(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Just last week, disgraced former first son Hunter Biden celebrated after a federal judge awarded him over one million dollars in connection with a defamation lawsuit. But that victory may be short-lived after his former attorneys filed a lien seeking the proceeds.
The June 10 $1.7 million...
(Sean Reed, The Center Square) Illinois State Rep. Carrol Ammons, recently federally indicted on multiple charges of wire fraud, pleaded not guilty in her first court appearance Thursday morning.
With the courtroom gallery at its maximum capacity of 49 people, roughly 30 people, consisting of members of the public —...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation that would fast-track a floor vote on Social Security's looming insolvency, using an independent board to draft a starting plan Congress could no longer easily ignore.
The Protecting Retirement Opportunities and Maintaining Income Security for Everyone, or PROMISE...
(Headline USA) Lawmakers said Kathryn Ruemmler, the former top lawyer at Goldman Sachs and White House counsel to President Barack Obama, was not being truthful Wednesday about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, rejecting her testimony that Epstein had merely “used” her.
Ruemmler in her opening remarks told members of the...
(Headline USA) Billionaire Warren Buffett said Wednesday that his decision to cut the Gates Foundation out of his charitable giving is more about believing his three kids are ready to handle giving away his entire fortune than it is about Bill Gates' ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Buffett...
(Headline USA) The U.S. Mint has begun producing a new $1 coin bearing President Donald Trump's face to help celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the Treasury Department said Wednesday.
The final design for the commemorative coin, being released in the fall, was approved earlier this year by the U.S. Commission of...
(Headline USA) A Republican senator whose vote Todd Blanche needs to advance his nomination as attorney general suggested Thursday that his support hinges on Blanche first meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's accusers.
Sen. Thom Tillis' comments came a day after Blanche was pressed during his confirmation hearing over the Justice Department's...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The shine has come off silver since it skyrocketed to over $100 an ounce in January. The price has dropped by over 50 percent from the record high. However, there are still reasons to be bullish on silver moving forward, including persistent supply...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Over 100 House Democrats on Wednesday voted in favor of an amendment put forward by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to cut $3.3 billion in military aid to Israel, marking a major shift as congressional Democrats grapple with growing skepticism of the US-Israel relationship among their voter base.
The...
(Money Metals News Service) The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for June sparked optimism across financial markets, with inflation coming in significantly cooler than expected. Headlines quickly celebrated what appeared to be another victory in the Federal Reserve's battle against inflation.
But according to Money Metals Midweek Memo host...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal bureaucrats rewrote a deadline on their own timetable, and hundreds of thousands of foreign workers kept their paychecks.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services delayed the day that immigrants from seven countries wracked by violence and disaster may lawfully work here, The Connecticut Mirror reported. The...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The national news outlet CNBC ranked 10 Republican-led states as the worst to live in its 2026 America’s Top States for Business rankings.
Officials from Republican-led Texas, which ranked second to worst for quality of life in CNBC's report, scoffed at the rankings.
In its business...