(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The Republican-sponsored HALT Fentanyl Act, a bill cracking down on fentanyl and related substances, passed the House in a bipartisan 321-104 vote Thursday.
The bill, reintroduced in February by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., permanently classifies fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs under the...
(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) Unusually far-right even in the generally far-right Israeli cabinet, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has sparked some new controversy today in a speech to an ultra-nationalist youth conference, where he called for Israel to have full control over both Syria and Lebanon, on top of annexing Gaza...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Democratic governors and Congress members shifted blame for immigration enforcement to the federal government and called ICE immigration enforcement a "gestapo operation" in opening statements at a congressional hearing Thursday.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hosted Democrat Govs. Tim Walz of Minnesota,...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Argentines are married to the dollar, but they're having a love affair with gold.
As a Bloomberg article framed it, Argentines were once "almost irrationally devoted to the dollar." In fact, the country ranks among the top holders of U.S. dollars.
According to Bloomberg, the devotion to the dollar...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel has been flying his bureau’s jet around the country in recent months, including to visit sporting events, the Joe Rogan show, and even his girlfriend in Tennessee—all on the taxpayers’ dime.
However, Patel says he hasn’t visited any nightclubs, and he’s willing...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The May CPI report is ratcheting up pressure on Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
In other words, the perception that the inflation problem is solved is raising the specter of more inflation.
In a social media post on Wednesday, Vice...
(José Niño, Headline USA) For decades, the Pentagon secretly fueled America’s UFO obsession, according to a Wall Street Journal report published on Friday.
The Journal's article recounted how inn the 1980s, an Air Force colonel visited a bar near Area 51, the famous secret base in Nevada. He handed the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal agencies under the Biden administration monitored foreign visitors to Elon Musk, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The Journal's Tuesday report specifically revealed that, throughout 2022 and 2023, multiple U.S. government agencies monitored the movements of foreign nationals traveling to visit Musk at his...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US is on high alert in the Middle East and is anticipating a potential Israeli attack on Iran, The Washington Post has reported. Amid the anticipation, the US is reducing the presence of non-essential personnel in the region.
The report said that “in recent months, US intelligence...
(Sound Money Defense League, Money Metals News Service) In a compelling interview with Investing News Network host Charlotte McLeod, Jp Cortez, Executive Director of the Sound Money Defense League, detailed a new legislative push to audit the United States’ gold reserves for the first time in decades.
The initiative, known as...
(Dave Mason, The Center Square) A large number of protesters continued to march Wednesday evening on downtown Los Angeles streets, violating the second night of a 10-hour curfew.
The defiance came following a day of marches and hundreds of demonstrators gathering in Grand Park, the 12-acre open green space that...
(Money Metals News Service) In the latest Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey tackles two central themes roiling markets and politics: silver’s long-awaited breakout and the persistent failure of Congress to rein in spending, despite the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Maharrey offers listeners both market insight and fiscal reality checks...