National Insecurity: America’s Continuing Reliance On Critical Chinese Materials Authored by Benjamin Weingarten via RealClearWire, At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 – with face masks, gloves, and other basic protections in high demand – Chinese leaders threatened to plunge America into the “mighty sea of coronavirus” by withholding essential medical supplies in retaliation for measures such as the U.S. travel ban on […]

Troubling Pattern Of Left-Wing Revolutionaries Targeting “Capitalists” Raises Alarm Over Youth Radicalization A troubling pattern appears to be emerging. In a recent foiled terror plot targeting UFC Freedom 250 at the White House, authorities said the suspect of an underground network, led by an illegal alien ringleader, planned to use suicide drones and a sniper team against “capitalist elites.” Separately, Rebel News described […]

US Escalates Crackdown On Overseas Scam Network Targeting Americans Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, The United States has taken coordinated action against a Southeast Asia-based scam and money-laundering network that officials say used forced-labor compounds and online investment fraud to steal billions of dollars from Americans. Scam center workers and victims from China arrive at the border checkpoint with Thailand, […]

Tennessee Considers Up To 26 GW Of Gas-Fired Generation By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive The Tennessee Valley Authority released its preliminary 2026 integrated resource plan on Monday, saying load growth in its footprint is already outpacing the reference case forecast in its draft IRP, and that it has incremental capacity needs for between 7 GW and 26 GW of natural gas between now and 2040. “TVA’s actual and forecasted […]

Medvedev Calls For International Law Mechanism Banning Western Military Bases Abroad In a hard-hitting Wednesday address at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPILF), Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, didn’t mince words regarding the sprawling global footprint of Western military power. The former Russian president called for the immediate creation of aggressive “legal mechanisms” to […]

Judge Strikes Down Trump-Era Courthouse Arrest Policy Via American Greatness, A federal judge has vacated Trump administration policies that allowed immigration agents to arrest noncitizens at immigration courthouses nationwide. U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts ruled Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents may no longer conduct arrests at immigration courts under policies implemented by the administration […]

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba Of Running Major “Adversarial Distillation” Campaign To Extract Claude Capabilities Anthropic has accused Alibaba Group of orchestrating one of the largest known efforts by a Chinese company to extract capabilities from a leading U.S. artificial intelligence model, according to a letter the AI company sent to several U.S. senators and White House officials. The letter claims that operators linked to […]

China’s Refiners Slash Runs To Lowest Since 2017, As Asia Refiners Slow Purchases Of Mid-East Oil A little over a month ago, we explained that energy traders are “Traders Puzzled As Physical Oil Prices Tumble Amid Surging Chinese Crude Sales, Plunging Imports”, and highlighted how already razor-thin independent refiner (teapot) margins had plunged to record negative as a result of the war in Iran and government policies meant to […]

“Heavy Casualties” After Massive Twin Quakes Rock Venezuela, Topple Buildings; “International Response May Be Needed” Twin earthquakes rocked Venezuela on Wednesday evening, collapsing entire apartment buildings across Caracas and leaving behind scenes of widespread devastation. The USGS said the first quake registered a magnitude of 7.1, with an epicenter near Morón, about 104 miles west of Caracas, at a depth of 8 miles. One […]

Maryland Protests Data Center Costs By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive A group of 80 Maryland state lawmakers are backing a complaint at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission over the PJM Interconnection’s cost allocation for transmission lines that support data centers. Driven by the way PJM spreads transmission costs, Maryland ratepayers will pay $1.6 billion over the next decade for transmission projects that were approved […]

Bessent Insists US Treasury Will Oversee Unfrozen Iranian Funds: Food & Medicine Only There remains a major divergence in how Iran and the United States are interpreting the results of the MoU signing in the wake of the historic Switzerland peace talks, as lower-level teams remain in place to hammer out the technical details of the agreement. The divergence/contradiction continues to be seen in not only the latest statements […]

Antifa Leader Sentenced To 100 Years In Prison For Attack On ICE Facility The Antifa attack on the Texas ICE facility in Alvarado was a highly coordinated plan, using fireworks and a fake vandalism call to lure out ICE agents and police so that they could be shot in a hail of gunfire.  Responding Alvarado Police Department Lieutenant Thomas Gross was shot in the shoulder and the rifle round exited his neck during the crossfire, but […]

Micron Soars After Reporting Blowout Earnings, Boosts Guidance Step aside Nvidia: as we noted in our preview, with the world’s most valuable company going nowhere in recent months, all attention has shifted to Micron, which has rapidly become one of the most important stocks in the world and certainly the most actively traded, surpassing both Nvidia and Tesla in recent days. As such all eyes were on Micron’s earnings today, and […]

Hormuz Exodus Begins: Ships Finally Sailing As UN-Led Evacuation Corridor Opens Several vessels have already navigated the Strait of Hormuz utilizing a fresh evacuation framework established by the United Nations’ shipping agency, an official confirmed on Wednesday. More via newswires: US Energy Secretary Wright says roughly 72 ships have exited Strait of Hormuz in last 24 hours. “Ships have already begun to pass under the […]

DOJ Announces 455 Defendants Charged in $6.5 Billion Health Care Fraud Crackdown Via American Greatness, The Justice Department (DOJ) announced Tuesday that federal authorities have charged 455 defendants in a nationwide health care fraud operation involving an estimated $6.5 billion in false claims against government-funded health care programs. The cases are part of the department’s annual National Health Care Fraud Takedown, […]

Iran Calls MoU Deal A ‘US Defeat’ As Trump Touts Tehran Forced Into ‘Very Big Concessions’ Summary Trump Hits Back, Seeks Narrative Control: “The war is going very well. As you know, we’re winning by a lot. Iran is making very big concessions.” Iran Declares MoU A US Defeat: Tehran says the Islamabad agreement proves Washington abandoned its pressure campaign. Hormuz Traffic Resumes under UN Auspices: About 72 ships carrying […]

Google Loses Another Two High Profile AI Researchers To Anthropic A duo of leading artificial intelligence researchers at Alphabet’s Google are planning to leave for rival Anthropic, adding to a series of high-profile departures that risk undercutting the search giant’s position in AI.  Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Google’s Gemini AI model, are set to move to the Claude […]

Transcript Shows Bill Gates Claim Epstein Issued ‘Veiled’ Threats Over Affairs Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Bill Gates told lawmakers in a recent interview that Jeffrey Epstein threatened him subtly over his affairs but did not overtly blackmail him, according to a transcript released on June 23. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (C) in Washington, on June 10, 2026. Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty […]

All Banks Pass Fed’s Stress Test, Unleashing Latest Wave Of Dividends And Buybacks In all the excitement over Micron’s blowout earnings, we almost forgot that today was another Fed stress test day – which every bank passed with flying colors as usual – which in turn allowed bank to unleash a fresh flood of dividends and buybacks. The biggest US banks boosted their dividends after passing this year’s Federal Reserve stress tests, […]

Senate Passes War Powers Resolution In Rebuke Of Trump Policy The US Senate on Tuesday passed a war powers resolution – a symbolic rebuke of President Donald Trump which calls for an end to the US-Israeli war against Iran, and requires explicit authorization from Congress. The Democrat-led concurrent resolution passed by a narrow 50-48 vote, seeking to constrain President Donald Trump’s ability to wage war against Iran. The […]

DARPA’s X-Plane Designed To Maneuver With Bursts Of Air Gets New Wings Attached Authored by Chris Young via Interesting Engineering, Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun installing the wings on the X-65, an experimental drone developed under DARPA’s Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. Technicians mounting the wings onto the X-65 experimental drone.Aurora Flight Sciences / X The […]

Bessent: Rate Cuts Don’t Have To Break The Dollar With rate-hikes increasingly back ‘on the table’ fort Fed Chair Warsh’s ‘regime change’ last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that cutting interest rates won’t necessarily lead to a weaker dollar – arguing that “you can have a strong dollar when rates are being cut” because if the fed is cutting because inflation is falling, while the economy stays strong – capital keeps […]

Fauci, The CIA, And The Unanswered Questions Of COVID Authored by Cory Franklin via RealClearWire, Did Anthony Fauci manipulate the intelligence community (IC) investigation of the origin of COVID as outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claims? Gabbard recently released previously unseen documents and communications during the COVID pandemic between the IC and the key member of the White House Coronavirus […]

GOP Civil War Erupts On Two Fronts: Luna Freezes The House Floor, Trump Gets “Brother’d” By Cassidy In Senate Over SAVE Act The Republican Party’s long-simmering tensions over election integrity exploded into open warfare on Wednesday, with chaos breaking out simultaneously in the House and Senate – and President Trump caught in the middle of both. It started, as these things often do, with a procedural knife fight. Rep. Anna […]

72 Ships Transited Hormuz In A Day: US Energy Secretary Says ‘Taking Away’ Iran’s Key Leverage WTI futures briefly fell below $70 a barrel for the first time since the US-Iran conflict erupted, as tanker flows through the Strait of Hormuz are showing further signs of normalization and physical market tightness continues to ease. Bloomberg noted that option markets are positioning for ongoing normalization. Put volume is exceeding […]