Tracy Mumford

Iran's foreign minister recently warned the U.S.

that an all-out confrontation would be messy and ferocious.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave new details about how the Trump administration is exerting control over Venezuela.

He said the White House will oversee the sale of Venezuelan oil, then decide what revenue from that goes back to the country.

He said the money will come by way of an account managed by Qatar.

Rubio said the third-party account was necessary because of U.S.

financial sanctions on Venezuela.

But Democratic senators questioned the legality of the arrangement and criticized the administration's open-ended involvement in the country.

And last update, in Fulton County, Georgia, yesterday, FBI agents executed a search warrant at an election center in an attempt to seize ballots from the 2020 election.

It's the latest sign that the Trump administration is doubling down on the president's baseless claims that the election was rigged.

Fulton County, which voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden, has been at the center of those conspiracy theories.

And it's where Trump himself was criminally charged with election interference.

The warrant said the FBI was investigating the possible destruction of election-related records, among other things.

A Democratic commissioner in the county, however, accused Trump of trying to create chaos before the midterm elections, saying, quote, this is all about November 2026.

Over the last year or so, news about the price of gold rising and rising has become common.

Just this week, gold hit a record high, surging over $5,000 an ounce.

But now, silver is surging even faster, with some analysts calling it gold on steroids.

To be clear, it's not worth as much as gold.

The price of silver just crossed $100 an ounce, but it is rising at breakneck speeds.

Some of that momentum likely comes from the waves of instability that have been sweeping the globe.