere along with the safety, security, and prosperity of our citizens,” they said. The governments of the United States, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago have all signed a Memorandum of Understanding to target transnational crime, the...

Ever-higher costs to service mounting debt loads pose a major risk to governments around the world, economists have warned. Global debt rose by $10 trillion in the first half of the year to top $365 trillion, according to research published by the Institute of International Finance on Wednesday. State debts are rising as yields on medium- and long-term government bonds issued by a slew of the world’s biggest economies hit their highest levels in more than a decade — including in the U.S., Japan, France and the U.K. Rising yields reflect growing investor discomfort at rising interest rates, persistent energy...

FBI agents who probed Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home asked Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday whether they could testify before a grand jury — or even consult their lawyers — as part of an investigation into whether former government officials conspired against the president. According to the filing, the current and former agents were subpoenaed to testify about their work in the the sweeping South Florida investigation into whether federal officials who criminally investigated Trump participated in a coordinated effort to deprive him of his rights. But the agents said they were unsure what they...

A Florida man pleaded guilty for his role in a COVID-era healthcare fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced Thursday. Hasan “Lucas” Seyhun, 45, of Miami, Florida, admitted guilt Wednesday to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud for his part in documenting more than $500 million in fake claims to government-backed health programs, according to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) news release. Seyhun previously served as the chief operating officer of New York-based Fast Lab Technologies (Fast Lab), which provided “no cost” COVID-19 tests during the pandemic that customers could purchase online via the company’s...

Deep Leaks@DeepLeaksHQ·16h🔥 TRUMP JUST REPOSTED JFK’S MOST TERRIFYING SPEECH — AND THE DEEP STATE IS PANICKINGJFK saw it coming. In 1961. And now, Trump has just made sure 300 million Americans see it, too.The speech everyone’s talking about: Kennedy’s address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961. The CIA had just botched the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was livid. He’d been lied to by his own intelligence apparatus. And he walked onto that stage and said something no president has dared say since.“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on...

One of the men who was wounded in the attempted assassination of President Trump at a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died. In a statement on behalf of his family, Jim Copenhaver's lawyer confirmed the "devoted" husband, father and grandfather died on Wednesday, two years after he was "gravely wounded" during a shooting at a Trump rally. Coppenhaver died "from complications stemming from those wounds," Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said. In a statement, his family's lawyer said, "James's dedication to this great country was a defining part of his life. As a veteran, he proudly served our...

A federal appellate court ruled on Wednesday that Ohio can enforce its law requiring proof-of-citizenship to vote in the midterm elections. In a 2-1 decision, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals paused a preliminary injunction issued by Ohio-based Senior District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. last month. The Obama appointee’s order sought to block the Buckeye State from enforcing its statutory requirement that individuals provide documentary proof-of-citizenship when registering to vote. As described by Courthouse News, Oliver argued that the contested provision is “preempted by the National Voter Registration Act and increases the likelihood that U.S. citizens fail to register for...

For sixteen years she was the most photographed privately owned jet in Britain: a Hawker Hunter painted banana yellow at the nose, fading through red and blue into deep-space black at the tail, with a scatter of stars down the fuselage. Airshow crowds called her Miss Demeanour. On Tuesday evening she went into the Pacific Ocean about five miles off Morro Bay, California, wearing grey camouflage and an American civil registration. The pilot got out. The jet did not. At roughly 6:50 p.m. local time on 22 September, the aircraft — an MK-58 Hawker Hunter registered N345AX and flown by...

The White House wants voter rolls in dozens of states cleaned up ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms after tens of thousands of non-citizens were found to have been registered and hundreds to have cast ballots — with dozens now being prosecuted. The Department of Homeland Security obtained voter rolls from at least 47 states for review under the Trump administration’s “Unlawful Voter Initiative,” Reuters reported Thursday, but the process is not going fast enough for some officials. One DHS official, in a Sept. 1 email obtained by the wire service, “offered to raise with the WH COS if we...

Danielle knows a lot@Daniell64334313Listen carefully.Stephen Miller gives the press a civics lesson.Who holds executive power?Who carries out the voters’ mandate?And what happens when unelected officials resist the lawful direction of an elected president?Article II: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States.” TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~Stephen Miller: It's true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent, and was not running the country.It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon is not elected...

A put its demographic ambitions in writing. The long-term goal of its Welcoming Communities initiative was to build a system that would: “support immigration and in-migration to southern Vermont and an increase in demographic diversity.” That language appeared in an April 7, 2021 announcement bylined Alex Beck⁠, then the initiative’s coordinator at the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation, or BDCC... ...The organization is a private nonprofit serving as a state-certified regional development corporation. ... ...Increasing demographic diversity was an explicit objective of an initiative supported with public money.... ...UVM described a dual purpose: improving the local program and: “serving as a...