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(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) All mines have been cleared from the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. continues to enforce a full naval blockade on Iran. U.S. Central Command Commander Bradley Cooper said the U.S. military has “successfully cleared sea mines” in the Strait of Hormuz, within the international...

(Headline USA) British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported back to the United Kingdom after his arrest by American immigration authorities, U.S. officials said Saturday. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Yiannopoulos was returned to his home country on Friday after being accused of overstaying after entering the U.S....

(Headline USA) Colombian security forces captured a suspected senior leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the U.S. Southern Command announced on Friday, hailing the arrest as a result of stronger military cooperation between the historically close allies. The capture on Thursday of Luis Saúl Pérez Nieto, who Colombian...

(Headline USA) Jurors ended a second day of deliberations on Friday without a verdict in the case of the Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children in 2023. Clancy doesn't deny strangling her children, but her lawyer said she did it because she had lost her grip on reality due...

(Headline USA) A former White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to make bets on the prediction market Kalshi has been ordered to turn over more than $100,000 in profits and pay a $65,000 fine as part of a settlement with federal authorities. The settlement with the Commodity Futures...

(Money Metals News Service) Silver has decisively broken above the once-formidable $50 barrier, but Peter Krauth believes the bull market still has room to run. During a recent Money Metals podcast interview with host Mike Maharrey, Krauth argued that strong investment demand, industrial consumption, depleted exchange inventories, and emerging technologies continue to...

(Headline USA) The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar with the matter. The move away...

(Headline USA) A Kentucky woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that she intentionally damaged The World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Melissa Farris is scheduled to be arraigned next week on two felony counts. Grand jurors indicted her Thursday on charges...

(Headline USA) A U.S. military judge on Wednesday set a summer 2028 trail date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The trial is scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, 18 months later than the January 2027 start that prosecutors had...

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It’s a bull market in gold vaults. The surging gold price has sparked a significant uptick in demand for physical bars and coins. And with so many investors stacking gold, they need someplace to store all that metal. Sharps Pixley told The Financial Times that its vaults...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A fresh analysis of federal visa records suggests that H-1B sponsorship has evolved into something resembling a self-sustaining side hustle, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies.  The scheme works as follows: An H-1B holder forms a company, sponsors their own visa through...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) From very early on, it was apparent that performer Jason “Jelly Roll” DeFord was one of many Trojan horses being propped up by Music Row’s astroturfing studio executives. The 41-year-old ex-felon, who topped the scales at around 550 pounds, has a too-good-to-be-true back story, particularly when every...