‘Comrade’ Singham Faces House Subpoena Over Alleged CCP-Linked NGO Network Fueling Anti-ICE Protests John Solomon’s Just the News reports that a dark-money NGO network tied to CCP-linked communist billionaire Neville Roy Singham was allgedly activated as a command-and-control support node to organize nationwide anti-ICE protests just hours after the deadly shooting in Minneapolis. “China may be helping astroturf far-left protests […]

Trump Says US Will Begin Strikes On Cartels In Mexico Authored by Joseph Lord and Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced in an interview aired Jan. 8 that the United States would begin launching strikes on cartels in Mexico. “We knocked out 97 percent of the drugs coming in by water, and we are going to start now hitting land with regard with the cartels,” Trump told Sean Hannity from Fox News. […]

Watch: New Footage Shows Federal Agent’s Perspective In Minneapolis ICE-Involved Shooting There are competing narratives about Wednesday’s ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis. Some left-leaning corporate outlets focused on the fact that a woman was shot and killed by an ICE agent during a federal enforcement deportation operation, while other media, like the New York Post, highlighted that the woman, identified as 37-year-old […]

Qatari Embassy Damaged In Russian Drone Strike, Doha Shrugs We earlier detailed yet another massive overnight Russian strike on Ukraine – including on the capital and the Western city of Lviv, the latter which was hit with a nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missile. More details have emerged Friday as emergency crews assess the damage in Kiev. Notably the Embassy of Qatar in Kyiv appears to have been directly hit, likely by a […]

The Democrats’ Last Rodeo? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “. . .the Minnesota protests look less like a local eruption and more like the latest deployment of an international revolutionary machine.” – Insurrection Barbie on “X” Chrump, Chrump Chrump… He’s come to occupy the Left’s minds like an infestation of weevils chawing away the ligaments of civilized society. But, of course, the whole wicked, Cluster-B, […]

Russia Thanks Trump For Releasing Two Russian Crew From Seized Tanker Even though the Ukraine war is on a trajectory of escalation, which has included Russia launching a hypersonic ballsitic missile overnight on the western city of Lviv, the United States and Moscow are still finding small areas of understanding and cooperation – keeping the window for improved bilateral relations open. Russia-EU relations have spiraled and are […]

Five States Sue Trump Admin Over $10 Billion Freeze In Child-Care, Family-Assistance Funds Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Attorneys general in five states filed a lawsuit on Jan. 8 seeking to block the Trump administration from freezing $10 billion in federal funds for child care and family assistance programs. The move came just two days after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it was […]

“You Don’t Want This Smoke”: Philly Sheriff, DA Threaten To Arrest ‘Fake Law Enforcement’ ICE Officers Philadelphia’s top law enforcement officials have drawn a red line with the Trump administration after an ICE agent killed an activist protester this week during in Minneapolis.  In a Thursday press conference, Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner slammed President Donald Trump as the ‘criminal-in-chief,’ and vowed to prosecute any […]

Rio Tinto And Glencore In Talks To Form World’s Largest Mining Company With $200 Billion Valuation Are we on the cusp of an M&A boom in metals and commodities, with prices continuing to soar? Or are deals just easier to get through under a new administration? Regardless, Rio Tinto and Glencore have reopened merger talks that could create the world’s largest mining company, with a combined valuation exceeding $200 billion — […]

Micro Greenland Lender Whipsaws As Trump Headlines Ignite Investor Frenzy Shares of a Nuuk-based commercial bank, founded in 1967 to serve Greenland’s private and corporate customers, have surged sharply as investors speculate that President Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” to secure the Western Hemisphere could ultimately involve acquiring Greenland. The 42% rally in Bank of Greenland shares this year, which has since retraced roughly […]

Iran’s Food Shelves Emptying Out, ATMs Offline, Two Days Into Iran’s Internet Blackout Update(1335ET): Iran is two days into a total internet blackout, which has not only impacted news footage from the ground getting out of the country, but the ability of ATMs to function (already there is a full Wikipedia page). Rumors have begun that people are trying to access their bank savings (despite the collapsing currency crisis) at […]

Seattle Judge Blocks Health Department From Rejecting Head Start Grants With DEI Terms Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must stop requiring that grant applications not include terms related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), including the term “pregnant people,” under a new order from a federal judge. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. […]

“Screwing Us Over… Again”: Shale Producers Furious Over Trump’s Venezuela Plan To Lower Crude Prices President Trump is meeting with oil bosses on Friday, but shale producers aren’t necessarily happy about the development of driving crude prices down via expanding into Venezuela.  In fact, independent U.S. drillers are warning President Donald Trump that his push to revive Venezuela’s oil industry — and drive prices lower […]

The Price Of Trump’s “Greenland New Deal”: $100,000 Per Person By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank President Trump has called for a 50% increase of the US defense budget, to $1.5 trillion by next year. This should suffice to build a “Dream Military.” The president argues this is required to keep the US safe and secure, but will it keep his own political position safe? Trump’s new military focus is creating […]

Border Patrol Agents Shoot Two Illegals Linked To Tren de Aragua In Portland Update (Friday): The Department of Homeland Security wrote on X that the two people shot by a federal agent in Portland, Oregon, in the overnight hours were associates of the Tren de Aragua. “Two suspected Tren de Aragua gang associates—let loose on American streets by Joe Biden—weaponized their vehicle against Border Patrol in Portland. The agent […]

Trump Cancels 2nd Wave Of Strikes On ‘Cooperative’ Venezuela – Political Prisoners Freed The post-Maduro Venezuelan government has begun releasing political prisoners as a gesture of ‘good will’ to the United States, signaling that the new Delcy Rodriguez government is ready to play nice with Trump. There are reasons to believe that this former Maduro number two (as his vice president) had cooperated with the CIA to hand the […]

GM Cuts EV Exposure After Policy Shift, Takes $6B Charge Imagine all of the malinvestment that took place in autos, on EVs, thank to the government distorting markets and forcing EV adoption when genuine demand may not have been robust. Now, we’re seeing the consequences of returning to a freer market. General Motors will record a $6 billion charge after scaling back several electric-vehicle projects, reflecting both weaker demand […]

UMich Confidence Rebounds In January Off Record Lows As Tariff Fears Abate Having ended 2025 at the lowest Current Conditions Sentiment levels in, well, ever… expectations for preliminary January data were for a modest rebound… and it did (very modestly). The preliminary January sentiment index climbed to 54 from 52.9 in December, according to the University of Michigan (better than the 53.5 expected). The expectations […]

Happening Today: Trump Meeting With US Oil Execs From Exxon, Shell, Others, To Discuss Venezuela President Trump is convening top oil executives at the White House on Friday as part of a push to steer U.S. companies toward investing in Venezuela’s struggling oil industry, CBS reported today. Leaders from Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Continental, Halliburton, HKN, Valero, Marathon, Shell, Trafigura, Vitol Americas, Repsol, Eni, […]

US Adds Only 50K Jobs In December, Missing Estimates, But Unemployment Rate Drops To 4.4% Ahead of today’s jobs report, expectations were that the NFP number would show another rebound from the terrible Sept/Oct prints, but remain muted (or else spark fears about reheating and an end to the Fed’s easing cycle). Well, that’s precisely what we got moments ago when the BLS reported that in December the US gained 50K jobs, a modest miss […]

Supreme Court Skips Tariff Ruling Update (1004ET): The USSC did not rule on tariffs Monday, instead issuing a ruling on Bowe vs. United States – concerning whether federal prisoners can ask the Supreme Court to review their sentences. The case was sent back to a lower court. And so, we wait. Wednesday is scheduled for the next round of opinions. *  *  * The US Supreme Court may rule today on the legality of President […]

“World’s Criminals On Notice”: Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy Seizes Another Tanker In Caribbean Update (0930ET): Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed that U.S. Coast Guard forces “executed a boarding and seizure” of the motor tanker Olina in international waters east of the Caribbean Sea. Noem said Olina was part of a vast network of so-called “ghost fleet” tankers suspected of carrying embargoed oil. She stated that the […]

Meta Signs Massive Nuclear Energy Deal Meta revealed this morning a slew of new agreements with key players in the nuclear power industry, in an urgent bid to provide clean energy for its rapidly expanding data center empire. The initial plan is to offtake over 2000 MW of power from nuclear power plants owned by Vistra energy in Ohio, assist with fast tracking two reactors from TerraPower, and send a pre-payment to Oklo for […]

Ukraine Hit With Oreshnik Hypersonic As Retaliation For Attempted ‘Terror Attack’ On Putin Residence Russia launched another massive overnight strike on Ukraine using its hypersonic Oreshnik missile as part of a large-scale assault said to be retaliation for the alleged Ukrainian attempt to drone strike Putin’s residence last month. Kiev was hit hard in the fresh missile and drone attack which set apartment buildings on fire and […]

Futures Muted Ahead Of Two Key Events Stock futures are muted, with traders awaiting two major catalysts: A possible Supreme Court ruling on whether Trump’s tariffs are legal and December payrolls — a key datapoint for the trajectory of interest rates. As of 8:00amm, S&P 500 futures are up 0.1%, with Nasdaq 100 contracts +0.2% with Mag 7 stocks mixed premarket. Mortgage stocks jump after President Donald Trump said on […]