DOJ Sues States Over Alleged Failure To Turn Over Food Stamp Data Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has sued four states, accusing them of withholding crucial data on food stamp applicants. Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania refused to turn over information to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that would let federal officials identify fraud, Trump administration […]

Johnson Says Reconciliation Is The Only Path For The SAVE Act Speaker Mike Johnson returned to the Capitol this afternoon after several hours at the White House, telling reporters that the only viable path to enact the SAVE Act is to attach it to a reconciliation bill – and that work is already underway. “The only way to get the SAVE Act to the president’s desk, we’ve been shown many times, is to put it on a reconciliation bill, […]

Citizen Vigilante Should Terrify Western Governments Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, This movie is a warning to globalists… Director Uwe Boll just released a movie that is ticking off all the right people.  Called Citizen Vigilante, it is an unapologetic rejection of globalism, mass migration, Islamic conquest, and “woke” leftism.  The movie bashes politicians, judges, NGOs, and law enforcement […]

Hormuz Tanker Traffic Plunges After Fresh US-Iran Strikes Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz tumbled since late last week, as ship owners and operators froze up amid the renewed hostilities between Iran and the US over the weekend. The Thursday attack on the container ship Ever Lovely prompted some shipowners to pull back and wait for additional information about how safe transiting the Strait is. The U.S. military on […]

“You’re Next!”: Democrats Discover The Mob Has A Mind Of Its Own Authored by Jonathan Turley, “You’re next!” This chant, at the victory celebration of the Democratic Socialists this week, was a message not for the oligarchs or the billionaires, but for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and the Democratic establishment. They were threatening that Jeffries would be the next to lose his House seat to a socialist […]

Supreme Court: Lisa Cook Keeps Job – For Now, Lets Trump Fire FTC Commissioners The Supreme Court on Monday handed President Trump a significant defeat – ruling 5-4 that his attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook was procedurally invalid and that the Fed’s century-old independence from presidential removal-at-will remains constitutionally intact. That said, it isn’t over for Cook – as the Court said she can stay in her […]

Mega Heat Dome Inbound For Washington, DC A massive heat dome is set to descend on the eastern half of the U.S., stretching from the Midwest to the East Coast and putting more than 230 million people in the crosshairs of temperatures above 90F, while millions will experience triple-digit temperatures during the Fourth of July holiday week and into weekend festivities. The Midwest will be the epicenter of the heat dome early in the […]

Oil Markets Are Pricing A Supply Surge That Isn’t Guaranteed Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Oil prices are tumbling as tankers stream out of the Strait of Hormuz, but most of that traffic is stranded vessels finally allowed to leave, not new supply heading in. Iran struck a commercial ship near Oman this week even as the 60-day U.S.-Iran ceasefire holds and markets keep pricing in a supply glut. The U.S. […]

Meta Restricts Engineers’ Use of Claude Code And Codex Over Model ‘Distillation’ Concerns Meta Platforms has instructed engineers in its Applied AI division to limit or restrict their use of Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex coding and agent tools, according to internal documents reviewed by The Information. The policy, driven by concerns over inadvertent model distillation, aims to prevent outputs from rival AI systems […]

Biden’s Own Party Heckled Him During A Speech, And Then He Embarrassed Himself Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, It’s been two years since Joe Biden’s catastrophic debate against President Donald Trump, which ultimately made his party realize they could no longer pretend he was fit for office and forced him out of the race. Two years later, Biden is still proving how unfit he was, this time stumbling through a combative […]

Iran Contradicts Trump, Refuses Talks ‘At Any Level’ For Coming Days, While US Delegation Travels To Qatar Summary Iran Foreign Ministry contradicts Trump on Doha talks: “We will not hold any negotiation meetings at any level with the American side in the coming days.” US-Iran talks may resume Tuesday in Doha, Trump declaring the plan in a Monday Truth Social, with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveling to Qatar, though Tehran […]

A $1,000 Playstation 6? Sony Won’t Sell “At Significant Losses” Anymore The PlayStation 6 is shaping up to launch during one of the most challenging periods in recent consumer electronics history. Soaring prices for key components – particularly RAM and high-speed SSDs – have pushed the estimated component cost for the next-generation console close to $1,000, according to recent analysis. Combined with Sony’s latest comments to […]

DOJ Grand Jury Probes Neville Roy Singham’s Marxist NGO Empire: Report Perhaps we are finally learning why President Trump has taken to Truth Social in recent days to blast the socialists and Marxists who are transforming the Democratic Party into an anti-American movement that seeks to end capitalism and the Western world. The party’s leftward drift became so glaring last week that even top Democrats were forced onto mainstream […]

Tether’s USDT Jumps To 8.5% Premium In India After Crypto Payment Crackdown Authored by Shaurya Malwa via CoinDesk.com, Raids on crypto payment firms in Bengaluru disrupted the pipeline that feeds dollar-pegged USDT to Indian platforms, pushing its local price more than 8.5% above the dollar, roughly double the usual gap. The price of Tether’s USDT, the largest dollar-pegged stablecoin, has climbed to more than 8.5% above its […]

NANO Nuclear Rises On Potential Power Plant, Dual-Listing In Abu Dhabi Over the past year, we’ve tracked NANO Nuclear’s reactor, fuel, and supply chain programs closely through nearly every milestone. After branching into the Asian market and then making the formal transition to a revenue generating company, the company is now working on their next frontier in the UAE. According to Semafor, the company is actively working to […]

‘Problematic But Not Critical’: Putin Concedes Fuel Shortages After Ukraine Strikes, Plays It Cool President Vladimir Putin made a rare admission over this past weekend, belatedly acknowledged Sunday that Russia is facing a “certain shortage” of fuel following weeks of ramped-up drone warfare coming out of Ukraine, which has chiefly targeted oil refineries and domestic supply facilities, including in the Moscow region. “As for […]

Lawsuit Filed For Records On Jan. 6 Provocateur Ray Epps Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, During the Biden years, Kash Patel accused Jan. 6 provocateur Ray Epps of being a federal asset. Referring to the fact that Epps was taken off the FBI’s Most Wanted list in early 2021, Patel said there was only two ways someone could get off that list—either they died or they’re working for the government. Now that he’s […]

Supreme Court Allows Late Receipt Of Ballots During Elections The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5–4 to uphold a Mississippi law providing that absentee ballots do not have to be received by Election Day – and that states may count ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward. The Supreme Court in Washington on April 28, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee […]

Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Jobs, Warsh In Sintra, ISM, ADP Global attention this holiday-shortened week,will center on the US labor market, with the June employment report due on Thursday ahead of the Independence Day holiday. A reminder that the US will be 250 years old this week. Alongside that, central bank communication will be in focus at the ECB’s Sintra forum (today through Wednesday), while inflation data […]

Str-Eye-ke For A Str-Eye-ke By Bas van Geffen, senior macro strategist at Rabobank This weekend’s events cast fresh doubts over the value of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding. On Friday, President Trump condemned the drone attack on a container ship that was transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Trump posted on Truth Social that the US had shot down three other drones, adding that “obviously, this is a foolish violation of […]

“Bitcoin Is Capital”: Saylor’s Strategy Says May Sell Up To $1.25 Billion Crypto To Fund Dividends Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR), the world’s largest bitcoin treasury company, announced a sweeping capital management overhaul earlier today, introducing what it calls a Digital Credit Capital Framework. The announcement sent MSTR shares up 6% in pre-market trading and pushed […]

Watch: Giant Explosion Rocks Lebanon As IDF Destroys Hezbollah’s Underground Drone Complex In a move bound to test the limits of the fragile Washington-brokered regional ceasefire, Israel has unleashed massive ordinance on southern Lebanon, saying it has utterly destroyed a huge underground complex built and used by Hezbollah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have freshly announced that the Israel […]

Futures Rise As Dip-Buyers Lift Tech Stocks US equity futures are higher led by Tech as Mag7 leads the group higher and points to a reversal of last week’s profit-taking, as traders position for the end of the first half. A shortened week will likely focus on a speech from the Fed’s Warsh on Wednesday and payrolls on Thursday.  As of 8:30am, S&P futures are 0.9% higher as traders bought the dip after a rotation out of this […]

US Boosts Venezuela Earthquake Aid To $300 Million As 50,000 Remain Missing Summary: US Increases Earthquake aid Aftershock rattles Caracas on Monday morning  +50,000 people remain missing according to independent monitoring platform US Military Begins Humanitarian Operation In Quake-Ravaged Venezuela US Increases Earthquake Aid The US has increased its financial commitment to Venezuela’s earthquake response to more than […]

The Last Word On Kernen Vs. Grantham Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Last week, CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen interviewed legendary value investor Jeremy Grantham, and for about six minutes the conversation turned into one of the better moments I’ve seen on financial television in a long time. Grantham, the 86-year-old co-founder of GMO, whose case for the market being overvalued I highlighted last week, built […]