(Headline USA) The price of bitcoin fell below $90,000 and other cryptocurrencies saw large drops Tuesday morning, erasing some of the gains digital assets have made since President Donald Trump took office on a pro-crypto agenda.
Bitcoin, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, was trading at about $89,000 as the U.S. stock...
(The Center Square) – Apple announced Monday it plans to invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years – its “largest-ever spend commitment.”
“We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and we’re proud to build on our long-standing U.S. investments with this $500...
(Headline USA) Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week, but many of them have signaled that they will not follow the order from billionaire Elon Musk, who’s speeding up his drive to slash the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Time to celebrate—thousands of Biden-era IRS workers lost their jobs on Thursday, weeks before they could target and harass Americans on Tax Day.
President Donald Trump authorized the firing of between 6,700 and 7,000 IRS employees, highlighting the seriousness of his pledge to slash the federal bureaucracy.
The...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered Pentagon leaders to develop plans to make sweeping cuts to the Defense Department’s budget, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
According to a memo obtained by the Post, Hegseth’s order calls for an 8% cut to the Pentagon budget each year...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) Following a high-level meeting between US and Russian officials, the State Department said Washington and Moscow will begin taking steps to normalize the diplomatic relationship between the two superpowers. US-Russian diplomacy sank during the first Donald Trump administration, and Joe Biden cut nearly all contact with Russia after...
(Headline USA) Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is seeking access to taxpayer data at the IRS, two people familiar with the inner workings of the plan who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly told The Associated Press on Monday.
If successful, Musk and his group would have access...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) DOGE has got its work cut out for it. Even as the new Department of Government Efficiency ferrets out wasteful spending, the constant budget deficits serve as a sobering reminder of just how much the federal government overspends month after month.
The January budget...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Puck News reporter Dylan Byers reported Wednesday that the New York Times has hired CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who achieved infamy in 2020 when he masturbated on a Zoom conference call in front of his colleagues.
“Transfer news: famed legal analyst @JeffreyToobin is joining New York...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former official for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond pled guilty last week to insider trading, after he was caught misappropriating confidential information to execute trades.
The defendant, Robert Brian Thompson, 43, of Mosley, worked as a bank examiner and senior manager with supervisory duties...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Joe Biden announced Sunday that he is ending his presidential campaign, but he intends to finish the current term. This article may be political in nature, but it will have major ramifications for investors, including gold and silver bugs.
The bullion markets have been...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – If Joe Biden were to succumb to pressure from leaders of his own party and suspend his reelection campaign, several organizations have explained the process to replace him as the Democratic nominee.
Polls continue to show that former President Donald Trump would defeat Biden...