More Trump Tariffs Coming After Supreme Court Decision
More tariffs are now being built through two channels: a new blanket import duty and a separate push to launch national-security tariffs across multiple industrial categories. The Supreme Court’s recent ruling held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize President Donald Trump to impose tariffs, cutting off the legal foundation for the […]
US Homebuyer Count Falls to Record Low as Seller Gap Widens
An estimated 1.36 million homebuyers were active in the US housing market in January, the lowest count in records dating back to 2013, according to a Redfin report published Monday. The figure excludes April 2020, when the pandemic briefly froze the market, and marks an 8% drop from a year earlier. Sellers outpaced buyers by […]
US Nuclear Fuel Supplier Warns of Enriched Uranium Shortage
Centrus Energy CEO Amir Vexler warned that surging nuclear demand and a hard ban on Russian imports threaten to open a critical “supply gap” in the country’s enriched uranium supply chain. Russia controls roughly 44% of global uranium enrichment capacity. It supplies approximately 35% of US nuclear fuel imports — a dependence rooted in the […]
US Military Airlifts Nuclear Microreactor in Historic First
The Pentagon and the Department of Energy completed the first-ever airlift of a nuclear microreactor on February 15, flying a 5-megawatt reactor built by startup Valar Atomics nearly 700 miles from March Air Reserve Base in California to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The operation, designated “Operation Windlord,” transported the Ward 250 reactor — […]
Pentagon Threatens to Banish Anthropic as Hegseth Issues Ultimatum
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday for what sources describe as a make-or-break confrontation over the military’s use of the company’s Claude artificial intelligence model — until very recently the only AI cleared for use on the US military’s classified networks. The meeting caps months of deteriorating […]
Elon Musk’s xAI Wins Classified Pentagon Access
When the Pentagon announced last summer that it had awarded $200 million AI contracts to four frontier technology companies, one name stood out: Elon Musk’s xAI. Now, with Grok cleared for the military’s most sensitive classified networks, questions about how that contract materialized — and who benefits — are back. Musk led the Department of […]
BC Approves Copper Mountain Mine Expansion Near Princeton
The British Columbia government approved the expansion of Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM) Copper Mountain mine on Monday, extending the open-pit copper and gold operation’s lifespan by 12 years and sustaining roughly 800 jobs in the province’s southern Interior. The Ministry of Mining and Critical Minerals issued permits under both the Mines Act and the Environmental […]
Trump Admin Taps Pentagon AI Program For Critical Minerals Pricing
The Trump administration plans to use a Pentagon-created AI program to set reference prices for critical minerals as it tries to assemble a global metals trading block, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the effort. Vice President JD Vance proposed earlier this month that the US and more than 50 other countries impose […]
Nord Precious Metals Hits Multiple Intervals Of Mineralization In Latest Drill Hole At Castle East
Nord Precious Metals (TSXV: NTH) is reporting this morning that they have completed three holes to date under an ongoing phase 1 drill program at the Castle East property. 2,100 metres of drilling have been completed to date under the program, with drilling still ongoing.
Aya Intersects New Structure At Boumadine Parallel To Main Trend
Aya Gold & Silver (TSXV: AYA) is reporting this morning that it has identified a new parallel structure at their Boumadine project in Morocco. The new discovery is said to have opened further exploration potential at the project, while supporting the potential for further resource growth. The new structure is found 500 metres to the […]