Hollywood Blamed The Fans For Their Failures And Now They Face Collapse In November, the entertainment media was energized by the news of potential studio mergers and a potential jump in content spending by Disney and Paramount.  The possibility of more cash flowing into productions was seen as a light at the end of a long dark tunnel for a film industry crushed by endless box office and TV streaming failures.  Maybe this new […]

UAE Announces Full Withdrawal Of Forces From Yemen After Violating Saudi ‘Red Line’ Via The Middle East Eye The UAE has announced that it will withdraw its military personnel from Yemen, hours after Saudi Arabia struck its Yemeni allies and made an extremely rare public condemnation of Abu Dhabi’s conduct in the country. The Emirati defense ministry said in a statement that “in light of recent developments” it was […]

Trump Admin Freezes All Childcare Payments To Minnesota As Somali Daycare Scandal Goes Viral The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday announced that it has frozen all federal childcare funding for the state of Minnesota, citing rampant fraud allegations largely attributed to the Somali community.  In a post on X, Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O’Neill wrote that “You have probably read the serious allegations that the […]

Researchers Successfully Reverse Alzheimer’s In Mice: Peer-Reviewed Study Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Scientists have reversed Alzheimer’s disease in mice, potentially showing a pathway to treat the illness among humans, according to a Dec. 22 peer-reviewed study published in the Cell Reports Medicine journal. A nurse holds the hands of a person suffering from Alzheimer’s disease at Les […]

Hilarious Video: Humanoid Robot Kicks Operator In The Balls A video that surfaced late last week from an unnamed Chinese lab has captivated the internet, capturing a teleoperation session gone comically awry with Unitree Robotics’ G1 humanoid, Interesting Engineering reports. An engineer, clad in a motion-capture suit and positioned alongside the robot, performs martial arts moves. As both face the same direction, his attempted low […]

America Is Arguing About Free Speech… The World Is Putting People In Prison For It Authored by Matt Schlapp via The Epoch Times, As the freest nation in the world, America has long understood the value of free speech—not as an abstract ideal, but as a fundamental right. The Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) newly released 2025 “Freedom of Speech Around the World Ratings” cut through the noise with a […]

Vegas Police Roll Out Fleet Of Tesla Cybertrucks After $2.7M Donation Last month, the Las Vegas police department became the first in the US to deploy a fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks for patrol, according to The Guardian. The 10 black-and-white vehicles, equipped with sirens and emergency lights, were donated — costing taxpayers nothing, according to Sheriff Kevin McMahill. “They represent something far bigger than just a police […]

Amid Economic Crisis, Mossad-Affiliated X Account Encourages Further Protests In Iran Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, A Farsi-language X account claiming to represent Israel’s Mossad encouraged protests in Iran on Monday and suggested that the Israeli spy agency has operatives involved in demonstrations on the ground. “Let’s come out to the streets together. The time has come. We are with you. Not just from afar and […]

“Significant Safety Concerns” After Salem, Oregon Appoints Convicted Killer To Public Safety Boards Salem, Oregon, is facing backlash after appointing Kyle Hedquist — a convicted murderer whose sentence for a 1995 killing was later commuted — to two influential public safety bodies: the city’s Community Police Review Board and its Civil Service Commission, which oversee police conduct and public safety employment matters, […]

The Most Prominent Buzzwords For The US Economy In 2025 Were “Affordability” And “Layoffs” Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, If you are having a really difficult time keeping up with the rapidly rising cost of living, you are certainly not alone.  This year, “affordability” was a buzzword that was constantly on the lips of politicians, economists and talking heads on television.  As you will see below, […]

Starbucks Shuttering About 400 Locations, 40+ In New York City Alone Starbucks is quietly shrinking its physical footprint in some of the nation’s largest cities, signaling a major shift for a brand that spent decades in near-constant expansion, according to WSMV. The company intends to eliminate about 400 US locations, with the heaviest impact in major metro areas. Closures are already underway — New York City alone has lost 42 […]

Judge Blocks White House’s Attempt To Defund Consumer Watchdog Agency Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the White House cannot lapse its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a watchdog that has long drawn the ire of congressional Republicans. In a ruling, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote that the CFPB should continue to receive its funding from […]

Putin Authorizes Military Reserve Call-Up To Protect Critical Energy Sites One significant theme which emerged over the course of the last year of the Russia-Ukraine war is greater Ukrainian effectiveness in striking Russian territory, sometimes even distant targets many hundreds of miles away. On a regular basis at this point, oil and gas infrastructure and refineries are blown up, export terminals damaged, and even military bases […]

Yale No Longer Has A Single Republican Professor Across 27 Departments Authored by Jonathan Turley, Yale has finally achieved liberal nirvana. According to a recent report from the Buckley Institute, there is now not a single Republican found across 27 of 43 departments at Yale University. In a nation roughly evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats (with a slight advantage to the GOP), only 3 percent are Republicans […]

Feds Charge Mexican-American With Trying To Arm ISIS Via Undercover FBI Agent The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Texas resident and charged him with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization — namely, ISIS. Depending on their level of faith in domestic counter-terror enforcement, some observers will applaud the news unquestioningly, while others may wonder if it’s another situation where the man in […]

From Tax-Cuts To Tariff-Stability: US Economy Poised For Solid Growth In 2026 Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, The turbulence that defined the U.S. economy in 2025 is expected to ease next year… Following President Donald Trump’s unveiling of his sweeping global tariffs plan, the consensus on Wall Street was that the United States would potentially face a downturn or, at the very least, a stagflation-type […]

Citizen Journalist Descends On Ohio, Immediately Finds ‘First Signs Of Potentially Massive Somali Fraud’ The “Nick Shirley Effect” has begun, with Muckraker founder Anthony Rubin on the ground in Columbus, Ohio, home to the second-largest Somali community in the U.S., investigating daycare centers. This development comes less than a day after Ohio attorney Mehek Cooke said federal investigators are examining allegations that […]

RFK Jr. Drops 2026 MAHA Agenda To Banish Toxic Food Dyes And Kill Off Processed Poison Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a game-changing move that’s set to shake up the corrupt food industry, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unveiled his 2026 MAHA agenda – a no-holds-barred assault on the chemicals and loopholes poisoning the health of America. The agenda, highlighted during a Fox News broadcast, targets […]

Zelensky Claims Trump Is Considering US Boots On The Ground In Ukraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has newly claimed that US President Donald Trump is considering the possibility of deploying American troops to Ukraine as negotiations toward peace with Moscow stall. This is presumably connected with promises of future ‘security guarantees’. This is somewhat of a surprise, as the White House has made no indication of this […]

Everyone’s A Lender Now: Shadow Banking USA Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, How much private credit has been put in place but isn’t in the official credit total is unknown and very likely unknowable. That means total systemic risk is also unknowable. Everyone wants to lend us money now, even though they’re not banks: the insurance company Progressive offered us a loan, PayPal offers us a business loan every […]

New Pattern Suggests Two “Sizable” Snow Events For US Northeast Meteorologist Mike Masco has identified what he says could be a very active storm pattern for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic from around New Year’s Day into mid-January. “I’ve been deconstructing the pattern this morning, and there are three key features that support an active stretch across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, including the potential for at least two […]

Silver Coins: Memories Of Sound Money Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The financial press reports that people are swarming the coin shops these days, grabbing as much as possible. This is exactly what one would expect given the wild and parabolic increases in the silver price over the last month, moving from $30 to $75 in the period of one year. Such increases tend to focus the mind and incentivize regular people […]

FOMC Minutes Confirm ‘Most’ Fed Officials Expect More Rate-Cuts, Divisions Remain Since the last FOMC meeting on Dec 10th (which resulted in a more-dovish-than-expected 25bps rate cut along with 3 dissents), precious metals have been the biggest gainers (as the dollar weakened) while crude oil has been a laggard. Stocks small bid, bonds unch… Source: Bloomberg Crypto has notably decoupled from gold and stocks… Source: […]

Trump Admin Launches $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation Program Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration plans to distribute between $147 million and $281 million to each U.S. state in 2026 through a widespread rural health program designed to provide better access to medical care in rural areas. The effort, which is one aspect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, earmarks $50 billion across […]

“Massive Abuse”: HUD Audit Flags $5B In Improper Housing Assistance During Biden’s Term A new report from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development has found that more than $5 billion in federal rental assistance during fiscal year 2024 went to potentially ineligible recipients, including nearly 30,000 deceased individuals and thousands of non-citizens, according to MSN and the NY Post. The audit, conducted by HUD’s […]