Newsom Declares Emergency In Orange County; EPA Head Says Chemical Tank Will “Likely Fail” The head of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) said Sunday that a chemical storage tank in Southern California that has forced officials to declare an emergency and prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands residents is likely to fail. Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the EPA, told CNN’s “State of the Union” […]

Bubble-Wrapped World: How Safety Culture Has Destroyed Our Sense Of Adventure Authored by Murray Lytle via The Epoch Times, Are Canadians less adventurous than they once were? It’s hard to argue otherwise. Alexander Mackenzie was only 24 when the North West Company named him chief fur trader at Fort Chipewyan, in what is now Alberta. A few years later, in 1789 he travelled north along what is now known as the Mackenzie River to […]

Two Billboards In New York Capture The Conflict Of Our Time Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times, Two billboards went up in New York City recently. This is a city of advertising, where images appear when someone wants the whole world to see them. One billboard is selling artificial intelligence, and the other is warning about it. The juxtaposition between these two advertisers, who most likely wouldn’t have seen the […]

“Vindictive”: Obama-Appointed Judge Dismisses Tennessee Smuggling Charges Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Authored by Kim Jarrett via The Center Square, A federal judge dismissed Tennessee charges against a man who, at one time, was at the center of the immigration debate. Abrego Garcia, who illegally entered the U.S. from El Salvador in 2011, faced federal charges of human smuggling and conspiracy to commit human smuggling. […]

Feds Subpoena Hasan Piker, CodePink Cofounder Over “Humanitarian” Trip To Communist Cuba Federal officials have issued “Requests for Information” via Treasury Department subpoenas to Turkish-American millionaire and far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and pro-China CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin as part of a broader probe into whether the activists violated sanctions laws during a “humanitarian” trip to communist-run Cuba, […]

Resident Floats Surefire Way Of Getting Potholes And Trash Cleaned Up In Shithole LA… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Los Angeles residents have had enough of living in a crumbling, graffiti-covered wasteland where basic services have collapsed under years of Democrat mismanagement. In a display of pure ingenuity, citizens are fighting back by tagging over blighted areas with “Vote Pratt,” betting that Mayor Karen […]

Trump Bats Down Critics As Iran Deal Gets Close: ‘Exact Opposite’ Of ‘Amateur’ Obama JCPOA Update(1345ET): Both sides are continuing to be mostly tight-lipped in terms of offering confirmation of what precisely is in the deal, with President Trump having earlier said he’s in no hurry. But this weekend contains some of the most positive momentum towards an actual peace deal and extended ceasefire to date. Per some of the latest from […]

Suicide Bomb Attack On Train In Pakistan Kills At Least 30, Over 100 Wounded A massive suicide car bomb attack blew up and derailed a train transporting security personnel in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. The blast ripped through the train passenger cars, killing at least 30 people and leaving more than 100 others wounded, with the casualty count expected to rise as rescuers dig through the twisted metal. via AFP […]

UAE State Oil Company Head Says Hormuz Bypass Pipeline Nearly 50 Percent Complete Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The head of the UAE’s state oil company said on May 20 that a major new oil pipeline designed to bypass the Strait of Hormuz is nearly 50 percent complete, as regional tensions and competing maritime controls reshape global energy routes. UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced […]

Zombie Home Foreclosure Numbers Increase In 38 US States Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The number of residential zombie foreclosures in the second quarter of 2026 marginally increased from the previous quarter, with such foreclosures rising in the District of Columbia and 38 out of the 50 U.S. states, real estate analytics company ATTOM said in a May 21 statement. Homes in Huntington Beach, […]

Russia Hammers Kiev With Massive Barrage, Likely Including Oreshnik Hypersonic IRBMs Less than two days after President Vladimir Putin vowed revenge for a Ukrainian strike that hit a secondary-school dormitory in the Russian-controlled Luhansk oblast, Russia unleashed a massive, multi-weapon barrage on Kiev early Sunday, one that apparently included the rare use of Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missiles. Private videos show […]

The Replacements: How US Helps Foreign Workers Take American Jobs Authored by Steven Edginton via RealClearInvestigations, Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok. Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employee who is willing to work at a significantly lower wage, has become commonplace, particularly in the tech industry. Adding insult […]

With Commercial Real Estate Still Challenging, Lenders Offload Troubled Loans At A Loss Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), While leasing activity and vacancy trends suggest the U.S. commercial real estate market is stabilizing, office values are still well below post-pandemic peaks, recent reports show. The San Francisco skyline on Jan. 20, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images As owners scramble […]

1 In 4 Cars Sold Globally Is An Electric Vehicle Electric vehicle adoption continues to accelerate worldwide, reaching new milestones in 2025. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiaut details below, according to the IEA Global EV Outlook 2026, published on May 20, global sales of electric cars, including plug-in hybrids, surpassed 21 million units last year, more than doubling since 2022, when annual sales first exceeded 10 million. As the […]

German Taxpayers Bled Dry: Mass Migration Cost €40 Billion In 2025 Via Remix News, Migrants cost German taxpayers — just at the federal level — €24.8 billion in 2025, according to new data in the “refugee costs report” from the German Federal Ministry of Finance. However, the true sum is much higher. The €24.8 billion is strictly the federal bill. The actual, combined national cost of migration for Germany is […]

US Approves “Homing All The Way Killer” Missile Support Sale To Ukraine The US State Department has officially cleared a $108.1 million hardware and sustainment package to keep Ukraine’s frontline air defenses online, after there’s not been much in the way of big dollar headlines concerning Washington’s longtime military support to Kiev of late. The cash injection targets the maintenance and optimization of the US-designed HAWK […]

UK Net Migration Decline Masks True Demographic Replacement As British Exodus Accelerates Via Remix News, The left-wing U.K. government has claimed it is making real progress in tackling the ongoing migration crisis enveloping Britain after official statistics published on Thursday showed that net migration had decreased to 171,000 last year. However, that figure alone doesn’t tell the whole story. “I promised to restore […]

Free Speech Shouldn’t Be Just For The Party In The White House Authored by Charles Sauer via RealClearMarkets, One of the most important Executive Orders signed by President Trump on his first day in office was Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship. As the title suggests, the order forbids any U.S. Government employee from taking any actions that violate the First Amendment rights of any American citizen. The […]

Wyoming Is America’s Deadliest State For Workers Using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld created the following map to show workplace fatality rates across all 50 states in 2024. Wyoming recorded the nation’s highest workplace fatality rate at 13.9 deaths per 100,000 workers, compared with just 1.1 in Rhode Island. Several Southern and Mountain West states also reported […]

Israel Unleashes New Gaza Strikes Soon After Trump Says Iran Peace Deal ‘Largely Negotiated,’ Hormuz To Reopen As Final Terms Discussed Summary Israel launches significant new attacks on the Gaza Strip just as word of a tentative US-Iran peace deal is driving international headlines. Trump says an Iran peace agreement has been “largely negotiated” and will be announced “shortly,” with the reopening of the Strait of […]

Gunman Dead, Bystander Wounded After Large Shootout With Secret Service Near White House, Trump Safe After a very busy day in Washington and at the White House, given the Saturday flurry of diplomatic activity over the announcement of a tentative Iran peace deal, but which is still awaiting word and some details from Tehran, a deadly shooting erupted just outside the White House, resulting in a massive security and response and […]

Dozens Of Nations Scramble For World Bank Financing Amid Iran War Global Shock Via The Cradle Twenty-seven countries have moved to activate emergency World Bank financing mechanisms since the US-Israeli war on Iran began in late February, Reuters reported Friday. Three nations have already received approval for fast-tracked funding, while the other 24 are in the process of completing administrative procedures.  Kenya and Iraq […]

Ferrari Fever Hits Samsung, SK Hynix Workers As AI Memory Boom Mints New Wealth The global memory boom, with Samsung at the epicenter of the production ecosystem, appears to be generating a sudden wealth effect among some employees, with local media reporting that newly enriched chip workers are now panic-buying luxury sports cars.  A short clip from MBC News, the news division of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation and one of South […]

State-Sponsored Suicide Authored by MN Gordon via dollarcollapse.com “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” – Will and Ariel Durant, The Story Of Civilization Enemy Within How does a superpower die? Does it come from the blinding kill shot of a hypersonic missile streaking through the sky? Or, perhaps, a rogue cyberattack that mortally destroys the national power grid? […]

Another Detransitioner Wins A Huge Settlement A woman who underwent a double mastectomy after identifying as “nonbinary” has reportedly secured a confidential $3.5 million settlement after suing the mental health professionals who approved her for the life-altering procedure. Camille Kiefel, 36, alleged in a malpractice lawsuit that two Oregon therapists signed off on the surgery after only brief telemedicine consultations, despite […]