Courts Cap Off Year Of Major Decisions, Confrontations Over Trump Agenda Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The federal court system returned some landmark rulings for the American people in 2025, but many legal questions remain unanswered as judges absorb the flood of litigation challenging President Donald Trump’s policies. The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Nov. 10, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch […]

Zelensky Meets With Trump At Mar-a-Lago As Ukrainian Capital Pounded By Russia Just ahead of President Zelensky arriving in Florida where he hopes that talks with President Trump on the US-proposed Ukraine peace plan can achieve something favorable for Ukrainians, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov once again blasted European leadership as the main obstacle to peace. “After the change of administration in the U.S., Europe and […]

The Santa Claus Rally Begins Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, U.S. equity markets began the holiday‑shortened trading week on a firm footing. Broad gains in major indexes and the start of the Santa Claus rally marked this week. Following modest volatility in trading earlier in December, sentiment improved significantly as investors bet on year-end flows. As shown, the CNN Fear-Greed Index has moved […]

“They’re Just Spending Less”: Record Number Of Restaurant Closures Sweep Washington D.C. 2025 became a record year for restaurant closures in D.C., according to the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW): 92 closures, up from 73 in 2024 and 48 in 2022, according to Fox 5 DC. Owners cite multiple pressures — federal layoffs, the August federal takeover, a fall government shutdown, higher wages under Initiative […]

Front Companies? Bombshell Report Exposes Network Of Somali-Linked “Empty” Daycares Across Minnesota Left-wing Governor Tim Walz, under intensifying federal pressure, faces a widening Somali-linked fraud scandal in Minnesota. Federal prosecutors state that the scheme currently totals at least $9 billion, with the final figure potentially much higher. Recent reporting by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo alleges that some welfare […]

The UK Health Care Disaster Is A Cautionary Tale For America’s Rising Class Of Armchair Socialists Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Washington Post shocked many of its Democratic readers this week by telling the truth about the growing disaster in the UK’s National Health Service — a cautionary tale as a few Republicans plan to join Democrats to extend the failed Obamacare subsidies rather than reform our own broken health care […]

China Unveils New Footage Of Carrier-Killer Hypersonic Missile Launch From Destroyer China continues to signal, through overt public-facing propaganda, its readiness to challenge the U.S directly. Recent state media have published footage showing simulated naval conflict operations in the Caribbean, followed by the release of a video showcasing a hypersonic anti-ship missile capability. On Sunday, Chinese media outlet Global Times […]

British Teacher Branded A Terrorist Threat For Showing Trump Videos In US Politics Class Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a chilling display of ideological censorship, a veteran teacher in Britain has been referred to the government’s Prevent counter-terrorism program simply for showing videos of President Trump to his A-level students during a lesson on U.S. politics. The incident unfolded at Henley College in […]

Trump Blockade Leaves $1 Billion Of Venezuelan Crude Stranded On Tankers With a two-month “quarantine” placed on Venezuelan oil by the Trump administration in a foreign policy move called “gunboat diplomacy,” new data estimate that roughly $900 million worth of crude is currently loaded on tankers, unable to depart Venezuela due to the U.S. blockade. “Based on our visual analysis from both shore and space, we estimate that there […]

Next Year’s Election Is A Choice Between Peace & War, Warns Hungarian PM Orbán Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that recent anti-war rallies in Hungary serve to explain to the public what he described as decisions being taken behind closed doors as Europe prepares for war. Speaking on TV2’s Tények program, he said European leaders at a summit over the weekend had […]

High-Pressure NatGas Line Ruptures Outside Los Angeles, Forcing Major Highway Shutdown A rupture of a high-pressure 34-inch natural gas transmission line late Saturday afternoon forced the temporary closure of Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles for several hours and led to a shelter-in-place order for thousands of residents in Castaic. Capt. Brian Knight, a spokesman for L.A. County Fire, told ABC News that a loud blast was […]

Netanyahu’s New Slant To Lure Trump Into War With Iran Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Ron Paul Institute  In these last days, the Trump Administration has boarded or seized three tankers either loaded with Venezuelan oil or destined for Venezuela (such as the Bella1). The most egregious seizure – in terms of illegality – being a Chinese-owned, Panama-flagged vessel reportedly destined for China – and on no one’s […]

New Marching Orders? Code Pink Signals “Gaza-Style” Cuba Flotilla Aimed At Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy Days after China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian blasted President Trump’s gunboat diplomacy against Venezuela, the head of a U.S. far-left nonprofit with ties to billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. national reportedly residing in Communist China, discussed what appear to be new marching orders to organize a “Gaza-style” […]

Leaked Details Of Trump’s Plan To Control Dangerous Virus Research Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, A few days back I took several calls from officials working on President Trump’s policy to limit and track dangerous, gain-of-function pathogen research, the very studies that likely created the COVID virus, which most American believe leaked from a Wuhan lab. Trump signed an Executive Order on May 5 to […]

North Korea Unveils First ‘Nuclear-Powered’ Sub As Kim Tells Putin Their Nations Are “Sharing Blood, Life & Death In Same Trench” One big geopolitical trend of the last year and beyond connected with the Ukraine war has been just how open North Korea and Russia have been about their deepening defense relations. At the start, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un taking the high risk and controversial step of sending thousands of his […]

Europe’s Farmer Protests Are A Warning America Can’t Ignore Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, I want to be very clear. Yes, I am a regenerative farmer. Yes, I farm without chemicals. Yes, I speak publicly—on podcasts, from stages, and in print—about better ways to grow food. But I never villainize farmers. Not conventional farmers. Not farmers locked into systems they did not design. Not farmers working with […]

Key Bolsonaro Ally Caught In Neighboring Paraguay After Fleeing House Arrest Brazilian authorities are really going after some of the loyalists of imprisoned ex-President Jair Bolsonaro. In the latest, a former Brazilian police chief who fled the country after being convicted for his role in an alleged “attempted coup” linked to Bolsonaro has been arrested in Paraguay. Silvinei Vasques was detained Friday at Silvio Pettirossi […]

Let Americans Choose Their Cars – Not The Government Authored by James K. Glassman via RealClearEnergy, There’s a lot of crowing in certain quarters about the 2% decline in U.S. electric vehicle sales in 2025 compared to the year before. Francis Menton, the lawyer who writes the Manhattan Contrarian blog, for instance, claims vindication for his prediction in February 2023 that electric vehicles would not “sweep the country and […]

75 US Deportees To End Up On Tiny Island In Cash Deal With Local Rulers In the Trump administration’s latest display of creativity when it comes to unloading unwanted immigrants, the United States has made a deal with the rulers of the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau, which will take 75 rejected migrants off Uncle Sam’s hands in exchange for $100,000 per head. The deportees in question will be a diverse group, but they’ll likely […]

Wealthy Chinese Elites Use US Surrogacy System To Have Dozens Of Children Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Chinese billionaires and elites are increasingly using the United States’ permissive surrogacy system to have large numbers of children—sometimes dozens, or more—according to allegations made in Chinese media. Increasing numbers of wealthy Chinese couples are hiring the services of American […]

Mamdani Picks DEI Poster Child To Head FDNY New York City’s incoming mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has named retired EMS chief Lillian Bonsignore to run the FDNY, and the pick has generated some legitimate skepticism from those who believe that she wasn’t picked for her qualifications. The appointment makes Bonsignore only the second woman to serve as fire commissioner and the first openly gay person to hold the position. But critics […]

Coinbase CEO Says Reopening GENIUS Act Is ‘Red Line’, Slams Bank Lobbying Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said any attempt to reopen the GENIUS Act would cross a “red line,” accusing banks of using political pressure to block competition from stablecoins and fintech platforms. In a Sunday post on X, Armstrong said he was “impressed” banks could lobby Congress so openly […]

Does It Get Any More Cringe Than This? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Just when you thought Gavin Newsom couldn’t get any more cringe, he drops a video with his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom wishing Californians a “joyful Kwanzaa” – a made-up holiday that’s about as authentic as his political posturing. In the awkward clip posted to his official X account, Newsom and his wife deliver a rehearsed message […]

JPMorgan Freezes Accounts Of Two Stablecoin Startups Over Sanctions Concerns: Report Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, JPMorgan Chase has reportedly frozen bank accounts linked to two venture-backed stablecoin startups after identifying exposure to sanctioned and high-risk jurisdictions. The accounts belonged to BlindPay and Kontigo, two stablecoin startups backed by Y Combinator that primarily operate across […]

Chevrolet’s Pro-Family Christmas Ad Reinforces Death Of Woke Marketing Chevrolet’s new pro-family, long-form Christmas advertisement clearly reinforces that the Overton Window has shifted back toward what made America – and much of the Western world – strong in the first place: the family unit. Credit goes to the executives at the US automaker for avoiding the kind of self-inflicted “Bud Light” moment that comes with pushing woke […]