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(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) U.S. senators will vote next week on holding in contempt of Congress the man who led the U.S. response to the global pandemic in 2020. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said senators would vote to determine whether Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute for...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Few venture funds triple investor money inside two years. Donald Trump Jr. helps run one that did. The flagship fund at 1789 Capital returned roughly 200 percent as of June 30, The New York Times reported. Competing firms founded in 2023 averaged about 21 percent, PitchBook...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Green card applicants who lean on government assistance will face tougher scrutiny starting this fall under a rule the Trump administration finalized last week. The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that it is reviving a stricter public charge standard, one that lets officers weigh an...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) All 100 members of the US Senate have been invited to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday evening, when he will be in the US to attend the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham, Reuters reported on Monday. Zelensky’s meeting with US senators will be...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) ActBlue is facing scrutiny after a report last week raised questions about thousands of political donations made in the name of an 88-year-old Michigan woman. The story caught national attention after Michigan Enjoyer reporter Charlie LeDuff posted a video interviewing Elizabeth Waffle of Milan,...

(Headline USA) Newly released audio tapes, disclosed by a conservative activist group, appear to show Joe Biden sharing classified information with a biographer and sometimes claiming memory lapses during interviews that occurred before his election to the presidency in 2020. About three hours of audio and 117 pages of transcripts...

(Headline USA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump met at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since they launched a joint war against Iran, offering a chance for Netanyahu to smooth out strains in their relationship. The closed-door meeting lasted nearly an hour and...

(Headline USA) Sen. Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of his generation's more influential U.S. politicians at home and abroad, is being eulogized Tuesday as “a true American original” during memorial services in Washington. Graham's flag-draped casket arrived for a tribute at the...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) We all intuitively know that prices are rising faster than the Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicates. We feel the pain every time we go to the grocery store or gas station. But just how much is price inflation impacting us here on Main...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The bond market has been struggling for the last year-plus, with some analysts saying we’re in the early stages of a secular bear market. This has forced investors to reconsider the role of bonds in a balanced portfolio, with some pivoting to tangible assets...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal housing regulators have turned to college dormitories, opening civil rights investigations into two flagship public universities. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is examining campus housing at the University of Connecticut and the University of Minnesota after complaints alleged both schools operate residential...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Immigration and Customs Enforcement broke a months long data blackout this week, and the figures it finally posted reveal an agency arresting people faster than at any point in Donald Trump's second term. Immigration researcher Austin Kocher reported on his Substack that ICE held 65,765 people...