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(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) During the 13th cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump’s second term, the president indicated he expects more back-and-forth strikes with Iran as he tells reporters he is “losing faith” in the Islamic Republic. The president expressed frustration with the Iranian regime, adding that “they do...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Marine Corps says the pilot of an F-35B stealth fighter is expected to live after ejecting from the jet before it crashed in California. The jet went down Friday near the Miramar air base in San Diego. A Marines statement called it a “Class A mishap.”...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former legal assistant for the Brownsville, Texas, U.S. Attorney’s Office was indicted last month for releasing the identity of a Homeland Security Investigations agent who was working on a multi-agency immigration enforcement operation in Texas last year. The doxxing of the agent led to...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Remember the gold bull market of 2025? According to billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson, it’s still going on. Gold peaked just over $5,500 an ounce in January, before sharply correcting. After a brief surge of safe-haven demand in the early days of the U.S.-Iran conflict,...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former Vice President Kamala Harris has long spoken about the importance of being surrounded by other black or minority Americans. But her new $8.5 million home is located in an exclusive Malibu neighborhood where the population is overwhelmingly white. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, purchased a...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Central Command announced on Wednesday night that it began launching airstrikes against Iran, hours after President Donald Trump threatened a response to an Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan. CENTCOM described the attacks as a “powerful response” to the attack in Jordan, though...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Could China’s gold reserves surpass the United States’? On the surface, this seems like a tall order, but analysts at BMO Capital say it could happen in the next five years given China’s unreported gold buying. The U.S. officially holds just over 8,133 tonnes of...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It appears a Kevin Warsh-led Federal Reserve will at least provide a bit of drama. The Fed family fought, but it amounted to a lot of yelling and no punches thrown. In what was anything but a foregone conclusion, the Fed elected to hold the...

(Money Metals News Service) The United States officially reports holding 8,133.5 metric tons of gold, equivalent to roughly 261.5 million troy ounces. According to government figures, approximately 147.3 million ounces are stored at Fort Knox, while the remainder is held at the Denver Mint, the West Point Bullion Depository,...

(Headline USA) A man was sentenced Wednesday to six months and a week behind bars for ramming his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters, the Jewish institution in New York where his lawyer said he'd been trying to win acceptance as he struggled with psychological issues. Dan Sohail, 36,...

(Headline USA) Two people who attended a prestigious Michigan fine arts school reported conduct of a sexual nature by Jeffrey Epstein, a major donor, according to an investigation that also uncovered dozens of allegations spanning decades against nearly 50 other people. Interlochen Center for the Arts operates a summer camp...

(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) The executive vice president of a coalition advocating for data center development says reversing course on incentives in Illinois could have “detrimental” economic consequences. Last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker told the Aspen Climate Summit he reversed course on offering tax exemptions to data centers to...