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Pentagon Lockdown: Multiple Floors Evacuated Over Hazardous Materials Air Quality Incident Several floors and corridors of the Pentagon were locked down and partially evacuated Thursday morning following the detection of a hazardous materials incident and air quality concerns, according to officials and multiple reports. What we know... Floors 2 through 5 in corridors 4 through 7 are currently locked down. Personnel observed wearing gas masks and full chemical protective gear. Pentagon Force Protection Agency’s HazMat team, along with Arlington County Fire Department, are on scene. Shelter-in-place order issued for affected areas; additional testing underway (estimated...

US Homebuilder Confidence Crashes To 14 Year Low, Blame Mortgage Rates & Immigration American homebuilder confidence crashed to 29 in October - down from 32 in September and worse than the 31 print expected as rising mortgage rates, energy and material costs, and worsening labor and lot conditions have pushed builder sentiment to a 14-year low. All three of the major HMI indices posted losses in October. The index measuring current sales conditions fell two points to 33, the index gauging future sales expectations dropped five points to 32 and the index...

NATO Mulls Nixing Annual Summits, Wary Of 'Trump Drama' Overshadowing Fresh reporting in Reuters says that NATO leadership is mulling ending its practice of holding annual summits as the Trump presidency has "cast a long shadow" over such meetings and as member states are looking for "less drama". For example, at the 2018 summit Trump threatened to walk ⁠out after bitterly complaining over allies' low defense spending. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general at the time, wrote in a recently published memoir, "Had he made good on his threat to leave ​in protest,...