UK Leads European Nations In Hiring Over-50s Over the past two decades, ageing populations, rising retirement ages and higher education levels have contributed to rising employment rates among workers aged 55 and over across OECD countries. Yet many workplaces are still designed around shorter careers, leading many people to leave work earlier than they need or want to. This deepens the demographic pressures facing ageing […]

UK Police Log One-Year-Old Baby As Crime Suspect; Hundreds Of Kids Flagged For Offences Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, A one-year-old baby girl has been officially recorded as a crime suspect by Kent Police after allegedly causing a minor injury to another toddler. This is part of a shocking tally where 683 children under 10 were reported for offences over three years. This isn’t some isolated bureaucratic error. […]

Where Inflation Is Highest In Europe In 2026 Inflation has eased from its recent peaks, but price growth remains stubbornly high across much of Europe. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, ranks 36 European countries by annual inflation rate, using the latest available 2026 data from Eurostat and the UK Parliament. Annual inflation measures how much consumer prices have risen over the previous 12 months, such […]

Norway Wants To Lead A “Viking Bloc” For Containing Russia In Northern Europe Authored by Andrew Korybko, It can simultaneously threaten Russia along the increasingly interconnected Arctic and Baltic fronts. Russian Ambassador to Norway Nikolai Korchunov gave a brief interview to TASS about bilateral relations. He warned that Norway is integrating new NATO members Sweden and Finland into the bloc’s regional plans. More […]

The Pentagon’s Next Critical Minerals Source Is Already In Its Own Warehouses Authored by Matt Bedingfield via RealClearDefenseolitics, Last week, U.S. Navy destroyers began escorting commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz under Project Freedom, the most aggressive American action in the strait since Iran shut it down in March. The naval blockade of Iranian ports is now in its fifth week. U.S. warships are running […]

BBC Report Portrays Islamic Child Slavery In Afghanistan As Necessary Anti-immigration movements in the US and Europe have been saying it for years:  The Islamic world is barbaric and backwards, built on archaic ideas that are completely antithetical to western values.  Yet, progressive governments and their media allies continue in their attempts to portray these cultures as “the same”, or, as sympathetic.  The historical […]

Washington State Under Federal Investigation For Housing Men In Women’s Prisons Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced May 19 that its agents have launched an investigation into Washington State’s practice of housing male inmates in women’s prisons. Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson speaks during a news conference outside the Northwest ICE Processing Center in […]

1 In 5 Jobs Faces High Risk Of AI Automation As concerns about AI-driven job losses grow, new research sheds light on how artificial intelligence could impact the U.S. labor market in the short term. According to an OpenAI framework analyzing how AI affects different occupations, published last April, nearly half of all jobs (46 percent) are expected to see little immediate change, while around 24 percent are likely to be […]

Could Deep Blue California Elect A Republican Governor? Authored by Brad Jones via The Epoch Times, As tensions mount in the high stakes race for California governor, early results show Republicans have returned more than 905,000 ballots ahead of the June 2 primary election—a massive surge compared with the last governor’s race during the 2022 midterms. Ballots from Republicans made up 37 percent of the early ballot […]

The US Is Still A Decade Away From Breaking China’s Rare Earth Hold The U.S. is still at least a decade away from meaningfully reducing its dependence on China for the most critical rare earth minerals, despite billions of dollars in new investment and political pledges to move faster, according to a new report from Bloomberg. While Washington has pushed to build domestic mining, refining, and manufacturing capacity, analysts […]

New Fed Chair Pledges ‘Regime Change’ To Fight Inflation – Here’s What That Could Mean In Practice Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Newly confirmed Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, pledging new tactics to fight inflation, faces an uphill battle to keep rising prices in check. At left is former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell; at right is newly confirmed Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh. […]

Texas Democrat Wants A Prison Camp for ‘American Zionists’ A San Antonio Democrat running for Congress has proposed turning a federal immigration detention facility into an internment camp for “American Zionists,” and that is only the beginning of what she has been saying out loud. Maureen Galindo, a candidate in Texas’ newly redrawn 35th Congressional District, faces a Democratic primary runoff next week against former Bexar […]

Obamacare Enrollment Expected To Drop By Nearly Five Million As Costs Surge Via American Greatness, Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act marketplace is projected to fall by nearly 5 million people this year as rising premiums and higher deductibles force many Americans to reconsider whether they can still afford health insurance coverage, according to a new analysis from healthcare nonprofit KFF. The report estimates ACA […]

The Water Economics Of Data Centers V. Almond Farms & Golf Courses A recent Gallup poll shows that nearly 70% of Americans oppose the construction of a data center in their communities, highlighting the rise of local resistance movements against hyperscaler buildouts. This resistance is driven by concerns over skyrocketing power bills, the destruction of farmland as it is transformed into industrial-scale AI infrastructure, and […]

Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A three-judge federal appeals panel is expected to issue a decision by year’s end on a lawsuit challenging Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s May 2025 emergency order that prevented a Michigan utility from closing a 64-year-old coal-fired power plant. The R.M. Schahfer Generating Station’s […]

West Virginia Has America’s Highest Gas-Price Burden Americans are still paying elevated prices at the pump in 2026, but the biggest financial burden is falling on states with lower household incomes rather than the highest fuel prices. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows where gasoline is least affordable by comparing the cost of a standard 15-gallon fill-up against median weekly household income across all 50 […]

AI Is Making Business Email Compromise Nearly Impossible To Spot Authored by Adam H. Douglas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Business email compromise (BEC) is a targeted fraud scheme in which criminals impersonate vendors, executives, or accountants to steal money from businesses. AI has made these attacks dramatically harder to detect by generating personalized emails that mirror real writing styles and existing business […]

US, Israel Planned To Install Hardliner Ahmadinejad As Iran’s Leader: Cartoonish NYT Report Says In a revelation that blurs the line between calculated covert strategy and sheer desperation, the deep state’s latest regime change playbook for Iran has officially leaked via the NY Times; however, there are many aspects to the story which defy belief, and so like many Iran-related things being reported lately, should be taken with a […]

Largest US Electric Grid Gets Approval To Curtail Data Centers During Hot Weather By Ethan Howland of Utility Dive Power plant and transmission owners often take their facilities offline in the spring for maintenance so they are prepared for the summer, PJM noted. The largest US electricity grid operator said it expected power plants totaling more than 40 GW would be offline for planned outages on May 18. An Amazon Web Services […]

Soros Fueling Opposition To Texas Data Center Expansion: Report A new investigation has connected Wall Street billionaire and Democrat megadonor George Soros to a national progressive network of activist groups opposing data center expansion in Texas. The Dallas Express reported that Open Society Foundations, founded and funded by Soros, has provided more than $7.6 million to the national Indivisible Project since 2017, including […]

Tense Trump-Netanyahu Call As US Presses Iran To ‘Sign The Document’ – But Israel Wants Military Greenlight Summary Axios: “Trump continues to say he thinks a deal can be reached, but that he’s ready to resume the war if it isn’t.” US Marines board Iranian-flagged tanker in the Gulf of Oman, as it was accused of attempting to violate the US naval blockade. Iran’s parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher […]

Lowe’s CEO Warns Housing Market “Most Difficult” Since Financial Crisis As DIY Project Demand Crumbles Home improvement retailers such as Home Depot and Lowe’s warned this week that consumers remain reluctant to splurge on big-ticket home improvement items, as elevated mortgage rates, high home prices, energy inflation, weakening sentiment, and broader macroeconomic uncertainty weigh on demand. Let’s begin with Home Depot, which on […]

SpaceX Files For Nasdaq IPO Under Symbol SPCX Update (1650ET): As expected, SpaceX filed its S1. The stock is expected to list on Nasdaq and Nasdaq Texas under the ticker “SPCX.” No specific share count, price range, or total offering size is finalized yet (placeholders are used). But, with expectations of a $1.5 trillion market cap, that means SPCX will trade at a 77x LTM Revenue multiple! Mission and Overview SpaceX’s […]

Nvidia Unchanged Despite Big Earnings Beat And Solid Guidance As we discussed extensively in our preview, besides the Q1 revenue and guidance ($82BN+ and $90BN whisper respectively), Wall Street was expecting to get more color on the following topics during today’s call and Q&A: Potential for increased shareholder cash returns, Vera Rubin ramp timing (2H 26E), Gross margin durability (~75% amidst continued memory/other cost […]

A Troubling Trend: Why More Workers Are Tapping 401(k)s Early And How To Resist Authored by Due via The Epoch Times, What’s the main goal of your 401(k)? Well, my dear Watson, it’s to provide for your retirement. Specifically, it’s a long-term investment that benefits from compound interest. But for a record number of Americans, the “long term” is taking a back seat to immediate financial struggles. Early 401(k) […]