DC Pipe Bomb Arrest Raises Questions About Christopher Wray’s FBI Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClearInvestigations, It’s a tale of two investigations. In one version – based on past comments by former FBI Director Christopher Wray – the arrest last week of Brian Cole Jr. as the individual who allegedly placed pipe bombs near the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National […]

ICE Announces Arrest Of 400 Illegal Immigrants In Minnesota Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than 400 illegal immigrants have been arrested in Minnesota by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of Operation Metro Surge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on Dec. 12. Federal agents move away protestors in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

Santa Vs The Grinch, Diets, & QE By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Santa vs The Grinch, Diets, & qe The week ended with a bang. At Academy’s Holiday Party, the Marines pulled out all the stops to win the annual “service song” contest (they actually brought out instruments, with Dakota leading the charge on the trumpet). We rolled (like the Army’s rolling along song), straight into Bloomberg TV Friday morning, […]

Brown University Shooting: Benjamin Erickson Reportedly Identified As Person Of Interest Update (1715ET): Both The Washington Post and NBC News cite sources briefed on the investigation who name “Benjamin Erickson” from Wisconsin as a “person of interest” in the Brown University shooting late Saturday night. It is important to note the distinction between a person of interest and a suspect: A person of interest is someone […]

We’re “At The Beginning Of The Credit Destruction Cycle”; Ed Dowd Warns Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Former Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com warned in September we were at the “Beginning of Panic Rate Cut Cycle.”  Since that prediction, the Fed has cut interest rates three times.  Looks like Dowd called it correctly.   So, when does the panic kick in?  Dowd […]

Watch: Top Biden Official Belatedly Admits Ukraine War Truth Bombshell Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is way behind the times. On Sunday he very belatedly expressed willingness to drop Ukraine’s bid to join NATO. In place of this, he’s seeking robust security guarantees. “We are talking about bilateral security guarantees between Ukraine and the United States — namely, Article 5-like guarantees … as well as security […]

Gunman Who Killed 3 Americans In Syria Was Member of Syrian Government Forces Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com The gunman who killed two members of the Iowa National Guard and an American civilian interpreter in an attack in Palmyra, central Syria, on Saturday was a member of the Syrian government’s security forces, according to the Syrian Interior Ministry. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) first […]

Zelenskyy Open To Dropping NATO Bid As Peace Talks Continue On Berlin Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is willing to drop efforts to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) if the United States and European allies offer “security guarantees” in order to end the war. “Thus, today, bilateral security guarantees between Ukraine and the US, Article 5-like guarantees for us from the US, and security guarantees […]

Liam Neeson, MAHA Ally? Narrates RFK Jr. Doc Slamming Lockdowns And COVID Jabs Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In an unexpected pivot that’s sending shockwaves through the pharma lobby, Liam Neeson has narrated a documentary titled Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed, an adaption of Dr. Judy Mikovits’ book and backed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s Children’s Health Defense.  It […]

Education Dept To Warn Applicants For Aid At Schools With Low Earnings For Grads In a bid to help young Americans make better-informed judgements about the costs and benefits of college education, the US Department of Education has started warning financial-aid applicants who are considering schools whose graduates have weak earnings.  The red flag is now being presented within the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) […]

DOJ Must Return Data Seized From Comey Confidant, Court Will Retain Copy: Judge Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice has been ordered by a federal judge to return everything that it seized and obtained between 2017 to 2020 from a longtime confidant of former FBI Director James Comey, siding with the friend and plaintiff who said his constitutional rights had been violated when the materials in his […]

BIS Warns Of Rare “Double Bubble” Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, This weekend, global investors are reckoning with a stark warning from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). In its December 2025 Quarterly Review, the BIS flagged what it called a rare “double bubble” forming across both gold and equity markets. According to the report, “the combination of gold and share prices soaring in […]

Luxury Cars, Private Villas And Stacks Of Cash: How Somali Fraudsters Spent Minnesotans’ Money Luxury cars. Private villas. First-class flights. And taxpayer money meant to feed hungry kids. New exhibits from court obtained by CBS News reveal how Somali defendants in one of the largest COVID-era fraud schemes in US history plowed through hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money on lavish lifestyles – […]

Slovak PM Fico Blast Brussels Warmongers, Wants No Part Of Western Europe If Russian & Ukrainian Lives Are “Worth Shit” Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said he will block any European Union solution that finances Ukraine’s military expenditures, accusing Western Europe of treating Russian and Ukrainian lives as being “worth shit” and of prolonging what he described as […]

Dystopian Horror: 1 In 4 British Teens Turn To AI ‘Therapy’-Bots For Mental Health Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, One in four British teenagers have resorted to AI chatbots for mental health support over the past year, exposing the chilling reality of a society where machines replace human connection amid crumbling government services.  The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) surveyed 11,000 kids aged 13 to 16 in England […]

DOT Finds Half Of NY Commercial Drivers Are Illegals, Threatens To Pull $73 Million In Federal Funding The Department of Transportation is threatening to pull $73 million in federal highway funding from New York after an audit found that half of the state’s commercial trucking licenses were issued to illegal immigrants. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, NY Gov Kathy Hochul “What New York does is if an applicant comes in and […]

83% Of Hungarians Fear Foreign Interference In 2026 Election; New Poll Finds Via Remix News, The vast majority, 83 percent, of respondents to a Mediana survey say next year’s parliamentary election in Hungary could face interference from foreign intelligence agencies. The poll, published by the daily newspaper Nepszava, also indicates that 53 percent of respondents believe Russia might try to influence the upcoming elections, […]

High Level Hamas Planner Of Oct.7 Assassinated By IDF Strike In Gaza City The fragile Gaza ceasefire continues hanging only by a thread, with Hamas condemning the latest Saturday Israeli attack against a high-profile official. The Israeli military (IDF) announce it targeted a vehicle in Gaza City on Saturday that was carrying Raed Saad, a senior Hamas commander, which Israel has identified one of the planners of the Oct. 7, 2023 […]

‘Targeted, Antisemitism’: 16 Dead, 38 Injured After Father & Son Terrorists Attack Sydney Jewish Celebration Live feed of terror attack:  Shooting during a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach Two gunmen opened fire, discharging dozens of rounds The two shooters are father and son A bystander intervened and disarmed one attacker 16 people confirmed dead including a 10-year-old kid (New South Wales Minister says […]

Erdogan Warns Against Black Sea Becoming Zone For ‘Score-Settling’ After Strikes Via Middle East Eye Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Saturday against the Black Sea becoming a “zone of confrontation” and score-settling between Russia and Ukraine, following a strike against a Turkish ship on Friday. The Black Sea region has seen repeated strikes in recent weeks. On Friday, a Russian air strike damaged a […]

Birthing Pains For A Multipolar World Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, After World War 2, the U.S. emerged as the only major power with its industrial base intact. Europe, the USSR, and Japan were all devastated. The Soviet Union alone had 26 million deaths due to the war. The rest of Europe had approximately another 20 million. Japan lost around 3 million. All the major powers’ infrastructure had been […]

20 States Sue Trump Over $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee California, Massachusetts, and 18 other states filed a lawsuit Friday against President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions. “President Trump’s illegal $100,000 H-1B visa fee creates unnecessary—and illegal—financial burdens on California public employers and other providers of vital services, exacerbating labor shortages in key sectors,” California […]

At Least Two Dead, 9 Injured After Brown University Shooting In Rhode Island Live updates here: Update (0113ET): According to AP, at least two people were killed in the shooting and nine others are wounded, including several in critical condition.  The gunman is still on the loose. At 4:22 p.m Saturday, the university’s Department of Public Safety sent a campus-wide alert urging students and staff to run, hide, and fight as […]

Trump Team Denies Leaked ‘Secret Plan’ To Break EU Nations Away From Brussels’ Grip Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy was published last week, setting out the U.S.’s broad foreign policy direction for the remainder of his term. It focused on ending what it calls a “perpetually expanding NATO,” establishing “conditions of stability within Europe,” and […]

It’s Official: Ditching The SATs Was A Big Mistake Authored by Jonathan Miltimore via The Washington Examiner, In early 2020, the University of California set the tone for the rest of the country when its regents voted to drop SAT and ACT admissions requirements through 2024. That decision, initially framed as a pandemic necessity, quickly reshaped admissions nationwide. By late 2022, roughly 1,750 schools, or about 80 […]