‘Regime Influence’: Trump’s Foreign-Policy Third Way Authored by David DesRoisiers via The Spectator, At 2 a.m. on Saturday, President Trump gave a New Year’s kinetic expression to his recently published National Security Strategy and what it means in the American hemisphere. If we take President Trump at his blustering word – which those in the administration’s Maduro-adjacent crosshairs should – this is just the […]

Cancer Drugs Drive Nearly One-Fifth Of Pharma Sales The global pharmaceutical industry’s revenue is increasingly concentrated in a handful of high-value drug classes, with oncology, diabetes/obesity treatments and immunology leading the charge. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiat details below, according to estimates from Statista Market Insights, cancer drugs alone generated over $217 billion last year, making oncology the largest […]

Germany’s Intelligence Service Set To Expand Surveillance Submitted by Thomas Kolbe According to plans from the Federal Chancellery, Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, is set to significantly expand its surveillance capabilities. The focus is particularly on internet communication transmitted from within Germany to abroad, which is to be included in the agency’s monitoring catalog going forward. After months of […]

Death Toll In Clampdown On Iranian Protests Reaches Hundreds, Rights Groups Say Human rights groups say that hundreds of people have been killed during mass demonstrations that have roiled Iran in recent weeks, with thousands more detained. At least 192 protesters have been killed since the mass demonstrations started, said the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group on Sunday. It said that “unverified reports” have shown that […]

Mercedes Relocates Production To Hungary, 20,000 Germans Set To Lose Their Jobs Via Remix News, In yet another major blow to the German automobile labor market, Mercedes has announced it will be relocating production of its A-Class from Rastatt, Germany, to Kecskemét, Hungary. While Hungary’s foreign minister is taking a victory lap, Germany’s largest opposition party is sharply crticizing he government as signs grow that […]

Cloudflare Vs Italy: The Battle For Digital Freedom And Global Internet Sovereignty Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Italian authorities are attempting to force the internet service provider Cloudflare to delete and block certain online services. Cloudflare is resisting and has turned to the U.S. government for support. The fight for a free internet is intensifying. The struggle over control of information, censorship, and economic […]

Overhauling Air Traffic Control Involves 5,000 Locations And 600 Radar Systems: Here’s What To Know Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, The federal government is embarking on what Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has called “the most important infrastructure project that we’ve had in this country for decades.” It is attempting to modernize and upgrade the nation’s entire air traffic control system within a […]

Fed Subpoenaed As DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Jerome Powell, Who Vows To “Stand Firm” Not content with launching a dizzying cascade of international conflicts, Trump just lobbed a nuke at the Fed.  While Trump’s vendetta against the Fed’s Lisa Cook set for a January showdown before the Supreme Court, the Trump admin dramatically raised the stakes on Sunday when the NYT first reported, and minutes later Fed Chair Jerome Powell […]

Trump Urges Cuba To Strike Deal With US “Before It’s Too Late” After Oil, Money Cut Off From Venezuela U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 11 told Cuba that it should forge a deal with the United States now that Washington has pushed Venezuela to cut off its supply of oil and money to the communist-run island. After the U.S. military captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, interim Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez […]

Great Balls Of Fire Authored by Waters, Ellwanger & Calvin via RealClearHistory, America’s foremost heroes are cowboys, soldiers, and innovators. They imposed order on the Wild West. They showed courage on countless battlefields and saved civilization in the Second World War. Armed with a vision for the future and their own two hands, they overpowered a dark and forbidding wilderness to create our modern world. We memorialize […]

K-Shaped Economy Is Here To Stay As Goldman’s Consumer Dashboard Shows Growing Divide Higher-income consumers and asset owners have watched their wealth surge as stocks climb, fueled by the AI bubble, while housing markets levitate. Lower- and middle-income households, especially those without equity or home ownership, are facing a dangerous cocktail of sticky inflation, sluggish wage growth, and elevated borrowing costs. The result […]

Trump Order Taking US Out Of UN Climate Orgs Caps Flood Of Corporate Exits Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump put another dent in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement, withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and 65 other international organizations dedicated to climate and social justice. Trump’s order caps a […]

AOC Joins Top Dems In Abrupt Pivot Against ‘Antisemitism’ A synchronized burst of pro-Israel social media messaging from the Democratic Party’s most ardent foot soldiers is raising eyebrows, as even their most progressive members are taking on ‘antisemitism’. For example, here’s AOC – a vocal critic of Israel, slamming Hamas supporters protesting in a Jewish neighborhood as a “disgusting and antisemitic thing to do.” Hey so […]

US Warns Americans To Leave Venezuela Immediately Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), American citizens are advised to leave Venezuela as soon as possible due to the “fluid” security situation in the South American country, a U.S. Department of State Consular Affairs X post stated. The U.S. embassy in Caracas on Jan. 9, 2026. Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images This warning comes a week after American […]

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Confirms His Utter Contempt For The First Amendment Before Congress Authored by Jonathan Turley, For years, some of us have argued that President Donald Trump’s January 6th speech was protected under the First Amendment and that any prosecution would collapse under governing precedent, including Brandenburg v. Ohio.  I was regularly attacked as an apologist for my criticism of Special Counsel […]

The Democrats’ “Affordability” Ploy To Avoid Accountability Authored by Thaddeus McCotter via American Greatness, Imagine someone is walking through a museum filled with fragile antiquities. And they happen to be indiscriminately swinging a sledgehammer. And with every fragile antiquity they shatter, they pocket the price of the destroyed historical treasure. When their selfish, remunerative spree of wanton destruction concludes, […]

MTG Denies ‘Dangerous Lie’ That She Tipped Off Code Pink To Trump’s Location Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hit back against an Axios report that the White House told the Secret Service she may have tipped off Code Pink protesters about Trump’s unscheduled visit to a DC restaurant she recommended, leading to an activist ambush that went viral on social media.   “Only the WH set up President Trump’s reservation at […]

US, Partners Launch New Strikes On ISIS Targets In Syria Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, U.S. and partner forces conducted a series of airstrikes on terrorist group ISIS targets throughout Syria on Jan. 10, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced. The series of airstrikes began around 12:30 p.m. ET, CENTCOM said in a press statement around three hours after the strikes. “The strikes today targeted ISIS […]

MN Lawmakers Say Fraud Whistleblowers Were Threatened With Retaliation Officials within the administration of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz actively enabled at least some of the state’s estimated $9 billion in social services fraud by suppressing fraud reports, retaliating against whistleblowers and changing protocols to mask criminal behavior according to Republican lawmakers who testified before Congress this week.   The […]

Fast And Furious 47: The Midterm Elections Are Driving Everything By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Fast And Furious 47 The Fast and Furious franchise is on its 10th or 11th movie. The U.S. government is on its 47th President. In an interesting “mash-up,” we have entered into the arena of Fast and Furious 47. I don’t think we have ever seen the generation of so many headlines, on so many subjects, so quickly from any […]

CES Came And Went. Here’s What Stood Out. CES, short for the Consumer Electronics Show, wrapped up late last week in Las Vegas. It is the world’s largest technology trade show, offering attendees a peek into the future. This year’s event marked a shift away from gimmicky uses of artificial intelligence toward products that deliver real-world productivity gains, alongside a series of key comments from industry leaders on the state of […]

Majority Of North Carolina Trucking Licenses Issued To Foreigners Are Illegal: Duffy Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A review of non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) granted in North Carolina found that 54 percent were issued illegally, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said in a statement on Jan. 8. The review was conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and is […]

“Yes, Yes, And Yes”: Bessent Signals Crackdown On Dark-Money NGO Protests ‘Just Like We Did With The Mafia’ The left’s ability to rapidly stage highly organized ‘pop-up’ protests in response to just about any political incident is uncanny (remember Robert Creamer? “Wherever Trump and Pence are going to be, we have events, we have a whole team across the country that does that.”). Often, organic protests that average Americans have […]

Bitcoin To Hit $2.9M By 2050 As It Muscles Into Global Trade: VanEck Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin could reach $2.9 million by 2050 once it becomes a settlement currency for international and domestic trade and makes its way into more central bank reserves, analysts at asset manager VanEck predict. The $2.9 million price target assumes a 15% compound annual growth rate and Bitcoin settling 5-10% of […]

White House Amplifies Shocking Claims Of US Super Soldiers Deployed In Maduro Raid White House Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt amplified claims about American special forces super-soliders deployed advanced weaponry during the extraction phase of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Leavitt reposted an alleged account from a Venezuelan security guard at Maduro’s compound describing what happened when Delta Force operators […]