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(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) With bond yields on the rise and markets penciling in another Federal Reserve interest rate hike this year, a lot of people are selling their gold. Axel Merk doesn’t think you should. Merk is the founder of Merk Investments, and he has a reputation as...

(Money Metals News Service) A bank run is a familiar danger in a fractional-reserve banking system. In December 1930, as the Great Depression deepened, the privately owned Bank of United States in New York collapsed after a run by depositors. Despite its name, it was not a government institution....

(Headline USA) Maine Democrats on Wednesday assailed U.S. Sen. Susan Collins over a news report that the FBI investigated how much she knew about illegal campaign contributions that sent one of her donors to prison. The ProPublica report, published Tuesday, states that the FBI in 2024 planned to launch an...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The United States plans to open two new military bases in Greenland, an expansion made possible by a new security agreement between the US, Denmark, and the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) In his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, President Trump threatened Iran with “annihilation” and “hell,” but said he believes there would be a deal after the midterm elections, and said later in the day that his envoys held talks with Iranian officials. Trump told the...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly Thursday amid an escalating public dispute with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Ahead of his arrival in New York City, which was expected late Wednesday, Netanyahu released a video saying...

(Headline USA) Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced in Manhattan to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning. Weinstein’s sentencing for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley followed a legal odyssey spanning more than six years. His 2020 conviction was...

(Headline USA) Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown plans to accept a plea deal on an attempted murder charge in Miami that avoids prison, as part of an agreement that his lawyer said Wednesday was too good to turn down. Brown is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 30...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The National Security Agency reportedly has at least three pages of secret records on “QAnon”—the internet personality from which numerous conspiracy theories emanated, mostly during the first presidency of Donald Trump. According to the conspiracy theories, QAnon is a highly placed federal official with a “Q Clearance.”...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, two long-time associates of Jeffrey Epstein now in charge of handling the deceased billionaire sex criminal’s estate, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reported Wednesday that federal prosecutors in Manhattan...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump's AI-fueled vision for a drone port he intends to install atop the new White House ballroom includes missile-bearing unmanned aerial vehicles and gun-toting troops, ostensibly to protect the 18-acre complex and the nation’s capital. A few hundred feet away, a drone port, run by the U.S....

(Headline USA) A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Utah threw out more than 300 mail ballots that were being sent to voters for the state's June primary, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said during a news conference that Damon Matai Seei was arrested Tuesday...