(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Responding to Americans' frustrations over high grocery prices, President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday exempting more than 200 food products from tariffs.
"Certain qualifying agricultural products will no longer be subject to those tariffs, such as certain food not grown in the United...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Americans won't get a $2,000 rebate check from the federal government before Christmas.
President Donald Trump said Friday that the proposed checks will not be distributed before the end of the year. Trump made the comments aboard Air Force One on his way to Mar-a-Lago,...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Quietly tucked inside Republicans’ funding deal to end the government shutdown is a provision wiping the congressional Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) scorecard, effectively forgiving nearly $3.4 trillion in deficits.
When Republicans passed their budget reconciliation bill in July, which included a permanent extension of the 2017 tax...
(Money Metals News Service) In this Money Metals podcast episode, host Mike Maharrey talks with money manager Michael Pento of Pento Portfolio Strategies about what he sees as a dangerously distorted financial system. Pento jokes that he feels “better than terrific,” but admits he is “faking it” as he watches the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem just revealed something that might surprise Donald Trump's immigration restrictionist base: More people are becoming naturalized American citizens under this administration than ever before.
"More people are becoming naturalized under this administration than ever before," Noem said during a Fox News...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A corporate landlord owned by one of Israel's largest companies has intentionally displaced an estimated 30,000 American tenants while its parent corporation does business in illegal Israeli settlements that have driven thousands of Palestinians from their homes.
According to Thomas Birmingham of The Nation, American Landmark,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Conservative journalist Tucker Carlson released a bombshell report Friday about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who allegedly tried assassinating Donand Trump on July 13, 2024—revealing new information about Crooks’s internet profile, including that he may have been talking to someone from a foreign neo-Nazi terrorist...
(Mark Stricherz, The Center Square) The U.S. House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol cost almost twice as much as previously reported, including spending taxpayer funds for TV news producers and documentary filmmakers to create videos dramatizing its case against President Donald...
(Headline USA) Lawyers representing OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, cities, states, counties, Native American tribes, people with addiction and others across the U.S. delivered a nearly unanimous message for a bankruptcy court judge Friday: Approve a plan to settle thousands of opioid-related lawsuits against the company and members of the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) He was hoping for a lucky day of fishing. As it turned out, he was luckier than he could have imagined.
An unnamed Swedish fisherman was digging around for worms at his summer home, prepping for a day on the lake. Along with some...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The government killed the penny. RIP.
It was tantamount to shooting the messenger.
On Wednesday, the Philadelphia Mint produced the final five circulating pennies.
The Treasury stopped mass-producing pennies months ago after President Trump passed a death sentence, ordering an end to the venerable 1-cent piece...
(Headline USA) With the longest U.S. government shutdown over, state officials said Thursday that they are working quickly to get full SNAP food benefits to millions of people, though it still could take up to a week for some to receive their delayed aid.
A back-and-forth series of court rulings...