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Ted Cruz’s Phone Records Subpoenaed by Jack Smith
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former Special Counsel Jack Smith unsuccessfully subpoenaed the phone records of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as part of his unprecedented effort to target allies of President Donald Trump after the 2020 election. The subpoena targeted Cruz’s phone provider, AT&T, which refused to comply with the order over concerns that the records were protected under…
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Fed Cuts Rates, Ends Balance Sheet Reduction But Puts on a Hawkish Front
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Powell put is on. The Federal Reserve chairman tried to sound like a hawk, but the central bank’s actions were those of a dove. For the second straight meeting, the Fed cut the federal funds rate by a quarter percent on Wednesday. In an even more aggressive move…
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South Korea May Join Central Bank Gold-Buying Spree
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) South Korea is considering jumping on the gold bandwagon and adding gold to its reserves. During a speech at an event hosted by the London Bullion Market Association and London Platinum and Palladium Market in Kyoto, Japan, Bank of Korea official Heung-Soon Jung said, “The Bank of Korea plans…
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88-Year-Old Congresswoman is Exposed for Having 7 No-Show Jobs
(José Niño, Headline USA) Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.’s 88-year-old congressional delegate, claims to sit on multiple boards at prestigious institutions, but investigations reveal she hasn’t been active with them in years. Some of these positions no longer even exist according to a report by Luke Goldstein and Dan Boguslaw. According to her latest financial…
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Top Democratic Official Arrested after Ordering Cocaine to the Mass. Gov’t Office
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) State prosecutors in Massachusetts arrested on Wednesday a top official in the Democratic Gov. Maura Healey’s administration on drug trafficking charges after he allegedly ordered cocaine delivered to his government office. The official, LaMar Cook, served as deputy director in Healey’s Western Massachusetts office, directly overseeing constituent services of more than 800,000…
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Maduro Accuses CIA of False-Flag Plot as Warships Surround Venezuela
(José Niño, Headline USA) On Sunday, President Nicolás Maduro announced that Venezuela has captured alleged mercenaries with CIA ties, accusing the United States and Trinidad and Tobago of coordinating military exercises designed to provoke armed conflict in the Caribbean. In a statement from Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, the socialist government described what it called a…
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Harvard Law Professor Sparks National Debate Over Campus Anti-Zionism
(José Niño, Headline USA) A Harvard Law School professor has ignited a national debate over whether universities can legally exclude students who support Israel from campus life, arguing that anti-Zionism may constitute illegal discrimination under federal civil rights law. Stephen E. Sachs, who holds the Antonin Scalia professorship at Harvard Law School, published an essay…
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Texas Sues Tylenol Companies Over Autism Claims
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday he will sue drugmakers Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue for deceptively marketing acetaminophen to pregnant mothers after President Donald Trump’s claims that the medication could be linked to autism. “Big Pharma betrayed America by profiting off of pain and pushing pills regardless of…
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US Tried Luring Maduro’s Pilot into Betraying the Venezuelan Leader
(Headline USA) The federal agent had a daring pitch for Nicolás Maduro’s chief pilot: All he had to do was surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman. In exchange, the agent told the pilot in a clandestine meeting, the aviator would be made a very rich man.…
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Democrats Refuse to End Shutdown for 13th Time, Drawing GOP Ire
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Despite opposition from major federal labor unions, Senate Democrats blocked Republicans’ Continuing Resolution to reopen and fund the government for the 13th time Tuesday. The ongoing shutdown, having now lasted 28 days, is the second-longest in American history. Thousands of federal workers – including active-duty members of the military, law…
