(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Only days after urging the U.S. Senate to confirm Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence, President Donald Trump ordered senators to halt the process until Congress confirms a replacement U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York.
“Regarding the approval of our Great...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Washington and Tehran was “not final” and warned the United States could return to “dropping bombs” on Iran if the country “didn’t behave.”
“It’s a Memorandum of Understanding. If I don’t like it, if...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee say that FBI Director Kashyap Patel has been using part of the bureau’s budget as a “slush fund” to pay bonuses to agents loyal to him.
House Judiciary ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., wrote a letter to Patel on Monday,...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took aim at foreign worker hiring in Florida's university system, a move that drew praise from immigration hawks on social media.
On Saturday, Pascal Najadi posted on X celebrating the announcement, calling it a "bombshell moment" and adding "HUGE!" Najadi's post amplified...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue’s CEO, Regina Wallace-Jones, exercised her 5th Amendment right to remain silent more than 20 times during a contentious congressional hearing Wednesday.
The Committee on House Administration comes as lawmakers investigate corruption allegations surrounding ActBlue, including the possible ‘knowing and willful’ acceptance of foreign...
(Headline USA) Bill Gates said Wednesday that he made a “grave error in judgment” by meeting with Jeffrey Epstein but denied any wrongdoing as the Microsoft co-founder faced hours of questioning from lawmakers about his relationship with the disgraced financier.
In an opening statement provided to The Associated Press, Gates said...
(Money Metals News Service) Retail bargain hunters stepped in significantly over the past few days as gold and silver markets suffered their sharpest setback in several months last week.
The selloff was driven less by any deterioration in precious metals fundamentals and more by a rapid repricing of interest-rate expectations...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The ex-CIA official who was arrested last month after being found with some $40 million in gold bars reportedly siphoned that loot from the government by creating a fake spy program.
The ex-officer, David Rush, fabricated a “special access program” (SAP), which the Washington Post described...
(Merrilee Gasser, The Center Square) Florida became the first state this week to sue OpenAI.
The civil complaint against OpenAI and Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman accuses the company of deceptive practices and harms to Floridians. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges Altman prioritized commercial gain and ignored warnings that OpenAI's products could...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. economy added 172,000 jobs in May's better-than-expected report while the unemployment rate remained at 4.3%, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The unemployment rate has remained steady in the range of 4.3% to 4.5% since July 2025,...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) A lot of people are feeling economic pain right now. As I recently wrote, the American consumer is broke, stressed, and buried in debt.
However, the official government data doesn’t seem to reflect this pain. Sure, there’s some price inflation out there, but it’s not...
(Money Metals News Service) In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey argues that reports of inflation's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Drawing on both recent economic data and historical parallels, he contends that the United States may be entering a second wave of a broader...