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(Headline USA) President Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration. The gifts of $45,000 each to executive assistant Natalie Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin, and deputy director of Oval Office operations Chamberlain Harris as well as a...

(José Niño, Headline USA) With the 25-year mark since September 11 approaching, the Trump administration has quietly scrubbed several high profile Al Qaeda affiliated operatives off its terrorism sanctions list, according to Max Blumenthal's reporting in The Grayzone.  Among them is Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric whose career involved funneling...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal judge in California is facing scrutiny from the Trump administration after ordering the release of a Salvadoran national wanted for aggravated murder in his home country. Jinsook Ohta, a district judge for the Southern District of California, ordered the release of David Antonio Aviles Perez,...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US on Tuesday launched more strikes against Iranian oil tankers, and the Iranian military vowed it would respond, marking another escalation of the war. A US official told Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin that the United States launched strikes against tankers near Kharg Island, deep inside...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) University of Illinois Chicago researchers say heightened federal immigration enforcement corresponded with about $1.26 billion in foregone retail and restaurant activity in Cook County, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dismissed the correlation between a good economy and illegal immigration. Matthew Wilson co-authored the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) An illegal alien now sits behind bars, accused of causing a wrong way crash that ended the lives of a mother and her adult daughter in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to a report from Breitbart News. The tragedy reportedly occurred inside a sanctuary jurisdiction that generally...

Chris Wade, The Center Square) A coalition of 9/11 family members, first responders and elected officials on Tuesday urged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend Friday's memorial marking the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. In a press briefing on the steps of City Hall, survivors of...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court in December will hear arguments in cases on semi-automatic gun bans in Illinois and Connecticut, immigration detention centers, voting rights in Arizona and parental rights related to transgender children in Washington state. Justices on the high court released the December argument...

(Liam Hibbert, The Center Square) The list of noncitizen voters in Nevada has fallen to 185 from a potential list of nearly 16,000 after revisions from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But the department noted the 185 figure strictly refers to those who were manually reviewed during a labor-intensive...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The bloodbath in the bond market keeps picking up speed along with the debasement trade. Last week, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund announced a plan to slash its government bond holdings by about 20 percent. "We recommend that the government subindex of the bond index...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Last spring, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to put off buying gold for a year. They apparently didn’t heed the advice. The Titan Company reported a 63 percent profit increase in the second quarter and a notable increase in foot traffic. And according to...

(Headline USA) Huawei Technologies, a leading Chinese tech company, faces a criminal racketeering trial in New York over charges that it stole technology, plotted to steal U.S. trade secrets and committed wire and bank fraud, among other crimes. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday. The indictment alleges that, besides stealing trade...