(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The federal government asked an appeals court Friday to pause a lower court ruling that required the Trump administration to fully fund benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, provides federally-funded food benefits to about 42 million low-income families...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) As the government shutdown drags into its 38th day and forced flight reductions begin taking effect, the number of daily flight cancellations Americans are experiencing has skyrocketed.
By noon Friday, airlines had slashed 850 flights within, into, or out of the United States – quadruple...
(Headline USA) An explosion at a hydrogen and nitrogen product manufacturer in Mississippi on Wednesday caused an ammonia leak and forced nearby residents to evacuate, officials said.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said in a post on the social platform X that emergency officials from across the state were responding...
(Headline USA) A former South Carolina state lawmaker has been indicted on federal allegations that he schemed to defraud his legal clients.
According to court papers, a federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted former Rep. Marvin Pendarvis, a Democrat and attorney, on 10 charges including wire fraud, aggravated identity...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Democrats in the House Oversight Committee have written to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, seeking information about his relationship with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“You may have valuable information about the crimes committed by Mr. Epstein and his co-conspirators,” they said in...
(Arthur Kane, The Center Square) U.S. Reps Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and David Scott, D-Ga., have each had taxpayers pay as much as $1,000 every month to Lexus financial so they can lease a vehicle for their offices, a review of House Members' Representational Allowance records by The Center Square...
(Headline USA) A federal judge in Texas has agreed to dismiss a criminal conspiracy charge against Boeing in connection with two 737 Max jetliner crashes that killed 346 people.
In a written decision issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor approved the federal government’s request to dismiss its case against...
(Headline USA) The grim task of finding and identifying victims from the firestorm that followed a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, entered a third day Thursday as investigators gathered information to determine why the aircraft caught fire and lost an engine on takeoff.
The inferno consumed the enormous...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Buy the dips in gold!
That’s the recommendation of UBS analysts after the recent correction in the gold price.
After peaking near $4,400 an ounce, gold was hammered lower, falling to below $4,000. Since then, the price seems to have consolidated around $4,000, but volatility...
(Money Metals News Service) Mike Maharrey opens the Midweek Memo with a sharp analogy: if the D.A.R.E. officer lectured against drugs and then left heroin and syringes on the desk, that would mirror Jerome Powell’s performance. The chair talked tough, lowered expectations for future easing, and still delivered another hit...
(Headline USA) Starbucks’ union members have voted to strike at the company’s U.S. stores next week unless it finalizes a contract agreement, the union said Wednesday.
The strike would begin on Nov. 13, which is the day Starbucks plans to distribute free, reusable red cups. Red Cup Day, a Starbucks...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US is asking the UN Security Council to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader, and other members of his government, before he visits the White House next week, The Associated Press has reported.
Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, was...