(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Official central bank gold buying started 2025 the same way it ended 2024 - strong.
Globally, central banks added a net 18 tonnes of gold to their holdings in January.
A World Gold Council analyst said, "The sustained buying highlights the strategic importance of gold...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Silver imports into India rose sharply last month, hitting the highest January level since Metals Focus began tracking the data in 2008.
Silver imports rose by 37 percent year on year to 875 tonnes.
This jump in imports happened despite higher prices.
Hot Indian Silver Investment...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department disclosed in a Monday court filing that Ryan Routh is no longer considering an “insanity defense” against the allegations that he attempted to assassinate Donald Trump last September on his Florida golf course.
The DOJ first disclosed Routh’s potential insanity defense last December, and...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The federal government, now led by President Donald Trump, may finally compensate the grieving family of Ashli Babbitt—a veteran and MAGA activist who was fatally shot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Judicial Watch, a conservative non-profit, sued the federal government for $30 million in...
(Headline USA) The U.S. Treasury Department announced it will not enforce a constitutionally dubious law started under Biden's administration that would require companies to submit their private ownership information to a central database.
In a Sunday evening announcement, Treasury said in a news release that it will not impose penalties...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former DC Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Agriculture was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Friday for perpetrating an $880,000 fraud on the COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program.
The defendant, Wendy Nicole Villatoro, 40, formerly of Washington, D.C., pleaded for leniency leading up to Friday’s sentencing—asking a judge for...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump signed on Saturday an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States.
The order allows government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to offer documents and services in language other than English.
It rescinds a mandate...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Newly unsealed court records reveal that a confidential informant made $665,638.63 over roughly the last eight years working for the FBI—with one of his recent assignments being to pose as an Iraqi terrorist.
“ has been working with the FBI since approximately 2014. CHS1 has no...
(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) Minnesota Governor Tim Walz did not rule out the possibility of running for the presidency in 2028 while speaking with The New Yorker on its radio show.
"Look I never had an ambition to be president or vice president," he began. "I was honored to be asked."
Walz continued that...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) There aren’t too many upsides to the widespread loss in confidence currently underway. It would be far better if major institutions were trustworthy, competent, and efficiently run. But fixing these institutions first requires recognition of the problems.
The people who spent all of their...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The parents of alleged Trump shooter Thomas Crooks are no longer licensed professional counselors in Pennsylvania, according to the state’s records.
Matthew Brian Crooks and Mary Elizabeth Crooks both received their professional counseling licenses in March 2002, and have been renewing them ever since—until now. The...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called out CBS host Margaret Brennan on Sunday over the legacy media’s role in downplaying the economic turmoil under the Biden administration while suddenly sounding the alarm now that Donald Trump is president.
Brennan—who has repeatedly been criticized for regurgitating leftist talking points...