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On November 6, 2018, the US will hold mid-term congressional elections. The Americans will vote on the fate of all 435 seats in the House of Representatives; there are also 33 US Senate races.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The US authorities have deported Jakiw Palij, a 95-year-old former SS labor camp guard believed to be the last Nazi collaborator living on the US soil, to Germany, the White House said in a statement on Tuesday.

Scott Wagner, a former Pennsylvania senator who is the GOP's candidate for state governor against incumbent Democrat Tom Wolf, was lambasted by the humorless left for joking that the Russian government would help him win in the November election.

Earlier, The New York Times reported that the Italian actress allegedly paid hush money to Jimmy Bennett, who accused her of sexually assaulting him in a California hotel room in 2013, when he was 17 and she was 37.

Donald Trump is making the dollar strong again through domestic economic policies and "temporary" tariffs, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, stressing that the recent national currencies slump in a number of states had been caused not by Washington's trade wars and sanctions, but vulnerabilities in their economic strategies.

Hungarian-born American billionaire George Soros has repeatedly flouted US charity laws, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, explaining why the magnate has dramatically stepped up his lobbying activities under Donald Trump's presidency.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Founder of the war contractor formerly known as Blackwater, Erik Prince, during an interview said he hopes White House National Security Adviser John Bolton will be open to considering his plan for privatizing the war in Afghanistan.

British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen tried and failed to get former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, a Democrat, to comment on whether or not former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is a woman.

The Justice Department of the United States charged two people with circumventing US sanctions against Iran, discretely working on behalf of Iran’s government to conduct surveillance on Israeli and Jewish facilities inside the country, and attending MEK events in the US to collect intelligence.

Former New York City mayor and attorney to US President Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani taunted former CIA Director John Brennan to sue Trump on Monday, saying Brennan was just a “blowhard” if he didn’t.

Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings dropped a bombshell joke at US President Donald Trump’s expense at a rally Sunday night.

The NYPD has fired an officer who was off-duty when he confronted a man he had an ongoing dispute with, “possibly over a woman.” The officer, 40-year-old Sergeant Ritchard Blake, was fired Friday after video surfaced appearing to show him planting a knife on the body of the man whom he’d just shot.

A group of US senators has expressed concern to the US Army over revelations that lead paint in on-base Army housing has had life-changing medical consequences for young children living there.

Members of the US Marines and Army are going to see major changes to their chow halls this fall as the service fights high rates of obesity among servicemen.

Video shared online of police pointing guns at a black man during a traffic stop has gone viral. People are shocked at the footage because when the man asks why officers have guns pointed at him, somebody says, “Because you’re not white.”

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The White House should hand over all records documenting any ties between National Security Adviser John Bolton and Russian citizen Maria Butina, US Congressional Democrats said in a letter to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Monday.

Timothy Woodruff, a Michigander living near the coastal community of Petoskey, found himself witnessing a curious light show earlier this month, one he says was the work of an unidentified flying object.

The Wall Street Journal cited speakers saying that US President Donald Trump has rolled back a series of rules regarding the deployment of cyber weapons in a bid to loosen restrictions. Radio Sputnik discussed key points of the Trump's new possible policy with Gary Miliefsky, a renowned cybersecurity expert and founder of cybersecurity companies.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - More than 90 percent of economists believe tariffs will have a negative effect on the US economy, a poll conducted by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) showed on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump said in a statement on Monday that he hopes former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan files a lawsuit against him over the loss of his security clearance.