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(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Spending on the two U.S. intelligence budgets hit a record $109 billion in fiscal 2026 but still landed $6.5 billion below what the Trump administration requested, the largest shortfall in 14 years of figures published by ODNI. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Tucker Carlson claimed in a post on X on Sunday night that the Trump administration is considering launching a nuclear strike targeting Pickaxe Mountain in central Iran and that the president is expected to make a decision by November 7. “Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The American Community Survey estimated the nation’s immigrant population at 50.4 million in 2025, only slightly above the previous year’s 50.2 million. Steven Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, highlighted the figures in a new analysis describing a substantial slowdown after an...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Americans buying health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces face another substantial price increase in 2027, compounding the strain that has already prompted millions to leave individual coverage.  In an October 30  New York Times report, Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger Katz described households struggling with...

(Ááron Sepúlveda-Cué, Money Metals News Service) “Prices are information wrapped inside an incentive.” ~ Alex Tabarrok, Economics PhD Monetary systems convey information about priorities, scarcity, preferences, and trust among individuals and societies. Money is more than a generally accepted medium of exchange. It serves not merely as the primary payment asset...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold is acting weird. It sold off steeply Friday, despite falling bond yields and a modestly weaker dollar. Paradoxically, the mainstream continues to blame weakness in the gold market on inflation worries. So, investors are dumping their inflation hedge. As I said, gold is acting weird. Or maybe...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Drug Enforcement Administration special agent David Howell has given his first televised interviews since he went public as a whistleblower to expose the DEA’s policy of allowing hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and May 2025. Howell’s...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Attorney General Todd Blanche has claimed that there are no national security secrets included in the “Epstein files”—the trove of documents the Justice Department holds on deceased multimillionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. "There's not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we're withholding," Blanche...

(Sean Reed, The Center Square) Ahead of the midterm election, Department of Justice filings revealed the federal government won’t send immigration or FBI agents to state polling places. President Donald Trump and members of his administration floated the idea they might send Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) A federal judge in Alaska on Sunday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department seeking to delay certification of Alaska's U.S. Senate race if an alleged spoiler candidate remains on the ballot. U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason issued an order on Sunday dismissing the...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A spokesman for Iran’s Army said on Sunday that if the US restarts the bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic, President Trump will not be able to “dictate” the length of the conflict and warned that the war could be longer than previous ones. “A potential future war...

(Headline USA) Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers as Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill. Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church...