Monday, April 27, 2026

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Trump’s Total 2027 National Security Spending Will Exceed $2.5 Trillion

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The true total of US national security spending in 2027 will exceed $2.5 trillion, far beyond the already record-shattering $1.5 trillion military budget President Donald Trump has requested, according to veteran defense analyst Winslow Wheeler. Wheeler, who spent decades working in Washington for senators and the Government...

American Births Hit New Lows

(José Niño, Headline USA) Fresh government statistics reveal that the American fertility rate reached a new minimum in 2025. This downturn continues a shrinking trend that has lasted for 20 years.  According to research from the CDC, the number of births per 1,000 women of reproductive age slid to 53.1...

Democrats Grow Bolder on Talk About Removing Trump from Office After His Iran Threats

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump’s threats to wipe out Iran, “a whole civilization,” ended the restraint that Democrats have mostly practiced when it comes to questions of removing him from office in his second term. By the dozens, Democrats came out to say that Trump should no longer serve in...

US Economy Grew a Sluggish 0.5% in Fourth Quarter

(Headline USA) The American economy, slowed by last fall's 43-day government shutdown, grew at a sluggish 0.5% annual pace from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in a downgrade of its previous estimate. U.S. gross domestic product — the nation's output of goods and services — decelerated in...

Former NYPD Officer to be Sentenced for Throwing a Cooler that Killed a Man

(Headline USA) A former New York City police sergeant is set to be sentenced Thursday for tossing a picnic cooler full of drinks at a fleeing suspect, who then crashed his motorized scooter and died. The ex-officer, Erik Duran, was convicted of manslaughter in the 2023 death of Eric Duprey....

ETFs Dumped Gold in March Except In Asia

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Unsurprisingly, given the significant price corrections in January and after the onset of the Iran conflict, significant amounts of metal flowed out of gold ETFs in March. However, it was a tale of regions, with North American funds accounting for the bulk of...

Democrats Vow to Hold Bondi in Contempt for Refusing Epstein Deposition

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square)   Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is refusing to appear before the House Oversight Committee for her scheduled deposition April 14, an announcement that garnered a flood of condemnation from Democrats. Bondi argues that since she no longer leads the Department of Justice, she is no...

FBI Arrests Suspected Leaker of Downed Fighter Jet Over Iran

Director Kash Patel described the suspected leaker as a former SOCOM employee..

Ft. Knox Full of Impure Gold UNFIT for International Transactions

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The bulk of the U.S. gold reserves held in Fort Knox is made up of impure “non-standard” bars that don’t qualify for use in international settlements. In practice, this means that most of America’s massive gold stockpile is illiquid and wouldn’t be readily accepted...

Gold, Jobs, and the Story Behind France’s Move

(Money Metals News Service) In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey opens with a simple but effective point. People often give one reason for doing something, and that reason may be true, but it may not be the whole truth. He uses a personal...

Report: Trump Considers Pulling Troops Out of NATO Countries Deemed ‘Unhelpful’ to Iran War Effort

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com)The Trump administration is considering a plan to “punish” NATO countries that the president has deemed “unhelpful” to the US-Israeli war effort against Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The potential plan would involve withdrawing US troops from those NATO countries and placing them in the...

Pro-Iran Groups Have Used AI to Troll Donald Trump

(Headline USA) Pro-Iran groups have used artificial intelligence to create slick internet memes in English to try to shape the narrative during the war against the U.S. and Israel and foster opposition to it. Analysts say the memes appear to be coming from groups linked to the government in Tehran...
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