The Bullet Used in Charlie Kirk Murder Doesn’t Match The Alleged Weapon There’s a new wrinkle in the case against Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old charged with assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Defense attorneys revealed last week that federal ballistic analysis cannot link the bullet that killed Kirk to the rifle prosecutors say Robinson used. Robinson faces charges of aggravated murder, along with multiple […]

One Man Thinks He Knows “Why Everything Sucks” Authored by Matt Van Swol via X, I think I know why everything sucks… …and it’s because everything is fake We are getting fake college degrees that cost 4 years and six figures that teach you fake education and get you fake jobs. We are eating fake food, with fake ingredients, funded by fake research. We are scrolling through fake lives, with fake relationships, who take […]

Iran Says ‘Prepared To End War’ If Security Guarantees Offered, But Still No Direct Negotiations – Just ‘Messages’ Summary President Pezeshkian: prepared to end war with guarantees against further attacks. IRGC warns it will hit 18 US tech companies in region, says Siemens in Israel already attack China, Pakistan issue broad five-point framework for peace (document below); France, Italy begin to block airspace for […]

American Journalist Shelly Kittleson Kidnapped In Baghdad American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson, who reports primarily on Middle Eastern and Afghan affairs, was kidnapped in Baghdad earlier today. She has written for outlets including Al-Monitor, Foreign Policy, BBC News, Politico, and others. Alex Plitsas, a CNN national security analyst and former senior Pentagon official under former President Barack Obama, confirmed […]

Gearing Up For Artemis II: NASA’s High-Stakes Test Run Around the Moon NASA is gearing up for Artemis II, its first crewed mission to the moon since the Apollo era—but this one is more of a high-speed dress rehearsal than a landing, according to KSL.com. Four astronauts will take a roughly 10-day trip that loops around the moon and comes straight back, with no orbiting or moonwalks. The crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, […]

New Restrictions On SNAP Purchases To Take Effect In More States In April Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Food stamp recipients in Florida, Texas, and West Virginia will face restrictions on buying certain kinds of less nutritious items such as soda and candy, some starting in April. A sign on the window of a grocery store in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Oct. 30, […]

In Revolutionary Statement, Fidel Castro’s Grandson Embraces “Capitalism With Sovereignty” What is awkward for Democrats and their left-wing activist network of politicians and dark-money funded nonprofits is that the latest CNN interview with Fidel Castro’s grandson shattered years of left-wing America’s weird obsession with Cuban communism.  Sandro Castro told CNN’s Patrick Oppmann that he would welcome a deal with President […]

Another Greek Tanker Sneaks Through Strait Of Hormuz Another Greek-controlled oil tanker has crossed the Strait of Hormuz, despite Iran’s declaration that only “friendly” vessels will be allowed to make the transit, marking the fourth such voyage since hostilities in the Middle East began. The suezmax Pola, which switched off its tracking system in the Persian Gulf on March 10, was detected again on Monday by the Automatic […]

Stock Market Breadth: Warning Or Opportunity? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The S&P 500 is down roughly 7% from its January 27 all-time high. Unsurprisingly, the media is full of “red” headlines discussing the seemingly “endless” correction we are in. Unsurprisingly, previously complacent investors are now anxious, as nothing seems to be working. But that index-level headline conceals […]

Air Canada CEO Out After Admitting In PR Video That He Can’t Speak French Michael Rousseau is on his way out as head of Air Canada, after a crisis response that somehow made a bad situation worse – and then kept digging. The backdrop: a fatal March 22 crash at LaGuardia Airport involving a flight from Montreal to New York City. Two pilots were killed. Rousseau responded with a video offering his “deepest sorrow for everyone […]

Rubio Issues Veiled Threat After France, Italy Are Latest NATO Allies To Block US Military Flights For Iran War Update(1320ET): We detailed earlier that more and more EU and NATO countries are moving to block US military flights operating in Iran. This includes Spain, Switzerland, Italy and now France.  Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declared “without the United States there is no NATO.” In a fresh Al Jazeera interview Rubio […]

Oracle Firing Tens Of Thousands As CDS Explodes To Financial Crisis Record Two months ago, when ORCL announced it would raise $50 billion in a combination of stock and bonds to ease market fears about its soaring funding costs and lack of actual revenues and “to build additional capacity to meet the contracted demand from the company’s largest cloud customers, including Advanced Micro Devices, Meta Platforms, Nvidia, OpenAI, […]

Pentagon Weighs Anti-Drone Laser Weapon Deployment In DC To Fortify Airspace We outlined a glaring security gap in U.S. counter-drone defenses well before the U.S.-Iran conflict erupted one month ago. At the time, we specifically pointed out that data centers are largely unprepared for drone threats. We believe the Gulf conflict – after Iran bombed multiple data centers and military bases – has likely pushed the federal government […]

Treasury Unveils Whistleblower Portal To Combat Transnational Medicare, Medicaid Fraud Rings Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Whistleblowers are encouraged to report abuse of Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health benefit programs, the Department of the Treasury announced on March 30, while warning that sophisticated fraud schemes are siphoning billions from them. The White House and the U.S. […]

Ukraine’s Backers Want Reduction In Long-Range Strikes On Russian Oil, Zelensky Says We’ve been highlighting the significant impact of the Iran war on developments in Ukraine, where the over four-year long war is showing no end in sight. Ukraine’s President Zelensky has made clear his view that the current global focus on the Iran conflict has put Kiev in a weakened position. Already, Ukraine’s international partners are […]

Google’s New Quantum Research Reignites Push To Harden Bitcoin Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, A new research paper from Google has intensified debate over whether Bitcoin can adapt in time to withstand advances in quantum computing, pushing developers and investors to confront a risk long treated as theoretical. Google’s quantum division said this week in a new whitepaper that future machines could […]

Supreme Court Sides With Christian Counselor, Strikes Down Colorado ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban In a landmark 8-1 decision issued today, the Supreme Court sided with a Christian mental health counselor – ruling that Colorado’s law banning “conversion therapy” violates the First Amendment.  A transgender rights supporter takes part in a rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in December. The court on Tuesday heard arguments in a […]

European Inflation Jumps Most Since 2022 On Soaring Energy Prices Even As Core CPI Unexpectedly Shrinks In an early preview of the coming inflation spike, the euro area saw its steepest jump in inflation since 2022 as the Iran war pushed energy costs sharply higher, backing expectations that the ECB will have to raise interest rates. In March, European consumer prices rose 2.5% from a year ago in March – and up a whopping 1.9% […]

Solar Stocks Surge As Energy Shock Revives Renewables Trade Goldman analyst Adam Wijaya asked clients whether this year’s surge in SolarEdge, Enphase Energy, and other solar stocks is reviving a familiar trade: higher crude oil and natural gas prices in Europe and globally, strengthening the case for renewables as the energy shock sparks a return to coal switching. “Are we back to running the 2022 playbook?” Wijaya asked in a note […]

“Price Collapse” Hits Memory Sticks As Hoarded Inventory Floods Market After Google’s DeepSeek Moment Following our “Google’s DeepSeek Moment” report last week, which detailed how TurboQuant, a compression algorithm for large language models and vector search engines, could sharply reduce AI memory requirements and sparked a selloff in top memory stocks, a Taiwanese financial outlet is now reporting a plunge in memory stick prices […]

Job Openings Drop After Huge Upward Revision As Hires, Quits Unexpectedly Plunge To Six Year Low A few weeks ago, the BLS reported that January job openings unexpectedly soared by 400K, the biggest increase since November 2024, to 6.946MM, the highest since last October. Well, it turns out the jump was even higher than that because moments ago, the BLS published the latest February print, and while that number came in line with […]

Army Reviews Helicopter Flights Near Kid Rock’s Home, Anti-Trump Protests Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Army has opened an administrative review of two AH-64 Apache helicopters that flew low near musician Kid Rock’s home and above an anti-Trump protest in Nashville over the weekend. Two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters conduct flight operations in the U.S. Central Command area of […]

Conference Board Confidence Unexpectedly Jumped Amid War In March Despite war (and rising gas prices) now on respondents’ minds (the survey period for preliminary results was March 1 to 24), it is perhaps surprising that The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence rose more than expected in March (from 91.0 to 91.8), considerably better than the 87.9 expected. Even more intriguing, the Present Situation rose from 120.0 to 123.3 (118 […]

No THAC0 Tuesday By Michael Every of Rabobank No TACO And No THAC0 The Global Daily yesterday noted lots of reasons to worry about this Gulf War 3 – today there are far more. However, as made clear since the start of this crisis, there is no way to say, “This is silly,” or to ‘go home’ and return to ‘normality’. Everyone in the war except the US *is* at home. Israel is targeting Iran’s leaders and PM Netanyahu says the […]

Negative Equity Leaves 30% Of Car-Buyers Underwater On Trade‑Ins Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, Almost one-third of American car buyers with a trade-in owe more than the vehicle is worth, new industry data show. About 30.5 percent of buyers trading in a car toward a new vehicle maintained negative equity, according to a JD Power report released on March 26. This is up 4.2 percentage points from a year ago and […]