(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York Attorney General Letitia James has long faced questions about whether she has launched investigations with predetermined outcomes in mind. Her latest probe against the seven young men tied to the Cornell sex scandal is no exception.
Fresh off her appointment as special prosecutor by New...
(Headline USA) A National Guard member deployed to Washington, D.C., as part of a mission launched by President Donald Trump has been arrested for carrying an unauthorized firearm after a traffic stop by U.S. Park Police.
Spec. Jakob Noonan, 22, of the Oklahoma Guard, was arrested Monday and charged with...
(Headline USA) Christa Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital in the hours after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.
Hospital staff, her lawyers said, were working to save Pike’s life and as of late Thursday were trying...
(Joelle Webb, The Center Square) Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is suing the federal government as part of a second legal battle against the construction of immigrant detention centers in the state.
The lawsuit was filed in an attempt to stop or temporarily delay the construction of a detention facility...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Ask pretty much anybody, and they’ll tell you we have an inflation problem.
But what does that mean?
And how did it happen?
Most people have no clue.
The first problem is that policymakers and the media use a very imprecise definition of inflation. For most people,...
(Headline USA) A Kentucky state trooper was fatally shot along an interstate highway Monday, and a suspect was later apprehended, state police said.
Trooper Hayden Phillips was shot while patrolling along northbound Interstate 65 in Warren County, Kentucky state police said in a statement on social media. Phillips was based out...
(Headline USA) Iran’s embassy in London on Monday denied any involvement in a suspected plot targeting a U.S. operated air base in England.
The embassy said in a statement that it “categorically rejects and strongly condemns the recent unfounded and malicious speculations” surrounding the arrest of five men near the base...
(Headline USA) House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda, with investigations of President Donald Trump, his family and his administration if the party sweeps control of the chamber from Republicans in the November elections.
The undertaking is a robust as it is daunting, spanning several House committees. With majority power...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Here’s a question for you.
If you were alive 2,000 years from now and dug up an old box of $100 bills, do you think you could spend it anywhere?
I’m going to guess no.
In the first place, it’s highly unlikely paper money would last...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Treasury Department will buy back another $6 billion in long-term Treasuries today (Thursday, Sept. 24) as it continues efforts to tamp down rising yields.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced this second expanded buyback on Wednesday.
And once again, the markets shrugged.
The 30-year Treasury hit...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) With bond yields on the rise and markets penciling in another Federal Reserve interest rate hike this year, a lot of people are selling their gold.
Axel Merk doesn’t think you should.
Merk is the founder of Merk Investments, and he has a reputation as...
(Headline USA) The social media influencer “Clavicular,” who gained a following promoting the online “looksmaxxing” trend, has been charged in Massachusetts with allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl who told police she became heavily intoxicated after he gave her alcohol at his family's Cape Cod home.
Braden Peters, 20, is charged...