Trump Wants To Slash Child Care Costs By Getting Government Out Of The Way Child care in America has become a significant financial burden. For many families, it now rivals rent, a mortgage, or student loan payments. Democrats have been framing child care as a key issue for them heading into the midterms. “Child care continues to get more expensive,” said Jaelin O’Halloran, a DNC spokesperson. “While Trump and Republicans have […]

American Bankers Attempt Last Ditch Effort To Kill Crypto Market Structure Bill Regarding Stablecoins American Bankers Association (ABA) CEO Rob Nichols sent an emergency Sunday letter to every bank CEO in the country, urging “immediate engagement” against what he called a stablecoin yield loophole in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, days before a Senate Banking Committee markup scheduled for Thursday. The letter, dated […]

Target Hospitality Jumps As Data Center Boom Fuels Demand For Worker Camps Target Hospitality shares jumped in premarket trading after the company announced a new contract to provide mobile housing solutions and related hospitality services for workers at data center construction projects. The 48-month contract could generate upward of $750 million in revenue for Target Hospitality, which builds, owns, leases, and operates large […]

Trump Reportedly Mulls Renewed Military Action As Ceasefire With Iran “On Life Support” Summary US President blasts ‘piece of garbage’ Iran response, says ceasefire on ‘life support’, reportedly mulls renewed military action. Trump mulls restarting Project Freedom in Hormuz and says forcibly retrieving ‘nuclear dust’ is still on the table, oil jumps on headline. Iran Foreign Ministry: “Everything we proposed in the […]

Zelensky Touts That 20 Countries Seek Ukraine Drone Deals Ukraine is emerging as a global drone export powerhouse, coming fresh off vast experience gained in over four years of war with Russia – or at least that’s the image Kiev is seeking to present to the world. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that nearly 20 countries are pursuing drone agreements with Ukraine, with four deals already finalized. via Reuters […]

Tyson Sinks, Walmart Falls After Trump Moves To Temporarily Lower Beef Import Tariffs Tyson Foods and Walmart shares moved lower around noon in New York, while major Brazilian meatpacker Minerva Foods moved higher on a Wall Street Journal report that says the White House will temporarily cut beef import tariffs According to the WSJ report, the plan would suspend the annual tariff-rate quota, which imposes higher duties once import […]

Judge Who Oversaw Utah Gerrymander Resigns For Affair With Plaintiff’s Attorney Authored by Ben Sellers via HeadlineUSA, With partisan battle lines being drawn nationwide in a legal showdown over redistricting, Utah may be next in line after the judge who forcibly gerrymandered a congressional seat for Democrats stepped down in disgrace. Diana Hagen, a justice on the Utah Supreme Court resigned Friday in a letter to Gov. Spencer […]

ASP Isotopes Subsidiary Signs MOU With European Nuclear Technology Company For Fuel Supply ASP Isotopes said its subsidiary Quantum Leap Energy LLC has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with an unnamed European nuclear technology company to explore a potential long-term partnership to supply fuel for advanced nuclear reactors, according to a company press release Monday morning.  The agreement focuses on high-assay […]

Parabolic Semiconductor Rally Is Pricing In 2028 Already Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The parabolic semiconductor rally crossed a line this week. SOXX, the iShares Semiconductor ETF, closed Friday at $509.77 after touching a fresh intraday high of $511.68. That’s a gain of roughly 244% from the April 2025 low of $148.31. Most of that move has been compressed into the last two months alone. Since […]

Moderna Extends Rally After Two More Cruise Ship Passengers Test Positive For Hantavirus Moderna shares are up another 7% in premarket trading, as renewed alarm over the hantavirus-plagued MV Hondius cruise ship energizes investor focus on the company’s vaccine pipeline. The latest news catalyst: Two passengers evacuated from the cruise ship on Sunday tested positive, reinforcing concerns that the outbreak remains active. The […]

Energy Secretary Open To Suspending US Gas Tax As Pump-Rage Surges With Americans increasingly incensed over the steadily climbing cost of refueling their vehicles, the US Energy secretary says he’s “open to all ideas” to bring down the price at the pump, to include suspending the federal gas tax.  This is bad, right? pic.twitter.com/Sw3UGcW31q — Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) May 11, 2026 “All measures that can be taken to lower […]

“You Just Can’t Earn A Billion Dollars”: AOC Declares Billionaires To Be A Capitalist Myth Authored by Jonathan Turley, This week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) came up with the best reason to tax billionaires: They do not actually exist. On a podcast, Ocasio-Cortez declared with all the certainty of a freshman in a Smith College political science course that the notion of a self-made billionaire is simply a fantasy, […]

Aramco CEO Says Energy Market May Not Normalize Until 2027 Amid Billion-Barrel Supply Shock From the Trump administration’s recent Project Freedom push to mounting warnings from Wall Street analysts, security experts, energy strategists, and major oil company executives, there is a growing sense that the global energy market is quickly approaching a breaking point due to the heavily disrupted Strait of Hormuz. There was good news […]

US Existing Home Sales Disappoint In April, Despite Lower Mortgage Rates With the Spring selling season already in tatters, existing home sales were expected to rebound in April very modestly (+2.0% MoM) off recent record lows. However, the rebound was far less than expected, up just 0.2% MoM, which left sales of existing homes unchanged YoY… Source: Bloomberg Total existing home sales SAAR hover just above 4.00 million […]

“Friendly Local Assassin” Suspect In White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Pleads Not Guilty In a federal courtroom in Washington this morning, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen entered a not guilty plea to charges stemming from the April 25 shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner. The plea sets the stage for a high-profile trial that could determine whether Allen faces life in prison for […]

Key Events This Week: CPI, PPI, Retail Sales, Trump-Xi Summit As DB’s Jim Reid tallies overnight, it has now been 73 days since the war in Iran began, with the past 32 marked by a stalemate characterized by a mix of truce and ongoing ceasefire. The absence of any meaningful kinetic activity for over a month suggests a firm US preference for reaching a deal. However, a counterpoint is that uncertainty over who holds negotiating […]

Khamenei Orders Iran’s Army To ‘Continue Decisive Operations’ Via The Cradle Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has ordered the country’s forces to continue military operations against the US and Israel, according to a report by Iranian public broadcaster IRIB released Sunday.  The order came during a meeting between Khamenei and Major General Ali Abdollahi, the commander of the Iranian army’s Khatam al-Anbiya […]

‘Starmer Out’ Odds (& Gilt Yields) Rise As Embattled UK PM Vows To ‘Prove Doubters Wrong’ UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed this morning to fight any bid to topple him, insisting he is “not going to walk away” and claiming that the country would never forgive Labour if it indulged in the “chaos” of a leadership contest. “I know that people are frustrated by the state of Britain, frustrated by politics, and some […]

Watch: Fetterman Blasts Democrats For Running On ‘F*ck Trump’; Calls Socialism Moronic Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman has reiterated that he is done with the insanity gripping his party. In a series of raw appearances on Bill Maher’s show and a new Washington Post op-ed, Fetterman is torching the reflexive anti-Trump obsession, the normalization of radical left ideas once […]

Futures Flat, Oil Jumps After Iran Peace Talks Break Down US equity futures are off a touch as the US/IranIran failed to consummate a deal, which is boosting Energy commodities and bond yields. Still, stocks have withstood the resulting increase in oil prices and higher bond yields as the market remains focused on the memory/semi stock bubble. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 futures are down fractionally as Trump and […]

Memory Crunch Sends Nintendo Shares Deeper Into Bear Market Nintendo shares plunged deeper into bear-market territory Monday after the company’s full-year operating income forecast missed Bloomberg Consensus estimates. Traders were spooked on soft Switch 2 hardware and software guidance, and the margin squeeze from surging memory-chip costs continues to weigh on earnings, first pointed out by Goldman in late Decemeber. Nintendo […]

Qatari LNG Tanker Abruptly U-Turns In Hormuz Chokepoint After Weekend Transit Breakthrough Day 72 of the U.S.-Iran conflict opened with yet another failed diplomatic off-ramp. Tehran on Sunday submitted a counterproposal to the Trump administration’s plan to end the war, but President Trump swiftly rejected it as “totally unacceptable,” pushing WTI crude futures roughly 3% higher to $98 a barrel as traders slightly repriced the […]

People Are Seeing More Fireballs; Astronomers Can’t Explain It… Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Just as it faces an annual hurricane season and tornado season, North America is also experiencing an annual “fireball season,” according to NASA. “From February through April, the appearance rate of these very bright meteors can increase by as much as 10 percent to 30 percent, especially around the weeks of the […]

Norovirus Outbreak Sickens 115 People on Caribbean Princess Cruise Ship, CDC Says Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, More than 110 people aboard the Caribbean Princess cruise ship have fallen ill due to a norovirus outbreak, a common cause of gastrointestinal illnesses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Caribbean Princess, owned by Princess Cruises, departed from the port of Fort […]

These Are The World’s Deadliest Countries For Journalists At least 60 media professionals were killed in 2025 due to their journalistic activities, according to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) database. As Statista’s Valentine Fourreau detsils below, by far the deadliest place for journalists was in the Palestinian territories, where 25 deaths were officially recorded last year. Palestine also topped the list in 2024, with 21 […]