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(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) One day shy of a full two weeks sooner than any other state in the nation, North Carolina county boards of elections on Friday will begin sending absentee ballots to any voter having made a request. The nation’s ninth largest state at 11.2 million is...

(Will Porter, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly held direct talks with a senior Hamas member during the deadly 2014 war in Gaza, according to Israeli media. The dialogue was said to have been arranged “behind the backs of the establishment.” Reported by the Hebrew-language outlet Walla on Thursday, the...

(Money Metals News Service) Silver has decisively broken above the once-formidable $50 barrier, but Peter Krauth believes the bull market still has room to run. During a recent Money Metals podcast interview with host Mike Maharrey, Krauth argued that strong investment demand, industrial consumption, depleted exchange inventories, and emerging technologies continue to...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) California Attorney General Rob Bonta co-led a lawsuit Wednesday to block a new federal rule governing mail-in ballots. But a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer who's now working at a think tank says the suit is unnecessary. Prompted by President Donald Trump’s Executive Order...

(Jon Styf, The Center Square) American voters say local communities should be able to limit data centers if they cause a strain on electricity, water, land or infrastructure, according to a new poll. The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll found that 68% think that communities should be able to limit...

(Zachery Schmidt, The Center Square) Arizona Republican Party Chair Sergio Arellano criticized Attorney General Kris Mayes’ decision not to press charges against Gov. Katie Hobbs in an alleged pay-for-play scheme. On Friday, Mayes announced her office would not pursue criminal charges against the governor after an investigation into allegations that...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Some evacuation orders west of Reno have been lifted as more than 900 firefighters continue to battle the Hawk Fire, which burned just over 15,000 acres and led to the initial evacuation of about 90,000 residents. The fire began around 11:30 a.m. Saturday near the...

(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...