Iran To Grant China, ‘Friendly’ Countries ‘Special Consideration’ On Hormuz Fees Via The Cradle Iran’s ambassador to China stated on Saturday that the Islamic Republic would impose service fees on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, but that China and other “friendly” countries would be granted “special considerations.” During a speech at the World Peace Forum in Beijing on Saturday, Iranian Ambassador Abdolreza Rahmani […]

Tracking The Caribbean Super Yacht Migration The superyacht season across the Caribbean and the Gulf of America has shifted into the off-season, with hurricane season now roughly a month in. As tropical activity risks rise across the Atlantic basin, some owners and charter fleets have shifted pleasure yachts and sailboats toward the Mediterranean, where the summer season is now in full swing.  Ship-tracking and maritime […]

No, The Framers Would Have Hated The Billionaire Tax Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the bizarre claim of Gov. Gavin Newsom and others that the Framers would have supported wealth taxes, including the proposed Billionaire’s Tax. It is a claim that seeks to mask the economically unwise with the historically unfounded. The Framers sought to protect property from legislative […]

‘Thought People Hated Him’: Trump Surprised Iranians Are Crying At Khamenei’s Funeral Amid Massive Turnout President Trump this weekend mused in an interview with Axios that so many people and officials are currently gathered for Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s funeral in Tehran that they could all be taken out in one fell swoop. “They are all there. One shot [and we can take them all out], but we are not going to do that […]

‘Great Injustice Reversed’: Belgian Soccer Furious As FIFA Allows Suspended US Star To Play Just after 2:00 p.m. (ET) today, President Trump published the following statement on Truth Social: What is he talking about? What is the “great injustice”? As Noel S. Williams explains via American Thinker, he’s referring to the moment during the U.S. vs. Bosnia & Herzegovina World Cup match when the referee issued a bizarre, […]

OPEC+ Approves Another Oil Output Increase As Hormuz Exports Start To Recover OPEC+ agreed a further increase in output targets from August, the group said in a statement on Sunday, ‌adding to global supply at a time when oil prices are falling due to the gradual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz for oil exports.  Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, and Oman adjust production and reaffirm commitment to […]

The Biggest Problem With AI Today By Christopher Penn, of Almost Timely News What’s the biggest problem in AI today? Is it cost, with token budgets being blown out of the water by agentic AI? Is it sustainability, with AI consuming electricity and fresh water? Is it ethics, with tech companies cramming AI into everything? I think it’s deeper than that. Those are all symptoms of a much deeper-rooted problem: nobody’s making […]

Japan Bankruptcies Surge To All-Time High As A Result Of Plunging Yen In recent months one of the more frequent questions in FX trading has been the relentless collapse in the yen, which recently sank below a 40 year low despite rate differentials stubbornly headed in the opposite direction, and is increasingly flirting with levels which on previous occasions always prompted BOJ intervention. Among the reasons cited for the […]

Russia’s Buffer Zone On Ukrainian Border ‘Expanding’ As Result Of Worsening Drone Attacks: Kremlin Russia has announced that one key measure that will be taken in response to Ukraine’s ramped-up drone attacks on Russian territory, including last month’s major strikes on the Moscow area, is the significant expansion of the border ‘buffer zone’ between the waring countries. “A security buffer zone on the Russian-Ukrainian border is […]

A Bad Moon Is Rising On Our Nation’s 250th Birthday Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Burning Down The House… “I forgot to get napkins. I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.” – Darializa Avila-Chevalier, primary election winner, New York’s 13th Congressional District Who are all these Democratic Socialists of America, anyway? DSA on the March shoulder to shoulder with the Pride Brigade “We are […]

Paul Pelosi Faces Charges In Napa County Hit-And-Run Paul Pelosi, the 86-year-old husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), faces misdemeanor charges for a hit-and-run after allegedly striking a parked car in Napa, California on Friday.  According to a statement from the Napa County Sheriff’s Office, the collision occurred around 2:30 p.m. on July 3, 2026, on the 6700 block of Yount Street in Yountville. A witness reported […]

Vertically Integrated Nations, Production For Security, And Rate Cuts Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Let’s start with the important stuff: Hope you are having a great 4th of July 250th Anniversary Weekend. Yields gained back some ground after the relatively weak jobs report (headline plus revisions was negative, the private sector underwhelmed, and unemployment only dropped because the labor force participation […]

Food Retailers Troubled By This Chart Consumer staples and food retail equity analyst Scott Marks at Jefferies told clients Saturday that one of the most concerning charts for food retailers is the sharp decline in average benefits per SNAP participant under the Trump administration, as the USDA intensifies efforts to root out fraud, waste, and abuse. SNAP’s elevated payment error rates are setting up a new fiscal fight between […]

Putin Invites Trump To Visit Russia In ‘Constructive’ July 4th Phone Call A nearly 90-minute phone call between Presidents Trump and Putin on July 4th could signal shifting White House priorities, as it tries to find permanent offramp and settlement in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, but also as the Ukraine war seems to be fast heating up again. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said in comments made public Sunday that Trump offered Putin […]

UK Government’s Shocking Bid To Rig YouTube Algorithm To Force-Feed BBC Propaganda Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, In a brazen move that reeks of authoritarian control, the UK government is pushing plans to seize influence over YouTube’s recommendation system. Their goal is to prioritise content from the BBC, and other state backed propaganda machines, while burying independent journalists and creators who dare […]

Red Sea Blockage Fears: Cargo Ship Attacked Off Southwest Yemen A Red Sea disruption would be terrible timing for global shipping and energy markets, coming just as vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has started to normalize in recent weeks. An overnight report that a cargo ship was attacked by “armed assailants” in the southern Red Sea off Yemen is a reminder that the region’s maritime-risk premium has not totally […]

Wage Growth As A Leading Inflation Indicator Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Wage growth peaked four years ago. Since 1985, it has led CPI by three to seventeen months in every single cycle. The May 4.2% inflation print is the noise. Watch the wages. Headline CPI just printed 4.2% year-over-year for May. The highest reading since April 2023. The 10-year Treasury punched above 4.6% on the back of it, […]

The UK’s Latest “Debanking” Scandal Should Give Everyone Pause Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, UK-based readers may recall the moment almost exactly three years ago when the word “debanking” entered the mainstream British English lexicon. The prestigious London-based private bank Coutts had just decided to close Nigel Farage’s bank account due to his unsavoury political views and alleged Russian […]

Germany’s AfD Tricks Thousands Of Antifa Revolutionaries Germany’s right-wing AfD party re-elected co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla at its annual conference in Erfurt, a central German city. Meanwhile, far-left activists, professional political agitators, and NGOs funded by dark money attempted to restrict access to the event through a coordinated pressure campaign. BREAKING: Around 2500 far-left militant Antifa […]

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 […]