(Peter C. Earle, Money Metals News Service) Less than a week after breaking the $2,900 per ounce barrier, gold has surged past $3,000 per ounce, driven primarily by deepening economic uncertainty.
The S&P 500 has entered correction territory, tumbling over 10 percent from its recent highs as fears of a slowdown grip...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that will dismantle Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, and other US state media outlets. A press release from the White House said that the outlets have adopted an increasingly progressive agenda.
On Friday, the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) On Friday, the spot price of gold topped $3,000 an ounce for the first time.
This is yet another milestone in a bull run that started last year.
Since the end of 2023, gold has climbed to $3,000 from $2,064, a 45.3 percent increase. The...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) White House envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that President Trump will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week to discuss the potential for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
“The two presidents are going to have a really good and positive discussion this week,” Witkoff said in an interview...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US has announced an airstrike in Iraq that it claimed killed the deputy leader of ISIS.
US Central Command said that on March 13, its forces “conducted a precision airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the Global ISIS #2 leader, chief of operations and the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., suddenly discovered his love for government shutdowns last week—but this was not always the case. It turns out that shutdowns are only permissible when Republicans are in power.
Murphy appeared for an interview on NBC News’s Meet the Press, where host Kristen Welker—credit...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Over the past few years, more Americans were surprised to learn that their bank suddenly closed their accounts, purportedly for their political views.
The process is called debanking, when a bank chooses to kick a customer out, often without any notice or explanation.
Critics say the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US airstrikes are reportedly hitting the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa today, with President Trump promising “overwhelming lethal force” against the Houthi movement in northern Yemen unless they stop all attacks on international shipping.
Early casualty figures indicate a lot of civilians have been killed or wounded. The...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A United Nations judge in the United Kingdom has been convicted of modern slavery and immigration offenses after exploiting her authority to force an African woman to work as a maid and babysitter without pay.
Lydia Mugambe, an influential judge on Uganda’s High Court and the UN’s Criminal...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New whistleblower disclosures revealed this week that the Justice Department and FBI pulled out all stops to throw President Donald Trump in jail after the 2020 election. The FBI made the Trump case its top priority starting in April 2022, searching Trump’s government-issued cellphone and spending...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Lawmakers have prevented a government shutdown by passing a six-month funding stopgap bill, with the U.S. Senate voting 54-46 hours before the midnight deadline.
The passage of the Continuing Resolution follows a nail-biter cloture vote Friday afternoon, where nine Democrats and one independent ultimately voted for Republicans’...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A San Francisco city worker was caught multiplying like rabbits—at least on paper—after fabricating records for more than a dozen children in a scheme to defraud taxpayers of more than $500,000 in government entitlements.
Daisy Avalos, a staffer in the San Francisco Human Services Agency, and her...