By Michelle Plastrik On Oct. 19, 2025, a brazen daytime robbery was committed at Paris’s Louvre while it was open to visitors. In under eight minutes, beginning around 9:30 a.m., thieves broke into the museum’s gilded Apollo Gallery, which houses precious royal objects. Two of the intruders entered through a window accessed via a cherry […]
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US Single-Family Rent Growth Slows to 15-Year Low, Report Finds
By Rob Sabo Rental rates for single-family homes continue to rise in Los Angeles and Chicago, but the second- and third-largest cities in the United States are outliers for a nationwide slowdown in rental rates across major metropolitan markets and property types. Rents for single-family properties increased just 1.4 percent in August, global property analytics […]
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Truckers Warn ‘No Name’ Licenses Making America’s Roads More Deadly
By Allan Stein FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—A fully loaded semi-truck barreling down the interstate is like a 40-ton projectile on 18 wheels. In the hands of an untrained driver, it becomes a potential weapon, according to Richard, a truck driver from Oklahoma. “They don’t stop on a dime, I’ll tell you that,” Richard said as he walked […]
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Coca-Cola Reports Higher Q3 Earnings, Stock Rises More Than 4 Percent
By Naveen Athrappully Coca-Cola reported a year-over-year increase in its net revenues and gross profit for the third quarter of 2025, according to an Oct. 21 earnings release from the company. The company netted $12.45 billion in revenues for Q3, up by 5 percent from the $11.85 billion earned in the same quarter in 2024, […]
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North Korea Test-Fires Ballistic Missiles Ahead of Trump’s Asia Tour
By Evgenia Filimianova North Korea test-fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles on Oct. 22, South Korea’s military said. The launches were the first since May and came a week before U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders are expected to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, from Oct. 31 to Nov. […]
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Noem Defends DHS Purchase of 2 Coast Guard Planes After Criticism From Lawmakers
By Aldgra Fredly Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Oct. 20 defended a $172 million purchase of two Gulfstream jets, saying they were necessary to replace the U.S. Coast Guard’s decades-old aircraft after Democratic lawmakers criticized the move. During a press conference in Sarasota, Florida, Noem said that Congress had approved and appropriated funding for […]
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Israel to Receive Body of Another Hostage, Hamas Confirms
By Evgenia Filimianova Israel is set to receive the body of another Israeli hostage after the Hamas terrorist group said it will transfer the remains on Oct. 20. The group said on the Telegram channel of Al-Aqsa TV, a Hamas-run media outlet, that it will hand over the body of the hostage as part of […]
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No One Hurt as United Airlines Plane Clips Tail of Another Aircraft in Chicago
By The Associated Press CHICAGO—A United Airlines plane heading for its gate clipped the tail of another United aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, authorities said. No one was hurt in Friday’s incident and the 113 passengers on Flight 2652 from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, were able to leave the plane normally after a delay, United officials […]
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Economists Warn of Index Funds’ Outsized Exposure to AI
By Kevin Stocklin Many investors opt for index funds in the belief that, by doing so, they are diversifying their risk across a broad segment of companies and industries. Increasingly, however, that is no longer the case. Companies involved in information technology or communication services now comprise about 43 percent of the S&P 500 index […]
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Mexican Cartels Placing Bounties on Federal Agents, DHS Says
By Melanie Sun The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Oct. 14 that it has obtained “credible intelligence” that cartels in Mexico have placed bounties on U.S. law enforcement officers and officials. Mexican cartels—which have used Chicago, along with other major U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta, as drug distribution […]
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US Seizes $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Leader of Southeast Asian Online Scam Network
By Bill Pan Federal authorities have seized $15 billion in bitcoin from Chen Zhi, a Chinese-Cambodian kingpin accused of running a sprawling scam enterprise that relies on human trafficking and slavery, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. The asset seizure is part of a broader criminal investigation into Chen and his conglomerate, Prince […]
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Moody’s Says 22 States Are Already in Recession Despite Strong Overall GDP
By Tom Ozimek Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi says 22 U.S. states are already in recession, despite that national figures show the overall economy growing at a 3.8 percent pace and unemployment holding at 4.3 percent. In a new interview with Fortune that builds on his late August analysis, Zandi said that much of […]
