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(Headline USA)  The Pentagon is investigating how parts of the nation's most advanced fighter jet ended up in Hong Kong, with a news outlet reporting Wednesday that China has obtained the F-35 equipment. The F-35 Joint Program Office said in a statement that it and the Defense Department are aware...

(Headline USA) Allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza are not only false but “the biggest lie of the century,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told world leaders Thursday in a defiant speech that asserted his nation’s right to wage war against Iran — and was not heard by scores of...

(Headline USA)  Eight sailors attempted suicide while deployed with the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group, which spent a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war, the Navy's top civilian leader said this week. Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao provided the information to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Treasury Department will buy back another $6 billion in long-term Treasuries today (Thursday, Sept. 24) as it continues efforts to tamp down rising yields. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced this second expanded buyback on Wednesday. And once again, the markets shrugged. The 30-year Treasury hit...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) So far this year, Chinese gold imports are at the highest level since at least 2017. China ranks as the world’s largest gold market. Through the first eight months of 2026, China spent $158.8 billion to import more than 1,100 tonnes of gold, according to...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) With bond yields on the rise and markets penciling in another Federal Reserve interest rate hike this year, a lot of people are selling their gold. Axel Merk doesn’t think you should. Merk is the founder of Merk Investments, and he has a reputation as...

(Money Metals News Service) A bank run is a familiar danger in a fractional-reserve banking system. In December 1930, as the Great Depression deepened, the privately owned Bank of United States in New York collapsed after a run by depositors. Despite its name, it was not a government institution....

(Headline USA) Maine Democrats on Wednesday assailed U.S. Sen. Susan Collins over a news report that the FBI investigated how much she knew about illegal campaign contributions that sent one of her donors to prison. The ProPublica report, published Tuesday, states that the FBI in 2024 planned to launch an...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, two long-time associates of Jeffrey Epstein now in charge of handling the deceased billionaire sex criminal’s estate, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reported Wednesday that federal prosecutors in Manhattan...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump's AI-fueled vision for a drone port he intends to install atop the new White House ballroom includes missile-bearing unmanned aerial vehicles and gun-toting troops, ostensibly to protect the 18-acre complex and the nation’s capital. A few hundred feet away, a drone port, run by the U.S....

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Monday issued another warning to the US, saying that if the United States bombs Iran again, Iranian forces would expand the “geography of the war.” “If another aggression takes place, there will certainly be significant changes in our defense and...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold is on the path toward $10,000 an ounce. It’s not a matter of if, but when. That’s the view of State Street Investment Management head of gold strategy Aakash Doshi. In an interview with Kitco News, he said investors should be thinking beyond...