(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday slapped sanctions on three Mexican-based banks that it said were used to launder millions of dollars for cartels.
The move, officials said, would cut the banks off from the U.S. financial system.
Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network identified three Mexico-based...
(Headline USA) Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner is so unpopular that he's losing badly in the Democratic primary for a New York City Council seat to a man who shares the same name as two of the most notorious sex criminals in world history.
Initial returns Tuesday showed Weiner running...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) House Republicans and Democrats sparred on Tuesday over codifying cuts proposed by the Department of Government Efficiency.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said Congress needs to “lock in” DOGE’s $180 billion in cuts across the federal government at a House Oversight and Government Reform’s DOGE...
(Christina Lengyel, The Center Square) Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has conceded the Democratic primary race for New York City mayor to progressive underdog Zohran Mamdani. The 33-year-old Mamdani currently serves as a member of the New York General Assembly representing Queens.
Mamdani ran on a platform that focused on making...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Florida’s latest immigration crackdown is taking a wild turn, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved a $450 million Everglades detention facility guarded by the Everglades' fiercest wildlife.
According to a report by The Hill, this detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" by state officials, will...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told Congress on Tuesday that economic data merited lower interest rates but that tariffs could undo the central bank's fight to tame inflation.
"If you just look in the rearview mirror and look at the existing data that we've seen,...
(Douglas French, Money Metals News Service) You hear about gas prices every day. The President brags that per-gallon prices have dropped to $1.99 in some places.
After paying over $4.00 here in Las Vegas, I wonder where he is talking about. He ran on bringing down prices at the pump,...
(Headline USA) A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules.
Lee, a Utah Republican, has proposed selling...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Should the cost of storing physical gold and silver deter people from considering precious metals as an investment option?
Idaho Governor Brad Little thought so.
Last year, he vetoed a bill that would have given the Gem State an option to invest up to 7.5 percent of...
(Jesse Colombo, Money Metals News Service) While silver has been relatively quiet in recent weeks following its encouraging breakout, this doesn’t signal failure—rather, it looks like a healthy pause typical of low-volume summer trading.
On June 5th, silver finally broke above both the $32–$33 and $34–$35 resistance zones that had capped its...
(Caroline Boda, The Center Square) Several major health insurance companies are vowing to make changes to simplify their prior authorization process and improve Americans’ access to timely health care.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare & Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced the changes...
(Brien Lundin, Money Metals News Service) “War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!” — I’ve had the classic Edwin Starr song running in my head ever since news of the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities broke Saturday evening.
I was actually alerted to the news by my friend Brent Johnson,...