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GOLD and platinum rose to fresh records - while silver was near an all-time peak - as the worsening crisis over Greenland and a meltdown in Japanese government debt supported haven demand.…
Sargent: Yeah, I mean, everybody’s a terrorist, right? So the second we learned about this shooting, Kristi Noem runs out and says that this officer was the victim of domestic terrorism. A…
As the scandal around ICE’s killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis gets worse, two leading Democrats—Representatives Eric Swalwell and Daniel Goldman—are set to introduce a new bill reining…
Sargent: Well, I want to pick up on what you just said there, which is that Mike Johnson is ideologically opposed to the subsidies getting extended. Clearly, he calculated that if it did…
But again, even something like that, when you are arguing before a judge that this needs to be thrown out because my client is being selectively and vindictively targeted by the president…
Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically killed at the hands of their own son who reportedly had drug addiction and other issues, and their remaining children are left in serious mourning…
Sargent: Yeah, I want to throw this in here, Jen. You got at this in your piece. But Jack Goldsmith—who is not exactly a liberal; he was the head of the Office of Legal Counsel under…
Lurie: Well, first of all, I think we’re past the point of having a strain of authoritarianism. It doesn’t mean that we are Putin’s Russia. In fact, it’s because we’re not that we’re…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 25 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced…
[SEOUL/SINGAPORE] Samsung Electronics this month raised prices of certain memory chips, now in short supply due to the global race to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, by as…
The chip crunch has been so severe that it has spurred panic buying by some customers, according to industry executives and analysts [SEOUL/SINGAPORE] Samsung Electronics this month raised…
Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in the New York City mayoral race—in which he broke 50 percent against two serious opponents—also illustrates the point. Mamdani’s campaign was famously…
Sargent: Yeah. You brought up these numbers—Gallup numbers—showing that Democrats kind of have this advantage on the economy in a sense, over Republicans, in a way that we’ve never seen…
As weather disasters become more and more frequent, the home insurance system feels broken for Americans across the country. Now, the advocacy nonprofit Consumer Reports is trying to…
It belongs to the National Park Service because it’s a national heritage site. It’s a place of history; it’s a place of meaning. I don’t know how many of the listeners will have ever had…
We’re seeing a confluence of events that suggest President Trump’s corruption has crossed over to an ugly new place. Trump is destroying a White House building to create a ballroom for him…
The OCBC Financial Fitness Index for Indonesia falls for the first time in four years The financial health of Indonesia’s younger generation fell in 2025 amid a decline in savings, a…
Sommer: Yeah, you know, I was talking to some moderates recently who were saying, you know, I wish this political rhetoric would go down. But I think it’s just really difficult when the…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced…
The White House is trying to fire Centers for Disease Control director Susan Monarez for opposing Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies. This has sent the CDC…
On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered one of her most obsequious, fawning tirades about President Trump yet. She credited him with single-handedly resolving a…
Downie: Yeah, I think that’s certainly part of it. Trump is also looking for any lever he can to prevent the House, prevent the Judiciary Committee, the Oversight Committee, those sorts of…
Now this same question could be considered by the high court, only this time on the Epstein case. Vladeck, who was involved in the previous litigation, says he thinks this is likely,…
Morris: Yeah, and I think that point’s got to come pretty soon. So we know that Trump’s really unpopular with all voters, but he’s also unpopular with Republicans, the types of people that…
