FOOD FIGHT: After promising a $20 billion bailout for Argentina, the Trump administration claims it is unable to tap money held in reserve to keep paying for the food aid program known as SNAP during the federal shutdown. SNAP runs out …

CHINA SYNDROME: President Trump and China’s Xi Jinping reached a détente, of sorts, in their mutual trade war while meeting for the first time in Trump’s second tour of office.   Meeting in South Korea, Trump and Xi agreed to a one-year truce …

BLOWUP: US forces blew up another four suspected drug boats, this time in the Pacific off South America, raising the number of deaths in the attacks to 57. One man was reported to have survived and was taken into custody by …

CATEGORY 5: Hurricane Melissa is beginning to hit Jamaica this morning as a Category 5 storm with winds up to 175 mph. Three people are already dead.  If the storm continues on its current path Jamaica can expect widespread and even …

HEIST: Word leaked yesterday that French authorities arrested two men in connection the brazen daytime jewelry theft at the Louvre, one of the men just as he was about to leave the country.   Two other men are being sought and there’s …

DRUG WAR:  US forces destroyed a 10th suspected drug boat yesterday in international waters off the Caribbean, killing six people. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the boat was “operated by” Tren de Aragua, one of the Latin American criminal groups that the administration has …

BAD BETS: Three current and former NBA players including the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers were swept up in federal indictments yesterday involving insider information on basketball betting and rigged poker games run by New York Mafia families. In all, …

DRUG WAR: US forces destroyed two more suspected drug boats, killing their occupants and expanding the Trump administration’s military actions into the Pacific off Colombia. The nine strikes have killed 37 people. The Trump administration claims it is legitimately killing people …

VICTIM IN CHIEF: President Trump astoundingly is suing the Justice Department to compensate him $230 million for the federal investigations into his activities.   One complaint demands recompense for the investigation into possible Russian influencing in favor of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. …

SEND IN THE TROOPS: President Trump may deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon following a decision by a federal appeals panel to overturn a lower court judge’s decision to block sending troops to the city.   “Some of these protests have …