(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Federal Reserve put interest rate cuts on pause at the January meeting. The central bankers cited expanding economic activity and a stable labor market as reasons for the pause. The official FOMC statement asserted that while “job gains have remained low, the unemployment rate has shown some signs of…

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(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It’s really exciting watching those Olympic athletes go for those silver medals, eh? No, you don’t need to send me emails telling me there is a typo in the first line of my article. I meant what I wrote. They are going for silver. Now, you might be thinking,…

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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said on Thursday that it would be “very traumatic” for Iran if Washington and Tehran don’t reach a nuclear deal, echoing threats he made last year in the lead-up to the 12-Day War. “We have to make a deal with Iran, otherwise it’s going to be very traumatic, very…

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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US smuggled thousands of Starlink terminals into Iran in January to support anti-government protesters inside the country, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The report said that the State Department purchased 7,000 Starlink terminals several months ago with the aim of providing them to anti-government elements inside Iran, and that…

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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that “nothing definitive” was reached during what he described as “very good” talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. “I have just finished meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, of Israel, and various of his Representatives,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after the…

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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A member of the Trump administration’s “Commission on Religious Liberty” has been removed after a hearing turned contentious over her objection to the idea that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. Carrie Prejean Boller, a Catholic conservative activist and model, took issue with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which has been…

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(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) The U.S. House passed legislation Wednesday night that would implement comprehensive election security reforms nationwide, sending it over to the Senate for approval. The SAVE America Act would require Americans to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote, necessitate in-person voter registration for federal elections, and require states to…

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(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Some news outlets in Canada rushed to protect the preferred gender identity of the unhinged suspect behind one of the deadliest school shootings in their country’s history.  The suspect, Jesse Van Rootselaar—a biological male who identified as transgender—killed six people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Tuesday. Rootselaar killed himself shortly after the mass shooting.  Critics online noted that the media appeared…

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(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The Trump administration on Thursday terminated the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Endangerment Finding,” a landmark policy that led to sweeping climate change regulations and higher costs across the country. “This action will eliminate over $1.3 trillion in regulatory costs and help bring car prices tumbling down dramatically,” President Donald Trump said.…

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(Headline USA) Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer at storied investment bank Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, announced her resignation Thursday, after emails between her and Jeffrey Epstein showed a close relationship where she described him as an “older brother” and downplayed his sex crimes. Ruemmler said in a statement…

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