(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) US forces conducted live-fire military drills in the Persian Gulf. The exercise happened as President Donald Trump is threatening to attack Iran. “Last week, Navy Sailors from USS Santa Barbara participated in the exercise Killer Tomato, a live-fire maritime gunnery exercise conducted in the Central...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Debt Black Hole got a little bigger as U.S. consumer debt unexpectedly surged in December. Americans apparently put a Christmas spending spree on Visa and Mastercard.
Consumer debt climbed by $24 billion, a 5.7 percent increase, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve.
Americans are...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) When I was a kid, someone superglued a quarter to the cafeteria floor at my junior high school. We enjoyed several days of entertainment watching people trying to pick that quarter up.
A few kids were super-aggressive in their efforts to unstick that quarter....
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A few weeks after President Trump declared on Truth Social that he wants a $1.5 trillion military budget, Republican leaders in Congress are working on making his dream of increasing military spending by about 50% a reality.
The 2026 military budget marked the first to exceed $1 trillion,...
(Headline USA) A trial focused on the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media and whether Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms is set to start in New Mexico with opening statements Monday.
It's the first stand-alone trial from state prosecutors in a stream of lawsuits against major social...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell helped fund the Clinton Global Initiative, seemingly contributing at least $1 million to the organization, according to the newly released “Epstein files”—the trove of documents released by the Justice Department.
Indeed, an Oct. 7, 2004, email from former...
(Headline USA) Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he’s stepping down, ending a troubled tenure three days after the newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff.
Lewis announced his departure in a two-paragraph email to the newspaper's staff, saying that after two years of transformation,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Texas Senate candidate and Rep. Jasmine Crockett used over $120,000 on luxury hotels, transportation and private security in 2025 alone, according to congressional campaign disclosures.
The total expenditures, drawn from both her congressional and senatorial campaigns, amounted to $124,000, Fox News reported, citing Federal Election Commission filings.
Crockett...
(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with veteran investment advisor J. Ted Oakley, founder of Oxbow Advisors. Oakley brought more than 40 years of experience advising high-net-worth clients, but the conversation began far from Wall Street.
Oakley shared a...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has been flying high on private jets while railing against billionaires on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, plowing more than half a million dollars in campaign funds into luxury air travel.
Private jets are a luxury most Americans never experience. For Sanders, however, they have become...
(Headline USA) On Friday, Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican and chairman of the House Oversight Committee, requested records related to firms partially owned by the husband of Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
The scrutiny of Omar's finances comes from a required financial disclosure statement she filed in May last...
(Headline USA) Luigi Mangione spoke out in court Friday against the prospect of back-to-back trials over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, telling a judge: “It’s the same trial twice. One plus one is two. Double jeopardy by any commonsense definition.”
Mangione, 27, made the remarks as court officers...