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Ghana Central Bank Seeks to Increase Domestic Gold Buying to Boost Reserves

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Earlier this year, the Ghanaian government announced a scheme to buy 127 tonnes of gold from “artisanal” and small-scale mining (ASM) operations to boost reserves and stem smuggling. Now the government is asking large-scale miners in the country to sell 30 percent of their annual output...

Tim Walz Enabled ‘Culture of Tolerance’ w/ Minnesota Fraud, Report Finds

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A new investigative report gives a scathing review of Gov. Tim Walz’s handling of Minnesota’s fraud scandal — reporting that his administration allowed the fraud to run rampant. The Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee released its final 84-page report Tuesday, saying Walz led...

Israel Drops Charges Against Soldiers Accused of Sexual Torture

(José Niño, Headline USA) The Israeli military dropped all charges against five soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee, and by April 2026 those soldiers returned to reserve service with no completed internal investigation. According to the BBC, the military cited "complexities in the evidentiary structure" as its reason...

Senate Bars Members from Getting Paychecks During Shutdowns

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Two weeks since Democrats finally ended the longest federal shutdown in history --- surpassing by more than a month the record they set last year --- the Senate unanimously passed a resolution via voice vote that would stop its own members from receiving paychecks during...

A Sitting Congressman Has Been Missing for 2 Months

(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Thomas Kean Jr., (R-N.J.) has vanished from public life, missing from both Capitol Hill and the campaign trail for over two months while his office refuses to provide answers about his whereabouts, the New York Times reported. The Republican lawmaker last cast a vote in...

PayPal Gives Up $30 Million to Settle DOJ Discrimination Probe

(José Niño, Headline USA) PayPal agreed to forgo roughly $30 million in transaction fees to settle a Justice Department probe into allegations that the financial services company adopted unlawful preferences for minority owned businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported. Justice Department officials had been investigating whether PayPal violated a federal...

Michael Oliver Warns of a Historic Gold and Silver Breakout as Debt Crisis Brews

(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals Podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with veteran market analyst J. Michael Oliver, founder of Momentum Structural Analysis (MSA), for a sweeping discussion on precious metals, government debt, the stock market, and what Oliver believes could become a historic turning...

Cuba Says It Has Run Out of Oil Under US Blockade

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Cuban government has said that it has run out of oil reserves under the ramped-up US oil embargo on the country, which has caused a devastating humanitarian crisis and widespread power outages across the country. “We have absolutely no fuel oil, absolutely no diesel,” Vicente de...

Michigan House Republicans Demand Benson Release SPLC Records

(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) Michigan House Republicans passed a resolution calling on Michigan Secretary of State and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson to release records tied to her past involvement with the Southern Poverty Law Center following a federal indictment against the organization. House Resolution 313, introduced by State...

Iraqi Migrant Charged in NYC Synagogue Plot

(Headline USA) An Iraqi national accused of plotting at least 18 terror attacks in Europe in retaliation for the United States and Israel’s war with Iran, including firebombing a bank in Amsterdam and stabbing Jewish men in London, has been arrested and charged with supporting Iran-backed terrorist organizations. According to...

Eat Some Gold!

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Hungry? Eat gold. Seriously. It’s a thing. Mind you, it’s not a thing that interests me in the least. But some people do eat gold. The other day, I was doing a little headline search for gold stories, and I ran across a blog post...

Pentagon Seeks Record Budget Despite Failing Every Audit

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) President Donald Trump is asking Congress to approve the largest military budget in American history for an agency that has never passed a financial audit. The Department of Defense, rebranded the Department of War by the Trump administration, says it has a new plan to...
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