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Donald Trump walked onto the stage in Syracuse on Saturday night with a promise wrapped in a deadline. Less than a month before the November 3 midterm elections, the president laid out a sweeping campaign agenda — and its centerpiece was cash: $5,000 for every adult American citizen, a payout he calls the Trump dividend. … Read more
American shoppers have had it. Consumer sentiment sank again in early October, sliding to 46.3 on the University of Michigan’s closely followed index — the second-worst reading since the survey began in 1952. Only this past May’s record low of 44.8 was gloomier. The preliminary October number, released Friday, missed expectations badly. Economists polled by … Read more
The ICE shooting Bronx confrontation on Thursday afternoon, October 8, started as a targeted arrest and ended with gunfire in a residential street, a man wounded in the neck, and a 5-year-old boy sitting in the back seat of the car that agents fired into. Within hours, the ICE shooting Bronx incident had become the … Read more
The Trump Putin call on Friday, October 9, was supposed to be about something else entirely. White House aides had said the two presidents would discuss a suspected case of plague in Russia. Instead, the 90-minute conversation ended with a stunning announcement: Russia would ship millions of tons of diesel fuel to the United States … Read more
Southern California can't catch a break this week. Tropical Storm Rachel is churning northward off Mexico's Pacific coast and steering straight for a weekend collision with a region that just spent days baking under record-breaking October heat. Forecasters say the storm's remnants could dump heavy rain, whip up dangerous surf, and trigger coastal flooding across … Read more
Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week than almost anyone expected. US jobless claims slipped to 197,000 for the week ended October 3, according to the Labor Department's Thursday report, coming in below the 200,000 economists had penciled in. It's the fourth straight week that new claims have hovered near 57-year lows — a … Read more
The Apple October 27 event is the date every Mac fan should circle — if Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is right. Fresh reporting says Apple will hold its second product launch of October on or around Tuesday, October 27, and the headline act is something Apple watchers have waited decades for: the company's first-ever touchscreen Mac. … Read more
The Messi Argentina retirement became official on Tuesday night in Buenos Aires, and somehow the script felt too perfect to be real. A packed Estadio Monumental. A giant “Gracias” jersey stretched across the pitch. And Lionel Messi — 39 years old, playing his 208th and final match for the national team — scored one and … Read more
With less than a month until the November 3 midterms, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration its second victory in a quiet but high-stakes fight over how much political ads cost on television and radio. On October 8, the justices blocked a lower court’s attempt to force the Federal Communications Commission to rule on … Read more
The typical American family earned more and owned more in 2025 than it did three years earlier — and yet, a growing number of households were buckling under the weight of their own debt. That's the headline from the Fed Consumer Finances Survey released on Friday, October 9, 2026, a sweeping snapshot of how the … Read more
