The national debt is rising faster than ever and threatens to undermine confidence in the economy, experts warn.

The United Nations said its peace keepers in southern Lebanon came under Israeli fire over the weekend, and were forced to "neutralize" one of its drones.

In the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, small drones routinely target ordinary people by dropping hand grenades, and record video documenting their attacks, a U.N. commission reported.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said service members will miss paychecks by Nov. 15 if the government shutdown stretches on.

Green card holders face a revamped civics test and added hurdles. Critics warn that the process is now more demanding than ever.

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats it accuses of carrying drugs.

The move coincides with a Trump push to pressure Moscow into talks on ending the war and to withhold U.S. Tomahawk missiles from Kyiv.

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