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(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Approaching the 25-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, an entire generation of young Americans are alive who were born after Sept. 11, 2001, and they’ve only ever known the U.S. to be at war. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) The Trump administration is temporarily lifting the tariff on beef to help lower prices for Americans at the grocery store. “For the next 90 days, the United States will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef to be imported with no...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) The Anti-Defamation League is sounding an alarm over the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America’s questionnaire for city council candidates. ADL Midwest Senior Regional Director Rebecca Weininger told The Center Square the DSA questionnaire’s first two long-form questions are devoted to Israel instead of how candidates...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) 154 days. That’s how long it took the Trump administration to add another $1 trillion to the national debt. As of August 18, the national debt stood at $40,047,425,768,420.22. Let’s try to put the debt into some perspective. Over the last 22 weeks, the federal government has...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military is considering reducing its military presence in the Persian Gulf, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, as many of its bases in the region have been badly damaged by Iranian attacks. Many of the US bases in the Gulf had been evacuated before the...

(Headline USA) Prosecutors in Charlie Kirk's killing pointed Tuesday to an engraved bullet, arguing that the inscription “Hey Facist! CATCH!” demonstrates that Kirk was targeted for how the defendant perceived his politics. Whether defendant Tyler Robinson acted out of political animus could be key for prosecutors seeking the death penalty —...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has long advocated for black representation in government and politics. However, when her district was redrawn, she was quick to jump into another race where she is potentially threatening the same black representation she claimed to advocate. Wasserman-Schultz, who is Jewish, was seeking a...

(Headline USA) Police in Kentucky said one person was killed and four others were injured in a shooting at a park Saturday evening. Lexington police officers responded just before 7 p.m. to a report of shots fired and found five victims, according to a department statement. One person was declared dead...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) As the U.S. nears a mid-2027 debt-limit deadline with debt approaching $40 trillion, two Republican bills would bar Congress from raising the ceiling without matching any increased spending with spending cuts elsewhere. The Dollar-for-Dollar Deficit Reduction Act, introduced separately by U.S. Senate Republican Whip John...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The Trump administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow continued construction on the White House ballroom.  Construction of the ballroom, which has taken over the East Wing of the White House, has gone on for the past several months. A panel of...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report. Policymakers, pundits, and economists use this data to gauge the current inflation situation. For instance, the July CPI cooled a bit, raising hopes that the Fed will not raise...

(Money Metals News Service) Money Metals Midweek Memo host Mike Maharrey opened this week’s episode with an old-fashioned banking analogy: Imagine somebody repeatedly claiming to have $100,000 in the bank but refusing to produce a statement or even balance the checkbook. The money might be there, but without verification,...