Loeffler: SBA Suspends Over 100,000 California Borrowers In Pandemic-Loan Fraud Sweep The U.S. Small Business Administration said Friday it has suspended more than 100,000 California borrowers amid suspected fraud tied to pandemic-era relief programs, a move the agency said represents one of the largest enforcement actions since Covid-19 aid was rolled out. Kelly Loeffler, administrator of the Small Business Administration, during a […]

What’s The Likelihood Of A Global Nuclear Arms Race? Authored by Andrew Korybko, Russia and China are expected to reciprocally respond to the US’ potential development of new nukes and/or new nuke tests after it just let the New START lapse, which could be exploited by European and East Asian countries to develop their own nukes, thus emboldening some Muslim ones to follow suit. RT reported on German politician Sahra […]

The Idiocracy That Is California Politics Authored by William Andersen via The Mises Institute, After having lived in California the past four years, I can attest to the near-insanity of progressive politics in this state, yet California’s very progressive governor, Gavin Newsom, is considered a front-runner for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2028. Given how the Trump administration has helped to tank the […]

Trump Lifts Biden-Era Restrictions On Commercial Fishing In Atlantic Marine Monument Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump revoked a prohibition on commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on Friday, restoring rules that allow regulated harvesting in the protected Atlantic waters while citing existing federal laws as adequate safeguards for […]

America’s Record Health Spending Explained In 5 Charts Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, U.S. health care spending reached $5.3 trillion in 2024, according to recently released data from the Department of Health and Human Services. That includes all health spending through federal and state health programs like Medicare and Medicaid, money paid by individuals to health insurers and providers, spending by […]

ICE Urges Newsom Not To Release 33,179 Criminal Illegal Immigrants Into Communities Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have requested the state of California and Gov. Gavin Newsom not to release over 33,000 criminal illegal immigrants with ICE detainers back into the streets, ICE said in a Feb. 6 statement. ICE detainers […]

Gambling Stocks Slide Ahead Of Super Bowl As Prediction Markets Shine The rise of prediction markets ahead of Super Bowl weekend has become a major overhang for legacy sportsbooks, prompting investors to de-risk their equity positions and sending shares of Flutter Entertainment (owner of FanDuel) and rival DraftKings sharply lower year to date. Today’s matchup between Seattle and New England at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara is […]

Molotov Cocktails, Volatility, Stability, And Faux Liquidity By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Markets have experienced high levels of volatility over the past few weeks. From silver, to software stocks, to cryptocurrency, we have seen violent price swings on almost a daily basis. We have political risks, geopolitical risks, as well as the implications of a rapidly evolving technological shift. We touched on Non-Standard […]

Trump Admin Refuses To Comply With Immigration Court Order The Trump administration has drawn a line in the sand. It will not comply with a federal court order demanding due process for 252 Venezuelan migrants deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador last March under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. The Justice Department made that position clear in a new filing, setting up a collision course with U.S. District Judge […]

NIH Allocates $10 Million For Research In East Palestine Three Years After Toxic Train Crash Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Three years have passed since a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, an eastern Ohio village near the Pennsylvania border. A neighborhood near the train wreck where vinyl chloride from derailed tank cars was vented and burnt […]

Raskin: Voter ID Law Violates The 19th Amendment In Denying The Vote To Women Authored by Jonathan Turley, With polling showing over 80 percent of Americans in favor of voter ID laws, it is hard to come up with reasons why you need an ID to board a plane but not vote in a federal election. That was particularly glaring this week when Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) required people to show an ID to attend his campaign events after opposing […]

At Least 112 USAF C-17 Aircraft Headed To Middle East: ‘Desert Storm Levels’ An eye-opening and massive number of C-17 Globemaster military transport and cargo planes have been observed heading to Europe and the Middle East, in what some monitors have forewarned looks like the build-up to major war in Iran. One regional watcher and pundit commented in response: “112 C-17s are in or on their way to the Middle East. Guys, that’s […]

David Sacks Exposes New York Times For Shielding Reid Hoffman In Epstein Files Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Venture capitalist David Sacks has slammed The New York Times for its glaring failure to scrutinize Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder emerging as the top Silicon Valley figure in the explosive Jeffrey Epstein files. In a scathing segment on the All-In Podcast, Sacks highlighted how the establishment […]

If You’re Free To Complain About Fascism, You Don’t Live In A Fascist Country Authored by Jenna McCarthy via Jenna’s Side, Many, many years ago—we’re talking decades—I got into a fight with a boy I’d been dating for (thankfully) not very long. I can’t even recall what the argument was about, but I’ll never forget his very last words to me: “God, you’re so stupid.” “There are plenty of insults you could fling […]

Musk: “Time To Go Back To Moon At Scale” A little more than a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that Elon Musk had rejiggered SpaceX’s near-term space roadmap, pivoting from a Mars-first to now prioritizing the Moon, Musk has now effectively confirmed the reporting. “Time to go back to the Moon at scale,” Musk wrote on X early Sunday morning. Time to go back to the Moon at scale https://t.co/rFjaenmQZd — Elon Musk […]

Nearly 2,000 Truckers Deemed Unfit Are Removed From American Roads Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Almost 2,000 truckers deemed to be unqualified to drive on U.S. roads have been removed, with several arrested and many vehicles put out of service, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said in a Feb. 6 statement. Trucks line up next to the border wall before crossing to the United States at Otay […]

San Fran’s Tenderloin District Stores Double As “Secret Casinos” And “Sleazy Drug Dens” San Francisco officials say they have shut down or taken legal action against nine convenience stores in the Tenderloin after uncovering illegal gambling rooms, drug operations, and fencing schemes, according to the NY Post. City Attorney David Chiu said the shops had become centers of “drug-driven lawlessness” and helped sell stolen goods to […]

Pentagon To Cut Academic Ties With Harvard, Hegseth Says Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Feb. 6 that the Pentagon will cut all academic ties with Harvard University as the institution “no longer meets the needs of the War Department or the military services.” Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on July 4, 2025. Learner Liu/The Epoch Times Hegseth said the […]

Russia Accused Of Intercepting, Shadowing European Satellites For Signals Intelligence Russian spacecraft have reportedly been intercepting the communications of at least a dozen high-value European satellites, according to EU security officials, in the latest Ukraine-related ‘scare’ by Moscow. However, any information gleaned would be from communications that the satellite operators failed to encrypt.  Officials told the […]

Foreign Meddling? Brussels-Funded German NGO Sues X For Access To Data On Hungary’s Upcoming Election Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A German non-governmental organization that receives substantial funding from the European Union, as well as the German and Dutch governments, has filed a lawsuit seeking access to social media platform X’s data related to Hungary’s upcoming parliamentary elections. Berlin-based […]

Humanoid Robots Get “Brains” As Dual-Use Fears Mount Chinese humanoid robotics firms are laser-focused on advancing “robot brains” for next-gen platforms already entering series production and headed to factory floors this year. Once these intelligent models push beyond scripted video stunts – we’ve all seen in promotional videos – into real-world autonomy, the systems become battlefield-ready, dual-use robots. The Shanghai […]

China Takes Step Towards ‘Starlink Killer’, Could Be Game-Changer In Ukraine Via Remix News, A new, compact, high-power microwave weapon, the TPG1000Cs, has been developed at a Shanghai Nuclear Technology Institute, which could become one of the most serious threats to the Starlink satellite network. The device can deliver 20 gigawatts of energy for up to a full minute, the South China Morning Post reported, cited by Portfolio. […]

Will Falling Birth Rates Mean A More Conservative World? Authored by Michael Barone via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago—the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an upward blip in birth […]

Trump Imposes Secondary Tariffs, Reaching 25%, On Countries Still Importing From Iran US and Iranian delegations conducted eight-hours of indirect negotiations mediated by the Omani government in Muscat on Friday, but it was merely minutes after the close of the talks that the US Department of State announced yet more sanctions on Iran. The punitive measures target 15 entities, two individuals and 14 vessels, charging them of being […]

Thousands Of Iraqis Volunteer To Defend Iran Against US Attack Via Middle East Eye Thousands of Iraqis have signed a pledge to help defend Iran in the event of a US attack on the Islamic Republic. According to a statement, almost 5,000 people in Iraq’s Diyala province gathered to declare their intent to defend both Iraq and its eastern neighbor, as well as Iran-backed armed groups, “without any compensation”. “We announce […]