(Money Metals News Service) Mike Maharrey opens this week’s Money Metals Midweek Memo with a warning ripped from Jurassic Park: just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
He applies this to the Federal Reserve, accusing it of blindly tinkering with the economy's most fundamental signal—interest rates.
The parallel is sharp. Dr. Ian Malcolm warned of scientific...
(José Niño, Headline USA) In this hard-hitting episode of Headline Geopolitics, José Niño talks with Conor Freeman, the Assistant Editor at the Libertarian Institute, about Trump’s failure to deliver on his “America First” promises.
From Iran and Gaza to Ukraine and Russia, Freeman outlines how Trump has enabled escalation, embraced militarism,...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Indicted in Houston in 2023, a Chinese spy has finally been arrested for allegedly hacking a Texas university to steal COVID research on behalf of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Chinese national Xu Zewei, 33, was taken into custody in Milan, Italy, at the...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Ten people have been arrested so far in a “planned ambush” of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in north Texas.
On July 4, the Alvarado Police Department announced that one of its police officers had been shot in the neck after responding to a...
(Headline USA) X CEO Linda Yaccarino said she’s stepping down after two years running Elon Musk’s social media platform.
Yaccarino posted a positive message Wednesday about her tenure at the company formerly known as Twitter and said “the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with” Musk’s...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) An appeals court has overturned the conviction against Douglas Mackey, who was charged with election interference under the Biden administration for posting a meme in 2016 about voting for then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton via text message.
Mackey had been operating the popular “Ricky Vaughn” Twitter account that had...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US is poised to spend over $1 billion on building new air bases and various other types of military facilities, Haaretz reported on Tuesday, citing documents and presentations from the US Army Corps of Engineers.
The construction projects include building a facility to accommodate Israel’s new KC-46...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A group of disgruntled bureaucrats fired by President Donald Trump’s DOGE initiative has declared war on his administration, plotting sabotage both from within and outside the federal government.
The individuals include former officials at USAID and the State Department. They claim that Trump poses a threat to...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Did House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Photoshop his waist to appear slimmer? Social media critics think so.
Jeffries, D-N.Y., became the target of viral mockery on Monday after critics pointed out what they viewed as botched photo editing on the top Democrat’s Instagram page.
The photo, shared Sunday,...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump continues to expand his crypto-related offerings, this time with a planned exchange-traded fund tied to the prices of five popular cryptocurrencies.
Trump Media & Technology Group, a Florida company that operates the Truth Social media platform, announced Tuesday it had filed paperwork with the Securities and...
(Headline USA) Real estate investors are snapping up a bigger share of U.S. homes on the market as rising prices and stubbornly high borrowing costs freeze out many other would-be homebuyers.
Nearly 27% of all homes sold in the first three months of the year were bought by investors --...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) As lawmakers begin crafting the 12 annual appropriations bills to fund the federal government in fiscal year 2026, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has implied that his party will refuse to cooperate in the process if Republicans revoke billions in funding from previous...