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(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The House Ethics Committee recommended fining Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., more than $14,000 for promoting a cryptocurrency while in office, The Hill reported. It was alleged that Cawthorn promoted the "Let's Go Brandon" cryptocurrency while having some personal financial interest in its success. According to the Ethics...

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recent reminder to report $600 transactions from Venmo and PayPal to the Internal Revenue Service has Republican lawmakers sounding alarm bells about the growing reach and power of the Biden administration's super-sized auditing agency. The Biden administration claimed that the goal of the measure hidden...

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The World Economic Forum recently released the agenda for its 2023 meeting, at which the world's global elites will plan how to further enact the Great Reset to effect a new world order allowing them to exert hegemonic control over every facet of people's lives,...

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Protests against high-end fashion boutique Balenciaga broke out Saturday in response to the company's advertisements featuring children holding teddy bears dressed in bondage gear. According to the Daily Wire, the coordinated protests occurred in 20 cities across the world, including New York, Beverly Hills, London and...

(Headline USA) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen blamed Americans’ spending habits as the root cause of 40-year-high inflation during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday. Colbert asked Yellen to explain how inflation has gotten so out of hand when “two years ago everything seemed fine,” the Right...

(The Center Square) Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is pressing Apple CEO Tim Cook about his relationship with China and Apple’s “speech control” policies in the U.S. “I write regarding Apple's ongoing collaboration with the totalitarian Chinese government,” Hawley wrote in a letter sent to Cook Tuesday. “Your continued dependency on Chinese...

(The Center Square) The majority of Americans should wait until they’re age 70 to begin collecting their Social Security benefits to maximize their monthly payments, according to a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. “Americans are notoriously bad savers,” the authors of the report state. “Large numbers...

(Headline USA) The former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX said Wednesday that he did not "knowingly" misuse customers' funds, and said he believes his millions of angry customers will eventually be made whole. The comments from Sam Bankman--Fried came during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at a...

(The Center Square) The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday on an agreement between rail companies and workers to prevent a strike that could have major economic consequences. Lawmakers voted 290 to 137 to back a deal between unions and rail companies that includes pay increases. Now, the Senate must...

(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) While headlines fill with more and more lurid news about the crash of FTX and downfall of Democrat-friendly alleged money-launderer Sam Bankman-Fried, several young cryptocurrency billionaires have demonstrated an odd propensity to die in mysterious circumstances after warning about conspiracies against them. Daily Wire host Candace...

(The Center Square) The Biden administration is again defering repayment of student loans until President Joe Biden’s effort to transfer loan debts from borrowers to taxpayers via executive action makes its way through the courts. However, a new analysis found that decision will cost taxpayers billions of dollars in unpaid...

(The Center Square) Elon Musk says Twitter may now be removed from the Apple App store, prompting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to defend the social media company. “Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?” Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter and Tesla, tweeted...