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(Headline USA) Federal health officials on Friday said they have linked cases of a diarrhea-causing parasite tied to shredded lettuce to an additional four states, expanding the scope of the largest U.S. outbreak of cyclospora. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak first tied to Taco Bell...

(Headline USA) A federal indictment was unsealed Friday against 11 people in the smuggling deaths of seven migrants, including a 14-year-old boy, who were hiding inside a sweltering rail cargo container in Texas in May. Six people were found dead inside the shipping container in a rail yard in the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed three leftist nonprofits over more than $39 million routed to them by Marxist technology magnate Neville Roy Singham, Fox News reported. The letters—published on Tuesday—went to People's Forum Inc., BreakThrough News, and Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Chairman Jason...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) I’ve got some fantastic news. We don’t need to worry about that Fort Knox gold audit anymore. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent assured us all the gold is there. His comments came during an interview on Fox News. Host Jesse Watters asked the Treasury Secretary point-blank, “Have...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Earlier this week, I wrote that the gold-silver ratio has recently widened to around 70-1, a bullish signal for silver. But is this metric still relevant today? Many analysts say it isn’t, claiming that the ratio is a relic of a bygone era when gold and...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An alleged fraudster who gained national attention after jumping from a fourth-floor window to evade FBI agents has pleaded guilty to health care fraud, several news outlets reported Thursday. Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, according to court filings...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the nuclear agreement the US and Saudi Arabia signed on Thursday will only move forward if Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel, a statement that came after backlash from Israeli officials over the deal. Trump also said the deal won’t...

(Headline USA) Laura Loomer, an ardent ally of President Donald Trump with a reputation for incendiary social media commentary, sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday after a dramatic turnaround on the war that could have political reverberations back in Washington. Loomer had spent years minimizing Russia's invasion...

(Headline USA) Some bystanders appeared to barely bat an eye when a man set off a fountain of fireworks then started a blazing fire outside a federal building in Lower Manhattan, according to security camera video released Wednesday. The surveillance footage from the U.S. Attorney's Office offered the most complete...

(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...