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Customs agents uncover $500k stuffed in furniture

Customs officers at a Florida airport found nearly a half-million dollars being smuggled out of the United States hidden inside furniture, officials said. U.S. Custom and Border Protection officers at Miami International Airport seized $491,280 in unreported U.S. currency last Thursday, the agency said in a news release. The money… Read More

Facebook to remove political ads before election

With just two months left until the U.S. presidential election, Facebook says it is taking more steps to encourage voting, minimize misinformation and reduce the likelihood of post-election “civil unrest.” The company said Thursday it will restrict new political ads in the week before the election and remove posts that… Read More

U.S. unemployment rates drop sharply

U.S. unemployment dropped sharply in August from 10.2% to a still-high 8.4%, with about half the 22 million jobs lost to the coronavirus outbreak recovered so far, the government said Friday in one of the last major economic reports before Election Day. Employers added 1.4 million jobs last month, down… Read More

U.S. trade deficit surges

The U.S. trade deficit surged in July to $63.6 billion, the highest level in 12 years, as imports jumped by a record amount. The Commerce Department reported that the July deficit, the gap between what America buys and what it sells to foreigners, was 18.9% higher than the June deficit… Read More

Tyson meat plant medical clinics?

Tyson Foods is planning to open medical clinics at several of its U.S. plants to improve the health of its workers and better protect them from the coronavirus. The Springdale, Arkansas-based company, which processes about 20% of all beef, pork and chicken in the U.S., said its plan to open… Read More

Scientists dig up “extremely” rare gold coins in Israel

Israeli archaeologists announced Monday the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins found during recent salvage excavations near the central city of Yavne. Sponsored: Did you eat this for lunch? The collection of 425 complete gold coins, most dating to the Abbasid period around 1,100 years ago, was… Read More

Black-owned Chicago small business ransacked… twice

Security cameras captured the pillaging of a West Side Chicago convenience store hours after Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned vandals that the city would hold them accountable for ransacking downtown retailers. Walid Mouhammad, the owner of African Food & Liquor, watched surveillance video helplessly from home on Monday as thieves destroyed… Read More

Justice Department nabs millions of radical Islamic terror “cash”

The Justice Department has seized millions of dollars from cryptocurrency accounts that militant organization abroad, including Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group, relied on to raise money for their operations, officials announced Thursday. The Trump administration said the groups used the accounts to solicit donations for their causes, including… Read More