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The costs of goods and services rose more than expected in October, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report published Tuesday by the Labor Department. The headline CPI rose 0.4 percent month-over-month, more than the 0.3 percent expected by economists. Core CPI, excluding food and energy, rose 0.3 percent for the third consecutive month. The report comes as the Federal Reserve considers its next interest-rate move. Speaking Tuesday morning ahead of the CPI release, Fed Governor Christopher Waller said a hot inflation reading could push him toward advocating for a half-point increase in December. Analysts now expect at least...

A former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police detective was convicted Tuesday of murdering a pregnant woman, Sandra Birchmore, to keep her from revealing that he had sexually abused her when she was 15. Matthew Farwell, 40, of Easton, was found guilty of strangling Birchmore on Feb. 1, 2021 - 12 days after a tipster called the suburban Boston police department where he worked and reported that they'd had an improper relationship. Birchmore, who was 23 when she died, had been in a tumultuous relationship with the detective, whom she first met while participating in a Stoughton Police Department youth program as a...

The future of America under the DSA.

According to a statement released by Bournemouth University, Iron Age British ruler Verica was actually female and not male, contrary to long-held assumptions. Verica ruled the Celtic tribe called the Atrebates in the first century A.D. and was a central figure in the Roman invasion of Britain. After she was ousted from power in A.D. 40, she fled to the Roman emperor Claudius and convinced him to invade the island three years later. The new research was led by Bournemouth archaeologist Miles Russell, who said that the patriarchal mindset of nineteenth-century classical historians is largely to blame for the confusion...

More than 700 coins were discovered at three sites near the Drava River in southwestern Hungary by archaeologists from the Rippl-Rónai Museum, Hungary Today reports. Most of the coins have been dated to the rule of the emperor Constantine (A.D. 307–337), but silver coins dating to the reigns of the emperors Antoninus Pius (A.D. 138–161), Severus Alexander (A.D. 222–235), Aurelian (A.D. 270–275), and Probus (A.D. 276–282) have also been identified. One coin, known as a "consecration coin," is thought to have been minted to mark the death of Claudius II (reigned A.D. 268–270) and his deification. Pottery, brooches, and fragments...

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) responded to a question on where the line is between oversight and retribution by saying that “there’s no line” And “The line is essentially between everything that happened on Tuesday after, from what happened before, because the entire Trump Department of Justice has been based on the principle of revenge and retribution against Donald Trump’s enemies. -- snip -- Raskin interrupted, “No, there’s no line. We’re all –.” Keilar then finished her question by saying, “accountability and retribution?” Raskin answered, “The line is essentially between everything that happened on...

Florida is investigating the Democratic Socialists of America over contributions from China and Cuba and whether the organization accepted “tens of thousands of dollars” to fund DSA delegations to meet with government officials in the two communist countries. State Attorney General James Uthmeier said he issued a subpoena to the DSA under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and Florida laws governing the solicitation of funds. “We are examining whether DSA accepted contributions or support from foreign sources of concern, including the regimes in Cuba and China, and whether its fundraising from Florida donors has been fully transparent and...

If he somehow prevails, he’ll be in no position to lead the party in any meaningful sense. Some amazing events occurred in this year’s midterms. Every last county in the Republican strongholds of Texas and Ohio went blue. Other states that remained GOP for generations voted the Dems in. And, most astonishing of all, John Thune was transformed into a Republican. At least, that’s the impression you’d get watching his recent comments on Fox. Thune is now a true believer. He always was. People just didn’t understand. He was just being subtle about it. Yeah, that’s right – subtle, that’s...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Okaloosa County announced the sinking of the SS United States off the coast of Destin has officially been moved up to Wednesday due to unsafe weather conditions. According to a county news release, the SS United States will be sunk on Wednesday, Nov. 11, with operations to begin at 1 p.m. The release said the sendoff ceremony originally scheduled for 1:30 p.m. is canceled. >>> “While the weather may have changed our plans, it has given this historic occasion an especially meaningful date. On Veterans Day, as we honor the men and women who served...

The 41-year-old was detained near Gloucester, home to the U.K.’s intelligence and cybersecurity agency LONDON—A member of the U.S. Army has been arrested by British counterterrorism police, who said they worked closely with the U.S. military and FBI, over allegations of spying for Russia.The 41-year-old man was arrested near Gloucester on Tuesday. The area is home to Britain’s GCHQ, the country’s intelligence and cybersecurity agency, and the NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. “This significant arrest and investigation is a result of close collaboration between U.K. and U.S. authorities. The allegations are serious and our investigation is very much ongoing,” said...

President Trump was told aboard Air Force One in May en route to China that the United States had obtained sensitive intelligence showing that Nvidia’s chief executive was in a relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy, people with knowledge of the matter said.The message was delivered by Marco Rubio, his secretary of state and national security adviser, shortly before the Nvidia leader, Jensen Huang, joined the presidential trip to Beijing at Mr. Trump’s invitation. It marked at least the second time in seven months that the president had been told of intelligence about Mr. Huang’s involvement...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — New federal appeals court rulings will change how protests and crowd control are handled around the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in south Portland, and what rights demonstrators, journalists and nearby residents hold under the law. A panel of Ninth Circuit judges vacated major preliminary injunctions that previously barred federal officers’ use of non-lethal crowd-control measures like tear gas or pepper balls. It also applied strict limits on when and how they could deploy munitions near the Portland ICE facility. In both decisions handed down Tuesday, the judges sided 2-1 with the Trump administration. KATU...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will be President Donald Trump's top defender in Congress next year after winning a closed-door election for minority leader on Tuesday, sources told Fox News Digital. Jordan defeated Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., currently the House of Representatives' No. 2 leader, in what's believed to be a narrow race. Jordan received 106 votes to Scalise’s 73, sources in the room told Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital heard loud, sustained applause from outside in the hallway when Jordan’s win became official. Republicans huddled for a candidate forum on Tuesday morning where all GOP...

In 2008, workmen digging trenches for electrical cables in the Estonian island town of Salme uncovered human bones and a variety of objects that they piled next to their trench. At first the bones were thought to be from a soldier killed in World War II, but archaeologists realized that the objects dated to the Viking period. A small team of archaeologists working under Marge Konsa, an archaeologist at the University of Tartu, started excavating and soon found the hull of a ship. Nearly all of the ship's timber had rotted away, leaving behind only discolorations in the soil. But...

Twenty million new voter registrations. Thirty-seven states. No requirement to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. Those are the striking figures circulating on social media after a viral post on X showed voter registration data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. ... 20 million new voter registrations occurred between 2022 and 2024 in states that did not require documentary proof of citizenship. The controversy has reignited debate over the SAVE America Act, which would establish stricter citizenship verification requirements for federal voter registration. ... election officials processed more than 103 million voter registration transactions between the 2022 and 2024 general...

President Trump was told aboard Air Force One in May en route to China that the United States had obtained sensitive intelligence showing that Nvidia’s chief executive was in a relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy, people with knowledge of the matter said. The message was delivered by Marco Rubio, his secretary of state and national security adviser, shortly before the Nvidia leader, Jensen Huang, joined the presidential trip to Beijing at Mr. Trump’s invitation. It marked at least the second time in seven months that the president had been told of intelligence about Mr. Huang’s...

Explanation: Sometimes Saturn disappears. It doesn't really go away, of course -- it just disappears from our view when Earth's Moon moves in front. Such a Saturnian eclipse, more formally called an occultation, was visible in early 2025 along a small swath of Earth -- from Greenland through central Europe and into northern Africa. The featured image is a digital fusion of three images, the first of just Saturn before it disappeared, and then two more of the Moon with different exposure lengths. The images were taken from Sardinia, Italy, after sunset. The bright dot near Saturn is not a...

There is no official scorecard on this one, but if there is one word I've heard more than any other from Democratic politicians over the past several years, it might be "democracy." Kamala Harris repeatedly made "democracy is on the ballot" a central theme of her presidential campaign. California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that "democracy is under assault across this nation." Incoming House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries promised that "we are going to fight for our democracy, fight for the rule of law, and fight for the Constitution against those who want to turn back the clock." These are three examples...

A Ecuadorian-based cocaine and weapons trafficking ring has been broken up in New York. The network stretches from Columbia and Peru into Ecuador, then into Mexico, Texas and other southwest border states and to New York, where contraband is shipped to Europe, authorities say. The network has been operating in the U.S. for more than a decade. Five Ecuadorian nationals have been indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges of conspiring to import vast quantities of cocaine into the U.S. through the network. Those indicted include a former member of Ecuador’s National Assembly, a former Ecuadorian mayor...

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, on Monday insisted the United States “surrender” to Iran’s demands for unconditional concessions to allow for peace negotiations to begin. “The war on Iran has already wrecked the U.S. government. But Washington flails like a desperate gambler,” Rezaei sneered in a Monday night post on social media platform X. “FOLD YOUR HAND. STOP manufacturing FAKE NEWS about imaginary talks. Stop denying the West Asian NEW ORDER,” he wrote. “Time to SURRENDER to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out,” he demanded. Rezaei’s tirade was...