Multicultural French Crowds Brawl Over Discount Air Conditioners As Heatwave Looms Via Remix News, France was gripped by chaos on Thursday, July 2, 2026, as an exceptional sale of discounted air conditioners at Lidl descended into long lines, emptied shelves, and physical fights between customers nationwide. The retailer had put 200,000 units up for sale — nowhere near enough to meet demand as yet another heatwave looms next week […]

What Happened To The 56 Signatories Of The Declaration Of Independence Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, Today the United States celebrates the 250th – or semiquincentennial – anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Congress voting on the Declaration of Independence. Library of Congress/Public Domain While July 4 marks the day Thomas Jefferson’s revised draft of the Declaration of Independence […]

Majority Believes They Will Achieve The American Dream 250 years after American independence, a majority of people in the United States continue to believe in their personal American Dream. As Statista’s Kathraina Buchholz reports, 69 percent of those interviewed by Gallup in the beginning of the year say that they will achieve it in their lifetime. This is in contrast, though, to 54 percent saying that not everybody can […]

Waste Of The Day: Stolen Education Grants Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: A North Dakota woman was convicted last month of five counts of theft for stealing $131,000 in state grants meant for after-school programs. Key facts: Faith Dixon, 47, was one of the top recipients of $2 million that the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction awarded in October 2021 for its Out of School Time program […]

BMW Puts Next-Gen Humanoid Robots To Work On Factory Floors In South Carolina Before humanoid robots enter the modern battlefield alongside ground bots and low-cost suicide drones, these bipedal robots are first being unleashed on factory floors and inside warehouses, where the physical world of AI is beginning to take shape.  The latest development in humanoids entering factory floors comes from BMW’s Spartanburg factory, where […]

Trump Pardons 6 Prosecuted For ‘Fixing Their Car’ Under Biden-Era Emissions Rules Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Friday announced pardons for six individuals he said were persecuted by the Biden administration for repairing their own vehicles, saying that the cases were emblematic of regulatory overreach. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks during the Faith & Freedom […]

Is Tesla About To Use Facial Recognition Before Activating Full Self-Driving Tesla is reportedly preparing a series of updates, including one that would use a vehicle’s cabin camera to verify a driver’s identity before activating Full Self-Driving. It sounds a bit dystopian, but this is likely the direction that connected smart-car brands are headed. As vehicles become more autonomous, automakers will increasingly need to verify […]

Houthis Say Forces ‘Repelled’ Saudi Warplanes From Threatening Iranian Civilian Airliner Via The Cradle Yemen’s Houthis announced Friday that they had “repelled” an attempt by Saudi warplanes to prevent an Iranian civilian aircraft from landing at Sanaa airport. Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said that Saudi warplanes violating Yemeni airspace were targeted with several air-defense missiles, […]

The Greatest Break-Up Letter Ever Written… Via VigilantFox.com, Have you ever heard the Declaration of Independence read out loud? You should. It’s the greatest break-up letter ever written. At just 33 years old, Thomas Jefferson, with cold moral clarity, told the British government to pound sand: Have you ever heard the Declaration of Independence read out loud? You should. It’s the greatest break-up letter ever […]

Six California Cities Ranked Among Top 10 Least Educated In US Six California cities ranked among the top 10 least educated metropolitan areas in the United States, according to a report by WalletHub published on June 29. Looking at the 150 most populated metro areas, the city of Visalia ranked as the second least educated, while Bakersfield was fourth, and Modesto, Fresno, Stockton, and Salinas followed. All six are in central […]

Canada Seizes 7 Tons Of Drugs, Fentanyl Chemicals, And Signal Jammers In China-Linked Narco Bust Authored by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper (emphasis our own),  A Burnaby RCMP investigation that began with a routine traffic stop last summer has ended in one of the largest drug-chemical seizures in British Columbia’s history — 6,765 kilograms of finished narcotics and fentanyl-production chemicals pulled from three homes and two […]

These Are The World’s Top Destinations For Wealth Migration Countries are increasingly competing to attract wealthy individuals alongside businesses and skilled workers. For many governments, internationally mobile wealth represents a source of investment, entrepreneurship, and long-term economic growth. This graphic, via Visual Cspitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, ranks the world’s most competitive destinations for wealth migration […]

Historians Set Record Straight On 5 Events That Shaped America Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times, As America celebrates its 250th birthday, it’s prime time for historians such as Jeff Bloodworth to set the record straight. Bloodworth, a professor at Pennsylvania’s Gannon University, noted that it had become trendy among historians to “demythologize” the Founding Fathers. “But it has gone too far,” he told […]

‘Gave Iran Week Off Because We’re Nice’: Trump References Ayatollah Funeral In Rushmore Speech On Friday President Trump delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore to kick off the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations, and in it he confirmed that everything regarding Iran – whether on the military or diplomatic fronts – have been paused to allow for the Islamic Republic to bury its late supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Trump said […]

First $1 Billion, Now $50 Million: Khanna Says Wealth Tax “Must Not Stop At Billionaires” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) – fresh off endorsing California’s November ballot measure to seize 5% of billionaire wealth – published a Substack essay Wednesday titled, no really, “Why I Support a Billionaire Wealth Tax.” He makes it roughly a dozen paragraphs before explaining that it isn’t one. “The tax should not stop at billionaires, it must […]

CFPB Orders Remote Employees To Relocate To Washington Or Lose Jobs Via American Greatness, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has directed hundreds of employees who live outside the Washington area to relocate to the agency’s new headquarters or face losing their jobs, a move that could significantly reduce the bureau’s workforce. Acting Director Russell Vought notified employees in a memorandum Tuesday that […]

Could The Government Use Tax Dollars To Bail Out Bitcoin?  Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance There was a time when Bitcoin’s biggest selling point was that it existed outside the financial system. No governments. No central banks. No bailouts. No “too big to fail.” It was supposed to be the antidote to everything that happened in 2008. In fact, I once argued that another 2008 is what could standardize bitcoin. Fast […]

Chart Of The Day: Democrats’ Patriotism Falls Off A Cliff. Here’s One Reason Why American pride remains high in absolute terms, but the trend is clear: the U.S. has shifted from being one of the world’s most nationally proud countries to one that now resembles a typical Western nation. There are multiple forces behind this decline, but the largest political signal comes from the transformation of the Democratic Party. What was once […]

DRAMageddon Deepens As Samsung Prepares 20% Memory Price Hike There is no immediate price relief coming for cutting-edge memory chips, even as South Korea moves to double memory capacity. New fabs and expanded lines take time to build and then ramp production, meaning the supply response will lag demand. For now, DRAM inventories remain tight through year-end as data center buildouts accelerate, keeping producers like Samsung in […]

FBI Mole Wore Wire Inside Newsom’s Inner Circle: Lawyer A mole working for the Biden FBI was secretly recording Gavin Newsom’s inner circle before the agency expanded its corruption probe into the California governor and his wife, according to a bombshell report by the NY Post.  Gov. Gavin Newsom, Alexis Podesta Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, a 45-year-old Sacramento consultant and Newsom appointee – no known relation to […]

New York City Appropriates $7 Million For ‘Trans Equity’, Drag Queen Story Hours Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A massive $126 billion spending plan approved by the New York City Council earlier this week includes nearly $7 million for so-called ‘trans equity’ programs and drag queen story hours. The New York Post reports that the budget was approved by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and directs the taxpayer money […]

Ships Abruptly U-Turn Near Hormuz As Some Shift To Iran-Approved Routes The reopening of the Hormuz chokepoint has proceeded relatively smoothly for weeks, but an overnight development shows that the process remains fragile. At least eight ships attempting to exit the Persian Gulf abruptly reversed course near the critical waterway. Bloomberg cites ship-tracking data showing that the vessels, including oil tankers, product […]

10 Charts Show How America Has Changed In 250 Years Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, The United States has transformed from a collection of 13 eastern colonies into a transcontinental nation spanning 50 states, one district, and five major territories—a geographic expansion forged through land purchases and war treaties. America’s two-and-a-half-century evolution includes not only geographic growth, but also […]

Heat Dome Threatens America’s 250th Birthday As Power Grid Crisis Continues A massive heat dome continues to threaten the eastern half of the US, with the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast at the epicenter of the sweltering conditions. The summer heat is already disrupting July 4 celebrations and World Cup matches, while pushing the nation’s largest power grid toward crisis mode later this afternoon for the third consecutive day. The […]

Russia Planning Provocation Against Poland To Test NATO Resolve, US Reportedly Warned The Telegraph along with various Eastern European media outlets, including Polish national sources, are reporting that United States passed Warsaw a warning based on intelligence that Moscow is considering an armed provocation against Poland to “test NATO’s resolve”. Provocation scenarios are said to potentially include drone attacks on critical […]