Gold hovers near record high on renewed trade tensions, US rate outlook

Gold hovers near record high on renewed trade tensions, US rate outlook

Investors expect a 25-basis-point rate cut at the upcoming Fed meeting this month, with a similar reduction anticipated in December [BENGALURU] Gold prices rose on Wednesday (Oct 15), hovering near record highs, as investors flocked to safe-haven bullion after renewed U.S.-China trade tensions deepened global uncertainty, with expectations of further US interest rate cuts adding…

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ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Deciding to join them, the driver, according to their report, put the emergency vehicle in park, which caused it to lurch forward slightly. An agent evidently interpreted the vehicle’s forward movement as deliberate, and is said to have begun threatening the driver. The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver…

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Trump Compares Charlie Kirk to Socrates as He Awards Medal of Freedom

Trump Compares Charlie Kirk to Socrates as He Awards Medal of Freedom

Donald Trump on Tuesday compared conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk to Socrates as he posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which apparently means nothing now. The award was announced on what would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday, if not for his assassination in Utah at the hands of 22-year-old…

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Leaked Young Republicans Chat Filled With Slurs and Praise for Hitler

Leaked Young Republicans Chat Filled With Slurs and Praise for Hitler

“I love Hitler,” Giunta joked elsewhere. He also said those who voted against his ultimately unsuccessful bid to become YRNF chair would be sent “to the gas chamber,” leading his fellow New York State Young Republicans to crack additional jokes about the Holocaust. Giunta lost the YRNF chair in August to Hayden Padgett, whom Giunta…

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Trump Threatens Violence Against Hamas as Gaza Ceasefire Outlook Dims

Trump Threatens Violence Against Hamas as Gaza Ceasefire Outlook Dims

“I don’t think it’s believable to tell the American people that while we control the White House, the House, and the Senate, that we can’t return to work in Washington, D.C., because Chuck Schumer and six other Democrats won’t vote to open the government,” Greene said just days later. “I know people. They don’t believe…

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Has the Supreme Court Abandoned Originalism?

Has the Supreme Court Abandoned Originalism?

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has leaned heavily on a few vague and dubious sources to articulate its expansive view of presidential power. “The President’s power to remove—and thus supervise—those who wield executive power on his behalf follows from the text of Article II, was settled by the First Congress, and was confirmed in the…

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

President Trump’s allies are suddenly raging over the October 18th “No Kings” protests. MAGA Mike Johnson and MAGA-fied Representative Steve Scalise are angrily sliming expected attendees as America-haters, antifa, Marxists, and terrorists. MAGA influencers and other GOP figures have done the same, with one hinting that the National Guard should crack down on them. This…

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Would CBS News Have Run This Story a Week Ago?

Would CBS News Have Run This Story a Week Ago?

“We’re in a country where a friend of mine is a very powerful leader, and my friend of mine is right here,” Trump said. “The reason I call him the general is because he’s both, and he’s good at both, he’s done a fantastic job.” “They have very little crime, because they don’t play games,…

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