Visitors attend the unveiling ceremony of the full-scale jmodel of the Franco-German-Spanish new-generation Future Combat Air System during the Paris Air Show on June 17, 2019. (Eric Piermont/AFP via Getty Images)

French, German leaders provide fresh top cover for new warplane, tank projects

Specifics remain to be sorted out in harmonizing the two countries' differing policies on arms exports, a major hiccup in the joint next-generation fighter program known as FCAS.

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Syrian Kurds gather around a U.S. armored vehicle during a demonstration against Turkish threats next to a U.S.-led international coalition base on the outskirts of Ras al-Ain town in Syria's Hasakeh province near the Turkish border on Sunday Oct. 6, 2019. US forces in Syria started pulling back today from Turkish border areas, opening the way for Ankara's threatened military invasion and heightening fears of a jihadist resurgence (Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)

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Flying a B-52 during a nuclear alert

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Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the Missile Defense Agency, speaks at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Ala., on Aug. 8, 2019. (Jeff Martin/Staff)

Money Minute: Keeping watch against phone scams Caption

On this week's Money Minute, Jeanette Mack warns against phone scams.