The US National Debt now exceeds 34 trillion dollars... Word that four closed border crossings on the US-Mexico border are to reopen... Politics in the USA and a USA Today/Suffolk Poll on the Presidential Contest. A two-way contest shows... Federal prosecutors dropping new charges on Democrat Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey... A big story in the Mainstream Media today is the success of Chinese owned electric car maker BYD... There have been several explosions near a merchant vessel in the Bab el Mandeb Strait just south of the Red Sea... Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigning... An Iranian-affiliated group...