(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) So far this year, Chinese gold imports are at the highest level since at least 2017.
China ranks as the world’s largest gold market.
Through the first eight months of 2026, China spent $158.8 billion to import more than 1,100 tonnes of gold, according to...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Advocates of the growing network of AI-driven surveillance cameras argue the technology can help make communities across the U.S. safer.
But the controversial cameras have also wreaked havoc on the lives of innocent American citizens, including Florida resident Lindsey Isaacs, who spent 13 days in...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden administration wielded the DOJ as a weapon to target its political opponents in Congress, repeatedly bypassing constitutional protections to obtain their phone records and other private communications, a new House report concluded.
The aggressive efforts to target Republican lawmakers are detailed in a 57-page interim...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Pennsylvania man Jim Copenhaver, one of the two men who survived gunshot wounds from the July 13, 2024, Trump assassination attempt, died on Wednesday, Headline USA has learned.
This reporter was informed of the 76-year-old Copenhaver’s death Thursday morning. A source close to his family confirmed the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) With bond yields on the rise and markets penciling in another Federal Reserve interest rate hike this year, a lot of people are selling their gold.
Axel Merk doesn’t think you should.
Merk is the founder of Merk Investments, and he has a reputation as...
(Money Metals News Service) A bank run is a familiar danger in a fractional-reserve banking system. In December 1930, as the Great Depression deepened, the privately owned Bank of United States in New York collapsed after a run by depositors. Despite its name, it was not a government institution....
(Headline USA) Maine Democrats on Wednesday assailed U.S. Sen. Susan Collins over a news report that the FBI investigated how much she knew about illegal campaign contributions that sent one of her donors to prison.
The ProPublica report, published Tuesday, states that the FBI in 2024 planned to launch an...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The United States plans to open two new military bases in Greenland, an expansion made possible by a new security agreement between the US, Denmark, and the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) In his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, President Trump threatened Iran with “annihilation” and “hell,” but said he believes there would be a deal after the midterm elections, and said later in the day that his envoys held talks with Iranian officials.
Trump told the...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly Thursday amid an escalating public dispute with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Ahead of his arrival in New York City, which was expected late Wednesday, Netanyahu released a video saying...
(Headline USA) Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced in Manhattan to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning.
Weinstein’s sentencing for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley followed a legal odyssey spanning more than six years. His 2020 conviction was...
(Headline USA) Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown plans to accept a plea deal on an attempted murder charge in Miami that avoids prison, as part of an agreement that his lawyer said Wednesday was too good to turn down.
Brown is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 30...