Legendary Candy Company Killed After 141 Years By Soaring Costs Soaring expenses for raw materials and labor have delivered a blow to yet another longtime business, claiming Lammes Candies, a family-owned confectioner that has operated in the South for more than a century, FOX 7 Austin reports. The Austin, Texas,-based company recently announced that it will begin an “orderly wind-down of operations” after 141 years of family […]

More “Love Taps”? US Reportedly Struck 4 Iranian Tankers As Qatari LNG Tanker Traverses Strait Summary US reportedly struck 4 Iranian oil tankers attempting to traverse the Strait Qatari LNG Tanker entered the Strait for first time since start of war US continues to await a formal response from Tehran on a proposal aimed at ending the war The odds of a permanent peace deal by the end of May have faded notably (now […]

Iran Publicly Discloses Supreme Leader’s Status For First Time: ‘Marginally Injured’ The Iranian government has for the first time officially weighed in on the health of new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who was injured in the opening strikes of Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, which killed the younger Khamenei’s father and wife. “A government official claimed Khamenei, who hasn’t been seen in public since that attack, […]

5 Highlights From The Pentagon’s UFO Files Authored by Jacob Burg & Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours – the ALFstein files), Apollo 11 astronauts reported seeing a “sizeable” object close to the moon with a “fairly bright light source” that they described as a “possible laser,” in a newly released post-mission crew debriefing from NASA. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command reported a UAP that resembled a […]

Putin Rips NATO Aggression At Scaled-Down Victory Day Parade As Ceasefire Holds By many accounts Russia’s Saturday Victory Day parade and memorial observances in Moscow’s Red Square were once again muted and somewhat scaled down compared to the immense pageantry which marked the pre-Ukraine war years. President Putin used the occasion while speaking in front of thousands of military personnel and flanked by a handful of world […]

De-Extinct Dire Wolves Ready To Breed; Bioscience Company Pushes Forward Multiple Projects Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Colossal Biosciences has announced that its de-extinct dire wolves—Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi—are now breeding-aged and the firm plans to expand the pack later this year. The development marks a significant step for the Texas-based company in its mission to restore extinct species through […]

Frontier Jet Hits Person On Takeoff, Engine Erupts In Flames At Denver A shocking runway security incident unfolded late Friday at Denver International Airport after Frontier Flight 4345, an Airbus A321 bound for Los Angeles, struck an individual during its takeoff roll, forcing the crew to abort. Full transcript of the ATC audio: Frontier 4345 (pilot): Tower, Frontier 4345, we’re stopping on the runway. We just hit somebody and […]

Austrian Hotel Defends Burkini Pool Ban As Hygiene Dispute With Muslim Guests Heads To Court Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A hotel in the Austrian city of Salzburg is defending its refusal to allow two women to use its pool while wearing burkinis, arguing that the decision was based on hygiene concerns rather than discrimination. The case is now before the Salzburg Administrative Court after the operators of the […]

“Doesn’t Look Good”: Explosion Rocks Major New Orleans-Area Refinery As Fuel Markets Tighten A fire broke out Friday afternoon at PBF Energy’s Chalmette refinery outside New Orleans, according to the facility. Reuters cited people familiar with the incident who said the 190,000-barrel-per-day Chalmette refinery suffered an explosion on Friday afternoon. The explosion can be traced to a reformer heater used to convert refining […]

Europe Sees ‘Hyper-Concentration’ Of Crypto ‘Wrench Attacks’ As Losses Hit $101 Million Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, Estimated losses from global crypto wrench attacks reached $101 million in the first four months of 2026, with most attacks occurring in Europe, according to Web3 security company CertiK. With just 34 documented crypto wrench attacks, the losses have nearly doubled those of 2025, which came in […]

Intel Leak: Russia Mulled Giving Iran Un-Jammable Drones To Fight US Forces Russia offered Iran thousands of advanced drones built to bypass electronic jamming systems, along with training for attacks on US troops in the Middle East, according to a confidential intelligence document obtained and reviewed by The Economist. Already the two countries have deepened their defense ties in the context of the years-long Ukraine war, with […]

Germany’s AfD On Verge Of Absolute Majority In Eastern Saxony-Anhalt Just Months Before Election Via Remix News, With just one more point on election day, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is closing in on producing a political earthquake. According to a recent poll by Infratest dimap, the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt is pushing its lead even further, now at 41 percent. The poll also shows that for the CDU, establishing a government is […]

We’re “Ending The Days Of Hiding Fraud”: Bessent Goes After Dark Money In Nonprofits Authored by Stu Cvrk via American Greatness, On April 23, the US Treasury Department announced that the IRS plans to revise Form 990—the annual information return filed by tax-exempt organizations—to improve transparency and strengthen oversight, specifically targeting reporting on government contracts, government grants, and fiscal […]

The Day Civilization Runs Out Of Bread Will Not Feel Like Fiction Authored by Madge Waggy, For nearly three decades, much of the modern world behaved as though the nuclear age had quietly expired sometime in the early 1990s. The collapse of the Soviet Union created the comforting illusion that humanity had stepped away from the edge permanently, as if the terrifying balance that defined the Cold War had dissolved together with old […]

The Rise Of AI Writing And The Decline Of Human Voice Artificial intelligence has become a powerful writing assistant, helping people draft emails, essays, marketing copy, and social media posts in seconds. But as these tools grow more popular, researchers are raising concerns about an unintended consequence: AI may be changing not just what we write, but how we communicate altogether, according to Axios. New research suggests that […]

Gold, Debt And The Inevitable Global Housing Market Crash Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Maybe the most prominent economic discussion circulating today is the fear that the vast majority of people have been priced out of housing markets for the rest of their lives, regardless of the country they live. Gen Z and even Gen Alpha teens are already planning for a future in which buying a home is impossible. Those that are […]

DOE’s NNSA Removes Enriched Uranium From Venezuela And Japan The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has coordinated with Japan and Venezuela to remove enriched uranium from both countries.  The U.S. has secured its largest-ever HALEU fuel shipment, working in partnership with Japan. This significant transfer advances President Trump’s strategy to restore America’s energy dominance and power […]

Global Jet Fuel Exports Hit 10-Year Seasonal Low in April Submitted by Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Global seaborne jet fuel exports crashed to a seasonal low in April as supplies remained trapped in the Middle East and Asian refiners slashed run rates amid lower crude availability, energy flows analytics firm Vortexa said in a report on Friday. Global seaborne exports of jet/kerosene fuels slumped to as low as 1.1 million […]

Is Marco Rubio The New Heir Apparent To Trump? For months, the conventional wisdom inside Republican circles has been settled and simple: JD Vance is next. The vice president has led 2028 Republican presidential nomination polling by a country mile, averaging nearly 45.5 points in the RealClearPolitics aggregate — more than 30 points ahead of Donald Trump Jr. at 14.8% and Marco Rubio at 14%. And yet, something shifted this […]

Is There More Risk Than Reward In The US–China Summit? Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Do the advantages of the U.S.–China summit still outweigh the disadvantages? Perhaps, but the negative risks are high. President Donald Trump (left) and Chinese leader Xi Jinping shake hands before their meeting at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo […]

What The Indiana Primaries Tell Us About Trump’s Grip On The GOP Tuesday night’s primaries in Indiana were not subtle. Five of seven Republican state senators who had blocked a congressional redistricting map favored by President Donald Trump lost their primary races to Trump-backed challengers. The message, delivered cleanly through the ballot box, couldn’t have been clearer. Twenty-one Republicans in the Indiana Senate […]

Nick Shirley Went To Cuba… He Almost Didn’t Make It Home Authored by Sarah Anderson via PJMedia.com, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio often accuse the Cuban regime of rolling out the red carpet for our adversaries. They’re not wrong. It actively welcomes those working against United States interests, and I’m not just talking about China, Russian, and Iran.  If you’ll remember, in March, a group of far-leftist folks from the […]

UCLA Med School Illegally Using Race In Admissions: DOJ A DOJ investigation into the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) found its medial school allegedly used applicants’ race to discriminate against white and asian candidates.  Royce Hall on University of California, Los Angeles, campus is seen in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2024. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File In a seven-page letter released on Wednesday, the […]

Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Rules DOGE’s Terminations Of Humanities Grants Unlawful Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ruled on May 7 that the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE’s) termination of hundreds of humanities grants last year was unconstitutional and involved “blatant” discrimination. In April 2025, the Trump administration axed more than 1,400 grants, amounting to more […]

Thailand Emerges As Possible Hub In Nvidia Chip-Smuggling Channel To Alibaba New details have emerged in the alleged AI chip diversion scheme involving the co-founder of Super Micro Computer. Bloomberg reports that some of the $2.5 billion worth of servers containing advanced AI chips were allegedly routed through a Bangkok-based company before reaching Chinese AI leader Alibaba. The Bloomberg report noted: US prosecutors this […]