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Treasury Department announces new Series I bond rate of 5.51% for the next six months
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced new Series I bond rates through April 2027.
$6.3 billion Binance hack is largest crypto theft on record
Binance says a security breach impacted about $6.3 billion in assets. The exchange says roughly $3 billion has been frozen and losses will be covered.
Pope Leo XIV becomes first pontiff to vote in a US election
The Chicago-born pontiff, who has a tense relationship with Trump, mailed in a ballot for the midterm elections that will decide control of the US Congress.
Gamble on democracy: Inside suspicious election-contracts trading on prediction markets
Prediction markets' failure to call an LA primary correctly raised the possibility they can be manipulated to exaggerate the amount of support candidates have.
Senators briefed on Trump’s ‘insane’ plan to restart war on Iran
Senator Chris Murphy says he’s been briefed on Trump’s plan to restart the war on Iran.
Trump's in-person rallies in Kansas, Iowa back on
President Trump will hold in-person rallies in Iowa and Kansas after all, a source familiar told The Hill. The Thursday announcement that he would shift to tele-rallies in the battleground...
The middle powers step in, to America's detriment
Last week, British Typhoon aircraft escorted French Rafale multirole fighters in a first-ever Anglo-French airborne nuclear strike exercise, codenamed Exercise Rummy. My former boss, Donald Rumsfeld, would not have been amused;...
DOJ subpoenas California officials in voter rolls investigation escalation
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued subpoenas to California officials in its latest move in scrutinizing voters in the state who aren't U.S. citizens. Three subpoenas were sent to...
Russian, Ukrainian humanitarian officials enter Oleshky
A humanitarian aid convoy containing both Russian and Ukrainian officials entered the besieged Ukrainian city of Oleshky
US inmate Christa Pike says she woke up 'confused and in pain' after failed execution
It is Pike's first public statement since she survived an execution attempt by lethal injection in September.
Ethnic cleansing fears rise as Israel squeezes space in Gaza: UN
Israeli forces are treating the 'Yellow Line', which is encroaching westward, as 'a kill zone', the OHCHR says.
New York state police taking over Cornell sexual assault complaints
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Thursday that state police would take over sexual assault complaints at Cornell University after widespread outrage over the handling of Jane Doe's gang...