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(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,...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The office of Special Counsel Jack Smith carried out an urgent process to purchase digital storage and management software for evidence in the weeks after it indicted President Donald Trump in June 2023. The purchase of “Axon Investigate,” revealed Monday by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, raises...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A volunteer search collective in western Mexico says it recovered at least 1,600 baby teeth from a suspected clandestine burial site, but Mexican authorities say they have no official record of such a discovery. The competing claims have fueled demands for an independent forensic investigation,...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A Substack writer who publishes as Geoffrey Edevane accused conservative commentator Candace Owens on September 28 of keeping 4 adult dating profiles. Edevane, who posts on X as @EsoShaggy, laid out the allegations in a Substack article that runs 12 chapters on his Mystery Machine News...

(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...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Sunday that he was “rejecting” a proposal from Iran to end the war and fully open the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, comments that came after The Wall Street Journal reported that he’s expecting to resume bombing Iran after the midterm elections. “I’m...

(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) SpaceX launched its enormous Starship toward orbit for the first time Monday, aiming for six full laps around Earth to prove its readiness for NASA’s Artemis moon program. The company stressed that everything needed to be operating properly before issuing the critical “go” for orbit. A “no-go” call would...

(Headline USA) A powerful nor’easter battered the Northeast again on Sunday, flooding coastal communities and leaving tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power as forecasters warned that another round of high tides could inundate vulnerable shorelines. The slow-moving storm, which killed a New York City housing authority worker when...

(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...

(Headline USA) In the latest twist in Anthropic's dispute with the Pentagon, a federal appeals court on Friday rejected the artificial intelligence lab's challenge to the government's labeling of it as a supply chain risk. The decision allows the Pentagon to continue to remove Anthropic’s Claude models from its systems...

(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...