“Children Are NOT Experiments”: House-Passes Bill Criminalizing Transgender Treatments For Minors The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would criminalize transgender-related treatments for minors, which includes surgical procedures and puberty blockers.  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) presides over a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 12, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The bill, […]

Police Investigate Leftist Who Harassed Elderly Target Worker Over Charlie Kirk Shirt Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a swift turn toward justice, police have opened an investigation into Michelea Ponce, the leftist agitator caught on video berating an elderly Target employee named Jeanie for daring to wear a Charlie Kirk “FREEDOM” shirt. The harassment, which exploded across social media, highlights the […]

U.S. Freezes Korea Trade Talks After Seoul Ignores Warnings Over Big Tech Shakedown One month after it looked like South Korea was backing off Big Tech with an ongoing shakedown of fines for violating arbitrary laws, the Trump administration just left the chat – canceling a key bilateral trade meeting and signaling that continued regulatory pressure on American technology firms will carry immediate consequences. Seoul now gets […]

Tether CEO Warns AI Bubble Is Bitcoin’s Biggest Risk In 2026 Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, has raised concerns about how a potential AI bubble could affect Bitcoin by 2026. Ardoino shared his outlook on Bitcoin and the broader crypto industry on Thursday during the Bitcoin Capital podcast, co-hosted by Bitfinex Securities and […]

Court Axes Trevor Milton Lawsuit, Awards Attorney’s Fees To CNBC And Hindenburg A New Jersey appellate court on Monday threw out Trevor Milton’s lawsuit against CNBC and short-seller Hindenburg Research, ruling that the case was time-barred and improperly framed. In a unanimous opinion, the Appellate Division held that Milton’s claims—styled as “trade libel”—were, in substance, ordinary defamation claims subject to New […]

Has Orwell’s 1984 Become Reality? Authored by Bert Olivier via The Brownstone Institute, To some readers it may seem like a rhetorical question to ask whether the narrative of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984), first published in Britain in 1949, has somehow left its pages and settled, like an ominous miasma, over the contours of social reality. Yet, closer inspection – which means avoiding […]

First Brown University Shooting, Then MIT Professor Murder, Police Investigate Possible Link Authorities on Thursday continued the search for the killer of a world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor and fusion energy physicist who was shot and killed inside his home near Boston earlier this week – a suspicious attack that occurred just days after the deadly shooting at Brown University. MIT professor and […]

Watch: Presidential ‘Wall Of Fame’ Gets A Savage Upgrade… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump has seemingly taken his trolling to new heights by installing brutal plaques beneath key presidential portraits at the White House, exposing the failures of his leftist predecessors. The inscriptions lay waste to the deep state’s darlings—detailing Obama’s foreign policy debacles, Clinton’s globalist […]

House Kills Bill On Blocking War With Venezuela Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com The House on Wednesday voted down a War Powers Resolution meant to block President Trump from launching a war with Venezuela without congressional authorization, as required by the Constitution. The bill failed in a vote of 211-213, with nine representatives not voting. Just three Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the bill: Reps. […]

Apocalyptic Environmentalism Collides With Data Center Boom, Fuels Sky-High Mid-Atlantic Power Prices A combination of “apocalyptic environmentalism” and an explosion in data center power demand has left power markets in the Mid-Atlantic heavily strained, triggering a surge in power bills that is roiling working-poor families, middle-income households, and mom-and-pop businesses. Democratic kings, operating under one-party rule in […]

Trump Promises New Evidence Showing 2020 Election Fraud Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has in recent interviews repeatedly foreshadowed new revelations about improprieties in the 2020 election. He has suggested the evidence to be both voluminous and clear. “The election was rigged in 2020. We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you’ll see it come out. It’s coming out in truckloads,” […]

“People Begging Me To Do This”: Trump Signs Executive Order Reclassifying Cannabis Update (Thursday Afterhours): Pot stocks (plus MJ ETF) were pumped, then dumped, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order reclassifying marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III.   *   *   *  Update (Thursday Afternoon): Moments ago in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding access to […]

TSMC Targets 2027 Start For Advanced Chip Output In Arizona Taiwan Semiconductor is set to begin moving chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab around summer 2026, positioning the plant to start 3-nanometer production in 2027, Nikkei Asia reports. Sources say the equipment move is expected in the July–September quarter next year, accelerating a project previously slated to come online in 2028 and aligning with Chairman and […]

Federal Judge Won’t Block White House Ballroom Construction Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A federal district judge on Dec. 17 allowed the ongoing ballroom construction project at the White House to continue, turning away a preservation organization’s request to halt it, at least for the time being. The litigation is still underway, and a court hearing is scheduled for January. Construction on the project, […]

US Approves Largest Taiwan Arms Package In History At Over $11BN Just a day ago the US administration communicated to China that it is ready to defend American interests in the Pacific region. Now, it’s being reported that the US has approved $11.1 billion in arms-sales for Taiwan, the single largest ever such announced transfer and clear show of support from Washington. Unveiled late Wednesday, the major arms sales are intended […]

Former Harvard Morgue Manager, Wife Sentenced For Stealing And Selling Body Parts Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling human body parts donated for scientific research, the Department of Justice said. Cedric Lodge, 58, was sentenced on Dec. 16 during a hearing in federal court in Pennsylvania. His wife, […]

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 […]

China’s ‘Manhattan Project’ Builds Secret EUV Chip Machine Long Blocked By The West Chinese scientists have built a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine in a high-security Shenzhen lab, a milestone Washington has long sought to block, according to a new report from Reuters. The machine, completed in early 2025 and now in testing, occupies nearly an entire factory floor and was developed by former ASML engineers […]

Fed Inflation Target Nears As US CPI Tumbles More Than Expected In November ‘A grain of salt’ is how many have described their position on this morning’s government shutdown-delayed release of October and November Consumer Price Inflation data. Headline CPI slowed to 2.7% YoY in November (dramatically below the 3.1% YoY expected) Core CPI fell to 2.6% YoY in November (well below the 3.0% YoY expected) and the lowest since March […]

US Judge Plans To Block Hundreds Of Trump Admin Layoffs Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston stated during a court hearing that she would block the departments of State and Education from moving forward with approximately 250 and 150 layoffs, respectively. The decision comes after a lawsuit filed in October by unions challenging the Trump administration’s plans to shrink the […]

EU Will Look ‘Weak’ If It Doesn’t Confiscate Russian Funds, Zelensky Tells Crunch Summit “We have to find a solution today,” said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “We won’t leave the European Council without a solution for the funding for Ukraine for the next two years.” The 27 leaders of the European Union are gathered in Brussels Thursday, trying to figure out a way forward on raising at least €90 billion to meet […]

Trump Media To Merge With Nuclear Fusion Company TAE In $6 Billion Deal Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump’s media company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), said on Dec. 18 that it has signed a definitive agreement to merge with nuclear fusion firm TAE Technologies in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $6 billion, an ambitious tie-up the companies said was a bid to help “power […]

It’s Crunch Time For Europe Which Decides Whether To Confiscate Russian Assets By Elwin de Groot and Bas van Geffen, strategists at Rabobank Is today crunch-time for the EU? That is the billion dollar question. European leaders are meeting in Brussels for a two‑day European Council summit. Their agenda covers a range of topics, including a ‘strategic debate’ on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework for 2028-2034, EU […]

Bessent Forecasts ‘Substantial’ Tax Refunds, Real Wage Increases Next Year Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Confirming President Trump’s triumphant comments last night, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week that an increase in Americans’ tax refunds would enable the United States to “go back to the kind of economy that we had.” While speaking to Fox Business, Bessent said that “substantial […]

Activist Investor Elliott Builds Billion Dollar Stake In Lululemon Shares of Lululemon are higher in premarket trading after a report that activist investor Elliott Investment Management has built a $1 billion stake in the company and is pushing for a turnaround at the struggling athletic apparel brand. The Wall Street Journal cites sources familiar with Elliott’s move to build a billion-dollar position, making it one of the […]