UPenn, Trump Admin Reach Deal To Strip Trans Swimmer Of Past Titles & Awards Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, The transgender swimmer who won an NCAA Division I crown in the women’s category in 2022 was stripped of that championship medal and all records as a female competitor at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) under the school’s recent agreement with the Department of Education, officials announced. […]

“Shame & Name” Climate Activist Satellite Backed By Bezos Lost A high-resolution Earth-observation satellite designed to monitor and map global methane emissions has been lost after a power failure. The $88 million satellite, called MethaneSAT, owned by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and backed by Jeff Bezos, was lost ten days ago…  On Friday, June 20, the MethaneSAT mission operations lost contact with […]

Rubio Announces USAID Has ‘Officially’ Ceased Operations Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Tuesday the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which had been rapidly dismantled earlier this year by the Trump administration. In a blog post on the State Department’s website, Rubio wrote that foreign assistance provided by USAID had failed to […]

“This Is The Next Level”: AI-Powered “Digital Workers” Deployed At Major Bank To Work Alongside Humans If you’re working in banking, your next colleague could be a bot. Once unthinkable, the Bank of New York Mellon announced that it has deployed dozens of artificial intelligence-powered “digital employees” that operate with human employees, and even have their own company login credentials. The Wall Street Journal reports: […]

The Curbing Of The Administrative State Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court delivered an opinion last week that not even the best of the punditry class was prepared to understand. The decision was Trump vs. CASA, and the topic concerned the nationwide injunction against Trump’s management of U.S. immigration policy. As with more than 40 other cases, federal district judges have intervened to stop the […]

Productivity Gains From Using AI As AI tools become increasingly integrated—and in some cases, even mandated—into professional workflows, their real-world impact on productivity is becoming more evident. This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, compares the average time it takes U.S. adults to complete 18 common work tasks with and without the use of generative AI, based on a December 2024 survey of 4,278 […]

Judge Orders Halt To Mass Layoffs At Dept. Of Health And Human Services Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on July 1 ordered officials to stop the overhaul of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), finding that the layoffs enacted in April likely ran counter to federal law. “With respect to the merits, the Court concludes the States have shown a likelihood of success on their claims that […]

FATF Warning On Stablecoin Crimes Is Not Anti-Crypto, Intel Firms Say Authored by Yohan Yun via CoinTelegraph.com, Cryptocurrency regulations are increasingly aligning with global standards; 73% of eligible jurisdictions have now passed laws to implement the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Travel Rule. The Travel Rule mandates crypto service providers to collect and share users’ transaction data, similar to traditional […]

Family Of Karmelo Anthony Asks For Millions In Donations After Murder Indictment Things are not going well for Karmelo Anthony compared to a couple months ago.  Despite confessing to the stabbing that led to the death of athlete Austin Metcalf at a track event on April 2, 2025 in Frisco, Texas, Anthony was given greatly reduced bail and allowed to remain under house arrest by a progressive activist judge. Anthony’s family posted a […]

Thiel: AI Is The Only Thing Keeping The World From Total Stagnation Authored by Guillermo Flor via theaiopportunities.com, Peter Thiel just did the most mind-exploding, crazy interview I’ve ever listened to. It’s so drastic, I still don’t know what to think – other than everyone should listen to it. So I dissected it piece by piece and organized it to draw some conclusions. This is what you cannot miss: 1. We are […]

Iraq Claims Top Spot Among OPEC Crude Suppliers To The US Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Iraq exported nearly 7 million barrels of crude to the U.S. in May, surpassing all other OPEC members. The surge in Iraqi shipments meets U.S. demand for heavier Middle Eastern crude grades amid OPEC+ output cuts. Rising oil exports provide vital fiscal support for Iraq, where crude sales generate about 90% of […]

Senate Passes Trump’s $3.3 Trillion Tax And Spending Bill Update (1207ET): The Senate has passed the GOP’s tax & spending cuts bill by a vote of 51-50.  🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill has officially PASSED the U.S. Senate, with JD Vance breaking the tie It now heads back to the House for a vote on the changes made. It COULD still hit Trump’s desk by July 4th. pic.twitter.com/qszGm5sAt3 — Nick Sortor […]

RFK Jr. Unloads Disturbing Vaccine Secrets On Tucker… And Surprises Everyone On Trump Via VigilantFox.com, It’s not every day an active HHS Secretary sits down for 90 minutes straight with Tucker Carlson. But that’s exactly what happened, and Kennedy instantly seized Carlson’s attention with a chilling story of CDC corruption. He revealed that the health agency buried a 1999 internal study led by researcher Thomas […]

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $10B As Trump Threatens To Unleash DOGE On Him Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI secured $10 billion in fresh capital, doubling down on its challenge to OpenAI as the race to dominate the AI landscape intensifies. The funds were evenly split between secured debt and strategic equity investments. The influx gives xAI more resources to expand its […]

Takeover Begins: Robots Set To Outnumber Humans At Amazon Warehouses Amazon hasn’t set a public date for fully replacing warehouse workers with robots, but all indicators suggest a gradual transition is well underway, with significant workforce reductions likely, alongside productivity gains driven by automation and AI through the 2030s. The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon, the nation’s second-largest private employer in […]

Noem Accuses Anti-ICE App Developer Of Obstructing Justice; Leavitt Blasts CNN For “Promoting” It Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday that “ICEBlock,” an app designed to alert individuals of immigration enforcement operations, appeared to constitute obstruction of justice.  “This sure looks like obstruction of justice,” Noem wrote on X, responding to […]

Attorneys Push For Class Action In Birthright Citizenship Case After Supreme Court Ruling Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, Attorneys are urging a federal judge in Maryland to use an alternative legal mechanism for granting a sweeping block on President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order after the Supreme Court ruled against the use of nationwide injunctions. A conference on June 30 marked the first set of […]

Circle Applies For US Trust Bank Charter To Manage Its USDC Reserve Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, Stablecoin issuer Circle has applied to establish a national trust bank in the United States that, among other duties, would oversee the firm’s USDC reserve on behalf of its US issuer.  If the application is approved by the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Circle’s First National Digital […]

Alligator Alcatraz Live: Trump Tours New Illegal Alien Deportation Camp In Florida Swamp President Donald Trump arrived at a newly constructed migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, referred to by some as “Alligator Alcatraz.”  JUST IN: President Trump has arrived at “Alligator Alcatraz.” pic.twitter.com/sLtToKlReY — Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) July 1, 2025 Alligator Alcatraz is a detention, processing, […]

“Party’s Over”: Auto Sales Sputter After Tariff-Fueled Surge The auto sales slowdown that emerged in June is largely a hangover from the spring surge, when consumers rushed to dealerships nationwide to beat tariff hikes sparked by President Trump’s escalating trade war and new tariffs on trading partners. With affordability still worsening and economic uncertainty elevated, industry researcher J.D. Power now expects sales to […]

Trump Vs. Musk: “Big, Beautiful Bill” Feud Sparks Overnight Political Firestorm Update (0800 ET): Elon Musk on President Trump this morning: So tempting to escalate this. So, so tempting. But I will refrain for now. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2025 Musk continued:  And how are we supposed to reach Mars if America goes de facto bankrupt? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2025 *   *   *  Update (0800 ET): President […]

Oklahoma Ends Recommendation To Add Fluoride To Water Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Oklahoma State Department of Health has removed its recommendation that fluoride be added to public water systems, joining a growing number of states that have rolled back similar guidance. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (L) with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (R) at the Oklahoma State Capitol on June […]

FBI Charges 4 Californians In Largest-Ever COVID Tax Credit Fraud Scheme Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Four Californians were charged by a federal grand jury on June 11 for their alleged involvement in a $93 million COVID-19 tax credit fraud scheme, deemed to be the “largest ever identified,” the FBI said in a June 26 statement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters in […]

Labor Market Rebounds As Job Openings Unexpectedly Soar One month after the BLS reported that in April the labor market rebounded, as the number of job openings rose sharply by 191K to 7.4 million, and far above estimates of a 7.1 million print, moments ago we got another indication that the labor market is staging a remarkable rebound when the BLS reported that in May the number of job openings soared by 374K to 7.769 million, […]

B-2 Or Not B-2? That Is The Dollar Question By Michael Every of Rabobank Equity markets at new record highs continue to think 2025 is more of the same-old, same-old. Bond markets whispering about a series of Fed rate cuts do too. Yet the US dollar just had its worst H1 — down around 10% — in over five decades.  Those in markets who know economic history recall this was when the gold-backed-dollar Bretton Woods system was […]