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Trump Lays Out ‘Roadmap for Victory’ During GOP House Retreat
(The Center Square) As the country is about to embark on a pivotal election year, President Donald Trump addressed the GOP U.S. House of Representatives retreat. During a nearly 90-minute speech held at the newly renamed, Trump-Kennedy Center, the president laid out what he calls a “roadmap to victory for the House GOP. He spotlighted…
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Sheriff of Charlotte Metro Area Accused of Threat on State Lawmaker
(The Center Square) Threats to a state lawmaker, extortion, corruption and “willful misconduct and maladministration in office” are charges filed Monday in Superior Court by a state representative and four former employees of a sheriff in North Carolina’s largest metropolitan area. Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, on the same day he agreed to testify before…
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Trump Critic George Conway Launches Bid for Congress
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Political pundit and Trump critic George Conway has joined a crowded field of Democrats seeking to replace outgoing Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York’s 12th Congressional District. Conway, 62, a lawyer and former Republican consultant, announced his candidacy on Tuesday in a video that stressed his knowledge of Beltway politics…
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De-Dollarization Alert: Zambia Now Accepting Yuan for Mining Tax Payments
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In yet another sign of growing global de-dollarization, Chinese mining companies in Zambia are now paying royalties and taxes in yuan. As Bloomberg put it, this is the “latest sign of the growing acceptance of the currency on the [African] continent.” Zambia ranks as Africa’s second-largest copper producer. According to the Bank…
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Central Bank Gold Buying Momentum Continued in November
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Central bank gold buying picked up in September and gained momentum in October. That momentum carried into November with gold reserves continuing to climb. Officially, central banks globally added 45 tonnes of gold to their reserves in November. That was down slightly from 53 tonnes the previous month but…
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BREAKING: Jan. 5/6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Federally Indicted
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Brian Cole Jr., who’s accused of planting two pipe bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest, was federally indicted on Tuesday—putting an end to the controversy over whether he’d be released from jail. Cole’s attorneys had been trying to have him…
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DOJ Releases Transcript of Brown/MIT Shooter’s Final Words
(Headline USA) The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for months and left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders, according to information released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former…
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Minnesota Gov’t Spied on Fraud Whistleblowers
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Minnesota government reportedly retaliated against whistleblowers who exposed a massive state fraud scheme. The whistleblowers said they were denied vacations and promotions and that their official work was spied on, state Rep. Kristin Robbins told the New York Post. Robbins, who chairs the state’s Fraud Prevention and State Oversight Committee and is…
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Maduro’s Case to Revive a Debate Over Immunity for Foreign Leaders Tested in Noriega Trial
(Headline USA) When deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro makes his first appearance in a New York courtroom Monday to face U.S. drug charges, he will likely follow the path taken by another Latin American strongman toppled by U.S. forces: Panama’s Manuel Noriega. Maduro was captured Saturday, 36 years to the day after Noriega was removed by…
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Costly Refugee Funding on the Table as They Rake in Over a Dozen Taxpayer Benefits
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) As American taxpayers are plagued with high housing costs, rising medical expenses and other costs, many refugees continue to qualify for over a dozen costly federal benefits, as Congress could decide to continue the quadrupled funding for the program. Hundreds of thousands of refugees were admitted into the U.S. during…
