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(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) The latest polling shows Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar leading Republican state House Speaker Lisa Demuth for Minnesota’s gubernatorial race. The average of the last four polls compiled by 270toWin report Klobuchar leading 48.3% to Demuth’s 41.5%. That is a difference of 6.8% and outside...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Halfway through early voting, 3,500 reportedly defective voter registrations have been identified in South Texas. That's according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which filed a Help America Vote Act election complaint with the Texas Secretary of State’s Office. The complaint alleges that 22 South Texas...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military is sending an additional Patriot missile system to Israel to beef up the country’s air defenses as part of preparations for a potential US-Israeli attack on Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday night. It’s estimated that the US has used about 1,700...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Pentagon’s estimate for the cost of the Iran war is now over $47 billion, 25% higher than its estimate from July, according to data obtained by Reuters, though the true cost of the conflict is significantly higher since the US War Department’s numbers leave out...

(Headline USA) A man who played a major role in defrauding a federal food program in Minnesota was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison, the latest punishment in a sprawling scheme to collect millions of dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic by claiming to have fed needy children. The depth...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Candace Owens has secured a procedural victory in her legal battle with Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, but the dispute over her false claims about France’s first lady is far from finished.  A Delaware judge dismissed the claims against Owens personally while allowing the case against her...

(Stefan Bartl, Money Metals News Service) On August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon interrupted Sunday-night television to announce the New Economic Policy. With the Vietnam War winding down, Nixon argued that the economy required federal action to deliver what he called “a new prosperity without war.” Nixon declared that night,...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Federal authorities have charged six individuals in Maine with allegedly defrauding the federal government by submitting false claims for home care services they didn't provide.  The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine announced Tuesday that a federal grand jury indicted six individuals and...

(Headline USA) A prominent Georgia Republican who ran a Ponzi scheme that federal prosecutors said caused losses of more than $76 million to more than 300 victims has been sentenced to spend 15 years in federal prison. Edwin Brant Frost IV, 69, had pleaded guilty in May to a charge...

(Headline USA) Federal law enforcement agents searched a Beverly Hills home early Tuesday as part of an investigation into Eric Swalwell, who resigned from Congress amid a wave of sexual misconduct allegations, two people familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press. Agents searched the home of wealthy developer and...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Secret bank accounts, Gulf rulers, and private fortunes sit at the center of a contested new account of Jared Kushner’s diplomacy. Reviewing Matthew Cole’s “Princes and Thieves” for the New York Times, Fintan O’Toole argues that its allegations warrant congressional investigation, while emphasizing that the...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The midterm elections are fast approaching, and Democrats are widely expected to make significant gains. How might this impact the gold market? If history is any indication, it will all depend on how the shift impacts policy. Prediction markets expect the Democrats to take both the...