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. […]

The Forgotten Man Authored by Be Water, The 2008 Crisis Never Ended Do you wish to know [when] that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that [commerce is conducted], not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in […]

Surrounding Cities Move In As Seattle Pulls Back On Drug Enforcement A policy shift inside the Seattle Police Department is already generating unintended consequences — and they’re not the ones city leaders were hoping for, Jason Rantz of Seattle 770AM said in a new op-ed this week. After Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes told officers that most drug possession and use cases will once again be diverted away from prosecution and […]

Genes Are Not Your Destiny. How To Modify Your Epigenetics For Longevity Authored by Makai Allbert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We’ve been told that our genetic destiny is written in our DNA. However, research is gradually dismantling this fatalistic view. Artur Plawgo/Getty Images Genetics may influence approximately 25 percent to 30 percent of how we age. The remaining portion is influenced by factors entirely within […]

Did Anyone Even Notice PBS News Weekend Signed Off Permanently… “PBS News Weekend” signed off permanently on Sunday after 12 years on air. Did anyone actually notice? The answer, quite frankly, is no, and this comes after Congress cut $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting over the Trump administration’s view that the public broadcasting outlet was spewing left-wing propaganda. “Due to federal budget cuts, PBS […]

Waste Of The Day: Questions Arise Over $5.8 Billion In Rental Assistance Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: The federal government is unable to verify that $5.8 billion in rental assistance paid to more than 204,000 recipients in 2024 was not fraudulent, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s latest annual report. Key facts: HUD spent $15.2 billion on project-based rental […]

Reaching 120 & Beyond: Musk Makes Stunning Longevity Claim Elon Musk says “semi-immortality is an extremely solvable problem,” and that in hindsight, the solution will seem obvious. As The Vigilant Fox reports, reaching 120 and beyond, Musk believes, is simply a matter of “changing the program.” “When you consider the fact that your body is extremely synchronized in its age, the clock must be incredibly obvious. […]

Egyptian Army Holds Billions In Secret Cash As Country Misses Debt Deadline Via Middle East Eye Egypt’s armed forces in December rejected government pleas to help ease the debt crisis despite holding more than Egypt’s total foreign debt in secret reserves, senior banking and government officials told Middle East Eye. The claims underscore mounting concerns over the opaque role of Egypt’s military in the economy at a moment of […]

Newsom Scrambles To Keep Billionaires In California, Vows To Kill Wealth Tax After a swath of billionaires publicly announced they are leaving the state of California over a proposed wealth tax, Governor Gavin Newsom went into a full blown panic – vowing to stop the proposed tax and “do what I have to do to protect the state.”  In an interview with the NY Times, Newsom said that he has been working ‘relentlessly’ behind […]

Tether’s Role In Venezuela, Iran Highlights The Duality Of Stablecoins Authored by Brian Quarmby via CoinTelegraph.com, Recent turmoil in Venezuela and Iran has again put the spotlight on the duality of stablecoins, with the US dollar-backed assets such as Tether acting as both a savior for embattled citizens and a tool for blacklisted entities to evade sanctions.  Both Venezuela and Iran have been catching headlines at the […]

South Korea Seeks Death Penalty For Ex-President Yoon’s Botched Martial Law Attempt South Korea’s special prosecutor has called for the death sentence for former President Yoon Suk-yeol in his rebellion trial, according to Yonhap. Closing arguments have been made in his trial in a Seoul court as he stands accused of being the “ringleader of an insurrection”. Yoon’s botched attempt in December 2024 to impose martial law in South […]

Michigan County Clerk Discovers 239 Non-Citizens Selected For Jury Duty Over 4-Month Period, With 14 Registered To Vote Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Macomb County Clerk Anthony G. Forlini announced Monday that noncitizens have been appearing in the Michigan county’s jury pool “at an alarming rate” and many of them are registered to vote. The data indicates that many noncitizens have potentially sat on […]

Google’s Vietnam Bet Highlights New Era In Electronics Manufacturing Google is preparing to start building its most advanced Pixel phones in Vietnam this year, according to Nikkei Asia, a move that reflects the broader effort by U.S. tech firms to reduce their reliance on China. Apple is pursuing a similar strategy in India as both companies work toward more geographically balanced supply chains. Sources say Google will handle the […]

Schools Increasingly Consider Rewarding Teachers For Results, Not Seniority Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In several states and hundreds of local school districts, traditional teacher salary structures based on years of service are being replaced by merit and pay-for-performance models. An instructor teaches a Spanish lesson at Franklin High School in Los Angeles on May 25, 2017. Robyn Beck/AFP via […]

Fentanyl Deaths Fall As Evidence Points To China Crackdown Trump Long Advocated A sharp decline in U.S. overdose deaths appears increasingly tied to a disruption in the global fentanyl supply chain – an outcome that new research suggests may stem in part from intensified pressure on Chinese chemical suppliers. The findings, published Thursday in Science, enter a long-running debate over what finally reversed a drug crisis that […]