(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military is preparing for the possibility of a sustained, weeks-long operation against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack on the country, Reuters has reported, as the US continues to build up its forces in the region.
The report, which cited two unnamed US...
(Headline USA) Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend.
During a lightning round of questions with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama was...
(Mark Stricherz, The Center Square) Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat and a likely 2028 presidential candidate, spent nearly $1,700 of taxpayer dollars for three nights at high-end, luxury hotels, according to records The Center Square obtained under state open records laws.
The hotel stays were for two ceremonial political...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-TX., insists she refuses corporate PAC money in her current campaign. Federal filings tell a different storm, according to a report by The Intercept.
"In this Senate race I have not taken any corporate PAC money," Crockett told Texas journalist Tashara Parker last...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Republicans are expressing alarm about a GOP state comptroller candidate, Don Huffines, for secretly purchasing a New Mexico ranch owned by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They and many others are calling for transparency and an investigation.
Huffines’ LLC purchased the ranch in 2023...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Consumer Price Index is cooling, but what about inflation?
The January CPI data give the impression that the Federal Reserve is finally winning the war against inflation. Not only was the data cooler than expected, but it’s also beginning to edge close to...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Chinese consumers seeking a “safety net” are gobbling up gold even with prices at record levels.
The Chinese Lunar New Year holiday (Feb. 17) typically boosts Chinese gold demand. This year, buying is hotter than ever, even with elevated prices. As the South China Morning Post describes...
(José Niño, Headline USA) James O'Keefe released explosive hidden camera footage on Tuesday showing Matthew Tyrmand, a former Project Veritas board member, admitting he served as an FBI and Southern District of New York informant while providing information about O'Keefe and conservative organizations.
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2021326731261391347?s=20
The undercover video captures Tyrmand making shocking...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, where multiple alleged child sex crimes were committed, is now at the center of a state comptroller race in Texas.
Former Republican state representative, business owner and gubernatorial candidate Don Huffines is running for comptroller...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s $10 million forgivable loan plan for businesses purportedly affected by ICE operations sparked immediate criticism and comparisons to Minnesota’s pandemic-era fraud scandal.
Walz announced the program during a Thursday press conference in response to the Trump administration’s withdrawal of federal agents from the state.
Critics, including...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A graphic showing the percentage of border entries during the Biden administration has gone viral on social media, highlighting that a significant portion of some countries’ populations made their way into the U.S.
The graphic, created by data scientist Jonathan Pallesen and shared Friday via X, shows that between four and six percent of the populations of Nicaragua, Cuba, Honduras, Haiti, Guatemala and Venezuela...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Some news outlets in Canada rushed to protect the preferred gender identity of the unhinged suspect behind one of the deadliest school shootings in their country’s history.
The suspect, Jesse Van Rootselaar—a biological male who identified as transgender—killed six people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Tuesday. Rootselaar killed himself shortly after the mass shooting.
Critics online...