Federal Agents Seize 500 Pounds Of Cocaine From Oil Tanker U.S. authorities say they stopped a major cocaine shipment allegedly tied to a Mexican cartel after an oil tanker traveling from Ecuador was intercepted near Southern California, according to KTLA5.  Roughly 227 kilograms — about 500 pounds — of cocaine were discovered aboard the Aquatravesia, a Liberian-flagged tanker owned by a Greek company, according to federal […]

Texas AG Sues Discord For Deceiving Parents, Endangering Children Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against communications app Discord, alleging that the platform allows child predators to exploit children while falsely claiming child safety to parents. “Discord presents itself to the world as a platform built on community, connection, and safety. It is not,” […]

Hamas Confirms Death Of Its Top Military Commander In IDF Gaza Strike Israel’s military has just taken out a high-value target, with the confirmed death of the commander of Hamas’s military wing, Mohammed Odeh. He was targeted in a a strike on the Gaza Strip Tuesday, in an operation which injured dozens more bystanders, given a residential building in a very busy market area of Gaza City was obliterated. via MSN However, the IDF […]

US Conducts New Strikes In Iran Around Hormuz Strait After Drone Intercepts Summary New US strikes in Iran reported, after Iranian drone intercepts in Hormuz area. Trump red line (PBS): “No, no, not at all. Not sanctions relief, no” – unless Iran gives up its enriched uranium. “Iran negotiating on fumes,” Trump says in cabinet meeting. White House rejects ‘complete fabrication’ of Iranian TV reporting on MOU and draft deal […]

Viruses For Dummies Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, Over this past week, we’ve been subjected to a flurry of pandemic warnings. It’s like the disease of the day: Bird flu, novavirus, m-pox, hantavirus, slap rash (did you miss that one?), and Ebola. A former director of the CDC just warned that this Ebola outbreak could become a pandemic. Members of the Congo Scouts movement carry an Ebola awareness banner along a […]

Kentucky Gym Exposes Female Entitlement Culture With New “Modesty Code” It says a lot about modern women when a private business imposes standards of general modesty and they feel personally attacked.  So much so, that they run to social media and their local news station to cry victim.  It’s not an isolated incident, it is an example of a more pervasive culture of female entitlement that is plaguing the western world.   A […]

Inside The FDA’s “Cover-Up” Of Child Deaths Linked To Covid Vaccines Authored by Maryanne Demasi via Brownstone Institute, In September 2025, then-US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr Marty Makary publicly acknowledged that the agency was investigating reports of child deaths following Covid-19 vaccination. “We do know at the FDA…that there had been children who have died from the COVID vaccine,” Makary said […]

US, India Sign Critical Minerals And Rare Earths Mining Pact Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The United States and India signed a key agreement on May 26 to secure critical minerals and rare earth mining, processing, and supplies, further loosening China’s grip on the global market, during Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s four-day visit. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) walks with India’s Minister of […]

Seattle Residents Forced To Barricade Their Streets To Protect From Gun Violence Fed up with years of gun violence and repeated shootings near Aurora Avenue, some residents in North Seattle have started installing their own street barricades in an effort to protect their neighborhoods, KOMO News writes.  Neighbors living near North 97th, 98th, and 102nd streets recently placed large planter boxes, piles of dirt, and gravel across […]

Mexico Hosts Iranian World Cup Team After Training Camp Switched From US Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her country had agreed to host Iran’s World Cup soccer team this summer after Washington decided it did not want the players to stay in the United States overnight. “The United States doesn’t want the Iranian national team to stay overnight in the United States,” […]

China’s Crackdown On Online Foreign Trades Will Increase Capital Flight Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times, The regime in China imposed a crackdown against three online brokers that serve mainland Chinese clients by facilitating their foreign securities trades. The crackdown worries the Hong Kong financial industry with the threat of harming liquidity, initial public offerings (IPOs), and cross-border capital flows in the […]

Court Hands Democrats An Ugly Loss In Florida Redistricting Fight A Florida judge handed Democrats a significant setback Tuesday, ruling that Gov. Ron DeSantis’s redrawn congressional map can remain in place while three state lawsuits work their way through the courts. Leon County Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes, a DeSantis appointee, denied a request for a preliminary injunction, keeping the Republican-friendly plan intact as […]

Why Is Consumer Sentiment At Record Lows? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via substack, Consumer sentiment is at record lows because there is zero visibility on any real-world trends that would be positive for the bottom 90%. Vague promises of super-abundance are not visibility. Why is consumer sentiment at record lows while the stock market is at record highs? The media / social media are ablaze with coverage and commentary on […]

Biden DHS Released Nearly 90% Of Border Migrants Through Parole Program Via American Greatness, A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that the Biden administration released nearly 90 percent of migrants encountered at the southern border through parole authority at the height of its catch-and-release policies. The report details how the Department of Homeland Security under former President Joe Biden […]

Al ‘Mr.Impeachment’ Green Out As Crypto-Backed Candidates Win Key Texas Primary Runoffs Authored by Christina Comben via CoinTelegraph.com, Crypto-backed political groups supported several winning candidates in Texas primary runoffs Tuesday, highlighting the digital asset industry’s growing role in US elections as Congress debates new rules for crypto markets. Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican US Senate runoff […]

Russian Fuel Tanker Aborts Cuba Delivery After Drifting In Caribbean For A Month A Russian tanker carrying 270,000 barrels of diesel fuel and which is under US and EU sanctions spent weeks trying to reach crisis-hit Cuba, which is also under US sanctions as well amid what’s essentially become a full energy blockade, but has failed the reach the island nation and turned southward toward Brazil. The exiled Russian outlet, The […]

UFO-Linked Air Force General Met Shadowy Pentagon Unit Hours Before Vanishing Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, New bodycam footage shows retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland had a dinner meeting with US Space Force members the night before his unexplained disappearance, deepening concerns over experts tied to sensitive programs. McCasland, central to advanced aerospace and nuclear research, walked out of his […]

Solid 5Y Auction Despite 12th Consecutive Tail, Thanks To Stellar Foreign Demand After a mediocre 2Y auction on Tuesday, moments ago the Treasury sold the week’s second coupon auction when it auctioned off $70BN in 5Y paper to solid demand, some superficial weakness notwithstanding.  The auction stopped at a high yield of 4.182%, up from 3.955% in April and the highest yield since Jan 2025. The auction also tailed the 4.181% When […]

Tulsi Gabbard To Go Nuclear On Deep State Before Leaving ODNI Last week, Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, announced she will step down on June 30 to care for her husband, Abraham, who has been diagnosed with what she called “an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”  “My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the […]

One Key Signal Says Rate Hikes Could Be Coming Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance For a while now markets have operated under the assumption that inflation was cooling, rate cuts were inevitable, and the Federal Reserve was slowly steering toward a soft landing. Hell, Jim Cramer started celebrating Jerome Powell’s “soft landing” some 925 days ago with inflation at 3.1%. Today, inflation is at 3.8% and Powell is leaving his […]

Energy Drinks Become Latest Casualty As Fuel Shock Shifts Consumer Behavior The national average price for 87-octane gasoline at the pump has remained above the politically sensitive $4-per-gallon threshold for 57 days and counting, as the U.S.-Iran conflict continues to disrupt energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint. That price shock at the pump has already translated into visible shifts in consumer behavior at gas […]

Doing The Math: UC Faculty Urges Return To Standardized Testing After Shocking Decline In Skills Authored by Jonathan Turley, Years ago, I wrote a column denouncing the decision of the University of California system to drop standardized testing in the cause of greater racial diversity. Now, hundreds of UC mathematics faculty have called for a return to such testing after reports showing a thirtyfold increase in students with […]

Food Stamp Fraud Pipeline Exposed: U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Groceries Shipped Overseas And Sold For Profit Submitted by Anthony Rubin of Muckraker.Org,  Food stamps and food pantries are intended to keep struggling Americans fed. What we found is that, in some communities, that food never reaches an American table. Instead, it gets shipped overseas and sold for profit. The scheme works like this. Residents in cities like […]

Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI To Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases Robinhood Markets is launching a new feature whereby customers can hand their money to an AI agent for automated trading and credit-card purchase decisions.  The brokerage is enabling users to link external AI agents-such as Anthropic’s Claude or coding agent Cursor-to a dedicated investment account. Within that account, the AI can access allocated […]

The Quiet Collapse Under The Market’s Surface…It’s Getting Louder  Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance The market is hypnotized by headlines out of the Middle East. Every missile strike, every oil spike, every rumor about escalation with Iran sends volatility dealers and gamma-chasing algorithms into another violent intraday swing. But beneath the geopolitical theater, a dangerous story continues to deteriorate quietly in the […]