Americans are on track to spend a record $13.5 billion on Halloween this year amid rising costs associated with the national scarefest, according to the National Retail Federation. Consumers are forecast to shell out $4.1 billion on candy alone. Cocoa costs remain elevated despite surging over the last two years, with shipping and other expenses…
Washington — As President Trump boasts about how much money the U.S. oil and gas industry is making from the war with Iran, the president’s personal holdings in oil and gas are now worth between $22.5 million and $81.6 million, compared with $12.6 million to $46 million at the end of 2025, according to a…
The lake country straddling the Kentucky-Tennessee border has a quiet, majestic beauty. But in September 2022, that vast landscape seemed to have swallowed up Mike Harding, a California transplant who disappeared without a trace. JULIE HARDING (phone call): Hi Captain, this is Julie Harding with the California Highway Patrol … Mike’s wife Julie Harding, a…
It was Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, and a small strip mall in Huntsville, Alabama, was teeming with police activity. The frantic scene was captured on police body cameras and dashcam video in the moments after police discovered 37-year-old Savannah Tolbert shot dead in the front seat of a red Tesla. Moments before police arrived, her…
President Trump on Thursday said his administration will invoke the Defense Production Act to spend $150 million to boost gasoline and diesel production in the U.S., the latest effort from the administration to lower fuel prices. The Defense Production Act, or DPA, is a Korean War-era law that allows the president to use loans, purchase…
Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia in recent weeks have inflicted severe losses on the kingdom, with missiles hitting energy infrastructure and civilian airports, killing at least 20 people. The Iranian proxy group has struck the headquarters of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, and is fighting Saudi-backed government forces for control of Yemen’s coastline…
23m ago Qatari aircraft leaves Tehran 30 minutes after arrival A Qatari aircraft arrived in Tehran Tuesday just minutes after a plane carrying Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, departed. The Qatari plane left the Iranian capital approximately 30 minutes later, according to aviation tracking data cited by Iran’s semi-official Fars News agency….
With two weeks until election day and control of Congress on the line, President Trump says he plans to spend more than $400 million on the races. Nancy Cordes reports. Source link
Japan launched an ambitious $350 million mission to Mars on Monday to study the red planet’s two moons in unprecedented detail, dropping a small rover on the largest — Phobos — before the mothership touches down to robotically collect soil samples for return to Earth. The primary goal of the Martian Moons Exploration mission, or…
Cybersecurity expert Hed Kovetz would love to have a personal AI agent handle some of his administrative tasks and lighten his workload. But he doesn’t trust any of the commercially available agents, like Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots, with access to his email accounts, banking details, health records and other sensitive information. “It’s tempting to…
