Russia Hammers Kiev With Massive Barrage, Likely Including Oreshnik Hypersonic IRBMs Less than two days after President Vladimir Putin vowed revenge for a Ukrainian strike that hit a secondary-school dormitory in the Russian-controlled Luhansk oblast, Russia unleashed a massive, multi-weapon barrage on Kiev early Sunday, one that apparently included the rare use of Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missiles. Private videos show […]

The Replacements: How US Helps Foreign Workers Take American Jobs Authored by Steven Edginton via RealClearInvestigations, Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok. Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employee who is willing to work at a significantly lower wage, has become commonplace, particularly in the tech industry. Adding insult […]

Rubio Hints At US-Iran News “Later Today” As Talks To Reopen Hormuz Gain Steam Top U.S. and Iranian officials signaled they are inching closer to an initial peace deal to wind down the U.S.-Iran conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though major details remain murky, especially around the future of Iran’s nuclear program. President Trump said the peace deal has been “largely negotiated” and will be announced “shortly,” with the […]

With Commercial Real Estate Still Challenging, Lenders Offload Troubled Loans At A Loss Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), While leasing activity and vacancy trends suggest the U.S. commercial real estate market is stabilizing, office values are still well below post-pandemic peaks, recent reports show. The San Francisco skyline on Jan. 20, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images As owners scramble […]

1 In 4 Cars Sold Globally Is An Electric Vehicle Electric vehicle adoption continues to accelerate worldwide, reaching new milestones in 2025. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiaut details below, according to the IEA Global EV Outlook 2026, published on May 20, global sales of electric cars, including plug-in hybrids, surpassed 21 million units last year, more than doubling since 2022, when annual sales first exceeded 10 million. As the […]

German Taxpayers Bled Dry: Mass Migration Cost €40 Billion In 2025 Via Remix News, Migrants cost German taxpayers — just at the federal level — €24.8 billion in 2025, according to new data in the “refugee costs report” from the German Federal Ministry of Finance. However, the true sum is much higher. The €24.8 billion is strictly the federal bill. The actual, combined national cost of migration for Germany is […]

US Approves “Homing All The Way Killer” Missile Support Sale To Ukraine The US State Department has officially cleared a $108.1 million hardware and sustainment package to keep Ukraine’s frontline air defenses online, after there’s not been much in the way of big dollar headlines concerning Washington’s longtime military support to Kiev of late. The cash injection targets the maintenance and optimization of the US-designed HAWK […]

UK Net Migration Decline Masks True Demographic Replacement As British Exodus Accelerates Via Remix News, The left-wing U.K. government has claimed it is making real progress in tackling the ongoing migration crisis enveloping Britain after official statistics published on Thursday showed that net migration had decreased to 171,000 last year. However, that figure alone doesn’t tell the whole story. “I promised to restore […]

Free Speech Shouldn’t Be Just For The Party In The White House Authored by Charles Sauer via RealClearMarkets, One of the most important Executive Orders signed by President Trump on his first day in office was Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship. As the title suggests, the order forbids any U.S. Government employee from taking any actions that violate the First Amendment rights of any American citizen. The […]

Wyoming Is America’s Deadliest State For Workers Using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld created the following map to show workplace fatality rates across all 50 states in 2024. Wyoming recorded the nation’s highest workplace fatality rate at 13.9 deaths per 100,000 workers, compared with just 1.1 in Rhode Island. Several Southern and Mountain West states also reported […]

Israel Unleashes New Gaza Strikes Soon After Trump Says Iran Peace Deal ‘Largely Negotiated,’ Hormuz To Reopen As Final Terms Discussed Summary Israel launches significant new attacks on the Gaza Strip just as word of a tentative US-Iran peace deal is driving international headlines. Trump says an Iran peace agreement has been “largely negotiated” and will be announced “shortly,” with the reopening of the Strait of […]

Gunman Dead, Bystander Wounded After Large Shootout With Secret Service Near White House, Trump Safe After a very busy day in Washington and at the White House, given the Saturday flurry of diplomatic activity over the announcement of a tentative Iran peace deal, but which is still awaiting word and some details from Tehran, a deadly shooting erupted just outside the White House, resulting in a massive security and response and […]

Dozens Of Nations Scramble For World Bank Financing Amid Iran War Global Shock Via The Cradle Twenty-seven countries have moved to activate emergency World Bank financing mechanisms since the US-Israeli war on Iran began in late February, Reuters reported Friday. Three nations have already received approval for fast-tracked funding, while the other 24 are in the process of completing administrative procedures.  Kenya and Iraq […]

Ferrari Fever Hits Samsung, SK Hynix Workers As AI Memory Boom Mints New Wealth The global memory boom, with Samsung at the epicenter of the production ecosystem, appears to be generating a sudden wealth effect among some employees, with local media reporting that newly enriched chip workers are now panic-buying luxury sports cars.  A short clip from MBC News, the news division of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation and one of South […]

State-Sponsored Suicide Authored by MN Gordon via dollarcollapse.com “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” – Will and Ariel Durant, The Story Of Civilization Enemy Within How does a superpower die? Does it come from the blinding kill shot of a hypersonic missile streaking through the sky? Or, perhaps, a rogue cyberattack that mortally destroys the national power grid? […]

Another Detransitioner Wins A Huge Settlement A woman who underwent a double mastectomy after identifying as “nonbinary” has reportedly secured a confidential $3.5 million settlement after suing the mental health professionals who approved her for the life-altering procedure. Camille Kiefel, 36, alleged in a malpractice lawsuit that two Oregon therapists signed off on the surgery after only brief telemedicine consultations, despite […]

Building American Cities That Would Make The Founding Fathers Proud Authored by Charles Ma via RealClearPolicy, American cities need bold renewal. What we need is a “MadeCity” vision – a vision for intentionally crafting or “making” cities that emphasize the enduring higher order potential within people. Beginning to plan and build such cities as part of America’s upcoming 250th anniversary is a fitting way to extend John […]

“I Think It Will Reduce Our Jobs”: Jamie Dimon Predicts AI-Driven Workforce Shift At JPMorgan Artificial intelligence is set to significantly alter hiring patterns at JPMorgan Chase & Co., according to CEO Jamie Dimon, who said the bank expects to recruit more AI-focused talent while reducing reliance on some conventional banking roles over time, according to Bloomberg. During a Bloomberg Television interview at the firm’s […]

Iran Destroyed 20% Of Pentagon’s MQ-9 Reaper Drone Fleet: Report Via Middle East Eye Iran has destroyed $1bn worth of MQ-9 Reaper Drones, or roughly 20 percent of the US’s pre-war inventory of the sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a report by Bloomberg on Friday. The report said that many of the drones were downed by Iran in flight, but that others had been destroyed on the ground when Iran targeted US […]

Disney Asks FCC To Declare ‘The View’ A News Show, Exempt From Equal Time Rule Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Disney is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to declare the daytime talk show “The View” a “bona fide news” program to bypass the federal equal opportunities law, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announced May 22. Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris […]

Ivanka Trump Was Reportedly Targeted For Assassination By IRGC Terrorist First Daughter Ivanka Trump was allegedly targeted in an assassination plot by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-trained terrorist seeking revenge for the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani. Iraqi national Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, reportedly pledged to kill Ivanka Trump and was found with a blueprint of her Florida home after his […]

What ‘Compassion’ Isn’t Authored by Laura Hollis via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), One of the most frustrating aspects of contemporary conversations about politics and public policy is how often the deleterious effects of terrible programs – local, state and federal – are brushed aside with distracting and even deceitful claims that the intentions behind the policies were “compassionate.” This is an utterly wrongheaded analysis […]

AI Content Is Swamping The Internet: How It Impacts Critical Thinking Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A never-ending flood of content generated by artificial intelligence is reshaping the internet and the way people engage with information faster than ever. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Freepik From news summaries to social media posts to academic research, the sheer volume of machine-assisted […]

‘Impossible To Negotiate With Ukraine’ After School Dormitory Strike, Kremlin Informs UN The last year of the Ukraine war has been marked by both warring sides remaining far from the negotiating table, instead opting for a battlefield solution, also as a deadly tit-for-tat drone and aerial war continues to unfold. This week things just got even worse concerning the distant prospect of restarting direct peace talks, something […]

“Preserve All Records”: DOJ Puts Democrat-Run Maryland On Notice In Election Integrity Probe Submitted by Maryland Freedom Caucus,  Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced on X last night that she has ordered Maryland’s State Board of Elections to preserve their records concerning the utter debacle of mail-in ballots during the state’s primary election season. It’s the wrong time to send voters the wrong […]