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AN ARMED man has been arrested near the White House after he allegedly said threatened to kill Donald Trump. Secret Service agents found the Venezuelan migrant in a stolen car packed with firearms, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Officers said they approached the suspect after spotting him “acting suspicious in his car while parked on Constitution Avenue in Washington.” He reportedly told police that he heard voices in his head telling him to come to the capital and kill Trump, the DHS said.

The launches include Starlink of Vandenberg, including the 700th Falcon 9 overall on the 31st, plus a couple of Electrons from Mahia and a run of Chinese vehicles. Galactic Energy put the first pathfinder for a low-inclination remote-sensing constellation up on a Ceres-1S from an offshore barge, while CAS Space flew the second Kinetica-2 (the liquid RP-1/LOX tri-core version) with another batch of Qianfan satellites. ISRO’s GSLV got NVS-03 into geosynchronous transfer orbit after the previous one’s failure, and Rocket Lab’s 99th Electron carried an iQPS SAR bird. On the bigger picture side, NASA laid out the Artemis Acceleration plan...

Florida voters will decide three certified statewide constitutional amendments on the November 3, 2026 general election ballot, all placed by the state legislature. Each measure requires 60% approval to pass. Amendment 1 (Budget Stabilization Fund): Increases the cap on the state’s "rainy day" fund from 10% to 25% of net general revenue and mandates annual transfers of the lesser of $750 million or the amount needed to reach that cap, allowing withdrawals for critical state needs. Amendment 2 (Agricultural Property Tax Exemption): Exempts tangible personal property used for agricultural production or agritourism—such as farm equipment and tools—from local property taxes,...

The retired CIA spy who says she led the team that helped draft the controversial 2016 U.S. intelligence community assessment on Russian election meddling has called Donald Trump a “dictator” and MAGA supporters “Nazis” — and insists that the now-discredited Steele dossier “might be true.” Susan Miller, a recently-retired CIA counterintelligence officer, has taken to social media and news media interviews in recent days to tell the story of how she was allegedly hand-picked by former CIA Director John Brennan to lead the team which helped draft the ICA in late 2016, gleefully exposing her anti-Trump sentiments. She has repeatedly...