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(Money Metals News Service) In this week’s Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey examined what he calls the debasement trade. It is the growing preference for tangible assets such as gold and silver as protection against the declining purchasing power of fiat currencies. Maharrey framed the trend as a matter...

(Headline USA) A lone juror blocked Lindsay Clancy from being acquitted, insisting he wouldn’t find her not guilty by reason of insanity despite saying during deliberations that he had reasonable doubt, the jury’s foreperson complained in a TV interview Tuesday. The interview with Boston’s NBC10 aired four days after a...

(Headline USA) Five members of a crew killed when an Amazon cargo jet smashed into their van were wrapping up their eight-hour shift cleaning planes at the Miami airport when the crash happened, lawyers for one of the victims said on Wednesday. Two other workers in the van were in...

(Headline USA)  Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate must remain in custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge in Miami ruled Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Lauren Louis denied a defense motion for release, meaning the...

(Headline USA) Around this time two years ago, Sen. John Fetterman was in high demand on the campaign trail, going county-to-county in Pennsylvania to help Democrats up and down the ballot. Now, after two years of crossing swords with Democrats and backing some of President Donald Trump's priorities, he's nowhere...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration. The gifts of $45,000 each to executive assistant Natalie Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin, and deputy director of Oval Office operations Chamberlain Harris as well as a...

(José Niño, Headline USA) With the 25-year mark since September 11 approaching, the Trump administration has quietly scrubbed several high profile Al Qaeda affiliated operatives off its terrorism sanctions list, according to Max Blumenthal's reporting in The Grayzone.  Among them is Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric whose career involved funneling...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A federal judge in California is facing scrutiny from the Trump administration after ordering the release of a Salvadoran national wanted for aggravated murder in his home country. Jinsook Ohta, a district judge for the Southern District of California, ordered the release of David Antonio Aviles Perez,...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US on Tuesday launched more strikes against Iranian oil tankers, and the Iranian military vowed it would respond, marking another escalation of the war. A US official told Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin that the United States launched strikes against tankers near Kharg Island, deep inside...

(Jim Talamonti, The Center Square) University of Illinois Chicago researchers say heightened federal immigration enforcement corresponded with about $1.26 billion in foregone retail and restaurant activity in Cook County, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dismissed the correlation between a good economy and illegal immigration. Matthew Wilson co-authored the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) An illegal alien now sits behind bars, accused of causing a wrong way crash that ended the lives of a mother and her adult daughter in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to a report from Breitbart News. The tragedy reportedly occurred inside a sanctuary jurisdiction that generally...

Chris Wade, The Center Square) A coalition of 9/11 family members, first responders and elected officials on Tuesday urged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend Friday's memorial marking the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. In a press briefing on the steps of City Hall, survivors of...