(Headline USA) A top California Democratic political aide agreed to plead guilty Thursday to charges including conspiracy to commit bank fraud related to a scheme to steal campaign funds from Xavier Becerra when he served as the federal health secretary.
The case has drawn attention to Becerra in his bid for...
(Headline USA) Six people who were found dead in a rail yard shipping container in Laredo, Texas, were from Honduras and Mexico and included a 14-year-old boy, all part of a human smuggling effort, authorities said Thursday.
Police released more details about the discovery made Sunday in Laredo, near the U.S....
(Headline USA) When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note the director was not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau's Honolulu field office and meetings with local law enforcement.
Left out of the FBI's news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took...
(Headline USA) The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent attacks against Jews and racial minorities, including one plot that would have involved dressing as Santa Claus to hand out poisoned candy to children.
Michail...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) As is typical in April, the federal government ran a budget surplus last month thanks to the influx of income tax revenue. But despite this seemingly good news, every metric reveals further deterioration in America’s fiscal situation.
The surplus of $215.02 billion was 16.8...
(Headline USA) A man who goes by “Chud the Builder” and livestreams himself saying racially derogatory statements to black people in public settings was arrested and charged with attempted murder after a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse on Wednesday, authorities said.
Dalton Eatherly, 28, and an unidentified man were involved in...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In July 2024, India slashed its import tax on gold and silver from 15 percent to 6 percent. This week, the Indian government reversed course, hiking the customs duty back to 15 percent.
The 9 percent duty increase ranks as the largest on record.
The duty on...
(José Niño, Headline USA) An ex-girlfriend of Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has accused him of offering her $5,000 in cash to drop a wrongful termination complaint, per a story Axios published on Wednesday—nearly a week before his Kentucky Republican primary.
Cynthia West, a social worker and school board candidate in...
(Money Metals News Service) In the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey challenged the optimistic mainstream narrative surrounding the U.S. economy, arguing that beneath strong headline numbers lies a far more troubling inflationary and monetary reality.
Maharrey opened with a personal hockey story about an overhyped...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have been named by the White House as possible domestic terrorists, according to Trump's top counterterrorism official Sebastian Gorka, Ken Klippenstein reported on his Substack.
Gorka, a former right wing influencer who now serves as a National Security Council principal, has...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A California taxpayer-funded program under Gov. Gavin Newsom to provide incarcerated individuals with digital tablets was allegedly exploited to access pornographic material and even groom children outside prison walls, according to a report published Wednesday.
The Newsom administration awarded a $189 million contract for the tablets, which...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Another trove of newly unearthed Biden-era files suggest that the FBI attempted to retain purported evidence related to its prosecution of President Donald Trump until 2030 — when he would presumably be out of office.
The documents, reported Tuesday by Just the News, add to a growing body...