(Gwendolyn Sims, Headline USA) On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024. The bipartisan bill passed the House 357 to 70 to expand eligibility for the child tax credit for lower-income families.
It adjusts payments for inflation for...
(Headline USA) The GOP-led House of Representatives voted this week to pass a bill that would make driving while intoxicated or impaired a deportable offense—despite opposition from 150 Democrats.
The bill, titled the Protect Communities from DUIs Act, cleared the chamber in a 274-150 vote. The only votes against it...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) After a sluggish January for precious metals, gold and silver markets saw a rally during the first day of February trading, only to see it reverse on Friday, February 2, after a strong U.S. jobs report.
Metals and equity markets had turned down on...
(Headline USA) Elon Musk wants Tesla investors to decide on moving the company's corporate listing to Texas after a Delaware court decided he shouldn't get a multibillion-dollar pay package.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1752491924848820595
The electric car company's CEO said early Thursday that Tesla would get shareholders to vote on whether to switch its corporate...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Hunter Biden's legal defense team went on the attack this week against federal prosecutors in his gun case, suggesting in a recent filing that they may benefit from attending Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
It was the latest in what promises to be a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Earlier this week, news broke about a self-purported militia leader who was arrested for allegedly murdering and decapitating his father.
Initially spun by mainstream media as another example of “right-wing extremism,” internet sleuths soon found that the alleged murderer, Justin Mohn, was anti-Trump.
https://twitter.com/TheWuhanClan/status/1752546227512586505?s=20
Others found more signs of Mohn’s mental...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) The standoff at the southern border between Texas, which seeks to enforce immigration law, and federal agents attempting to impose the Biden administration's open-border policies has triggered what some consider to be a possible secession crisis.
https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Vertigo/status/1750614300119490845
Red states have rallied in support, pleding to send...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Where there’s fire, there’s smoke. And there is definitely smoke in the U.S. banking system.
The mainstream consensus is that the Federal Reserve successfully raised interest rates, slayed the inflation monster, and did it without breaking anything in the economy. Most people seem convinced...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Chinese communist regime started censoring economists and journalists who dared to raise concerns about the poor state of the Chinese economy to save the image of the country's stability.
In addition to that, top lieutenants of CCP dictator Xi Jinping urged officials to “promote the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Talk about too close for comfort.
CNN reported Thursday that a cruise missile launched by the Houthis in the Red Sea came within a mile of a U.S. destroyer before being intercepted on Tuesday. CNN explained that a cruise missile can travel a mile in mere...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) EBay Inc. agreed Wednesday to pay $59 million and make changes to its compliance program as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice that it violated the federal law by selling thousands of pill presses and encapsulating machines through its website.
The...
(Steve Wilson, The Center Square) A federal judge on Wednesday smacked down Disney's last-ditch lawfare attack on Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida, dashing its hopes to force the Republican leader to reinstate a longstanding sweetheart deal that gave the entertainment corporation unprecedented levels of autonomy.
"As stated...