Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Iran's economy is collapsing and predicts a deep contraction as an eight-week sanctions push called Operation Economic Outcast gets tougher. Every claim is his own, and no independent data confirming them has been found.
Eight days before the midterms, President Trump promised $1 million to anyone whose voter fraud tip leads to an arrest and conviction. The White House has not said who would pay, how to apply, or whether any agency is running it.
A Virginia judge granted a $2,500 bond for the man police say took a sledgehammer to the Iwo Jima memorial in Quantico. It emerged at Monday's hearing that ICE had lodged a detainer against him, and no ICE pickup has been reported.
The Justice Department is sending about 1,000 monitors to polling places in all 50 states for the midterms, its largest effort ever. Democratic groups have trained tens of thousands of volunteers to watch the watchers.
Politico reports that Mayor Zohran Mamdani and friends have been playing late-night pickup basketball at the NYPD's Queens academy, according to anonymous sources. The department says the games have not disrupted any recruit training.
Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt married Saturday at the same Palm Beach church where he proposed, and Breitbart reported that President Trump attended a Mar-a-Lago party the night before.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a Spanish-language video on what to do if ICE agents approach, covering warrants, consent and the right to silence. Republicans including Sen. Rick Scott criticized it the same day on X.
A 32-year-old Brooklyn woman is charged after an alleged syringe attack on a young rabbi in Midtown Manhattan. Reports say a second Jewish man was also stabbed, but the timing and many details remain unconfirmed.
Washington and Beijing are each building an artificial intelligence club, and countries like Kazakhstan are joining both. Experts say the room to play both sides may be shrinking.
Asked on national television about an Iranian threat to American personnel, Colorado Democrat Jason Crow said removing Pete Hegseth from the Pentagon would be his "priority number one" if his party retakes the House.
President Trump told an Iowa crowd to stop watching the WNBA over players leaving the court for the national anthem. With the Finals under way, players say they are focused on the games.
North Korea's Kim Jong Un crossed the newly opened New Yalu River Bridge for a one-day visit to the Chinese city of Dandong, his first China trip in a year. It came days before the Oct. 25 Korean War anniversary and next month's APEC summit in Shenzhen.
A tanker carrying 40,000 tons of Russian diesel left the Baltic under the Trump-Putin deal, and tracking data points to New York. Energy analysts say one ship barely registers against the shortfall.
The Justice Department alleges a 42-year-old contractor with Top Secret clearance accessed classified reports beyond his duties and passed them to a romantic partner who runs a Substack. He is charged by complaint and presumed innocent.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a video on X that the Pentagon designated Confucius Institutes a national security threat and dismantled 80 rebranded groups at 30 universities. The notes show no independent verification of the claim and no published list of schools.
A New York Post headline points to a federal probe of California districts over student surveys, though its details are unverified here. The underlying dispute is over whether the federal student privacy law demands parental consent for every survey touching sensitive topics.
A 70-year-old Florida-licensed attorney is accused, in a criminal complaint reported by WLOX, of asking a Mississippi gun shop whether a gun could pierce body armor and talking about shooting ICE agents. The shop's owner denied the sale and reported her to the ATF.
