(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A Georgia-based gunmaker has agreed to stop selling a high-capacity magazine accessory used in the 2022 Buffalo mass shooting after settling a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Under the settlement, announced Wednesday, Mean Arms, also known as Mean LLC., has also...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Justice unredacted portions of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein files with mentions of high profile figures at the request of Congressional leaders.
On Monday, U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., visited the Department of Justice to view several...
(José Niño, Headline USA) New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft operates a surveillance hub inside the team's stadium that monitors over 500 million social media posts daily and sends intelligence reports on campus speech to university administrators.
Chris Menahan of Information Liberation highlighted the operation, tweeting that Robert Kraft's Blue...
(Headline USA) Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta's Instagram, testified Wednesday during a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles that he disagrees with the idea that people can be clinically addicted to social media platforms.
The question of addiction is a key pillar of the case, where plaintiffs seek...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) With less than 48 hours until the funding stopgap for the Department of Homeland Security expires, a hyper-partisan Congress faces limited options to avoid a partial government shutdown.
Senate Democrats say they will reject any Homeland Security funding bill – the only fiscal year 2026...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Tariff revenue is closing the budget deficit, but federal spending continues to increase, erasing some of those gains and driving Uncle Sam deeper into debt.
The federal government ran a $94.62 billion deficit in January, according to the monthly Treasury statement. That was down 26 percent...
(Money Metals News Service) In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey opened with a story from his childhood about a quarter superglued to a school cafeteria floor.
In the 1980s, a quarter could actually buy something. If it had been minted before 1965, it would...
(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) A lawsuit is challenging a San Francisco ordinance that establishes a reparations fund for Black residents.
The ordinance, signed in December by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, a Democrat, is aimed at addressing systematic harms. Even so, the Pacific Legal Foundation said this is wrong.
“The...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The U.S. government added $696 billion to the national debt over the past four months, borrowing $94 billion in the month of January alone, the Congressional Budget Office reports.
The number further heightens the risk that America will experience some kind of financial crisis unless...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Newly released government documents show Jeffrey Epstein ordered 330 gallons of sulfuric acid for his private island on the same day federal investigators launched a sex trafficking case against him, according to records released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law November 19,...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Despite the recent selloff, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) remains bullish, forecasting $6,000 gold and $100 silver in 2026.
The Canadian bank significantly upped its gold price forecast from $4,500 in October. CIBC analysts extended their bullish forecast into 2027, projecting an average price of $6,500...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Fundamentally, gold is money, but it does have other practical uses, contrary to what some ignorant commentators might tell you.
Gold demand in the tech and industrial sectors was generally flat at 222.8 tonnes in 2025. This was down about 1.5 percent from 226.2...