(Headline USA) A Florida judge on Tuesday ordered reality TV star Joseph Duggar held on a $600,000 bond following his arrest earlier this month on child molestation charges involving a child under the age of 12.
Judge Brantley Clark also barred Duggar, 31, from having unsupervised contact with any minor...
/tag/Tax(Headline USA) U.S. gas prices jumped past an average of $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022 on Tuesday, as the Iran war continues to push fuel prices higher worldwide.
According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now $4.02 — over a...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center who resigned over his opposition to the US-Israeli war against Iran, is urging Americans to contact the White House and Congress to express opposition to the US sending ground troops into Iran.
In a post on X,...
(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors probing public corruption in New York have charged the leaders of a homeless shelter nonprofit with stealing $1.3 million from the taxpayer-backed organization and steering contracts worth millions more to favored vendors in exchange for bribes and kickbacks, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.
The charges...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday that other countries that are reliant on energy shipments through the Strait of Hormuz should get involved militarily and “take it” from Iran, as the Iranian military continues to control the strategic waterway.
“All of...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) After an initial safe-haven boost at the onset of the Iran war, gold corrected and has behaved more like a risk asset. However, HSBC analysts say the de-dollarization trend still makes the yellow metal a good long-term investment.
As I have noted, wars in the modern era...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) One of the things that makes gold valuable is its scarcity. But just how rare is gold?
Based on best estimates, geologists at Metals Focus estimate that there are 219,890 tonnes of gold currently above ground.
That sounds like a lot, but if you melted...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The sheriff who initially jailed alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson has abruptly resigned, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.
Washington County Sheriff Nate Brooksby, a 30-year law enforcement veteran, resigned Friday after the county reportedly received complaints “from individuals who were concerned with operations at...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Lawyers for alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson said in a Friday court filing that the ATF was unable to match the bullet that killed Kirk to Robinson’s rifle.
According to Deseret News, Robinson’s lawyers said that an initial report from the ATF “indicates that the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The United States used a new missile in a strike on the first day of the US-Israeli war against Iran that hit a sports hall and an adjacent elementary school in the Iranian city of Lamerd, killing at least 21 people in the area, The New...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Monday added Iran’s desalination plants to the list of infrastructure he may “blow up” if a deal isn’t reached to end the war, threatening attacks on the country’s water supply, a clear war crime under international law.
“The United States of America is...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The East Wing ballroom isn’t the only major construction project underway at the White House. President Donald Trump revealed Sunday that the military is building a “massive complex” underneath the property.
“The military is building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s under construction, and...