President Donald Trump spent most of 2025 hacking away at large parts of the federal government. His administration fired, bought out, or otherwise ousted hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

As President Trump returned from his trip to Asia in October, he boasted that his bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping was a “spectacular success.” The reality is, he has little to show ...

Mining company Ionic Minerals Technologies announced that it uncovered what may be the nation’s largest reserve of critical minerals, possibly transforming the domestic supply chain for defense and ...

Ionic Mineral Technologies was mining the clay in Utah when it chanced upon what could be the critical mineral equivalent of a gold mine. Ionic MT had leased the land as part of its business producing ...

MISSOURI — Missouri is home to economically viable deposits of 36 of the 60 critical minerals identified by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as essential to the nation’s economy and security, the ...

Melting Arctic ice is making previously inaccessible mineral reserves reachable, triggering a surge of global interest from the U.S., Canada, Russia, Denmark, and Norway. Governments are pursuing ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. Critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel are crucial for renewable energy technologies and electric vehicles, but their mining and ...

"Mineral-only" sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of "chemicals," a belief that "mineral" products are inherently safer, and confusion about how sunscreens ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior expanded its list of critical minerals Thursday to include new elements, such as copper, silver and uranium, allowing these new minerals to become eligible for ...

The US added copper, silver and uranium to a government list of critical minerals as the Trump administration broadens its scope of what commodities it deems vital to the American economy and national ...