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Cuba’s President Warns That US Attack Will Cause ‘Bloodbath’

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Monday that any US attack on Cuba would cause a “bloodbath,” a warning that comes as US officials are setting up pretexts for a potential war on the island nation. “The threats of military aggression against from the world’s greatest...

TrumpRx Expanding, Offering Generic Prescription Drugs

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) TrumpRx is expanding to about seven times its current size, adding more than 600 generic prescription drugs to the months-old direct-to-consumer government website, the president said Monday. The website was created as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to lower drug prices for Americans, a...

Virginia Revenues Surge Amid Data Center Debate

(Shirleen Guerra, The Center Square) Virginia revenues are running hundreds of millions of dollars ahead of forecast, but lawmakers warned Tuesday that slowing job growth, inflation and uncertainty tied to healthcare and federal funding are still creating pressure on Virginia’s budget talks. During a Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee meeting,...

Ilhan Omar Under Criminal Investigation

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Trouble for Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is far from over, as Vice President JD Vance appeared to confirm Tuesday that the Justice Department is investigating allegations of immigration fraud involving the congresswoman. Omar was separately referred to the House Ethics Committee over her amended financial disclosures, which...

Structural Supply Deficits Forecast to Continue Driving Platinum Group Metal Prices Higher

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Platinum group metal prices rose substantially last year, driven by persistent supply deficits and favorable market dynamics, and Metals Focus expects the bull market to continue this year, with significant price upside remaining. Platinum joined gold and silver for the wild ride up in...

Trump Makes It Official: Lawfare Victims to Be Compensated

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Millions in legal fees. Felony charges. Thousands of combined years in prison sentences. Hours of interrogations. Hundreds of subpoenas. Careers ruined. That is the scale of what thousands of conservative activists and organizations endured through years of federal investigations under the Biden administration. Now, they are set to be...

US Prosecutors Drop Fraud Charges Against Billionaire Indian Businessman Gautam Adani

(Headline USA) U.S. prosecutors asked a judge Monday to dismiss criminal fraud and conspiracy charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, who had been accused of duping Wall Street investors who poured billions of dollars into a massive solar project in India. Adani, one of the world's richest people, was accused...

Woman Used Her Address to Illegally Register Skid Row Homeless to Vote: DOJ

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors announced Monday that they dismantled a voter fraud scheme in California in which a woman allegedly paid individuals to register to vote and used her home address to register some of them, including homeless people in Los Angeles’s Skid Row. The alleged fraudster, 64-year-old Brenda Lee...

Mamdani Touts First City-Owned Grocery Store

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced the site of the latest city-owned grocery store as the democratic socialist looks to make good on a key campaign pledge. The 20,000-square-foot store, located in the Bronx's Hunts Point neighborhood, is part of a $70...

China to Buy $17B in US Ag Products, 200 Boeing Jets

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) China agreed to buy at least $17 billion annually in U.S. agricultural products through 2028 as part of a broader package of trade agreements announced during President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing. The agreements also included what the White House described as the first major...

Federal Court Rejects Elon Musk’s Claims Against OpenAI, Saying He Filed His Lawsuit Too Late

(Headline USA) A federal court on Monday dismissed claims filed against OpenAI and its top executives by Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to remain a nonprofit dedicated to guiding artificial intelligence’s development for the good of humanity. Musk, the world’s richest man, was...

CBP Seizes More than 100 Million Lethal Doses of Fentanyl at SW Border in Six Months

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A record more than 100 million lethal doses of fentanyl have been seized at the southwest border in the past six months. The seizures were made by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents working out of 54 ports of entry (POE) in California, Arizona, New...
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