2026 Brings Big Changes To Charitable-Deduction Rules Now that we’re into 2026, many provisions of last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) are coming to life. One set of tweaks brings major changes to the tax treatment of charitable contributions, getting non-itemizers back into the tax-saving game but curtailing tax benefits for itemizers and higher-income filers.  Ever since standard deductions were nearly doubled in […]

US Launches Revamp Of FAA To Improve Safety, Modernize Airspace Operations Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration on Jan. 26 unveiled what it described as the largest overhaul of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the agency’s history to enhance safety and support modernization efforts. The overhaul includes launching an airspace modernization office to oversee the installation of a […]

Multiple Polls Show Majority Of Americans Want All Illegals Deported For months the political left and a small cadre of centrists (and some libertarians) have been denying reality on immigration and border controls.   They claim (as if they are mind readers) that when Donald Trump ran his 2024 election campaign on mass deportations of illegals, voters actually thought he would only deport “violent criminal” illegal aliens, or […]

DOJ Announces 31 New Indictments in Alleged Tren de Aragua ATM ‘Jackpotting’ Scheme Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Jan. 26 said that a grand jury had returned an additional indictment against 31 people allegedly involved in a scheme to steal millions of dollars from ATMs through the use of malware. “This indictment alleges 32 counts including conspiracy to commit bank fraud, […]

Tesla Surges After Reporting $2BN Investment In xAI, Stronger Than Expected Profit Going into Tesla earnings, we wrote in our preview that Morgan Stanley saw a “particularly wide dispersion in financial KPIs into the 4Q print and for 2026.” The bank said that the stock reaction will depend on the incrementality of updates around scaling robotaxi/Cybercab, launching Unsupervised FSD, Optimus Gen 3, and AI5 on the earnings call. It […]

Mamdani Pressures Hochul To Jack Up Taxes On Rich Amid NYC Budget Woes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has lots of ideas – virtually all of which require extracting more money from taxpayers, as socialists tend to do.  To accomplish this, he’s gonna need some help – and has been leaning on Gov. Kathy Hochul to hike taxes on the state’s richest residents and corporations in the hopes of raising billions more to send to the […]

“How Silly It Would Be”: Columbia Student Explains Why She Did Not Report Her Own Gang-Rape To Protect Attackers Authored by Jonathan Turley, Columbia PhD candidate, Anna Krauthamer, has caused a stir over her column in the far-left Nation on “Why I Didn’t Report My Rape.” The reason? Krauthamer is a prison abolitionist and wanted to protect her rapists, saying it would be “silly and strange” for her to subject these […]

Russian Crew Of Seized Tanker Finally Freed By US, On Their Way Home: Kremlin Washington has quietly released two Russian sailors detained earlier this month by the US Navy’s enforcement arm of Venezuela sanctions, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Wednesday. “Two Russian sailors have been released and are on their way home to Russia,” she announced. The men were part of the crew aboard the […]

Meta Stock Jumps Despite Soaring Capex, Expense Forecast As we wrote in our Mag 7 earnings preview, investor sentiment has soured considerably on META since the Q3 25 print when it became abundantly clear that Zuckerberg’s foot remains firmly pressed down on the OpEx/capex accelerator. To date, investors have seen little tangible evidence that the Meta Superintelligence Lab is capable of producing a leading edge model, and as […]

Rubio Says We Must “Preemptively Prevent” Iran From Attacking US Forces Already In Region Update(1629ET): One Mideast regional analyst has pointed to a significant contradiction in the current White House stance and rhetoric on Iran, amid the military threats and build-up, and suggests this time the warnings of US action are much more serious: If you read Trump’s latest post on Iran carefully, you will understand what America’s […]

Deranged Nurse Fired After Urging Poisoning & Paralyzing Of ICE Agents Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A nurse at Virginia Commonwealth University Health has been terminated after posting a series of videos urging sabotage against ICE agents, including injecting them with paralytic drugs and poisoning their food and drinks. Yes, really. The unhinged suggestions highlight the escalating threats faced by law […]

Microsoft Tumbles After Cloud Growth Slows, CapEx Soars With all eyes firmly focused on CapEx numbers to keep the AI-expansion narrative alive, Microsoft beat expectations on top- and bottom-line, and operating income, but a bigger than expected CapEx. “We are only at the beginning phases of AI diffusion and already Microsoft has built an AI business that is larger than some of our biggest franchises,” said Satya Nadella, […]

Amazon Exits Experimental Grocery Stores, Will Focus On Whole Foods, ‘Supercenters’ Amazon is shutting down its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh grocery stores, marking a significant retrenchment from its most ambitious efforts to reinvent brick-and-mortar food retail. The move reflects the company’s conclusion that, despite years of experimentation, it has not yet found a physical grocery model that can scale profitably under the […]

Tesla Earnings Preview: Robotaxis, Optimus, Energy All In Focus Heading Into 2026 Tesla is set to report its fourth-quarter earnings after the market closes today, and while the headline numbers will matter, most investors are far more focused on what Elon Musk says about the company’s future. The earnings call that follows the report is expected to center on artificial intelligence, self-driving technology, robotaxis, and […]

Despite Two Dovish Dissents, Fed Holds Rates As Expected; Upgrades Growth, Lowers Labor Risks Tl; dr: Despite two dovish dissents, The Fed is likely on an “extended pause” noting strong activity data and signs of stabilization in the labor market.  However, Goldman “expects easing to resume later in the year as a moderation in inflation allows for two further ‘normalization’ cuts to take rates back to levels seen by the […]

Indonesian Stocks Halted For 30 Minutes After Crashing On MSCI “Investability” Concerns Indonesian stocks tumbled after MSCI raised concerns about their investability and warned of a potential downgrade to frontier-market status.  The benchmark Jakarta Composite Index plunged 7.4% on Wednesday, its biggest one-day slide in over nine months; earlier in the day it crashed as much as 8.8%, triggering a 30-minute market halt, after […]

Tether To Become “Gold Central Bank” In Post-Dollar World, CEO Ardoino Says Authored by Danny Park via TheBlock.co, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino told Bloomberg that he expects the company to become one of the largest gold central banks in the world. The company plans to start trading its gold reserves for additional profit. Tether owns around 140 tons of gold, worth around $23 billion, stored in a nuclear bunker in […]

Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell’s First Presser Since Grand Jury Subpoena After the ‘nothing burger’ of a Fed Statement (as expected) – no change in rates (but two dovish dissents) along with an upgrade for growth and optimism for the labor market (while inflation remains ‘elevated’) – the key issue that Chair Powell will likely address at his press conference is how long the Fed will remain on hold. Most economists forecast the Fed […]

Trump Responds To Omar Attack: ‘She Probably Had Herself Sprayed’ Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was assaulted Tuesday evening during a town hall event in North Minneapolis. Video of the incident shows a disheveled man spraying her with apple cider vinegar from a syringe (there was a polymarket for that). The spraying happened as she was calling for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) […]

FBI Raids ‘Ground Zero’ Fulton County Election Office In 2020 Voter Fraud Probe The FBI has raided a Fulton County, Georgia election hub that was ‘ground zero’ for voter fraud concerns in the 2020 election, Fox News reports. Agents could be seen entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, a new facility which opened in 2023 – and was designed to streamline their election process (we’re sure!).  According to […]

Another East Coast Storm Brewing After Widespread Power Outages Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Another winter storm system may hit the East Coast this weekend, just days after a major storm brought widespread power outages due to ice and snow across a broad swath of the eastern United States. A street during a winter storm in New York City on Jan. 25, 2026. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times “Forecasts […]

Man Shot By Border Patrol In Arizona Was Convicted Human Trafficker Who Allegedly Shot First Update (1235ET): Turns out that the man who was shot by border patrol yesterday in Arizona was a convicted human smuggler who fled incarceration, and allegedly fired first at a federal helicopter near the US-Mexico border, according to authorities.  TL;DR Guy is convicted of human smuggling in 2023 Checks out of jail for a counseling […]

Virginia Judge Halts Democratic Plans To Redistrict State Before Midterm Elections Via American Greatness, A Virginia circuit court judge has ruled that state Democratic leaders have violated constitutional procedures in attempting to engage in retaliatory redistricting efforts before the midterm elections. Virginia Democrats had sought to create a constitutional amendment allowing them to redraw congressional district maps in […]

Iran Executes Suspected Israeli Spy In High-Stakes Act Of Defiance After stern warnings from President Trump, Iran has made clear it is not executing any protesters in the wake of the raging demonstrations and deadly unrest across Iranian cities which took place and grabbed world headlines earlier this month. Trump had earlier claimed that Iran was going to execute 800, a figure that Iranian officials immediately rejected and […]

Fearing US Reprisals, Mexico Halts Oil Shipment To Cuba Via The Libertarian Institute Mexico’s state oil company, Pemex, has backed out of a planned oil shipment to Cuba, the country’s president appeared to confirm. The move comes after President Donald Trump insisted that “zero” oil would be sent to the island, and follows reports that Washington plans regime change there by the end of the year. Speaking during her daily press […]