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(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former Vice President Kamala Harris has long spoken about the importance of being surrounded by other black or minority Americans. But her new $8.5 million home is located in an exclusive Malibu neighborhood where the population is overwhelmingly white. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, purchased a...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Central Command announced on Wednesday night that it began launching airstrikes against Iran, hours after President Donald Trump threatened a response to an Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan. CENTCOM described the attacks as a “powerful response” to the attack in Jordan, though...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) Michigan House Republicans say newly obtained records show Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson maintained ties to the recently indicted Southern Poverty Law Center after taking office. The records come amid ongoing scrutiny of Benson's relationship with the organization following a federal indictment announced in...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) President Donald Trump on Thursday floated temporarily pulling Todd Blanche's nomination to the attorney general post while a U.S. Senate committee struggles to advance him. The Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to hold a vote on Blanche's nomination Thursday morning. However, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas,...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Plans to unite Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery into a film and television giant are on ice following a flurry of antitrust lawsuits. Paramount Skydance recently announced that it will delay closing its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to as late as...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Seniors who buy stand alone Medicare drug coverage will shop for 2027 plans without a federal cushion that has held their premiums down for two years. The Trump administration is winding down the subsidy program that pays insurers to blunt premium increases in Medicare Part D,...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Could China’s gold reserves surpass the United States’? On the surface, this seems like a tall order, but analysts at BMO Capital say it could happen in the next five years given China’s unreported gold buying. The U.S. officially holds just over 8,133 tonnes of...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It appears a Kevin Warsh-led Federal Reserve will at least provide a bit of drama. The Fed family fought, but it amounted to a lot of yelling and no punches thrown. In what was anything but a foregone conclusion, the Fed elected to hold the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Republicans face an unexpected threat in northeast Ohio, where a bitter feud between two of the state's most prominent conservatives now shadows a seat the party long treated as secure. The New York Times reported that domestic abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, have...

(Money Metals News Service) The United States officially reports holding 8,133.5 metric tons of gold, equivalent to roughly 261.5 million troy ounces. According to government figures, approximately 147.3 million ounces are stored at Fort Knox, while the remainder is held at the Denver Mint, the West Point Bullion Depository,...

(Headline USA) A man was sentenced Wednesday to six months and a week behind bars for ramming his car into the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters, the Jewish institution in New York where his lawyer said he'd been trying to win acceptance as he struggled with psychological issues. Dan Sohail, 36,...

(Headline USA) Two people who attended a prestigious Michigan fine arts school reported conduct of a sexual nature by Jeffrey Epstein, a major donor, according to an investigation that also uncovered dozens of allegations spanning decades against nearly 50 other people. Interlochen Center for the Arts operates a summer camp...