(José Niño, Headline USA) The video-sharing app TikTok has appointed Erica Mindel, a former Israeli army instructor and former U.S. State Department contractor, to manage its so-called “hate speech” policy, according to a report by The New Arab.
The appointment, confirmed last week, is drawing allegations that the platform is...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The strongest physical investment gold demand since 2013 helped push overall demand up a healthy 3 percent through the first half of 2025, but American investors, by and large, sat on the sidelines.
Including over-the-counter investment (OTC), gold demand totaled 1,249 tonnes in H1,...
(Money Metals News Service) In this week's Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey returned from a cross-country hockey tournament to dig into two massive stories shaping the precious metals landscape: platinum’s under-the-radar explosion in value and the growing trend of nations demanding their gold be brought home.
Together, these shifts...
(Dan McCaleb, The Center Square) Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern plan to create America’s first transcontinental railroad through a merger, connecting over 50,000 route miles across 43 states from the East Coast to the West Coast, the companies announced Tuesday.
The effort will link about 100 ports across North America,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The State Department has approved a series of potential arms deals for Ukraine totaling $652 million as the Trump administration continues to take steps to fuel the proxy war with Russia.
The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced on Wednesday that two potential Foreign Military Sales...
(José Niño, Headline USA) As rancher Ammon Bundy’s legal battles mount, a federal judge prepares to rule on whether his bankruptcy can erase a massive judgment stemming from a high-profile hospital defamation case.
Bundy's bankruptcy stems from a protest Bundy organized at St. Luke’s Health System in March 2022, after...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Tuesday that CBS News’s parent company, Paramount, agreed to pay him $36 million over 60 Minutes’ deceptively edited interview of Kamala Harris, the twice-failed presidential candidate, weeks before the 2024 election.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said Paramount has already paid $16 million, with...
(Jp Cortez, Money Metals News Service) On Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a full review of the Federal Reserve system. He said on CNBC’s Squawk Box, “I think what we need to do is examine the entire Federal Reserve institution and whether they have been successful.”
It’s a completely...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold was up nearly 26 percent through the first six months of 2025, ranking as the top-performing asset class.
This booming performance continued the momentum built in 2024 when gold surged by 26.5 percent.
After recording 40 all-time highs in 2024, gold set another 26 all-time highs through the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) NPR CEO Katherine Maher launched a desperate fundraising campaign on Friday, just hours after Congress passed President Donald Trump’s rescission package, which stripped more than $1 billion in taxpayer funding from leftist outlets NPR and PBS.
The fundraising plea was puzzling, considering that NPR has long claimed...
(Jesse Colombo, Money Metals News Service) Morgan Stanley is predicting further euro appreciation, which should also give gold a meaningful boost, given their strong correlation.
Anyone who has followed my work over the past eight months knows I’ve been consistently bearish on the U.S. dollar — a call that has...
(Zachery Schmidt, The Center Square) California, Arizona and Colorado, along with 17 other states, sued the Trump administration this week over its decision to close the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.
This program helps local communities nationwide protect themselves from natural disasters before they occur.
In April, FEMA announced it was ending...