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From Sabotaged Supermarkets To RAF Fairford: Iran's War On Europe Is No Longer Deniable - From Sabotaged Supermarkets To RAF Fairford: Iran's War On Europe Is No Longer Deniable Authored by Struan Stevenson via Townhall,France has finally done what European governments have been reluctant to do for far too long. On November 10, Paris formally accused the Iranian regime of conducting cyberwarfare against French citizens, attributing attacks on more than 700 supermarket s...

Needed: A World War Against Globalism - Needed: A World War Against Globalism Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,The wars to come will ultimately pit freedom-loving peoples of many nations against the architecture of the State - composed of the bureaucratic Leviathans at the national and international level, taxpayer-funded news organizations, and the broad spectrum of so-called "non-governmental organizations" ...

Malfoid? Why Does This Harry Potter Fan Fiction Character Drive Leftists Insane? - Malfoid? Why Does This Harry Potter Fan Fiction Character Drive Leftists Insane? Who could have guessed a decade ago that Harry Potter, of all things, would become a central battleground for the cultural zeitgeist?  The political left's obsession with the franchise is complicated, but it largely stems from writer J.K. Rowling's "betrayal" of the progressive cult when she criticized...

Trump Says Saudi Arabia Is 'Disintegrating' - Trump Says Saudi Arabia Is 'Disintegrating' Via Middle East EyeSaudi Arabia is "disintegrating", US President Donald Trump said in an interview released on Friday, which is likely to offend the kingdom, as it suffers missile and drone strikes from Yemen’s Houthis.Trump passed judgment on Saudi Arabia, one of the US's closest allies, in an interview with Stephen A Smith, boasting he...

US Loses Measles-Free Status After 26 Years As Death Toll Hits 10 - US Loses Measles-Free Status After 26 Years As Death Toll Hits 10 The United States has lost the measles elimination status it has held since 2000, after an independent commission that reports to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) found the virus has been spreading inside the country for more than a year. The Wall Street Journal first reported the decision on Friday, and C...

Why Most Americans Couldn't Last 72 Hours In An Emergency - Why Most Americans Couldn't Last 72 Hours In An Emergency Authored by Russ Jones via The Epoch Times,Viral social media posts and text messages urging Americans to stockpile 90 days of food and supplies are gaining traction. One text message, reviewed by The Epoch Times, spread as these warnings usually do: from one friend to the next.It described a cyber specialist who came home f...

America's Top Beef Processor Sees "Worst Part" Of Cattle Cycle Over - America's Top Beef Processor Sees "Worst Part" Of Cattle Cycle Over <p>One of America's largest beef processors has spotted an inflection point in the industry's brutal multiyear margin squeeze, saying the "worst part of the cycle" is over as cattle futures and supermarket ground beef prices retreat from their highs."We do believe we are through the worst part of the cycle," Nation...

'They're Coming For The Rest Of Us': Jon Stewart Nods Along As Maddow Comes Unglued Over Trump 'Mega-Prisons' - 'They're Coming For The Rest Of Us': Jon Stewart Nods Along As Maddow Comes Unglued Over Trump 'Mega-Prisons' MS NOW host Rachel Maddow told Jon Stewart on Monday's The Daily Show that if President Trump gets the giant warehouse prisons his administration has sought for immigrants, they won't stay immigrant-only for long."With a president like this, if you give him seven to ten pri...

Thankfully, Child Transgenderism Lost On Election Day - Thankfully, Child Transgenderism Lost On Election Day Authored by Roy Eappen via RealClearPolitics,Here's a story you probably haven't heard about the Nov. 3 election results: Radical gender ideology lost. Badly.This reality has been overlooked in virtually all the coverage of the Republican bloodbath in House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. It's true that Democrats romped to vic...

"Not A Hoax!": Bomb Defused At Ethanol Plant In Illinois - "Not A Hoax!": Bomb Defused At Ethanol Plant In Illinois A bomb discovered at a renewable fuel plant in Peoria, Illinois, prompted local authorities Friday evening to declare a one-mile blast radius and evacuate thousands of people around the facility, raising questions about possible attempted industrial sabotage.TimelinePolice discovered the package near the BioUrja facility at 2...

SpaceX successfully catches Starship rocket in huge milestone for the space industry - The historic first gets SpaceX closer to “rapid reusability” of rockets.

I’m 63 and spending $95,000 on a roof deck for my $500,000 home. Is that a good investment? - “I have a net worth of $2.3 million and my only debt is a 15-year mortgage.”

I inherited $1.4 million from my father. Am I wrong to ask my husband of 25 years for a postnuptial agreement? - “He has always said he wants his daughter to inherit a chunk of his estate, and I’ve never objected to that.”

‘It leaves me with a sour taste’: My elderly mother gave our cousin $800 for a car repair. Should I be worried? - “I know older people can easily feel patronized, and I don’t want that to happen.”

‘I’m sick of flying’: I paid for priority boarding, but the overhead bins were full. Was I duped? - “Maybe next time I’ll try the other approach: I’ll board whenever I feel like it and drop my suitcase in the first open slot I see.”

Should a widow leave her late partner’s home to her stepkids — or cut off contact with them? - “It would be a less drastic step than selling the home now and splitting the proceeds.”

‘He calls my plans a fantasy’: My husband says we can’t afford a $200,000-a-year retirement. Is he being cheap? - “We have $2 million saved in our retirement accounts and a house worth $1.3 million.”

Here’s how Bernie Sanders wants to keep Social Security solvent ‘for generations’ - The Vermont senator aims to eliminate the taxable maximum, making the wealthy pay more in taxes

The trillion-dollar mistake corporate America is making about retirement - The market is dramatically underpricing the economic impact of Americans age 50 and older.

Retirees should be big beneficiaries of the midterms: ‘Democrats will hold every gavel that matters for aging and public policy’ - Here’s what might be coming for Social Security, Medicare and long-term care.

Megaspeed says Alice Huang left in 2025 as it launches internal probe into reports about its business - The Singapore-based cloud computing company has faced heightened scrutiny since reports linked Nvidia's Jensen Huang to former Megaspeed executive Alice Huang.

Nationwide ground stop followed contractor upgrade to L3Harris telecommunication system: DOT’s Duffy - The FAA ground stop came after updates to an older communication system managed by L3Harris Technologies, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday.

Eric Trump-backed robot soldier startup can't pay staff after founder borrowed $4.6 million from company to buy home - Eric Trump-backed robot startup Foundation Future Industries has run low on cash and missed payroll, as CEO Sankaet Pathak faces scrutiny over a $4.6 million company loan.

SpaceX catches upper stage of Starship rocket in historic first - Starship Test Flight 15 marked the first time Elon Musk's company tried to catch both the booster and upper stage of the rocket.

Bahrain intercepts Iranian aerial attacks as Tehran says it attacked US base - The Bahraini military said its air defences had intercepted several Iranian aerial attacks before they reached their targets.

AI risks are the biggest threat to the financial system, Fed survey finds - The report comes with Wall Street on edge over high-flying AI hyperscalers, while communities are on alert for the rapid spread of data centers.

Wholesale prices rose 0.3% in October, putting annual rate at 6.5%, the highest in nearly four years - The producer price index was expected to increase 0.4% in October, according to the Dow Jones consensus.

Bessent blames Lutnick’s Commerce as he slams Nvidia chip ‘leakage’ to China - Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO days after admitting to an affair following scrutiny of his relationship with a woman reportedly deemed a Chinese spy.

UK economy expands 0.7% in third quarter as AI provides 'extra engine of growth' - The U.K. economy grew 0.7% in the third quarter of the year, in line with estimates.

Analysis: Nvidia’s leadership crisis tests the chipmaker’s role as the ‘central bank of AI’ - The tech giant's web of ties to other companies is raising the possibility that it could do far-reaching economic and financial damage.

If GATA's work is worth something to you, please help us - 8:51p ET Thursday, November 12, 2026 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: GATA would like to think it has had a good couple of weeks. First we brought you and the New Orleans Investment Conference a comprehensive summary of the last year's international intrigue about gold, bringing the secret knowledge of the financial universe out into the open so people outside the financial elites might act on tha...

Netherlands lacks oversight of country's E70 billion gold reserve, watchdog says - From NL Times, AmsterdamWednesday, November 11, 2026 The Netherlands has no clear arrangements for how its gold reserves could be used in times of crisis. The Netherlands Court of Audit has said that the Dutch central bank (DNB) has not reached any agreements with the finance minister about the role the reserves should play in emergency situations. The Netherlands' gold reserves have grown seve...

Bipartisan SILVER Act gains momentum in Congress as lawmakers eye national defense bill - From the Sound Money Defense LeagueVia Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, IdahoThursday, November 12, 2026 WASHINGTON -- The bipartisan SILVER Act is gaining momentum with the addition of a dozen more House and Senate cosponsors as an effort gets underway to incorporate the common-sense legislation into the National Defense Authorization Act during the lame-duck session of Congress. ... Dispatch con...

Reserve managers say gold is politically toxic to manage - By Levente KoroesCentral Banking, LondonWednesday, November 11, 2026 https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/reserves/7977907/reserve-managers-say-gold-is-politically-toxic-to-manage Gold is a politically difficult asset to manage as it about the "only thing that local politicians think they understand from a central bank balance sheet," a European reserve manager has told Central Banking'...

Vince Lanci: Is gold being spoofed lower again? - 9:26a ET Wednesday, November 11, 2026 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In his commentary today at VBLGoldFix, Vince Lanci picks up on GATA's report yesterday -- https://gata.org/node/25114 -- about the sharp increases in the gold swaps undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements in September and October. Lanci concurs that the BIS is the coordinator of central bank efforts to restrain the...

Treasury Yields Snap Back on Ugly Inflation, Rough 10-Year & 30-Year Treasury Auctions. Bond Bloodbath Returns - The government sold $766 billion of Treasury securities this week, in nine auctions on three days.

Here Come the HELOCs: Mortgages, Housing-Debt-to-Income-Ratio, Serious Delinquencies, and Foreclosures in Q3 2026 - Keeping an eye on the debt-to-income ratio, which set off all alarm bells before the Housing Bust; but so far, so good.

PPI Inflation Rages in the Revisions? Businesses Hit by 6.5% Inflation, Worst since 2022 - Upward revisions pushed prior month-to-month PPI readings off the chart.

Is the Restoration of Gold as Currency Real? China Increases Gold Holdings, and U.S. States Make It Legal Tender - When I read the major Nikkei Shimbun column 'The Gold Standard Renaissance China is Betting On' (11/9), it also stated that '10 states in the U.S. have established gold as legal tender by law,' and I ...

These Countries May Be Next To Accept Bitcoin as Legal Tender - One of the main knocks against cryptocurrency has always been that it will never gain universal adoption, meaning its usefulness will always be limited. This perhaps changed forever on September 7, ...

Legal Tender - Legal tender is a medium of payment recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation. Paper currency and coins are common forms of legal tender in many countries. Legal ...

This Day In Market History: Legal Tender Act Of 1862 - What Happened? On this day in 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Legal Tender Act into law. Where The Market Was: The Legal Tender Act predates both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones ...

What Is Considered Legal Tender in the US? - "Legal tender" means that the financial instrument in question legally serves to pay any public or private debt. Federal law guarantees its printed value regardless of its intrinsic convertible value, ...

XRP crashes to its lowest since November 2024 as money leaves crypto - XRP tanked to its lowest level since November 2024 as ETF outflows and shrinking stablecoin supply add to pressure on crypto markets.

Bitcoin crashes to 3-month low below $63,000 as analyst flags fourth capitulation wave - "They are now selling at the very price they wish they had taken advantage of three months ago," wrote James Check.

Ethereum scaling project MegaETH slashes staff by 20% as it pursues AI business - Decentralized Finance total value locked on MegaETH dropped significantly from over $245 million to $8.8 million.

Kazakhstan plans tokenized government bonds in first quarter after $22 million note sale - The plan follows Kazakhstan's first sale of tokenized central bank notes as the country expands its crypto market.

UK, Singapore, and Thailand central banks test cross-border FX settlement as stablecoins gain ground - Project Meridian FX APAC said it demonstrated how transactions can be coordinated across conventional settlement systems and those built using blockchain technology.

Britain could turn wasted Scottish wind power into bitcoin to cut its $1.3 billion grid bill - Britain could use bitcoin mining to absorb surplus Scottish wind power and reduce payments to wind farms to halt generation, according to a Bitcoin Policy Institute report.

A behind the scenes force may amplify bitcoin and ether price volatility - Both bitcoin and ether are trading in price ranges where market makers and dealers may add to market volatility.

Satoshi-era wallet served in a $260 billion lawsuit moves 75 BTC it held since 2011 - The roughly $5 million transfer also spent the tiny payment used to deliver a court notice to the address in May.

Bitcoin miners pay Paraguay $350 million a year, but AI is pushing them out - Contracts that sell power to a 4% slice of the world’s bitcoin mining at $44 a megawatt-hour expire on Dec. 31, 2027. Paraguay’s state utility calls the date final, and it has just signed a 15-year deal to power a Founders Fund-backed AI campus.

Bitcoin plunges to $68,000 as Anthropic IPO frenzy adds to market jitters - Analysts see no direct link between Nvidia and bitcoin's decline, pointing instead to investor capital headed into Anthropic as well as a broader risk-off move.

Bitcoin Falls, DTCC Chooses Solana for Tokenization Expansion, and More – Weekly Recap - This week’s stories centered on market stress, corporate investing, hardware-wallet security, tokenization and prediction markets. Bitcoin fell below $68,000 as crypto liquidations hit $1.6 billion, while Tether’s U.S. stock portfolio reached an estimated $4.8 billion. Trezor found spy implants in three Safe 5 wallets, DTCC added Solana to its tokenization roadmap, and Donald Trump Jr. […]

Miner Weekly: These Miners Cut Hashrate 50% as AI Revenue Doubles - The AI retrofit is becoming easier to see in miners’ income statements. This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocksbridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute, infrastructure, and data analysis from The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. IREN, Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ) and TeraWulf (NASDAQ: […]

Why Tokenized Gold’s Explosive Growth Isn’t the Full Story: Xash CEO - Tokenized gold’s booming market cap and trading volumes haven’t translated into decentralized finance adoption. According to Xash CEO Kevin Huynh, most gold-backed tokens sit idle rather than generating yield.   Tokenized Gold Booms in Volume Despite surging investment and trading volumes, tokenized gold has struggled to establish meaningful utility in decentralized finance (DeFi), raising ques...

How Buterin Complicates Ethereum’s Wall Street Pitch by Aiming at Bitcoin - Vitalik Buterin’s latest pivot in how Ethereum should be valued might make traditional Wall Street investors dizzy. The narrative is changing once again, and this time it moves ETH into the territory where Bitcoin’s pitch in traditional finance (TradFi) is strongest: being a store of value. This leaves the two most valuable blockchain networks competing […]

What Nvidia’s CEO Ouster and Bitcoin Have in Common - Speculation is mounting that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was forced out after the co-founder of the multitrillion-dollar company began advocating for open-source AI models. While these theories remain unconfirmed, they also draw parallels with Bitcoin’s own fight over open-source development. Although Huang announced his resignation, an undisclosed person familiar with the matter told CNBC that […]

Milei Campaigned on Dollarizing Argentina. As President, He Stopped Talking About It. - Why did dollarization disappear from Javier Milei's agenda?

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Border Search of Immigration Lawyer's Phone Was Likely Unconstitutional Retaliation for Lawyer's Speech - From Judge Allison Burroughs (D. Mass.) Friday in Lattarulo v. Mullin: Andrew Lattarulo is an immigration lawyer and part owner… The post Border Search of Immigration Lawyer's Phone Was Likely Unconstitutional Retaliation for Lawyer's Speech appeared first on Reason Magazine.

Supreme Court Will Review Case Challenging Donald Trump's "Invasion" Executive Order - Trump claims illegal migration and drug smuggling across the southern border qualify as an "invasion" giving him the power to suspend virtually all legal migration through that border.

Our Amicus Brief in Case Challenging Trump's Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada - The Cato Institute and I filed an amicus brief explaining why the tariffs violate statutory requirements, and also run afoul of the major questions and nondelegation doctrines.

Our Amicus Brief in the First Circuit $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Case - It is on behalf of the Cato Institute and myself.

Today in Supreme Court History: November 14, 1922 - 11/14/1922: Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: November 14, 1922 appeared first on Reason Magazine.

95% of Hemp Products Could Soon Be Illegal. Florida's Small Businesses Are Feeling the Fallout. - Congress legalized hemp in 2018, but next month a new ban is set to take effect.

Javier Milei's Pack of Giant Libertarian Dogs - How English mastiffs embody libertarian ideals

D.C. Rejects Robotaxis To Protect Jobs - Despite evidence suggesting automated vehicles could save lives, D.C. lawmakers voted down their deployment amid concerns from their “friends in labor.”

This isn’t an Instruction Manual. It’s a Warning. How Empires Fall. - Collapse is self-inflicted: Benjamin Franklin knew the pattern all through history. In 1773, he wrote a masterpiece of biting satire - 20 rules for how a great empire destroys itself from within by making its own people see it as detestable. It was supposed to be a warning, but London completely ignored it and paid the price. Once you hear his “rules,” judge for yourself. Is this just another h...

Lost Cause: The Federal Government will Never Limit Itself - Going to the federal government to convince the federal government to limit its own power? That’s not just dumb strategy and a lost cause. It’s dangerous to the Constitution and liberty. On this episode, it’s James Madison’s blueprint for beating the feds without relying on the feds to magically limit their own power. Plus the right to keep and bear arms as the ultimate safeguard for freedom. T...

The Word “Emergency” Doesn’t Exist in the Constitution. That’s no Accident. - That means the rules of the constitution apply whether someone calls it an “emergency” or not. On this episode, it’s the founders’ long-forgotten warning about the oldest weapon in the book. Let politicians have extra power or funding because THEY declare an emergency? And you’ll get never-ending emergencies. The post The Word “Emergency” Doesn’t Exist in the Constitution. That’s no Accident. a...

Tech Companies Are Trying to Shift the Entire Concept of Privacy (Again) - Privacy, which companies were once happy to claim was all about personal choice, is now primed to affect everyone around you even more than it already did. Meta and Google’s smart glasses can record anything the owner is looking at or use artificial intelligence to describe it. Apple’s* Audio Intelligence feature turns every Apple Watch into a transcription machine that records or summarizes yo...

🤕 Medicare's AI Experiment | EFFector 38.20 - When we need medical care, we expect decisions about our treatment to be made by our doctors, not a tech company's algorithm. But in January, the federal government launched a program that uses AI to evaluate Medicare beneficiaries' requests for certain procedures. EFF sued for records on WISeR, seeking badly needed transparency about Medicare's AI experiment. In our latest EFFector newsletter,...

We’re Asking an Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for ALPR Searches - Today, along with the ACLU, EFF filed an amicus brief in the Sixth Circuit court of appeals in , a case where police warrantlessly tracked a suspect’s movements using Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) data. Our brief details the vast, interconnected network of ALPRs that constantly track drivers around the country and argues that this tracking is a “search” under the meaning of the Fourth A...

Connecticut Couple to Resume Renting Trails to Hikers After Town Zoning Officials Fail to Respond to Request for Zoning Interpretation - ROXBURY, Conn.—Today, Roxbury couple, Charles and Eli Copley, and their attorneys from the Institute for Justice (IJ), sent a letter to town officials informing them […] The post Connecticut Couple to Resume Renting Trails to Hikers After Town Zoning Officials Fail to Respond to Request for Zoning Interpretation appeared first on Institute for Justice.

Idaho Supreme Court: Property Owners Cannot Challenge Meridian’s Ban on Tiny Homes on Wheels - Boise, Idaho.—Today, the Idaho Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that Chasidy Decker could not challenge Meridian’s ban on tiny homes on wheels because […] The post Idaho Supreme Court: Property Owners Cannot Challenge Meridian’s Ban on Tiny Homes on Wheels appeared first on Institute for Justice.

Institute for Justice Asks Federal Appeals Court to Make Clear that Using License Plate Readers to Track People is a Fourth Amendment Search - ARLINGTON, Va.—Today, the Institute for Justice (IJ) filed an amicus brief in United States v. Sturdivant, asking the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to […] The post Institute for Justice Asks Federal Appeals Court to Make Clear that Using License Plate Readers to Track People is a Fourth Amendment Search appeared first on Institute for Justice.

TAURUS RENEWS PLATINUM-LEVEL CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 24, 2025 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce that Taurus Holdings Inc. has renewed their commitment to the organization as a Platinum-level corporate partner. “At Taurus, we believe that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to the American way of life,” said Taurus USA The post TAURUS RENEWS PLATINUM-LEVEL CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP appear...

CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARRY PERMIT STARTING APRIL 22 - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 22, 2025 — Thanks to a preliminary injunction in the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) case CRPA v. LASD, starting Tuesday, April 22, non-resident SAF members can apply for a California carry permit.  The injunction requires that California accept permit applications from any United States resident outside the state who is a The post CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARR...

SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN WORTH, SAF WIN IN EIGHTH CIRCUIT STANDS - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 21, 2025 — In a case that could potentially have far-reaching implications for similar lawsuits across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied Minnesota’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Jacobson v. Worth, the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) challenge to the 18-20-year-old carry ban in the state. Minnesota asked the The post SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN WORTH, SAF ...

OH: SB 214 Heads to Governor DeWine’s Desk! - SB 214 Passes the Senate on a Concurrence Vote! It now heads to Governor Mike DeWine’s desk! The Ohio Senate just passed SB 214 on a concurrence vote 21-9! This means the bill is headed to the desk of Governor Mike DeWine for his signature. This has been a victorious day in Columbus, and we couldn’t have done it without … Read more

OH: Public Safety Committee Advances SB 214 with GOA’s Amendments - Urge Your Representative to VOTE YES on the Floor TODAY The House Public Safety Committee has passed Senate Bill 214 with our amendments! GOA sincerely thanks the committee for moving this bill forward and adopting the changes necessary to also de-regulate short barreled firearms. However, we aren’t done yet. SB 214 must also pass on the House floor, as well … Read more

GOA Celebrates 50 Years of No-Compromise Fighting for Gun Rights - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   November 9, 2026  GOA Celebrates 50 Years of No-Compromise Fighting for Gun Rights Springfield, VA – Gun Owners of America (GOA) is celebrating 50 years of standing for the Second Amendment with No Compromise. Founded in 1976 by the late California State Senator H.L. “Bill” Richardson, GOA was established to give gun owners a stronger voice against … Read more

U.S. Bank adding 60 middle-market roles - Middle-market growth is part of the Minneapolis-based lender’s national business banking ambitions. Some of the roles are in Florida and Texas, where the bank does not have branches.

Dive Deposits: Guess who’s playing bipartisan ball - President Donald Trump on Thursday tapped two Democrats to serve as SEC and CFTC commissioners. They’re the first opposing-party nominees Trump has proposed for the regulators in his second term.

Why PayPal wants to have a bank - The digital payments company would tap a bank subsidiary for lending to its merchants, but also to diversify its sources of capital.

Ex-PNC employee faces 5 charges in $86K theft - Jacqueline Clinton allegedly misused her position to make 10 false credit adjustments between May and August. Investigators flagged ATM withdrawals at casinos and gambling websites after transactions.

Hancock Whitney to buy Trustmark in $3.2B deal - The combination of Mississippi banks would create a $58 billion-asset lender with about 370 branches across six Southeastern states.

American Banker AI Week | November 17-19, 2026 -
Nubank U.S. reaches all 50 states in first weeks of launch - The Brazilian digital bank attributed early adoption in the U.S. to word of mouth referrals among its target market of international Latin Americans.

Fed warns of financial risks from AI-driven market optimism - The Federal Reserve flagged elevated stock valuations, growing corporate debt and risks tied to the data center boom as potential threats to financial stability in its most recent financial stability report.

How North Korean IT workers’ wages moved through US banks - A federal indictment lists 12 federally insured banks, all unnamed, as victims of a scheme that allegedly routed North Korean IT workers' wages to China.

Van Hollen leadership run could turn up pressure on banks - The prospect of progressive Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., leading the Senate could boost the profile of banking bills — including a renewed push for credit card competition — in the upper chamber.

Pushing the monetary frontier: stablecoins and tokenised deposits - Speech by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, General Manager of the BIS, at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, 28 August 2026.

BIS residential property price statistics, Q1 2026 - Real global house prices declined by 1.2% year on year (yoy) in the first quarter of 2026.

Effective resolution strategies and plans for insurers – Executive Summary - The Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes for Financial Institutions (Key Attributes) of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) require resolution plans to be developed for all financial institutions, including insurers, that could be systemically significant or critical upon failure.

Agencies extend comment period for proposed third-party risk management guidance - Agencies extend comment period for proposed third-party risk management guidance

Federal Reserve Board announces pricing, effective January 1, 2027, for payment services the Federal Reserve Banks provide to banks and credit unions, and changes to streamline and adjust their che... - Federal Reserve Board announces pricing, effective January 1, 2027, for payment services the Federal Reserve Banks provide to banks and credit unions, and changes to streamline and adjust their check services

Federal Reserve announces revised tentative schedule of Federal Open Market Committee meetings in 2027 - Federal Reserve announces revised tentative schedule of Federal Open Market Committee meetings in 2027

Press Release: Agencies Extend Comment Period for Proposed Third-Party Risk Management Guidance - PRESS RELEASE | NOVEMBER 13, 2026 Agencies Extend Comment Period for Proposed Third-Party Risk Management Guidance WASHINGTON—The Federal Deposi...

Press Release: Federal Bank Regulatory Agencies Release 2025 Small Business, Small Farm, and Community Development Lending Data - PRESS RELEASE | NOVEMBER 5, 2026 Federal Bank Regulatory Agencies Release 2025 Small Business, Small Farm, and Community Development Lending Data ...