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(zachery Schmidt, The Center Square) U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs defeated U.S. Rep. David Schweikert in the Arizona Republican primary for governor Tuesday. With 7% of Arizona precincts reporting, Biggs, R-Gilbert, received 71.5% of the votes, while Schweikert, R-Scottsdale, only got 16%. Biggs will now go up against Gov. Katie Hobbs, who...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Erika Kirk sat through five days of testimony in a Utah courtroom this month as prosecutors reconstructed her husband's killing, and people close to the family say she left carrying sadness rather than the rage she expected, according to the Daily Mail. The hearing placed her...

(Headline USA) A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president. A divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...

(Headline USA) Bill Gates and the staff of his charitable foundation met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than two dozen times even as employees expressed concerns about the reputational risk of working with him, an external review commissioned by the Gates Foundation found. The conversations appeared to focus...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A man arrested by federal agents Monday for starting a large blaze outside a New York City immigration court was an "anti-government extremist" who told law enforcement officials he was willing to injure or kill people, authorities said. Andrew Arrabaca, 43, of Poughkeepsie, was taken...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) For a 10th consecutive night, the U.S. is carrying out strikes on Iran, targeting the Islamic Republic’s ability to attack commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Following the announcement of three U.S. service members killed in action resulting from Iranian strikes, President Donald Trump...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday said it was “best” for Israel to stay out of the current conflict between the US and Iran, as the US continues bombing the Islamic Republic, and Iranian missiles and drones continue to target bases in Arab states across...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The New York Times reported on Monday that the Pentagon didn’t disclose that US troops had been injured by Iranian attacks on Jordan in the week leading up to the missile strikes that killed at least two US soldiers and left one missing. US officials told the...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The White House on Monday shared the results of a poll from about three weeks ago that shows the majority of American voters supported the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which President Donald Trump has since declared is “over” as he has restarted the bombing campaign...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Apple has spent years selling itself as the privacy company, but a fresh lawsuit contends that one of its flagship privacy tools was essentially a vault with the door hanging loose. As Reclaim the Net tells it, a customer in California claims Apple went on...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) When the price of gold peaked at $5,500 in January, it was technically overbought. Now the dynamics have flipped, with gold “massively” oversold. “Oversold” is a technical term meaning that an asset has declined so rapidly or so far that momentum indicators indicate selling...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) You can add Tanzania to the list of countries expanding their gold reserves. According to a statement by Bank of Tanzania Governor Emmanuel Tutuba, the country has increased its gold holdings by 28 tonnes over the last 18 months. The newly acquired gold is...