(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The United States enjoys the privilege of issuing the world's reserve currency. But it increasingly uses that privilege as a hammer to shape foreign policy.
Could Americans end up feeling the blows from that hammer?
Economist Jim Rickards, the author of Currency Wars, said he...
(Headline USA) Victoria Nuland, the third-highest ranking U.S. diplomat and frequent target of criticism for her hawkish views on Russia and its actions in Ukraine, will leave her post this month, the State Department said Tuesday.
Nuland, a career foreign service officer who served as assistant secretary of State for...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) As Haiti continues to deal with an estimated 4,000 prison inmates who recently escaped two of the island’s largest prisons, a new report in The Grayzone reveals that the CIA helped engineer a jailbreak more than 20 years ago as part of a coup against the...
(Headline USA) Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira pleaded guilty on Monday to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine under a deal with prosecutors that calls for him to serve at least 11 years in prison.
While some leakers, such as transgender Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning, have...
(Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris over the weekend publicly called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, marking what could be a significant shift in the White House’s policy toward Israel, CNN reported.
Describing the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas as a “humanitarian catastrophe,” Harris urged the two...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An estimated total of 4,000 incarcerated individuals escaped from two of Haiti's largest prisons following armed clashes between the national police and armed gangs, according to multiple local media outlets on Sunday.
Haiti's national police union reported on Sunday evening that armed gangs fired "many shots" intending...
(Headline USA) U.S. military C-130 cargo planes dropped food in pallets over Gaza on Saturday in the opening stage of an emergency humanitarian assistance.
Three planes from Air Forces Central dropped 66 bundles containing about 38,000 meals into Gaza at 8:30 a.m. EST (3:30 p.m. local). The bundles were dropped...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A group of pro-Palestinian hecklers obstructed an anti-bomb squad attempting to reach a grenade left behind in an Uber car by an unknown suspect, the New York Post reported on Saturday.
The incident unfolded Saturday as individuals marched in support of the Millions March for Palestine in...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A lawmaker on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee claimed that the Biden administration suppressed information about Iran’s efforts to assassinate U.S. officials so that neither Congress nor the American public would know about it.
"What Americans don’t know is that the Biden administration has gone to...
(Headline USA) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will visit former President Donald Trump next week at his Florida home Mar-a-Lago, according to a person briefed on the plans who was not authorized to disclose them publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The visit was first reported Wednesday night by the New York...
(Headline USA) An activist judge in D.C.'s District Court held veteran investigative reporter Catherine Herridge in civil contempt on Thursday for refusing to divulge her source for a series of Fox News stories about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged.
Judge Christopher Cooper imposed a fine...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Hunter Biden participated in his much-anticipated closed-door deposition Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where he was reportedly “defiant”—blasting a Republican impeachment inquiry into his father and the family's business affairs as a “house of cards” built on “lies” as he faced a battery of probing questions...