Total Metals Secures High Grade Critical Minerals Property In Northwestern Ontario

Total Metals (TSXV: TT) is turning its focus to the critical minerals sector, announcing this morning the acquisition of the Pick Lake property from Frontier Energy Limited. The deal centers on a high-grade zinc-copper-silver-gold deposit that is found within northwestern Ontario.
Prospector To Sell Non-Yukon Assets As It Focuses Efforts On ML Project

Prospector Metals (TSXV: PPP) is streamlining its operations, moving away from the project generator model to bet the house on its flagship ML Project in the Yukon. The company announced a definitive agreement to sell off its non-Yukon assets to BeMetals Corp (TSXV: BMET) in a deal that effectively splits the company’s assets into two […]
Vindictive Much? Trump Administration Cancels Contracts with Catholic Charities

The Trump administration cancelled an $11 million federal contract with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami, ending a program that sheltered and cared for unaccompanied migrant children in South Florida for more than 60 years. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, administered the contract, which funded […]
California Supreme Court Disbars Trump Election Attorney John Eastman

The California Supreme Court disbarred John Eastman on April 15, the attorney who architected the legal strategy to block certification of the 2020 presidential election. The court denied his petition for review without an opinion or a recorded dissent, ordered his name stricken from the roll of attorneys, and directed him to pay $5,000 in […]
Did Johnson Just Theology-Splain Augustine’s ‘Just War Doctrine’ To The Augustinian Pope Leo XIV?

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s attempt to correct Pope Leo XIV on “just war doctrine” has turned into a theology fight with unusually sharp political stakes, after the lawmaker invoked a doctrine historically associated with St. Augustine against a pope who spent 12 years leading Augustine’s religious order. Johnson told reporters Wednesday that the issue in […]
Hungary’s PM-Elect Péter Magyar Visited President, Then Called For Him To Resign

Péter Magyar’s election landslide has turned Hungary’s transfer of power into an immediate institutional confrontation, with the prime minister-elect demanding President Tamás Sulyok’s resignation, threatening to suspend state media news operations, and preparing constitutional changes backed by a projected two-thirds parliamentary majority. Tisza’s victory ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule and gave Magyar’s party a projected […]
Starmer ‘Cannot Yield’: Britain Refuses Hormuz Blockade Despite Trump’s Trade Deal Threat

US President Donald Trump threatened to revise the US-UK trade deal after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer refused to support the US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the latest sign of a widening rift between Washington and its closest allies over the Iran war. In a phone interview with Sky News, Trump said […]
China Denies Any Deal With Trump Not to Arm Iran, Calls Weapons Claims ‘Purely Fabricated’

China’s Foreign Ministry rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that Beijing agreed not to supply weapons to Iran, calling the reports fabricated and warning of countermeasures if the US uses the allegations to justify new tariffs. Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday that Xi Jinping had made a personal commitment by letter not to arm […]
Orla Mining Plummets As Mexico Confirms Probe Into Alleged Worker Threats

Orla Mining (TSX: OLA) shares fell sharply after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed her administration is investigating allegations tied to the company’s Camino Rojo mine in Zacatecas, where workers were allegedly threatened by organized crime figures during a union dispute. Sheinbaum reportedly said the case involving Camino Rojo is under investigation. Asked whether the alleged […]
FIFA Chief Overrules Iran Sports Minister, Says Team ‘Coming For Sure’ to World Cup

“The Iranian team is coming for sure, yes,” FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Wednesday at CNBC‘s Invest in America Forum, directly contradicting Iran’s sports minister, who declared last month the team would not participate under any circumstances. “Iran has to come. They represent their people. They have qualified. The players want to play.” Sports Minister […]