Flash Briefs

Fox News Digital recently asked Democrat elected officials in Chicago how they planned to address plummeting arrest numbers and police morale in the city where crime has surged since 2020.

Hershey CEO Michele Buck has predicted supply chain and production capacity issues and other factors will make it tough to meet candy demand beginning in late October. 

Inflation and crime have become so severe in New York City that even products such as Spam have been locked up.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records show the immigrants were discovered in a raid in which agents searched six stash houses in D.C. Stash houses are often concentrated on or near the United States’ southern border. 

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is requesting the National Guard mobilize the migrants being bused to the city from southern states.

On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund said global economic growth will slow considerably this year and issued a new warning that there are several risks threatening to force the global economy to the precipice of a recession. 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has alleged the U.S. and South Korea have brought the Korean peninsula to the “brink of war.”

U.S. lawmakers are troubled over the U.S. military’s deflated recruitment numbers. The U.S. has reportedly achieved only 85 percent of its recruitment goals for 2022.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that Chinese-made Huawei equipment on cell phone towers could capture and disrupt highly restricted Defense Department communications, as well as those used by U.S. Strategic Command. 

The U.S. Gross Domestic Product decreased by 0.9 percent in the second quarter, confirming what economists have warned Americans about for months.