(Headline USA) The CEO of a Los Angeles homeless services charity faces federal and state fraud charges after prosecutors said he lived a luxury lifestyle that included lavish vacations and designer clothes paid for with $23 million in public money meant to keep people off the streets.
Alexander Soofer, 42,...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) The USS Abraham Lincoln and its support ships have arrived in the Middle East as President Donald Trump is mulling strikes on Iran.
A US official told CBS News that the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group had arrived in US Central Command’s (CENTCOM) area of control....
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued emergency orders to mitigate blackouts in New England and Texas as 24 states have declared an emergency due to an Arctic blast moving across the U.S. over the weekend.
More than 200 million people are in Storm Fern’s 2,300-mile...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) German officials are once again calling for the country’s central bank to bring its gold home.
Germany owns the second-largest gold reserves in the world at 3,352 tonnes. About 1,200 tonnes valued at around €164 billion ($194 billion) are stored at the Federal Reserve...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In October, Bank of America raised its 2026 gold price forecast to $5,000.
Mission accomplished as of January 23.
Now the big bank has upped its projection again, calling for $6,000 gold this year.
BoA analyst Michael Hartnett said gold’s performance in past bull markets influenced his...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with Frank Holmes, Chief Investment Officer at U.S. Global Investors and Executive Chairman of Hive Blockchain Technologies, to unpack why gold is now “knocking on the door” of $5,000 an ounce...
(Alan Mosley, Antiwar.com) The House of Representatives on Thursday approved an $838.7 billion fiscal 2026 defense spending bill, moving one of the largest appropriations measures in U.S. history toward final passage in the Senate. In a 341-88 vote that crossed party lines, lawmakers advanced the sprawling defense and related...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) The House of Representatives failed to pass legislation that would block President Donald Trump from waging war in Venezuela.
The vote ended in a tie, 215-215, with two Republicans voting with all Democrats for the War Powers Resolution on Venezuela. One Republican did not vote. The legislation...
(José Niño, Headline USA) In this Headline Geopolitics episode, José Niño is joined by David Miller, investigative researcher and host of Palestine Declassified. Miller recounts how he was fired from the University of Bristol over anti-Zionist views, then won in court, setting a potential legal precedent protecting political dissent...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The National Bank of Poland has approved a plan to purchase even more gold.
On Tuesday (Jan. 20), the bank issued a statement saying it plans to purchase up to 150 more tonnes of gold, raising its holdings to a maximum of 700 tonnes.
Poland...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A Michigan congressman introduced legislation to eliminate Immigration and Customs Enforcement within three months, responding directly to the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis mother by a federal agent during an enforcement operation.
Rep. Shri Thanedar, R-MI., filed the Abolish ICE Act last Tuesday, declaring the agency...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump sued banking giant JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion on Thursday over allegations that JPMorgan stopped providing banking services to him and his businesses for political reasons after he left office in January 2021.
The lawsuit, filed in Miami-Dade County court in...