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Gold rose on Tuesday as rising inflationary fears weighed on investors’ appetite for risk and a pullback in U.S. Treasury yields added to the appeal of the non-yielding bullion. Spot gold rose 0.4% to $1,761.41 per ounce by 1159 GMT, while U.S. gold futures were up 0.4% at $1,762.40. A global energy crunch has threatened the economic outlook and fanned inflation fears, driving some investors toward safe-haven assets. “There’s more risk aversion in the market and gold is benefiting from that, coupled with concerns about inflation and cooling of the global economy,” Commerzbank analyst Daniel Briesemann said. If stagflation talks...

Pennsylvania’s Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is leaning out the costs associated with having a second-in-command in the state’s executive branch. To date, his office reports it has spent $776,000 less than it was appropriated in the last two years’ budget cycles. The underspending was achieved through trimming money spent on salaries, travel, food, printing, conferences, furniture and office supplies, according to his office. He also has never flown on the state plane. And he has chosen to forgo living in the state-provided residence and instead stays in a downtown Harrisburg apartment at his own expense when he is in the...

Following up on a whistleblower's claims of Capitol Police leadership failures and lawmakers' lies stemming from Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump compared the abandoning of Capitol Police during the storming of the Capitol to President Joe Biden's leaving U.S. citizens behind in Afghanistan. President Trump: "The highly partisan Unselect Committee is just a sideshow to distract America from massive failures by Biden and the Democrats. What happened to the Capitol would have never happened if the people in charge did their job and looked at the intelligence. They abandoned the officers on the ground, just like Biden abandoned Americans...

In its latest World Economic Outlook report published on Tuesday morning, the International Monetary Fund voiced its starkest caution about stagflation yet, warning that the global economic recovery has lost momentum and become increasingly divided, even as it warned about rising inflation risks. The fund warned threats to growth had increased, pointing to the delta variant, strained supply chains, accelerating inflation and rising costs for food and fuel. As a result, the IMF trimmed its global growth forecast and now expects world GDP to rise 5.9% this year, down 0.1% from what it anticipated in July and a bounce from...

Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) warned the subjects of the January 6 select committee against being uncooperative. Schiff said those who refused to cooperate with the committee were “going to be the subject of criminal contempt.” He added that members of the committee are “not fooling around” in the investigation into what took place during the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

That means we have to pick up at least 50 House seats and five Senate seats. No less. It requires more than your vote. It requires your time, your money, your attention and your voice.

Violent Clashes Mar Pope’s Synodal KickoffFrancis trashes 'tradition,' calls for openness to the 'spirit of the age' VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis kicked off his much-talked-up 2021–2023 Synod on Synodality, attacking the tendency to adopt "old solutions" and calling for a "Church of listening," as violent clashes against Italy's medical tyranny erupted in Rome. Pope leads reflection on synodality in Vatican's synod hall Speaking on the synod's theme — "For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission" — on Saturday, the pontiff quoted liberal French theologian Fr. Yves Congar urging, "We must not make another Church, we must make...

Before Congress completes consideration regarding either or both mega-infrastructure bills, it needs to determine how it will offset the reduction in federal tax revenues that will occur resulting from the many states’ legislation passed in 2021 to “work around” the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap of $10,000. It matters not whether each or any member of Congress believes the $10,000 SALT cap is justified and/or unjustified or whether the members of Congress believe the “workarounds” are appropriate. The loss to Treasury could be in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The loss of revenues either needs an offsetting...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Two Pensacola men have waited three years for their opportunity to hunt alligators. Monday morning, Andy Sokol and his friend Tanner caught one -- and it was much larger than they expected. The reptile measured nearly 12-feet in size. The men got their unexpected catch after three years of applying for a tag. Sokol said he was in shock when he saw the 12-foot gator. He says he was expecting something measuring around 8-feet Sokol and Tanner came across the gator Monday morning in the Perdido River. "That was our first night trying and rolled up on...

Anthony Fauci’s approval numbers are in the tank, according to new data from Rasmussen Reports. A survey conducted in early October reveals that the highest paid bureaucrat in the United States – “Dr.” Anthony Fauci – no longer has public support. The director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and Chief Medical Advisor to the President commands a paltry 25 percent “Very favorable” rating with the U.S. public, with 16 percent more saying they feel “Somewhat favorable” towards Fauci. Fourteen percent say they have a “Somewhat unfavorable” view of Fauci, with a big 31 percent saying...

New York City is seeing a surge in violent crime committed by homeless suspects with untreated mental health issues A homeless man tried to abduct a little girl walking with her grandmother in the Bronx by wrapping her in a comforter and snatching her from the sidewalk The man bent down to grab the girl and lifted her up, running away with her while the grandmother ran after the pair while a passerby from the gas station managed to apprehend the man and get retrieve the youngster Santiago Salcedo, 27, was later arrested and charged with kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, unlawful...

MINNEAPOLIS (TBEN) – Cory Kohls wasn’t even on a hunting trip when he shot a 616-pound bear in western Wisconsin. He just spotted the bear on Friday while driving near a cornfield in New Richmond, so he asked the farmers if he could get permission to track down the bear. “I have a 449 [pound bear] a few years ago, and I thought it was a giant bear until I got this one, ”he said. “It was amazing. It took nine guys to drag him there. The bear population of Wisconsin is increasing and it is legal to hunt them....

National Geographic’s new documentary “Fauci,” released on Disney Plus Oct. 6, has inspired numerous Rotten Tomatoes users to write scathing reviews of the film that covers White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci. So far, over 250 users have gone out of their way to critique the documentary on Rotten Tomatoes, resulting in an “audience score” of 4% at the time of publication. “Audience scores” began appearing on the website on Oct. 11, even though the theatrical release for “Fauci” landed on Sept. 10 and Oct. 6 for streaming on Disney Plus. According to Rotten Tomatoes’ FAQ, “the Audience...

Grinning school-age children who took part in a NASA YouTube video about space exploration with Kamala Harris have been revealed to be child actors. The 'Get Curious with Vice President Harris' video was filmed in August and tweeted out by the Vice President on October 7 to celebrate World Space Week. However it has now been revealed that they are paid actors who auditioned by sending in a monologue and three questions they would ask a world leader.

A British journalist, writing in one of the world's most respected newspapers, recently declared something that almost none of his American colleagues dare to utter: Last year's presidential election was rigged for Joe Biden. Rod Liddle, associate editor of The Spectator, made that assertion in The Times of London on Sept. 26. In doing so, he also blistered Biden's incompetence and physical problems, which the leftist U.S. Establishment Media also largely ignores. "The American public is slowly waking up to the fact that they are being led by an ineffectually devious, senile halfwit," Liddle wrote. "Soon the public will...

To keep toddlers happy, we throw pennies at a wall and keep score in their heads. Then we try nickels. Once we had to quit and Fletcher, a little towhead, cried, “I learned to count by fives for nothing.” Pitching coins is more productive than throwing money at some government programs. Some increase inequality, or cause bigger forest fires, and the feedback loop from effectiveness to budgeting has been broken for generations. When all the coins in my purse are thrown, we play a game to pick up coins – fast! Effective parents pick up toys that way at bedtime....

My August 18, 2021 article, Biden’s Afghanistan Catastrophe Increases Terror Threat in US: Biden administration, meanwhile, focuses solely on "domestic extremists”, was published just a few weeks before the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 and was predicated on the August 13, 2021 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) press release titled, DHS Issues New National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin. It was more than a bit disconcerting that the DHS press release focused entirely on the threats posed by domestic (American) extremists while blithely ignoring the threats posed by foreign terrorists. Clearly the Biden administration...

China has bombarded Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone with nearly 150 aircraft — including fighter jets, bombers, transport planes, and surveillance planes — during a tense first week of October, heightening fears that China may soon take a dangerous plunge and use military force as its next step in its quest to “reunify” the mainland and Taiwan. Here’s a rundown of the key issues: Why is China ramping up tensions over Taiwan? Taiwan and mainland China having been governed separately since the end of a civil war more than 70 years ago. Beijing has made it clear that it ultimately...

A Bronze Age sword dating back as far as 1700 B.C. was discovered broken in items in Finland this previous summer season by a person utilizing a metallic detector in his mother and father’s again the backyard...Matti Rintamaa had only purchased his first metal detector two weeks before the sword discovery. He discovered a few tiny bits of metal around two inches long... Then he discovered a larger piece and showed a picture of it to a metal-detecting buddy who was more experienced.The National Board of Antiquities of Finland was contacted, and an archeologist was dispatched to the site, where...

In the wake of our abrupt capitulation in Afghanistan, an uncertain – but substantial – number of Americans are stranded in that chaotic country. And Americans aren't the only ones in harm's way. The rapid collapse has displaced hundreds of thousands of desperate Afghans who fear the Taliban's medieval rule.Americans across the political spectrum can sympathize with their plight. The Biden administration has proposed bringing 50,000 Afghans to the United States as refugees. Progressive groups say that figure is too low – and are calling for hundreds of thousands instead.But those numbers are absurd. The United States doesn't have the...