UK, Germany, France Push New Plan To Appease Trump On Greenland President Trump’s Friday’s remarks to reporters Friday made clear he is willing to take control of Greenland – even if it’s the “hard way” – and this sent the Europeans scrambling over the weekend to come up with plans or strategies for quickly de-escalating inter-NATO tensions. “I’m not talking about money for Greenland yet. I might talk about that. But right now we […]

Fire Departments’ New Emergency: Affording Their Trucks Authored by Eric Salzman via Racket News, When I was a kid, one of the coolest things was that every year, a few days before Christmas, our town’s fire department would drive through all the neighborhoods in its gleaming fire engine with the lights flashing, giving short bursts of the siren. All the firemen were in full gear hanging off the sides, while Santa, sitting at the […]

Musk Says X’s New Algorithm Will Be Open Source In 6 Days Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, Elon Musk said on Jan. 10 that his X social media platform would open its new algorithm to the public within a week. “We will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users, open source in 7 days,” Musk wrote in a post on X on Jan. 10. “This will […]

Fed Subpoenaed As DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Jerome Powell, Who Vows To “Stand Firm” Not content with launching a dizzying cascade of international conflicts, Trump just lobbed a nuke at the Fed.  While Trump’s vendetta against the Fed’s Lisa Cook set for a January showdown before the Supreme Court, the Trump admin dramatically raised the stakes on Sunday when the NYT first reported, and minutes later Fed Chair Jerome Powell […]

Stocks, Dollar Drop, Gold Jumps As Fed Probe, Iran Unrest Darken Mood “Sell America” is back: US equity futures and other US assets – including the dollar – are lower (even as Europe and Asia rise) while precious metals surge to new record highs after the DOJ subpoenaed the Fed and launched a criminal probe into Jerome Powell; ongoing protests in Iran are also denting sentiment. As of 8:15am, S&P 500 contracts are lower by 0.5%, […]

Trump Already Receiving Briefings On Military Strike Options For Iran As Protest Deaths Soar The NY Times and others are confirming that President Trump has recently been briefed on a series of new military strike options targeting Iran as he weighs whether to act on his threat to attack the country over its crackdown on protesters, which have also clearly themselves engaged in violent acts in some locales at times. In some of […]

Credit Card Stocks Tumble As Trump Floats One-Year 10% Rate Cap European and US credit card companies are sliding in premarket trading after President Trump said on Truth Social late Friday (read report) that a 10% cap on credit card interest rates is very much on the table as part of his push to improve affordability. In a Truth Social post, Trump said Americans are being “ripped off” by credit card companies that charge interest […]

Wave Of Costly Copper Thefts Threatens Public Safety, Experts Say Authored by Allen Stein via The Epoch Times, With copper prices at new highs, attacks on communications and power networks have sharply increased, and telecommunications companies, power suppliers, and construction firms are sounding the alarm. Copper was trading at roughly $6 per pound or $12,000 a ton at midday on Jan. 7, a more than 30 percent year-over-year […]

Watch: Chaos Erupts As U-Haul Driven Into LA Protest Against Iran Regime Amid reports that hundreds of anti-government demonstrators in Iran have been killed in recent days — and President Trump reportedly considering US intervention — tensions over the Iran crisis hit a flash point in Los Angeles on Sunday when a U-Haul truck with signage opposing the reinstallation of an Iranian monarchy drove through a group of marchers calling […]

DOT Strips California Of $160 Million Over Foreign Truckers By John Gallagher of FreightWaves A showdown between the U.S. Department of Transportation and the State of California reached a breaking point on Wednesday after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will withhold approximately $160 million in safety program money from the state. The move follows California’s […]

White House Amplifies Shocking Claims Of US Super Soldiers Deployed In Maduro Raid White House Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt amplified claims about American special forces super-soliders deployed advanced weaponry during the extraction phase of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Leavitt reposted an alleged account from a Venezuelan security guard at Maduro’s compound describing what happened when Delta Force operators […]

‘Regime Influence’: Trump’s Foreign-Policy Third Way Authored by David DesRoisiers via The Spectator, At 2 a.m. on Saturday, President Trump gave a New Year’s kinetic expression to his recently published National Security Strategy and what it means in the American hemisphere. If we take President Trump at his blustering word – which those in the administration’s Maduro-adjacent crosshairs should – this is just the […]

Cancer Drugs Drive Nearly One-Fifth Of Pharma Sales The global pharmaceutical industry’s revenue is increasingly concentrated in a handful of high-value drug classes, with oncology, diabetes/obesity treatments and immunology leading the charge. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiat details below, according to estimates from Statista Market Insights, cancer drugs alone generated over $217 billion last year, making oncology the largest […]

Germany’s Intelligence Service Set To Expand Surveillance Submitted by Thomas Kolbe According to plans from the Federal Chancellery, Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, is set to significantly expand its surveillance capabilities. The focus is particularly on internet communication transmitted from within Germany to abroad, which is to be included in the agency’s monitoring catalog going forward. After months of […]

Death Toll In Clampdown On Iranian Protests Reaches Hundreds, Rights Groups Say Human rights groups say that hundreds of people have been killed during mass demonstrations that have roiled Iran in recent weeks, with thousands more detained. At least 192 protesters have been killed since the mass demonstrations started, said the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group on Sunday. It said that “unverified reports” have shown that […]

Mercedes Relocates Production To Hungary, 20,000 Germans Set To Lose Their Jobs Via Remix News, In yet another major blow to the German automobile labor market, Mercedes has announced it will be relocating production of its A-Class from Rastatt, Germany, to Kecskemét, Hungary. While Hungary’s foreign minister is taking a victory lap, Germany’s largest opposition party is sharply crticizing he government as signs grow that […]

Cloudflare Vs Italy: The Battle For Digital Freedom And Global Internet Sovereignty Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Italian authorities are attempting to force the internet service provider Cloudflare to delete and block certain online services. Cloudflare is resisting and has turned to the U.S. government for support. The fight for a free internet is intensifying. The struggle over control of information, censorship, and economic […]

Overhauling Air Traffic Control Involves 5,000 Locations And 600 Radar Systems: Here’s What To Know Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, The federal government is embarking on what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has called “the most important infrastructure project that we’ve had in this country for decades.” It is attempting to modernize and upgrade the nation’s entire air traffic control system within a […]

Trump Urges Cuba To Strike Deal With US “Before It’s Too Late” After Oil, Money Cut Off From Venezuela U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 11 told Cuba that it should forge a deal with the United States now that Washington has pushed Venezuela to cut off its supply of oil and money to the communist-run island. After the U.S. military captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, interim Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez […]

Great Balls Of Fire Authored by Waters, Ellwanger & Calvin via RealClearHistory, America’s foremost heroes are cowboys, soldiers, and innovators. They imposed order on the Wild West. They showed courage on countless battlefields and saved civilization in the Second World War. Armed with a vision for the future and their own two hands, they overpowered a dark and forbidding wilderness to create our modern world. We memorialize […]

K-Shaped Economy Is Here To Stay As Goldman’s Consumer Dashboard Shows Growing Divide Higher-income consumers and asset owners have watched their wealth surge as stocks climb, fueled by the AI bubble, while housing markets levitate. Lower- and middle-income households, especially those without equity or home ownership, are facing a dangerous cocktail of sticky inflation, sluggish wage growth, and elevated borrowing costs. The result […]

Trump Order Taking US Out Of UN Climate Orgs Caps Flood Of Corporate Exits Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump put another dent in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement, withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and 65 other international organizations dedicated to climate and social justice. Trump’s order caps a […]

AOC Joins Top Dems In Abrupt Pivot Against ‘Antisemitism’ A synchronized burst of pro-Israel social media messaging from the Democratic Party’s most ardent foot soldiers is raising eyebrows, as even their most progressive members are taking on ‘antisemitism’. For example, here’s AOC – a vocal critic of Israel, slamming Hamas supporters protesting in a Jewish neighborhood as a “disgusting and antisemitic thing to do.” Hey so […]

US Warns Americans To Leave Venezuela Immediately Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), American citizens are advised to leave Venezuela as soon as possible due to the “fluid” security situation in the South American country, a U.S. Department of State Consular Affairs X post stated. The U.S. embassy in Caracas on Jan. 9, 2026. Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images This warning comes a week after American […]

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Confirms His Utter Contempt For The First Amendment Before Congress Authored by Jonathan Turley, For years, some of us have argued that President Donald Trump’s January 6th speech was protected under the First Amendment and that any prosecution would collapse under governing precedent, including Brandenburg v. Ohio.  I was regularly attacked as an apologist for my criticism of Special Counsel […]