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Secret Service agents exchanged fire with an armed man on the National Mall near the White House this evening. The area went into a short lockdown while teams cleared the scene. One juvenile bystander was grazed but no officials were injured. The suspect is in custody as the investigation moves quickly. Eyewitnesses described people scattering …
Trump: We did a little excursion. A couple weeks, a few weeks of excursion, had to take an excursion, but it's doing well. The market is holding up well. I figured we would be hit a little bit, but we were hit less than I thought and we will be back on track in a …
via devdiscourse: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine will brief the ‘Gang of Eight’ lawmakers. This group comprises intelligence committee leaders and Senate and House leaders from both parties, receiving updates on significant national security actions. The Pentagon declined immediate comment. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, together with …
April to June 2008: There was a brief dip in expectations as some believed the worst might have passed and markets slightly stabilized. — Citizen Watch Report (@Citizenwatchrep) May 13, 2025 Once again, the #recession never came. Economists and markets spent much of the past year bracing for a downturn—citing rate #hikes, inverted #yield curves, …
“The projects” I’ll NVR forget the old starret city in Brooklyn. Literally a war zone Jimmy Carter had made some law, that when you build new residential communities builders had to include a section minimum 10 public housing units or something like that. Can’t recall but I’m close . (My dad was in that line …
BREAKING Mike Johnson just announced that he has authorized the House to submit a congressional Amicus Brief on behalf of Steve Bannon to the Supreme Court and Justice Roberts. Finally some positive momentum for Bannon.https://t.co/gH9mR2XI8Y — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 26, 2024
via nclalegal: FINRA is a nominally private non-profit corporation that regulates the securities brokerage industry subject to oversight by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). But it wields vast legislative, executive, and adjudicatory powers over more than 600,000 individual brokers and thousands of broker-dealer firms nationwide. In a typical year FINRA bars hundreds of …
by Hephaestus4 Oil prices also increasing. The Fed and mainstream media are living in an alternate universe. People are currently having to make choices between medicine, paying rents, food, or car payments/filling the gas tank. Church Food pantry near where I live people are lining the packed street every Sunday and Saturday.
