Minnesota Judges Enabling Somali Fraud Epidemic With Slaps On Wrist The Feeding Our Future fraud is the largest pandemic-relief theft in American history – $250 million stolen, mostly by Somali immigrants who fabricated meal counts and pocketed federal child nutrition funds. The prosecutions have dragged on for years. Now that sentences are finally coming down, a troubling pattern is emerging: the punishments don’t seem to fit […]

Expect Electricity Prices To Rise Further, Analysts Warn By Robert Walton of UtilityDive, U.S. electricity prices have risen significantly in recent years, though “national trends mask stark differences” in state prices, according to an April 1 analysis by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and The Brattle Group. Whether you take a “crisis” or “more nuanced view” of the increases – the analysis offers both – one […]

Pentagon Prepares A-10 Warthog Surge As Mideast Fleet Set To Double The Department of War is preparing to double its fleet of Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, better known in the aviation community as “Warthogs,” in the Middle East in the very near term, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The surge of additional Warthogs, as many as 18, on top of the roughly dozen A-10s already operating in the region, has already […]

Watch Live: NASA’s Artemis II Rocket On Way To Moon Watch Live (successful launch at 6:35 p.m. EST): NASA’s Artemis II mission is finally set to launch three Americans and one Canadian atop the Space Launch System rocket on a lunar mission not seen in more than 50 years.  The Artemis II mission is scheduled for launch at 6:24 p.m. EST on Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The fueling process for the Artemis II […]

America’s Half-Trillion-Dollar Sewage Problem Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Beneath city streets and suburban neighborhoods, a vast network of pipes and wastewater treatment systems is reaching the end of its life. This subterranean infrastructure is already suffering tens of thousands of failures per year, while exposing millions of Americans to contamination risks. Utilities, plumbing […]

The Actual Problem With America’s Energy Security Is Starting To Reveal Itself… Constellation Energy’s high-profile effort to revive one of the Three Mile Island reactor plants, now renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center, has run into a four-year-tall roadblock: the grid itself. The company had targeted a restart in the second half of 2027 to deliver roughly 835 megawatts of nuclear power to Microsoft data centers under a […]

John Mearsheimer Asks: Will Trump Go Kamikaze? Authored by John Mearsheimer There is much talk about President Trump preparing to launch a ground attack against Iran. In the media discourse, much is made of the fact we have about 50,000 troops in the region. See for example these three articles. One might think those are all combat troops and we therefore have roughly three combat divisions available to invade Iran. But that is […]

Tankers Seized By US Carried 20 Million Barrels Of Iranian Crude To China Nine tankers seized by the US since it began taking direct action against the so-called shadow fleet that transport illicit oil around the world have delivered more than 20 million barrels of Iranian crude to China since 2013, according to the WSJ. The figures form part of a new report that provides an insight into the level of support China has given Iran by […]

Obama Judge Orders Trump Admin To Restore Legal Status Of 985,000 Migrants Who Used CBP One App Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully pulled the plug on nearly a million asylum-seekers who were temporarily allowed to live in the U.S. thanks to the Biden-era CBP One app. Fox News reports that the app was used by then-President Joe Biden’s administration […]

Johnson Caves To Thune On DHS Funding: Accepts Senate’s Partial Bill That Ditches Voter ID, Leaves ICE Out In The Cold In a clear concession announced April 1, 2026, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) yielded to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and agreed to advance the Senate-passed bill funding most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – explicitly excluding ICE and key CBP enforcement operations – while moving […]

Trump To Declare Iran War Wind-Down As Iranian President Issues Open Letter To Americans Summary Trump to declare Iran war is winding down and others need to resolve Hormuz Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has released an open letter to the American people, questioning whether Washington is truly putting “America First” or merely acting as a “proxy for Israel” willing to fight “to the last American soldier.” […]

US Firm Takes Control Of One Of The “World’s Largest” Cobalt Producers An American company has secured control of one of the largest cobalt producers outside Chinese ownership, delivering a strategic boost to U.S. efforts to compete with Beijing over critical minerals, according to the Wall Street Journal. The buyer, Virtus Minerals, completed its acquisition of Congo-based Chemaf for $30 million, along with a pledge to invest […]

Trump’s Jan. 6 Speech Not Covered By Immunity: Judge Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump’s speech in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, was not an official act and is thus not covered by immunity, a federal judge said in a March 31 decision. President Donald Trump at a rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Jenny Jing/The Epoch Times “President Trump has not shown that the Speech […]

Beyond Cheap Fish Oil: How A 5:1 DHA Ratio Powers Brain Health & Vision Omega-3s are an amazing family of fats that our bodies can’t make efficiently on their own. Long used for general heart and inflammation support, research shows that when formulated with a heavy emphasis on DHA plus targeted eye nutrients, they can support brain structure, cognitive performance, memory, attention, and eye/retinal health.  Most people get […]

Providence Mayor Demands Removal Of Iryna Zarutska Mural; “Does Not Reflect Our Values” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Leftist politicians in Providence, Rhode Island, are erasing the memory of an innocent victim to shield their failed policies on crime and immigration.  The nearly completed mural honoring Iryna Zarutska—the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee brutally murdered on a North Carolina light rail train […]

Amazon’s Cloud Unit In Bahrain “Disrupted” By Iranian Strike Just one day after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened U.S. companies across the Middle East, the Financial Times reported late Tuesday morning that an IRGC strike had damaged Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure in Bahrain.  The FT cited Bahrain’s interior ministry, which said civil defense teams were “extinguishing a fire in a facility of a company […]

More Than Half Of Americans Believe AI Will Do More Harm Than Good: Poll Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, About 55 percent of Americans surveyed in a 2026 Quinnipiac poll said artificial intelligence (AI) will be more harmful than helpful. The survey, released on March 30, was conducted in collaboration with the Quinnipiac University School of Computing & Engineering and the Quinnipiac University School of […]

Beta: A Powerful But Faulty Tool For Managing Risk Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, When investors want to reduce risk, one commonly used tool is beta. For instance, an investor may sell higher-beta stocks and replace them with lower-beta ones to cushion against an expected market decline. Such a strategy is intuitive and widely used; however, it can be greatly flawed. We recently received a question from […]

SpaceX Files Confidentially For IPO, Setting Up Record-Breaking Offering SpaceX has confidentially filed for an IPO, potentially setting up a June listing on U.S. stock exchanges that could become the largest public offering ever. The offering could value the rocket, satellite, and AI company at more than $1.75 trillion and raise as much as $75 billion, far exceeding Saudi Aramco’s 2019 IPO record. Bloomberg states that SpaceX has […]

Swalwell Demands FBI Not Release His Files As Epstein Hypocrisy Surfaces Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Embattled Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who has long demanded that President Donald Trump release the Epstein files, now faces scrutiny as the FBI prepares to release documents tied to its investigation into his alleged ties to a Chinese intelligence operative. The scrutiny comes after Swalwell demanded […]

Odds Of SCOTUS Striking Down Trump’s Birthright Citizenship EO Spike Update (1240ET): Odds are not looking good for President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, as two conservative justices now seem skeptical amid today’s oral arguments.  As journalist Eric Daugherty notes on X, “SCOTUS Justice John Roberts is VERY skeptical of President Trump ending birthright citizenship, repeatedly firing back at […]

Trump May Pull Out Of ‘Paper Tiger’ NATO After Starmer Stiffs Strait Support In a blistering exclusive interview with The Telegraph, President Trump has declared he is “strongly considering” pulling the United States out of NATO, branding the 77-year-old alliance a “paper tiger” after European allies – including the UK under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer – refused to join America’s military campaign against Iran or help reopen […]

“Finish This Thing, Finish It Right”: JPM CEO Jamie Dimon Weighs In On Iran War JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon appeared on Fox & Friends on Tuesday, covering everything from artificial intelligence to the economy to the continuing exodus from radical-left blue states. More notably, he offered his views on the U.S.-Iran war, which this week entered its fifth week and has remained at the center of the news cycle. Dimon was first asked […]

Aluminum Supply Shock: Top Gulf Producer Halts Operations After Iran Strike, Price To Spike Over the weekend, both Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA) – the largest aluminum producers in the Gulf – and Aluminium Bahrain (ALBA) reported drone attacks damaging smelting facilities after hits on Iranian steel infrastructure last week. Neither company (at the time) confirmed whether supply will be impacted, but this morning the worst case […]

The Kohn Solution For An Uncertain Fed Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Dario Perkins of TS Lombard wrote a piece titled “How to Respond to Oil Shocks.” His analysis draws on the Fed’s history to address how it should respond to today’s oil shock. While researching Fed transcripts from the 1990 Gulf War, he discovered a proposal by Don Kohn, senior Fed staffer, that offers a solution to the central bank’s oil shock […]