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(Headline USA) Health advisers met Thursday to review more than a half-dozen peptides, unproven substances that have become a growing wellness trend. In the first of several votes, the panel of Food and Drug Administration experts narrowly voted 8-6 in favor of broadening access to a chemical called BPC-157, one...

(Headline USA) A key Republican lawmaker says he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have made false statements to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department should consider prosecuting him. Lawyers for Smith deny the allegation and say he testified...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House on Wednesday passed its version of the massive $1.15 trillion 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes Section 219 (formerly Section 224), a provision to further integrate the US and Israeli militaries, a scheme Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described as “my...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Many central banks are stacking gold. However, there is a notable seller – Russia. This underscores the fact that governments hold gold for a reason. According to the latest data compiled by the World Gold Council, Russia has sold around 44 tonnes of gold since the...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Several large Chinese banks have announced plans to halt retail paper gold trading. Could this be a coordinated push by China to exert more influence and break the Western grip on gold pricing? Last month, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) announced...

(Money Metals News Service) In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey argues that investors should look beyond daily headlines and recognize the long-term patterns reshaping financial markets. Drawing parallels between hockey goalies who rely on pattern recognition rather than reflexes, Maharrey contends that history...

(Headline USA) ESPN is undergoing a significant round of layoffs for the first time in three years after taking over NFL Network in April. Chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in a memo to employees Tuesday morning, obtained by The Associated Press, that most moves are the result of ESPN’s acquisition of...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors are opening up a criminal investigation of Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., Fox News reported on Wednesday. A source familiar with the matter said the Justice Department inquiry stays active, though nobody has described its focus. MS NOW broke the story a day earlier, citing...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing off threats to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits the city in September for the U.N. General Assembly meeting.  In a video posted on social media Tuesday night, Mamdani said his administration considered every...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and over a dozen of his colleagues in the upper chamber have re-upped their calls to end the federal ban of marijuana. On Tuesday, Fetterman’s office sent out a press release announcing his support for the reintroduction of the Cannabis...

(zachery Schmidt, The Center Square) U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs defeated U.S. Rep. David Schweikert in the Arizona Republican primary for governor Tuesday. With 7% of Arizona precincts reporting, Biggs, R-Gilbert, received 71.5% of the votes, while Schweikert, R-Scottsdale, only got 16%. Biggs will now go up against Gov. Katie Hobbs, who...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Erika Kirk sat through five days of testimony in a Utah courtroom this month as prosecutors reconstructed her husband's killing, and people close to the family say she left carrying sadness rather than the rage she expected, according to the Daily Mail. The hearing placed her...