Futures Rise After 4-Days Of Declines Ahead Of CPI, Central Bank Bonanza Stocks rebounded from Wednesday’s tech-led rout after an upbeat forecast from Micron helped put the brakes on a tech-driven selloff on a busy day for data and central bank meetings. As of 7:15am ET, S&P and Nasdaq  futures rose 0.6% following four down days. In premarket trading, Micron shares soared 11% after reporting blowout earnings. Europe’s […]

Australian Counterterrorism Unit Rams Car, Arrests Five Men Suspected Of Planning Violence Four days after the Bondi Beach terror attack in Australia, a counterterrorism unit stopped what appeared to be a vehicle carrying five Middle Eastern men in Liverpool, Sydney, who were allegedly heading toward the Bondi Beach area. BREAKING: Australian police ram a car with 5 Islamists travelling to Bondi Beach. Seems like they had info […]

AfD Says It Was Target Of Infiltration After Eichwald Admits ‘Hitlerian’ Speech Aimed To ‘Warn’ Voters Off Via Remix News, After a bizarre speech that mimicked much of the rhetorical style of Adolf Hitler at the founding congress of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) youth group, Alexander Eichwald has confessed that he joined the party as a form of provocation. In an interview with Junge Frieheit, Jean-Pascal Hohm, who serves as […]

Four Days Later: Brown University Shooter Still At Large As Bizarre Anomalies Mount In Investigation Anger mounts as the investigation into the Brown University shooting runs into ongoing hurdles: no identifiable suspect, a series of dead-end leads involving so-called persons of interest, and bizarre anomalies as the probe enters its fourth day. The shooting at Brown occurred Saturday afternoon at the Barus and Holley Engineering […]

Why Coal Is Here To Stay, In One Chart Bloomberg Opinion columnist and chief energy correspondent Javier Blas posted a chart on X from the International Energy Agency’s new global coal report showing that coal demand jumped to an all-time high this year, despite years of efforts by the green-industrial complex to end its very existence. “Global coal demand rose to an all-time high in 2025, up 0.5% y-on-y to 8,845 million tons […]

Trump Claims There’s ‘Peace In The Middle East’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com President Trump had kicked off this week by saying that there is “legitimate peace in the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years,” comments that came after three Americans, including two National Guard members and a civilian interpreter, were killed in Syria. The president made the remark when asked why the US has troops in Syria. […]

Russia Deploys Entire Fleet Of Nuclear Icebreakers To Arctic Russia has deployed all eight of its nuclear icebreakers simultaneously in an unprecedented move. The fleet is being used to keep critical winter shipping lanes in the Gulf of Ob and the Yenisei Gulf open, ensuring continued access to key export terminals. The deployment sends a clear signal to the West that Russia can sustain year-round Arctic shipping and maintain its […]

Cold, Green Europe: What Happens When Ideology Trumps Physics Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via RealClearMarkets.com, Europe stands as the self-proclaimed cathedral of the “green” transition. Bureaucrats in Brussels and politicians in Berlin have spent decades lecturing the world on the moral necessity to abandon hydrocarbons. They have constructed a narrative of the European Union as a shining city powered by the breeze and sun, […]

Poland Ramps Up Program To Lay Anti-Personnel Mines On Eastern Border European allies have long been talking about implementing a ‘drone wall’ or shield to protect eastern and northern Europe, but now this protective shield could include land mines on the ground, in a dangerous development. “Poland has decided to start producing anti‑personnel mines for the first time since the Cold War and plans to deploy them along its eastern […]

In Spain Foreigners Commit 5X More Rapes, 4X More Murders Than Spaniards; New Study Finds Via Remix News, A new study highlights the outsized role of foreigners in serious crimes in Spain, which has seen worrying growth in rapes, attempted murders, and other serious crimes in just the last five to six years. The CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory report, titled “Demography of Crime in Spain,” examines the evolution of crime […]

What The Scopes Trial Was Really About Authored by J Scott Turner via RealClearScience, This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock was John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher who was accused of violating the state’s recently passed Butler Act, which prohibited any state school from teaching any theory of the origin of man that […]

Ancient RNA Extracted From Extinct Woolly Mammoth Fuels De-Extinction Dreams European researchers have achieved a milestone in paleogenomics by sequencing RNA from a woolly mammoth specimen dating back approximately 39,000 to 40,000 years, roughly three times older than the previous record for ancient RNA. The RNA was recovered from a well-preserved juvenile mammoth known as Yuka, discovered in northern Siberian permafrost in […]

Trump Administration Faces Balancing Act On Agriculture Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has in recent months rolled out a series of actions to address the long-brewing existential crisis facing America’s family farmers and ranchers, who for years have been pummeled by industry consolidation and rising costs, as well as regulatory, environmental, and trade issues. Cows […]

Meta Chose Revenue Over Policing Chinese Scam Ads, Documents Show Meta knowingly tolerated large volumes of fraudulent advertising from China to protect billions of dollars in revenue, a new investigation from Reuters unveiled this week. Internal documents show executives prioritized minimizing “revenue impact” over fully cracking down on scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned ads. Although Meta platforms are […]

‘I Inherited A Mess And I’m Fixing It’: Watch President Trump Unveil ‘Warrior Dividend’, Signal Housing Reform, Not Mention Venezuela Update (2120ET): As expected, President Trump celebrated the successes of his first year back in office as part of tonight’s national address from the White House. “11 months ago, I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it,” Trump began. “When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 […]

Polysilicon: An Opportunity To Demonstrate ‘America First’ Authored by Emma Bishop via RealClearPolicy, If the world’s future is powered by semiconductors and designed by advanced AI chips, then it will be printed on polysilicon; the purest manmade material and the foundation for any semiconductor chip. Without it, advanced technologies and electronics would not exist. Importantly, the U.S. currently faces a decision: to rely […]

One-Party-Rule Maryland Democrats Ignore Power Bill Crisis, Push Ahead With Slavery Reparations Study Instead of addressing the state’s mounting crises, from fiscal mess, soaring power bills, and exodus of residents to violent crime and illegal aliens, unhinged Democrats in Annapolis spent their time on Tuesday overriding Gov. Wes Moore’s veto of Senate Bill 587, creating a reparations commission to study how Maryland should […]

67% Of Canadians Say Cost Of Living In Their Region Is Worst They’ve Seen Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly seven in every 10 Canadians are identifying the cost of living in their area as a major issue, according to a newly released survey. A person pushes a shopping cart through the produce section of a grocery store in Toronto, on Nov. 22, 2022. Carlos Osorio/Reuters An Abacus Data poll found […]

Conrad Black: China’s Expanding Influence Rekindles US Engagement In Latin America Authored by Conrad Black via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Venezuela has followed a sharply sloping descent from being the most prosperous country in Latin America 50 years ago, based on its ample oil resources, to a catastrophic condition today. With the election of Marxist Hugo Chavez in 1999, and the succession of Nicolas Maduro as president in […]

Trump Expands Travel Ban To Block Palestinians, Others From Entering The US President Donald Trump has once again expanded the U.S. travel ban, adding seven new countries and, for the first time, holders of Palestinian Authority passports to a growing list of nations whose citizens are barred from entering the United States. The move brings the number of countries facing travel restrictions to nearly 40, as the administration […]

Executives At Bankrupt Subprime Auto Lender Tricolor Charged With Fraud Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, The former CEO and chief operating officer of subprime auto dealer and financier Tricolor Holdings were formally charged on Dec. 16 with bank and wire fraud for their alleged roles in what officials say was a years-long scheme to defraud banks and private credit lenders of hundreds of millions of dollars. Tricolor […]

AI Won’t End Marketing, It Will Elevate It To Its Full Potential Authored by Mark Penn via RealClearMarkets, For decades, marketers have been chasing the holy grail of marketing – the perfect ability to get the right ad to the right person at the right time in an effortless fashion. Before AI, this was never really possible. We moved from radio advertising to linear TV to digital, each  time getting closer to the holy grail but […]

Uniformed Armed Guards Spotted On Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Vessels Off Europe Russia is upping the ante at a moment the US and some European countries are threatening action and new sanctions on vessels transporting Russian oil and gas to global markets, in defiance of Western sanctions. Sweden’s navy announced Wednesday it has spotted armed personnel in uniform providing security for vessels linked to Russia’s so-called “shadow […]

Vance Fires Back At Media Smear: “I Only Believe In The Conspiracy Theories That Are True” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a brazen attempt by legacy media to sow discord within the Trump administration, Vanity Fair dropped a so-called “exclusive” interview with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, cherry-picking her words to paint Vice President JD Vance as some wild-eyed “conspiracy theorist.” But Vance […]

Where Did Global Warming Go? US East Sees Snowiest Start In Nearly Two Decades The so-called “climate crisis” narrative was built on a house of cards and has been unraveling ever since Bill Gates acknowledged the risks were overstated, and a major study long used to project climate catastrophe was recently retracted. In reality, the narrative became a vehicle for globalist Democrats to raid the U.S. Treasury and push de-growth […]