A Big Bet On Apprenticeships In A Frozen Labor Market Authored by Zach Boren via RealClearEducation, For the better part of a year, the Trump Administration said little about apprenticeships. Then, almost out of nowhere, it announced a $145 million funding forecast aimed at expanding Pay for Apprenticeship—one of the largest investments we’ve seen in years. That move matters because it follows a long gap between rhetoric […]

Iran’s Khamenei Says US, Israel Linked To Deadly Protest Violence: ‘Thousands Killed’ Iran’s streets have at this point been relatively calm for the last several days, after two weeks of large-scale protests rocked the country amid an ongoing economic crisis and Washington threatened to intervene by hitting government sites. When protests and unrest turned to riots and clashes with police, which in some locations resulted in deaths […]

Dr. Oz Says Minnesota Fraud Coverup Reaches ‘Highest Levels’ Of State Government Authored by Jack Phillips and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, revealed that health care fraud in Minnesota is more significant than previously known, according to his interview with EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders,” premiering at 5 p.m. ET on Jan. 17. […]

FAA Warns Airlines Of Military Activities In Central America, Eastern Pacific The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) urged airlines on Jan. 16 to exercise caution when flying over Central America and the eastern Pacific due to military activities and potential navigation interference. The FAA said it issued notices covering the airspace in Mexico, Central America, Panama, Bogotá, Guayaquil, and Mazatlán Oceanic Flight Regions, […]

CDC Quietly Rewrites Its Vaccine-Autism Guidance Authored by Maryanne Demasi via The Brownstone Institute, For the first time in a generation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has rewritten its official position on whether vaccines can cause autism. This is a change that could reshape one of the most politically charged and emotionally fraught debates in modern medicine. In a website update published on […]

DOJ Moves To Block Independent ‘Special Master’ From Overseeing Epstein Disclosures After campaigning on transparency regarding the Epstein files, President Trump became quickly defensive when asked about them shortly after taking office last year – which continued into July, when Trump clapped back at a journalist who asked about Epstein’s ties to a foreign intelligence agency, asking; “Are you still talking about Jeffrey […]

U-Haul’s Election Lesson Authored by Matthew Brouillette via RealClearPennsylvania, Pennsylvania is hemorrhaging residents and resources. And it’s been happening for years.  The recent U-Haul Growth Index shows that people are voting with their feet against Pennsylvania and other purple and blue states that have become inhospitable as places to live, work, and raise a family. And these out-migrators are heading to redder […]

Minneapolis “Now Crawling With National Guard” Amid Ongoing Protests Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz mobilized the National Guard to support the Minnesota State Patrol and other local law enforcement during expected weekend protests in downtown Minneapolis. “We are staged and ready to respond. We are not deployed to city streets at this time,” Minnesota National Guard spokesperson Army Maj. Andrea Tsuchiya told CNN earlier, adding that […]

Michael Cohen Turns Against Letitia James And Alvin Bragg Authored by Jonathan Turley, Michael Cohen is back. The disbarred lawyer has spent a lifetime marketing his curious skill set: a moral and ethical flexibility that allows him to do things that others would find revolting.  A legal thug who threatened students, journalists, and others on behalf of his former client. He then turned against Trump to cut a deal for himself […]

Hegseth Takes “Sledgehammer” To Nation’s Largest DEI Program The Small Business Administration’s crackdown on Washington’s oldest DEI program, otherwise known as the 8(a) program for “socially disadvantaged” businesses, which has largely amounted to a major vector for fraud, pass-through schemes, and artificially inflated contract costs, has expanded to the Department of War. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed late Friday on X […]

Trump Admin Was In ‘Discussions’ With Venezuelan Minister Months Before Raid The White House was conducting back-channel communications with Venezuela’s hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello months before the US operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, and has been in communication with him since then, according to Reuters, citing multiple government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.  Cabello, who was […]

The Dam Has Burst In Silver And Gold…So Now What? Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Silver was up another 6% Wednesday morning this past week and traded at $91 an ounce. Whether or not we’re seeing a short squeeze or a blow-off top at this point is moot and irrelevant. To quote the dorky guy from 10 Things I Hate About You, “the sh*t hath hitteth the faneth”. As I said about a week ago on a Twitter Spaces that I did with […]

They’re “Playing A Very Dangerous Game”: Trump Slaps 10% Tariff On 8 European Countries Opposing Greenland Deal “These Countries, who are playing this very dangerous game, have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable,” warned President Trump as he escalated his quest to acquire Greenland, threatening multiple European nations with tariffs of up to 25 percent until his purchase of the Danish territory is […]

Dems Need A Serious, Grown-Up Approach To The Border Authored by Ruy Teixeira via The Liberal Patriot, Back in 1956, Elvis Presley recorded his massive hit “Don’t Be Cruel.” With all due respect to the King, this great song has many virtues but providing a guide to policy isn’t one of them. Yet it appears to be dictating Democrats’ current approach to the red-hot immigration issue despite its profound inadequacy in the […]

DOJ Probes Gov. Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Over Alleged Effort To Obstruct ICE The Justice Department is investigating leftist Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration agents during deportation operations, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Sources say the probe centers on statements Walz and Frey have made about ICE and Border Patrol agents deployed to the […]

West Virginia Lawmakers Propose Bitcoin Investments With State Funds Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine, West Virginia lawmakers introduced legislation this week that would authorize the state treasurer to invest a portion of public funds in bitcoin, precious metals, and regulated stablecoins, marking a significant step toward integrating digital assets into state-level finance. West Virginia Senate Bill 143, […]

Rieder Meets With Trump As Fed Chair Decision Looms, Hassett Now Out Of Contention Rick Rieder, senior investment executive at BlackRock, met with President Donald Trump yesterday, according to Bloomberg, a development that has intensified speculation around who Trump will choose as his next chair of the Federal Reserve. The meeting immediately elevated Rieder’s standing in what is now a narrowing field of candidates. Rieder is […]

Maine Officials Say They’re Expecting ICE Operations In Coming Days Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Top officials in Maine said they are expecting the Trump administration to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the state for enforcement operations soon. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Wednesday in a video uploaded on X said operations may be conducted in the state “in the […]

The $134 Billion Betrayal: Inside Elon Musk’s Explosive Lawsuit With OpenAI Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft has evolved into a high-stakes dispute over whether OpenAI stayed true to the mission it was founded on or quietly outgrew it while relying on that original promise. Musk is seeking between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages, a figure derived from an expert valuation that treats his early funding and […]

Trump Appoints Rubio, Witkoff, Kushner, And Blair To Gaza ‘Board Of Peace’ Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The White House announced on Jan. 16 the names of members appointed to the Gaza Board of Peace, which President Donald Trump created as part of phase two of a U.S.-backed plan to end the war in Gaza. Among the “founding executive board” members are U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, presidential special […]

Border Czar Tom Homan Has Plan To Target Anti-Ice Agitators Minneapolis has erupted into chaos as anti-ICE mobs rampage through the city. On Wednesday, an ICE agent fired in self-defense after being attacked by three illegal immigrants from Venezuela armed with shovels. Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey have fanned the flames straight out of the ‘defund the police’ playbook – turning a law enforcement operation into a […]

How The EU Is Messing Up The AI Boom Authored by Thomas Kolbe via American Thinker, Economic prosperity is created in free markets by innovative companies. Over 50 percent of globally operating AI unicorns are located in the U.S., while Europe plays virtually no role. The race for the next future technology is already decided. It seems that economic history is repeating itself. On the stock markets, companies in the artificial […]

Biden-Appointed Minnesota Judge Limits Federal Immigration Enforcement Actions At Protests A federal judge in Minnesota on Friday ruled that federal immigration agents can’t detain or use nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools on peaceful protesters who aren’t obstructing authorities, including when these people are observing the agents. The decision, handed down by U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez – appointed by […]

If Britain Bans X, How Far Will It Go To Block Free Speech? Authored by Ted Newson via RealClearPolitics, In what appears to be a rolling back on free speech and citizen journalism, Britain is fast-tracking a law that will ban non-consensual intimate deepfake images. This is likely aimed at the social media site X.com after its AI assistant Grok allegedly generated inappropriate images. In the scope of the global news cycle and a […]

CIA Releases New Video To Encourage Chinese To Divulge ‘Truth About China’ Authored by Michael Zhung via The Epoch Times, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has released a new video for Chinese citizens outlining nine step-by-step methods for establishing secure contact with the agency, according to a Jan. 16 post on X. […]