(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The ball is in Iran’s court, and the U.S. holds all the cards, Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump argue after exhaustive talks with the Islamic Republic stalled.
Vance, who just returned from a whirlwind trip to Pakistan after participating in talks with...
(Headline USA) After years of legal troubles and prison, Harvey Weinstein is again going on trial on a rape charge in New York City.
Jury selection started Tuesday in the onetime movie mogul's latest retrial, where jurors will weigh — for the third time — whether he raped hairstylist and...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Longtime economics expert Eric Rasmusen claims Indiana University blocked his emeritus status because of his past social media activity. Rasmusen left his position in 2021 but sought the title later to regain access to digital research libraries.
The university recently informed him that they would not...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Taxpayers are expected to spend 6.93 billion hours and more than $477 billion to be in compliance with the 2026 tax filing season, according to a new report released Monday.
Tax Day is Wednesday. The National Taxpayers Union Foundation released a report with estimates on...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Mainstream economists have been at war with gold for years.
And gold is winning.
Aaron Brown formerly served as head of market research for AQR Capital Management and now works as a columnist for Bloomberg. In a recent op-ed, he chronicled gold’s ongoing war with economists.
John Maynard...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) This is your monthly reminder that the U.S. government still has a massive spending problem.
The federal government’s Debt Black Hole got a little bigger in March, as Uncle Sam ran yet another big budget deficit.
According to the Monthly Treasury Statement, the Trump administration spent $164.1...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Hearings are expected this week in the case of an Army veteran charged with violating the Espionage Act between 2022 and 2025 from her time spent with an elite Fort Bragg unit between 2010 and 2016.
Courtney Williams, 40, shared classified information with a journalist,...
(Liam Hibbert, The Center Square) Nevada has prepared a lawsuit to combat the voter ID legislation Congress is considering, the Nevada secretary of state told The Center Square.
Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar and other Democratic leaders in Nevada have spoken out against the potential law. They plan to sue...
(Headline USA) The standoff between the United States and Iran deepened Tuesday as the U.S. declared it had blockaded Iran's ports, Tehran threatened to strike targets across the region, and Pakistan said it was racing to bring the sides together for more talks.
Though last week's ceasefire appeared to hold,...
(Headline USA) The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home had written about AI's purported risk to humanity and traveled from Texas to San Francisco intending to kill Altman, authorities said Monday.
Authorities allege 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama threw the incendiary device about 4 a.m....
(Alton Wallace, The Center Square) An unusually large number of crude oil tankers on the open seas has the American Gulf coast as a destination as the ships are redirected to load cargoes bound for markets around the world already experiencing shortages.
Second-term Republican President Donald Trump said Saturday on...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said on Monday that the US military has begun enforcing a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz as Iran has denounced the move as “piracy.”
US Central Command said the blockade will aim to impede the passage of all ships entering or leaving Iranian...