Today’s Lead News Stories

In just a little over two months, the national debt swelled by $1 trillion. This is twice as fast as the rate of growth since 2000, Michael Peterson says.

Investigators in Wyoming are trying to identify two men they believe left a homemade bomb in front of the state Capitol

Candidates jockeyed for advantage during debate, but were unlikely to change voters’ minds before election day

The agency overseeing Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown is spending tens of millions of dollars on guns, ammunition, body armor and surveillance technology, according to procurement records reviewed by AFP. Spending across the categories is vastly higher than under both the Biden presidency and the first Trump administration.

UN’s top court also finds Israel failed to justify blocking Unrwa and other relief agencies

Democrats stressed Israel's annexation plans could "place at risk" the Abraham Accords, a key Trump achievement.

Final debate was marked by heated exchanges between the frontrunners, while Sliwa quipped at Cuomo’s expense

The boy’s mother, Erica Renee Sanders, and her partner, Keven Dwayne Adams, were charged with abandoning and endangering a child without intent to return

Newsom calls move ‘right out of the dictator’s handbook’ as agents prepare for key immigration enforcement operation