France Records First Peacetime Natural Population Decline As Deaths Exceed Births Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, France recorded a negative natural population balance in 2025 for the first time since the end of the Second World War, according to the national statistics institute INSEE, as the number of deaths exceeded the number of births over the year. INSEE estimates that 645,000 babies were born in France in 2025, […]

Denmark Vows ‘More Permanent’ Military Presence On Greenland In Face Of Trump Takeover Threats Update(1145ET): The Greenland and Denmark delegations are at the White House where they are meeting with Vice President J.D. Vance. Denmark’s defense minister is seeking to convince the Trump administration that a more robust joint NATO presence on the resource-rich, large island of Greenland is all that’s needed – and not a full US […]

Ford Worker Suspended For Heckling Trump Raises Over $300K On GoFundMe Update (1145ET): The suspended employee, TJ Sabula, has raised over $300,000 via GoFundMe since the incident. The Ford Factory Worker who was let go after humiliated Trump_ is a Hero. My Donation to him $500.00#FuckTrump pic.twitter.com/1DpSRpNzH1 — Rydercc64 #Don’tFollowLead 🪶🪖💪🏽👊🏼🍀 (@rydercc64) January 14, 2026 *  *  * After […]

How Greenland Became The Most Dangerous Real Estate on Earth By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com The United States will officially begin negotiations to dismantle the Western world’s operating system in just about 30 minutes or so…and oil prices are up just over 1% in anticipation.  The meeting, which will take place at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, will include Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco […]

Justices Ask For Definition Of Sex During Supreme Court Arguments On Transgender Students In Girls Sports Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times, Three justices of the Supreme Court of the United States on Jan. 13 pressed advocates in two cases regarding transgender student participation in sports to define “sex” for the purposes of constitutional law. “What is that definition, for equal protection purposes? What does […]

Crude Stocks Rise Most In Two Months As US Oil Production Finally Drops While oil prices keep rising on mounting geopolitical tensions in Iran, the production glut refuses to go away, and as today’s DOE report showed, there was a material increase across almost all products, with the exception of Distillates which were flat. Of note, amid expectations for a modest crude draw, we saw a 3.4MM barrel increase, the largest since the […]

Are Central Bankers Willing To Truly Upset Markets So Trump Backs Off? By Michael Every of Rabobank Officially it’s 2,000, but reportedly as many as 12,000 Iranian protestors could have been killed by their own government over the past few days. While the West has seen none of the mass protests that the last two-plus years have been full of, President Trump told those on Iran’s streets to keep going and that “Help is […]

FBI Raids WaPo Reporter’s Home In Classified Docs Case The FBI executed a search warrant on the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson as part of a probe into “a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials,” the paper announced Wednesday.  Natanson, was at her Virginia home when the agency showed up with a warrant. According to the outlet, “law enforcement was investigating […]

“Defining Moment”: Saks Global Files For Bankruptcy After Botched Neiman Marcus Takeover Luxury department store conglomerate Saks Global filed for bankruptcy protection late Tuesday night, in one of the largest US retail collapses since the Covid era and, among other things, what appears to be a casualty of the menacing K-shaped economy. Saks Global has been weighed down by heavy debt following its $2.7 billion, debt-fuelled […]

How Independent Is The Federal Reserve? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into cost overruns in the Federal Reserve’s renovation project, with particular focus on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and his testimony to Congress in June 2025. The question is whether he perjured himself concerning what he knew and when. Powell responded with a highly unusual video […]

Trump To Speak At Globalist WEF Forum Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump is set to crash the World Economic Forum in Davos, bringing his America First agenda straight into the heart of the globalist elite’s annual gathering. As the multilateralism devotees scramble to maintain their facade of openness Trump’s presence signals a direct challenge to their open borders and free trade obsessions that have […]

US Producer Prices Come In Hot On Heels Of Mysterious Energy Cost Surge US wholesale inflation picked up slightly in November from a month earlier on a jump in energy costs, even as prices for services were unchanged. The producer price index rose 0.2% after climbing 0.1% in the prior month, according to much-heralded BLS. Source: Bloomberg PPI Final demand goods: The index for final demand goods advanced 0.9 percent in […]

US Retail Sales Shrug Off ‘K-Shaped’ Economy With Upside Surprise In November Having noted yesterday that holiday retail spending (December) was up significantly (via the NRF), today we get the official (US Census Bureau) look at Retail Sales from November… so don’t get too excited. But, amid the growing specter of the ‘k-shaped’ economy, expectations were for a sizable 0.5% MoM jump in retail sales (after October’s 0.0% […]

Bank of America Slides Despite Top, Bottom Line Beat As Underwriting, FICC Miss After some rather soggy earnings from JPM yesterday, in which the largest US bank disappointed with declining underwriting fees, and spooked markets with a jump in loan loss reserves on its Apple credit card deal as well as downbeat commentary from Jamie Dimon on what a credit card cap would mean for the bank, moments ago Bank of America reported Q4 […]

DOGE Cancels Or ‘Descopes’ Contracts Worth $1.5 Billion Over A 5-Day Period The demise of DOGE has been greatly exaggerated.  The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website is displayed on a phone, in this photo illustration. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times Over the weekend, the Department of Government Efficiency announced that agencies have terminated and descoped ’42 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.5B […]

US Military Opens New Air Defense Coordination Cell In Qatar Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), on Jan. 13, announced the launch of a new air defense coordination cell in Qatar. A U.S. soldier assigned to the 1-62 Delta Battery Air Defense Artillery Regiment Patriot at a Patriot launcher at at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, on March 4, 2015. Tech. Sgt. James Hodgman/U.S. Air […]

“Rude Awakening” For Travelers: Cancun Drowns In Seaweed Cancun’s busiest travel period is underway (late Dec.-March), and travelers expecting crystal-clear Caribbean waters have been shocked over the past week as seaweed piled up to shin-high levels in some of the prime hotel and resort areas. “Travelers who booked a January 2026 trip to the Riviera Maya expecting guaranteed crystal-clear water were hit with a rude awakening […]

Clintons Refuse To Testify About Jeffrey Epstein; Comer To Begin Contempt Proceedings President Trump isn’t the only one clamming up over Jeffrey Epstein – as Bill and Hillary Clinton are both refusing to testify in front of Congressional investigators over their relationship with the dead sex-trafficking pedophile, escalating a monthslong battle with House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY).  The Clintons […]

Watch: US Vows To Unleash Full Arsenal Of Tools Against UK PM Starmer’s War On Free Speech Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, As Keir Starmer’s Labour regime tightens the noose on online freedom, the United States has issued a blistering warning: nothing is off the table to defend free speech in Britain. With government appointed regulator Ofcom now formally investigating Elon Musk’s X over Grok-generated images, […]

Where Going To The Gym Is Most (Un)Popular Exercising more is again one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions in the United States. Yet where data shows that January tends to see a higher number of gym sign ups than other months, it also reveals that the goal falls by the wayside for many not long after. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to Statista data, only 15 percent of U.S. adults had paid for a gym […]

Ukraine Blocks Polymarket, Classifies Prediction Markets As Gambling Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Ukraine has blocked access to the prediction market platform Polymarket, classifying its activities as unlicensed gambling under national law. The decision was issued by the National Commission for the Regulation of Electronic Communications (NCEC) on Dec. 10, 2025, under Resolution No. 695. The ruling […]

“Spy Center”: China Plans Secret Room Near Sensitive Cables In London Mega Embassy Chinese officials plan to construct a concealed underground chamber adjacent to some of Britain’s most sensitive communications infrastructure as part of their proposed new “super embassy” in London, according to planning documents reviewed by The Telegraph. Illustration via The Telegraph The chamber forms part of an extensive subterranean complex […]

West Africa Under Jihadist Threat: Sahel States Surrendering Sovereignty To Islamic Terrorist Groups Authored by Lawrence Franklin vi The Gatestone Institute, Al-Qaeda’s branch in Africa’s Sahel region has been laying siege to Mali’s capital city, as well as other areas of the country. The Algerian-based Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its affiliated Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (Support Group for Islam and […]

Venezuela Begins Gradual Release Of Imprisoned Americans Post-Maduro After US forces on January 3rd helicoptered into Caracas as Navy warships and aircraft bombed Venezuelan territory, and seemingly effortlessly nabbed President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, one wonders what took so long? “The Venezuela government has started releasing prisoners with US citizenship, people with knowledge of the situation said,” Bloomberg reports […]

In 2025, Germany Saw Bankruptcies Hit 20-Year High Via Remix News, The latest economic figures for Berlin are dramatic, revealing that 2025 saw more companies file for bankruptcy than at any point in the last two decades, all despite a promised economic turnaround from the Christian Democrat (CDU) government. The wave of insolvencies grew significantly toward the end of the year, affecting the lives of thousands of employees. […]