Water-System Hacks Hit 7 States This Week, FBI Warns, As Trump Shoots Down Iran Theory

US Initial Jobless Claims Jump To 4-Month-Highs The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time jumped to 229k last week (more than the 220k expected) and the highest in four months... Source: Bloomberg Pennsylvania, California, and Minnesota are the states seeing the largest rise in claims last week... Continuing jobless claims also rose last week to 1.795mm Americans - highest in two months, but still relatively low in the context of the last two years... Source: Bloomberg The bottom line is that while initial jobless claims are rising, they remain low...

The US military is preparing for the possibility that the US-Israeli war against Iran lasts until September of this year, according to a report from POLITICO, far beyond President Trump’s initial four-week timeline. The report said that US Central Command is asking the Pentagon to send more intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, […]