CES Came And Went. Here’s What Stood Out. CES, short for the Consumer Electronics Show, wrapped up late last week in Las Vegas. It is the world’s largest technology trade show, offering attendees a peek into the future. This year’s event marked a shift away from gimmicky uses of artificial intelligence toward products that deliver real-world productivity gains, alongside a series of key comments from industry leaders on the state of […]

Majority Of North Carolina Trucking Licenses Issued To Foreigners Are Illegal: Duffy Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A review of non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) granted in North Carolina found that 54 percent were issued illegally, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said in a statement on Jan. 8. The review was conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and is […]

“Yes, Yes, And Yes”: Bessent Signals Crackdown On Dark-Money NGO Protests ‘Just Like We Did With The Mafia’ The left’s ability to rapidly stage highly organized ‘pop-up’ protests in response to just about any political incident is uncanny (remember Robert Creamer? “Wherever Trump and Pence are going to be, we have events, we have a whole team across the country that does that.”). Often, organic protests that average Americans have […]

Bitcoin To Hit $2.9M By 2050 As It Muscles Into Global Trade: VanEck Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin could reach $2.9 million by 2050 once it becomes a settlement currency for international and domestic trade and makes its way into more central bank reserves, analysts at asset manager VanEck predict. The $2.9 million price target assumes a 15% compound annual growth rate and Bitcoin settling 5-10% of […]

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 […]

Here’s Treasury’s Plan To Take Down Somali Fraud Rings While we patiently await more nothingburgers from DOJ’s next overdue round of redacted Epstein files, the Treasury Department is going after Somali fraud rings… On Friday, Secretary Scott Bessent announced a sweeping crackdown on government benefits fraud that has already cost Minnesota taxpayers billions. The initiatives aim to close the loopholes that have made the […]

“We Won’t Stop Until Heads Drop Like In 1793”: Tens Of Thousands Take To Streets Of Minneapolis After ICE Shooting Authored by Joseph Lord and Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times, Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Minneapolis on Jan. 10 to protest the shooting of Renée Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, according to a Minneapolis Police Department estimate provided to The Epoch […]

BRICS Flexes With China-Led Joint Naval Drills Soon After Maduro Ousting The multi-national “Will for Peace 2026” naval exercises began Saturday off the coast of Cape Town, hosted by South Africa, and is set to run for one week. It is widely being described as a BRICS and “BRICS+” naval drill and saw a Russian warship arrive off South Africa’s primary naval base on Friday. The Russians joined Chinese and Iranian vessels for the […]

UK Government Video Game Warns Kids They May Be Terrorists For Questioning Mass Migration Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a chilling move, the UK government has rolled out a taxpayer-funded video game that paints every curious teenager as a potential far-right extremist. The “Pathways” game, backed by the Home Office’s Prevent counter-terrorism program, threatens young players with referrals to anti-terror […]

Minnesota’s Most Notorious Somali Daycare At Center Of Fraud Scandal Abruptly Shuts Down The Quality Learing Center is no more.  The Minneapolis child care center thrust into the spotlight by a viral YouTube exposé on Minnesota’s rampant day care fraud scheme has officially shut down. State records confirm Quality Learning Center requested its license closure, effective Tuesday.  Late last month, independent journalist Nick […]

Africa’s Pipeline Rejects Climate Dogma And Foreign Control Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via American Greatness, Political powers in the United Nations and European Union have spent decades lecturing Africa on climate “virtue.” Net-zero pledges, renewable targets, ESG frameworks, and more make up the ever-growing list of prescriptions for “healing the planet.” Having already industrialized through the use of fossil fuels and […]

It’s Very Difficult To Believe China’s Claim Of Mediating Between India & Pakistan Authored by Andrew Korybko, China is uniquely unqualified to mediate between them since it has territorial disputes with India and arms Pakistan to the teeth. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently claimed that his country mediated between India and Pakistan during last spring’s clashes, but it’s very difficult to believe that this […]

Healthy Diets Are Getting Pricier, Yet More Affordable A healthy diet is often discussed as a top public health issue, but affordability remains one of its biggest barriers. Over the past decade, food prices have climbed due to inflation, supply chain disruptions, and climate-related shocks. At the same time, incomes and food access have improved in many regions. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, highlights how […]

Escobar: How Trump’s Oily Dreams May Collapse In A Venezuelan Dark Pit Authored by Pepe Escobar, So the Big Oil Picture in Venezuela is way more complex than the Trump 2.0 gang suspects… Let’s start with neo-Caligula’s new edicts on the imperial satrapy he says he now owns; not exactly edicts but outright threats directed to interim President Delcy Rodriguez: Crack down on “drug trafficking flows”. Well, this should […]

These Are The World’s Top Silver Producers Silver prices surged more than 5% in recent trading, breaking above $80 per ounce once again. The rally has been driven by China’s restrictions on silver exports, rising demand from green technologies like solar power, and renewed interest in safe-haven assets. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, highlights the world’s largest silver-producing countries and […]

California’s Billionaire Tax Is A Trojan Horse… Not A Solution Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, California was my home for most of my adult life—long enough to know that what looks good in a campaign slogan can feel very different when you’re the one carrying the load. I built restaurants there. I employed people there. I signed permits, licenses, and applications like they were holiday cards. I navigated […]

Even Google’s Founders Have Had Enough Of California, And Are Saying Adios Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin quietly began unwinding portions of their financial empires in California in the days leading up to Christmas, according to corporate filings reviewed by The New York Times, as progressive lawmakers consider a proposed billionaire wealth tax. This development confirms our earlier note that California is on an […]

Amazon Is Ditching The United States Postal Service After nearly three decades of working together, Amazon is ending its delivery relationship with the United States Postal Service, a move that significantly alters how packages are moved across the country, according to MSN. The partnership once played a major role in Amazon’s rapid expansion while generating billions in yearly revenue for USPS. The decision comes as the Postal […]

DNC Signals Possible Legal Action Against 10 States Over Proposed DOJ Voter-List Agreement Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, The Democratic National Committee (DNC) sent warning letters to election officials in 10 states on Friday, saying proposed agreements with the Justice Department to share unredacted voter registration files and act on list maintenance concerns could violate federal election law. The letters went […]

Wall Street’s Crypto Debate Is Over As Banks Go All-In On BTC, Stablecoins, Tokenized Cash Authored by Sam Bourgi via CoinTelegraph.com, Big banks aren’t debating crypto anymore — they’re building it. From tokenized cash to ETFs, Wall Street is quietly going onchain. For years, major banks treated cryptocurrency primarily as a risk to be contained. That posture is now giving way to a more deliberate form of engagement. […]

“Uninvestable”: Trump’s $100 Billion Venezuela Gamble Meets Oil Industry Reality President Donald Trump’s push for U.S. oil companies to commit at least $100 billion toward rebuilding Venezuela’s energy industry is meeting significant resistance from the very executives he is courting, according to Bloomberg. Although the White House projects confidence, industry leaders are warning that Venezuela remains too unstable for major […]

Not Worth A Continental Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, In late-18th-century America, something of minimal value was often described as being “not worth a continental,” which referred to the continental dollar, the American currency at the time of the revolution. The continental was paper money. It had occurred to the colonists that, as their revolution was costing quite a bit to maintain, they could go […]

Did Trump Accidentally Pardon Accused Jan 6 Pipe-Bomber? It took nearly five years for the FBI to finally arrest someone for planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties on the eve of the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot, but the suspect may avoid serving a prison sentence thanks to the language in President Trump’s sweeping pardon of those who participated in Jan. 6 mayhem. In that pardon issued on […]

Investor Lessons From 2025 For 2026 Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Bulls Remain In Control The S&P 500’s close at 6,966 on Friday confirmed the market remains in a bullish uptrend, continuing the positive trajectory that began in mid‑2025. Price action this week gained traction and has been tracking the rising bullish trendline from the November lows, printing a new all-time high on Friday. […]

Minneapolis City Officials Dismantle ‘No-Go Zone’ Set Up By Anti-ICE Agitators Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Leftwing agitators in Minneapolis on Thursday set up a short-lived  “autonomous zone” that spanned several blocks in the southeastern part of the city, and reportedly declared it a “no-go zone” for law enforcement. The city however removed the barricades surrounding it overnight to allow […]