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Trump Says He’s Sending 5,000 Additional Troops to Poland

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Thursday that he will send 5,000 additional troops to Poland, the same number of troops the Pentagon has announced it plans to pull out of Germany. “Based on the successful Election of the now President of...

Two Men Charged with Creating AI-Generated Porn Under New Law Targeting ‘Deepfakes’

(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using artificial intelligence to create nude videos and photos of female celebrities under a newly enacted law meant to halt the spread of deepfake pornography. Cornelius Shannon, 51, and Arturo Hernandez, 20, were both arrested Tuesday for generating sexually explicit AI...

Woman at Center of Sprawling Minnesota Fraud Gets Nearly 42-Year Prison Sentence

(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence — nearly 42 years — to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration. Aimee Bock ran Feeding Our...

Two Things Mainstream Pundits Get Wrong in Their Current Gold Narrative

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold has dropped more than 11 percent from its all-time high of just over $5,102 an ounce in January, and selling pressure continues to dominate the market. A well-established mainstream narrative is driving the bearish sentiment. However, while seemingly plausible on the surface,...

DOJ Health Fraud Bust in Minn. Led to Suspect Jumping From Roof

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Over $90 million in allegedly stolen health care funds. A major federal law enforcement operation in a Democratic-governed state. More than a dozen arrests. And one suspect allegedly jumping off a roof to evade arrest. That was the chaotic scene in Minnesota on Thursday, where Trump administration officials...

Farmland Prime for Data Centers, But at What Cost?

(Lauren Jessop, The Center Square) Data center developers are increasingly targeting agricultural land for new projects, and residents in affected communities are mounting opposition, concerned about the industrialization of their farmland. At the same time, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration is pursuing two priorities that can be difficult to balance: attracting...

Rubio Says Chance of a ‘Peaceful Agreement’ With Cuba Is ‘Not High’

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Thursday that the chances of reaching an “agreement that’s peaceful” with Cuba are “not high,” comments that come after the US indicted a former Cuban president, setting up a pretext for a potential attack. “They’re not going to be...

Florida’s AG Launches Criminal Probe into ChatGPT Over FSU Shooting

(Headline USA) Florida's attorney general on Tuesday opened a rare criminal investigation into OpenAI's ChatGPT over whether the artificial intelligence app offered advice to a gunman who killed two people and wounded six others last year at Florida State University. Attorney General James Uthmeier said that prosecutors had done an...

Trump Media Company Replaces Ex-Congressman Nunes as CEO after Stock Plunge

(Headline USA) The Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as the leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth. Devin Nunes, a former California congressmen in Donald Trump's first term,...

Trump Postpones Signing Artificial Intelligence Order Out of Concern it Would Hurt the AI Industry

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump called off a signing ceremony Thursday for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull America’s edge on AI technology. Trump said he was postponing the signing because he did not like what he saw in the order’s text. He announced...

Sens. Risch and Cortez Masto Introduce Bipartisan SILVER Act to Derisk U.S. Precious Metals Market Infrastructure

(Money Metals News Service) U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-ID) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) today introduced the bipartisan “System Integrity through Licensed Vault Expansion and Resilience Act” (SILVER Act), designed to derisk, modernize, and strengthen America’s precious metals market infrastructure by encouraging greater geographic diversification of approved precious metals...

Foreign Central Banks Dumping U.S. Treasuries

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) There is a lot of talk about whether the Federal Reserve should raise interest rates, but in fact, the market is hiking rates with or without central bank cooperation. Treasury yields have crept relentlessly higher over the last several months, signaling significant stress in...
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