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(José Niño, Headline USA) Cami Clark, the wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, spent years cultivating a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein while running a startup she described as a "revolutionary porn company," according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.  The outlet reports that literary agent John Brockman connected Clark and...

(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have rebuilt their fractured partnership through months of quiet diplomacy, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The two traveled together aboard Air Force One in May en route to Beijing, chatting warmly about factory plans, space launches and...

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Seniors are on track for a Social Security raise of 3.2% to 3.6% next year, money paid from a retirement fund the program's trustees say will be depleted in 2032. Three groups have issued 2027 estimates based on July inflation data and projections for the...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Let’s imagine I save enough money to buy a car for my kid. However, he’s only 13, so he won’t be driving for a few years. In a sane world, I could just stick the money under my mattress and buy a car in...

(Money Metals News Service) Money Metals Exchange will today honor Jordan Salinas, whose armed intervention during the August 1st mass shooting in Twin Falls, Idaho, was credited by police with helping prevent further casualties, with a specially engraved 25-ounce Silver Bullet Award at a private ceremony inside Money Metals’ secure vaulting facility in...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Despite gold trading sideways in the second quarter after its big price correction in the first, Chinese physical gold investment demand remained robust. Chinese investors were key drivers of the gold bull market last year, as Western investors generally sat out the rally until...

(Headline USA) Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties, civil liberties advocates and citizens across the U.S., announced Thursday that it is making changes to its platform intended to quell privacy concerns and address documented abuses of its system by some members...

(Headline USA) Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person, who was not authorized to talk publicly about the case and spoke to...

(Headline USA) The top editor of Forbes left his job last month and was reportedly dismissed for accepting $6 million from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine. The New York Times reported this week that Randall Lane was paid by RJ Shook, whose company, Shook...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon has admitted in its annual report on civilian casualties to Congress that it committed two large-scale massacres of civilians in Yemen during its bombing campaign against the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, last year, which War Secretary Pete Hegseth dubbed “Operation Rough Rider.” In...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) More international buyers – and those in the U.S. on visas, purchased more homes in Texas last year than the previous year. International buyers bought about 7,780 Texas homes from April 2025 to March 2026, up from 7,500 the year before, according to the 2026...

(Sound Money Defense League, Money Metals News Service) One of the largest national precious metals dealers and depositories in the U.S. has again teamed up with the nation’s leading sound money public policy group to recognize state legislators championing sound money policies. Money Metals and the Sound Money Defense League...