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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

Disney World deal reached

Walt Disney World and the union for its actors and singers reached an agreement on Wednesday that will allow them to return to work, more than a month after they said they were locked out of the reopening of the theme park resort for publicly demanding coronavirus tests. Disney agreed… Read More

Iowa farmers rebuild after storm flattens crops

Farmers across a wide swath of Iowa are dealing with the heartbreaking aftermath of a rare wind storm that turned what was looking like a record corn crop into deep losses for many. The storm, known as a derecho, slammed the Midwest with straight line winds of up to 100… Read More

“Trump Checks” Round 2? Maybe not…

Hopes that talks on a huge COVID-19 relief deal would generate an agreement soon are fizzling, with both the Trump administration negotiating team and top congressional Democrats adopting hard lines and testy attitudes. Now that President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive edicts and the national political conventions… Read More