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New York futures out of action probably doesn’t help. But silver hits new highs in volatile conditions. In this report, we look at the factors driving gold and silver higher still. During Thanksgiving week (US markets closed on Thursday) the bullish running has been made in Asia. In European trade this morning, gold was $4,173, up $90 from last Friday’s close. Silver at $53.85, up $3.87 on the same time scale was making the running. Overnight in Shanghai, spot silver spiked as high as $55.13 surpassing previous highs, and the February future closed at $56. The situation is complicated by...

Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have opened nearly 290,000 criminal cases related to unauthorized absence from military duty and desertion since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Prosecutor General’s Office told the Ukrainska Pravda news outlet on Oct. 14. From January 2022 to September 2025, investigators registered 235,646 cases of unauthorized absence from service and 53,954 cases of desertion. This is a sharp increase compared to the same period between January 2022 and September 2024, when approximately 90,000 cases were recorded — around 60,000 for unauthorized absence and 30,000 for desertion.

SALT LAKE CITY — Death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies died Wednesday from natural causes in a hospital, ending a nearly 40-year effort by the state of Utah to try to execute him. The 67-year-old Menzies was facing execution for the 1986 kidnapping and killing of Maurine Hunsaker. She was kidnapped from her job at a Kearns gas station, driven to Big Cottonwood Canyon where she was tied to a tree and her throat slit. Menzies' original execution was halted earlier this year after his attorneys raised concerns about his mental state due to his dementia, and the Utah Supreme...

The Bidens once again traveled to Nantucket, a ritzy island off of Cape Cod for Thanksgiving. The Biden family has spent Thanksgiving in Nantucket nearly every year since 1975. For the last few years the Bidens have crashed at billionaire David Rubenstein’s Nantucket estate. According to The New York Post, the entire Biden clan was spotted shopping at ritzy stores. They also stopped for lunch and refreshments at the Lemon Press before leaving in their motorcade. Joe and Hunter Biden were spotted strolling through downtown Nantucket with the former president’s gaggle of grandchildren in tow during a ritzy shopping trip...

An Ohio policeman has been acquitted of murdering a pregnant woman he fatally shot in a supermarket car park. Connor Grubb opened fire at Ta'Kiya Young as he and another officer told her to get out of a vehicle on suspicion of shoplifting alcohol on 24 August 2023. Bodycam video shows her car rolling slowly towards Mr Grubb outside the Kroger store in a suburb of Columbus. In footage, she could be heard asking: "Are you going to shoot me?" The jury unanimously found him not guilty of two counts of murder, two charges of felonious assault, and two counts...

The United States is reportedly prepared to recognize Russia's control over Crimea and other Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russian forces as part of a proposed peace deal to end the nearly four-year war. The move would mark a major shift in longstanding U.S. policy and break with Washington's refusal since 2014 to legitimize Russia's territorial claims, The Telegraph reported Friday. The report says President Donald Trump has dispatched peace envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner to Moscow to present the offer directly to Vladimir Putin. Moscow confirmed Friday it had received a revised U.S. strategy after emergency talks...

The first part of this video begins with ABC Sports coverage of the beginning of Game 3 of the World Series which was interrupted by the quake

You won’t Fuhgeddaboud being good this Christmas. You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf, now there’s Guido on a Ledge — a plush doll decked out in a wife-beater tank, shades, slides, sporting facial — and chest — hair, and wearing a good-luck horn. Creator Christine Fiscardi Lentinello, a Red Hook, Brooklyn native who now lives in Staten Island, said goombahs get a kick out of Guido. “They’re so excited. They’re like, ‘Oh my gosh this is fantastic. This looks like my uncle. This is my neighbor. This is my father,'” Lentinello, 54, told The Post. “Some people even rename...

Don't be alarmed, but Adolf Hitler is back and he just won re-election this week — in landslide fashion, no less. No, not that Adolf Hitler. He's been dead a really long time. This is Adolf Hitler Uunona, a Namibian politician who is overwhelmingly popular, regardless of his attention-grabbing name. The New York Post had additional details: The 59-year-old cruised to re-election despite his unfortunate name and has no plan to change it. The local pol said he usually goes by Adolf Uunona in daily life and argued it's too late to formally change his name. 'It's in all official...

There’s a particular kind of innocence in believing that generosity will be recognized for what it is. A nation opens its doors, offers a warm meal, provides a safe bed, and assumes the visitor understands the privilege. For decades, America set out the banquet, refilled the bowls, and quietly told itself that this time, surely, the guests would take only what they needed. But people who are constantly fed start to forget who stocked the pantry. They come back with friends. Then relatives. Then demands. And the hosts, too polite to object, keep ladling stew while pretending not to notice...

How One Delivery Demand Exposed the Game. Show Me the Bars: The 400 Million Ounce Call. Silver’s Moment of Truth: When the Screen Went Dark and 400 Million Ounces Knocked The moment the screen went dark, every silver trader on the planet knew something had snapped. Silver futures had been grinding higher for months, each dip devoured faster than the last, but that night the tape stopped behaving like a market and started behaving like an escape attempt. Asian buying bled into London, London bled into New York pre-market, and the chart turned into a near-vertical line as bids chased...

Folks in the post-war generation born between 1946 and 1964 are now sixty or older. Scanning social media, it’s hard to miss the anger building against Baby Boomers. Those born after them are increasingly placing the blame for their woes on the unrelenting greed of the Baby Boomer generation. They believe that the Boomers had the sheer luck to be born when America was in its ascendency, and so they accumulated all the wealth, and now they are determined to take it all with them to the grave, not sharing a penny with the generations which came after. [DISCLAIMER: This...

Kitco News) - Central bank gold purchases and investment demand have been two key factors driving gold prices to record highs this year, but one investment firm is looking at another segment of the gold market that is starting to attract significant attention. For years, many analysts have expected tokenized gold to be the next evolution in the precious metals space, and it appears its time has come, as Tether Limited, the leader in cryptocurrency stablecoins, has become a major player in the sector. Fahad Tariq and Andrew Moss, equity analysts at Jefferies, recently published a report on Tether’s growing...

Three people were wounded during a shooting inside a California mall on Black Friday as shoppers barricaded themselves inside stores and fled for safety during the “complete chaos.” The shooting began outside a Macy’s store at the Westfield Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara at around 5:40 p.m, according to KRON4. The victims – a 16-year-old girl, a man, and a woman – were found at the scene and rushed to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, officials said. The shooting was described as an “isolated incident,” and there was no active threat to the public, the San Jose Police...

After years of explosive growth fueled by hype, exclusivity, and social media buzz, the U.S. sneaker market is facing a sharp downturn. Analysts and resellers alike are calling it a “crash,” as resale prices plummet and demand cools amid changing economic conditions and shifting consumer priorities. This crash is hitting New Jersey retailers and resellers hard as high priced shoes are now competing with high energy bills, high medical insurance rates and increases in costs of living in New Jersey. It’s only expected that the least necessary luxury items are taking a hit. What’s Behind the Collapse Oversaturation: Major brands...

Most people heading into their retirement years already know the usual advice: eat fruits and vegetables, choose lean proteins, and go easy on sugar and salt. But there’s another layer to nutrition that’s often overlooked — lesser-known foods packed with compounds that support healthy aging in surprisingly powerful ways. These aren’t exotic items you have to special-order from across the globe. Many are now available in standard grocery stores or online, and they can bring variety, flavor, and longevity-boosting benefits to your daily routine.

Democrats and academia—I know: what’s the difference?—excel at several things. Among them are election fraud, whataboutism, hating America and Americans, embracing America’s enemies and warping language. It is the latter that allows them to define the terms of any debate, and often, to win it. That’s perhaps their most common social science tactic, where they have long invented terms like “gun violence,” and even argued that “silence is violence.” If you don’t agree with their lunatic positions, even if you say nothing about them, you’re somehow engaging in violence. Nothing but full-throated praise for their moral and intellectual superiority will...

The Democrats once knew there were limits on what they could and would do to win. The new crop of Democrats has no limits at all. The Dems have always been adept at playing dirty. There is scarcely a single epoch of American politics since 1828 that doesn’t feature a titanically corrupt Democrat capable of vast crimes committed in order to remain in power and make a profit doing so. But old-time Dems knew there were limits. You didn’t try to steal a presidential election. You didn’t undermine the foundations of the system itself. You didn’t try to annihilate the...

WASHINGTON — New York Attorney General Letitia James was hit with a bar complaint from a right-leaning group on Friday, days after having her federal mortgage fraud charges tossed by a judge in a temporary procedural win. The Center to Advance Security in America submitted a request with the Manhattan and Bronx-focused Attorney Grievance Committee for the state to investigate James’ potentially “illegal and dishonest conduct” leading to the criminal charges. “Fraud, misrepresentation, honesty and trustworthiness are all factors that the Rules of Professional Conduct expressly factor when weighing whether to discipline an attorney,” wrote Curtis Schube, the group’s director...