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Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has warned of further destabilization in the Middle East A military conflict with Iran would be highly likely if attempts to renegotiate a new nuclear deal fail, French…

Three Americans will instead serve life in prison after being convicted last September of attempting a coup in DR Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) government has commuted the…

The Ukrainian leader’s tactics of denial and making false claims could backfire, Russia’s deputy UN envoy has told RT Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is playing a “dangerous game” with US President Donald…

Rape, Violent Crime Explodes Even Higher In Germany; Number Of “Non-German” Suspects Up Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Violent crime and sexual assault cases have increased in number even further in…

Dialogue between Moscow and Washington is of the utmost importance for the entire world, Kirill Dmitriev has said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s economic envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, has said that he has arrived…

ICC Blasts Hungary For Ignoring Arrest Warrant As Orban Hosts Netanyahu The International Criminal Court (ICC) has denounced Hungary’s decision to defy its arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu after The Hague charged…

The suspect is under investigation in Kherson Region A Russian woman has been arrested on suspicion of financially supporting the Ukrainian army, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced. The case is…

Gulf States Refuse To Let US Use Bases, Airspace For Iran Attack Via Middle East Eye Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have imposed a ban on US warplanes using their air fields…

Zelensky Has No Feasible Alternative To Accepting Trump’s Lopsided Resource Deal Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Trump warned last weekend that Zelensky will have “some problems – big, big problems” if he “tries…

How Globalists Use Crazed Leftists To Piss Off The Populace And Provoke Dictatorship Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, There is nothing more dangerous than an incomplete picture of history. A hundred…

Neither side will get everything it wants, Keith Kellogg has argued The conflict between Kiev and Moscow is close to a ceasefire, US President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, has said….

Supreme Court Upholds Biden-Era Rule On Regulation Of “Ghost Guns” Via American Greatness, The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Biden administration rule on federal regulation of so-called “ghost guns” which are…

Trump’s Reconfiguration Of Global Conflict: What It Means For Asia And Europe Authored by Joseph Yizheng Lian via The Epoch Times, Two months into his second term, President Donald Trump was accused…

US president is not an agent of Moscow, Dmitry Kuleba has said US President Donald truly believes that he can do “great things” with Russia, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has…

China Ends Military Drills With ‘Simulated Attacks’ On Taiwan Ports, Energy Sites China’s military on Wednesday announced the completion of major war drills aimed at Taiwan, and which included a ‘live fire’…

Washington Sheriff Won’t Allow Non-Citizens To Work As Police Officers, Despite Political Pressure A state county sheriff in Washington may be the only person left in the state with common sense.  He is…

President Trump and the White House posted the following message to begin “Liberation Day.” President Donald Trump is scheduled to end the U.S Marshal Plan for Europe, eliminating one-way tariffs eighty years…

Over 100 Rounds Fired During Weekend Shooting In Seattle West Seatlle…or war zone? That’s the question many have to be asking after a report that over 100 rounds were fired in West…

RFK Jr.’s Advisor Torches Anti-MAHA Lobbyists: “Insane To Think More Bureaucrats = Better Health” Calley Means, co-founder of the Truemed telehealth platform and a special government employee at the Department of Health…

Hegseth: Men And Women In Combat Must Meet ‘Same, High Standard’ Authored by Rachel Acenas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Defense Department on Monday revealed that it would be imposing…

Massie Bill Demands Federal Candidates Reveal Dual Citizenship Seeking to spotlight federal office-seekers who may have a conflict of interest, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie has introduced a bill that would require candidates…

Revealed: Pro-Kamala Social-Media Millions That Couldn’t Sync ‘Brat’ With ‘Democrat’ Authored by Lee Fang via RealClearInvestigations, The abrupt withdrawal last year of President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, followed rapidly…

Government Funding For mRNA Technology Is Being Scrutinized And, In Some Cases, Sidelined It looks as though government funding for mRNA technology is on a short leash… Take, for example, a promising…

RIA Novosti has appealed the decision based on previous assurances that sanctions do not prohibit journalistic activities The European Union has denied accreditation for this year to Russian news agency RIA Novosti,…

Seattle Economic Crisis: Proof That Democrat Wealth Taxes Lead To Disaster To look at the Pacific Northwest today one would never know that 25 years ago the region was an economic powerhouse…

The Swirling Vortex Of Weaponized Lawfare Authored by Ramesh Thakur via The Brownstone Institute, Like a bad ‘When a chicken walked into a pub’ type of joke, when activist litigants walk into…

Futures Tumble As President Trump Delivers “Declaration Of Economic Independence” Update (1630ET): “Well we have some very, very good news today,” Trump began his address exclaiming that “This is Liberation Day.” “April…

The US president is applying primitive tactics in both the economic and political issues he’s dealing with, Henry Johnston tells RT US President Donald Trump’s tactics in both political and economic matters…

California’s Regulations, Not Price Gouging, Cause High Gas Prices, USC Study Finds Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Gov. Gavin Newsom stands behind his claim that “Big Oil” is responsible…

The so-called Liberation Day plan sets out broad, country-specific duties on US trading partners US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a new round of sweeping tariffs, part of what he has…

Will Today Go Down In History As The Beginning Of A New Era? To paraphrase Michael Every’s earlier take, “will today go down in history, marking the end of one era and…

Alec Baldwin Says Quiet Part Out Loud As Democrats Become More Unhinged  As the Democratic Party spirals into disarray—polling in freefall, far-left activists firebombing Tesla showrooms and vehicles, and USAID funds cut…

Corruption at the National Anti-Corruption Commission should be front and centre during the federal election campaign but it isn’t because it leads straight back to the dirty deal between Prime Minister Anthony…

New FAA Rule Allows Private Jet Owners To Hide Travel Information From Public Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is implementing a data…

Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Firing Federal Employees On Probation In 19 States Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge on April 1 indefinitely blocked President…

A new executive order is expected to sharply raise the minimum threshold for weapons sales that trigger a congressional review US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that…

The gaffe occurred during remarks by Andrey Sibiga on a potential agreement between Kiev and Washington Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga appeared to confuse Ukraine and the US while speaking on Tuesday…

The Cold War never ended – it just moved to the Arctic and got nuclear In late March, at the VI Arctic Forum held in Murmansk, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Moscow’s…

The ruling comes amid the president’s push to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across federal agencies A federal judge has halted an attempt by the administration of US President Donald Trump…

Tesla Shares Rise Over Report That Musk To ‘Step Back’ From DOGE Shares of Tesla rose on Wednesday following an anonymously sourced Politico report (keeping in mind Musk just yanked millions in…

Putin Envoy Visits Washington For Talks In First Since 2022 Ukraine Invasion Earlier this week the Kremlin said it has given the Trump White House formal notification and evidence showing that Ukraine…

New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker has given a marathon speech against the president’s policies on Capitol Hill US Democratic Senator Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest speech in US…

Will Today’s Trump Moves Force The Fed To Act? Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Apparently today at 4:00 pm we will learn the details of this wave of tariffs. Treasury…

WTI ‘Steady’ Near 5-Week Highs As ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Lifts US Crude Production Crude prices continue to tread water above $70 (WTI) this morning (holding Monday’s gains on potential sanctions on Russian…

Why The Global Recession Will Be Deeper And Longer Than Pundits Anticipate Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The global recession will be deeper and longer than those relying on…

US Factory Orders Surge Near Record Highs In Feb (Ignoring ‘Soft’ Data Slump) Despite all the ‘soft’ data slumping and legacy media narrative creation that a recession is imminent, US Factory Orders…

Meta To Expand Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Lineup With Display-Enabled Model Since late summer or fall of 2024, Ray-Ban Meta Glasses have surged in popularity with US consumers, a trend we previously highlighted citing…

How Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Are Set To Reshape Global Trade Authored by Emel Akan and Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump is set to announce reciprocal tariffs for…

Washington’s rapprochement with Moscow could threaten the military bloc’s future, according to Western diplomats European NATO members have raised concerns that Washington’s rapprochement with Moscow and the sidelining of the EU during…

Kiev has targeted energy facilities in Russia in violation of the US-brokered partial ceasefire, the military says The Ukrainian military has launched new attacks on Russia’s energy facilities, despite claiming it complies…

China Restricts Local Firms From Investing In US As Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs D-Day Arrives Hours before President Trump is set to announce reciprocal tariffs—threatening to unleash a global trade war on what…

The US president has warned of restrictions if Moscow “is to blame” for a failed Ukraine ceasefire Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed that Russia continues to comply with a ceasefire agreed…

The two-day exercise is aimed at deterring the self-governing island from pursuing separatism, according to Beijing. The Chinese military has published several videos showcasing a two-day exercise carried out near the self-administered…

Several Finnish citizens submitted a complaint to the court alleging that Helsinki is violating their fundamental rights The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has asked Finland to respond to claims that…

The Indian army has claimed that its neighbours troops have opened fire “unprovoked” along the countries disputed border The Indian Army on Wednesday said it had “responded effectively” after Pakistani troops crossed…

Bipartisan Senators Prepare 500% Uranium, Oil Tariffs If Russia Doesn’t Negotiate  A bipartisan group of US senators have prepared an anti-Russia sanctions nuclear option in the case that Moscow refuses to sign…

Is Trump’s Plan Working? ADP Shows Biggest Jump In US Manufacturing Jobs Since Oct 2022 Despite the ongoing strength in jobless claims data, fears are growing in the soft data that Friday’s…

Futures Slide As Markets Await “Liberation Day” Details Stocks resumed their slide and Treasury yields held near one-month lows with just hours to go before President Trump’s tariffs tariff announcement, amid swirling…

It was earlier reported in the Western media that Kirill Dmitriev will meet Donald Trump’s Ukraine negotiator Steve Witkoff later this week Russian President Vladimir Putin’s economic envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, could visit…

Kitchen Sink? Tesla Delivers 336,681 Vehicles In Q1, Missing Wall Street’s Lowest Expectations This morning Tesla announced Q1 deliveries of 336,681 vehicles, falling below even the lowest expectations that Wall Street had…

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev has met with the Namibian minister of international relations and trade in Windhoek Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev has held talks with the Namibian minister…

Margarita Simonyan says legal aid should be offered to those arrested for supporting Russia RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has proposed an initiative to provide legal aid to people arrested abroad for supporting…

The country has been destabilized by foreigners who make up laws, and it now needs Russia’s help, Milorad Dodik has told RT Western interference has turned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a “failed…

T-Day By Michael Every of Rabobank “I have also to announce to Congress that during the night and the early hours of this morning the first of the series of tariffs in…

At least two top officials have maintained contact with the Russian leader, the Serbian president has claimed Several global leaders have secretly maintained contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin despite the Western…

Kiev has effectively ignored the Trump-mediated moratorium, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Washington is ignoring Kiev’s violations of a US-mediated moratorium on attacks against energy infrastructure in the conflict with Russia, Kremlin…

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And…

Republican Randy Fine, a state senator, defeated Democrat and teacher Josh Weil in a special election that attracted national attention and millions of dollars. Leftist candidate Josh Weil raised almost 10 times…

Kid Rock appears on Stuart Varney show to discuss a dinner he helped organize between President Trump, Bill Maher, Dana White and himself. According to Kid Rock the dinner went great, and…

Hungary has deviated from most of the bloc by criticizing the West’s antagonistic stance toward Russia Hungarian Defense Minister Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky visited Belgrade on Tuesday to sign a roadmap outlining 79 joint…

White House Prepares TikTok Proposal Meeting Wednesday Ahead Of Deadline Ahead of President Trump’s reciprocal tariff announcement across all US trading partners later today, the president will meet with senior administration officials to review a final…

The service will also oversee citizenship issues, according to the Kremlin Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree creating a new state agency tasked with enhancing immigration governance. The Citizenship and…

DNC, Schumer Sue Trump Over Order Targeting Illegal Immigrant Voting Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and two top U.S. lawmakers on March…

A 5,000-strong armored brigade in Lithuania is set to be combat-ready by 2027, according to army plans The German military has begun its first permanent deployment of troops on foreign soil since…

German Politicians Worry About Their Gold In US Vaults For decades, the idea that Germany’s gold reserves – some of the largest in the world – might not be safe in the…

Russia Halts Large Chunk Of Kazakhstan’s Oil Export Capacity By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Russia has ordered shut two of the three moorings of the main oil export terminal on the Black…

Aleksey Andreev has highlighted Moscow’s flexible approach to helping other countries develop technologies that promote self-sufficiency Russia is ready to support African countries in developing technologies that promote self-sufficiency and sovereignty, Aleksey…

The revision of deals with foreign partners such as the EU and France is part of Senegal’s push for sovereignty, Aminata Toure has told RT Senegal remains committed to the process of…

Two people were injured and dozens evacuated after a UAV strike damaged two buildings in the city of Taganrog A Ukrainian drone raid damaged residential buildings in the southern Russian city of…

Docville has dropped the documentary showing Russian soldiers’ perspectives after objections from the Ukrainian Embassy The Docville documentary film festival in Belgium has canceled its screening of ‘Russians at War’ after a…

New Delhi will continue its long-standing friendship with Russia despite Western pressure, Jaiveer Shergill has said India will not “bow down” to the West on a range of issues from security to…

Which AI Chatbots Collect The Most Data About You? The harbinger of the AI revolution, ChatGPT, remains the most popular AI tool on the market, with more than 200 million weekly active users….

The investigation concerns threats received by the judge who sentenced the presidential hopeful French prosecutors have launched an investigation into threats against the judge who presided over a case in which right-wing…

Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Russia in May for a full state visit Chinese President Xi Jinping will be Russia’s main guest at the 80th anniversary of Victory Day celebrations…

Turkey Moves To Take Control Of Strategic Airbase In Central Syria Via Middle East Eye Turkey has begun efforts to take control of Syria’s Tiyas air base, also known as T4, and is preparing to…

US Treasury Targets Hezbollah’s Iran-Backed Aid Network Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Individuals and entities helping to finance the Hezbollah terrorist group were sanctioned by the Department…

Top German Politicians Are Calling For Resumption Of Russian Gas In Europe, the lure of a return to cheap energy is ever-present, and that conversation is becoming easier as the Trump administration…

The American military is unprepared to deter its adversaries, John Caine has said The US military would be unprepared for a protracted war with China due to shortcomings in the defense industrial…

USAID And The Architecture Of Perception Authored by Josh Stylman via The Brownstone Institute, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long portrayed itself as America’s humanitarian aid organization, delivering…

16 years after the monarchy was abolished, a violent push to restore it reveals a deep hunger for competent leadership Violent protests took place in Nepal last week as pro-monarchy groups demanded…

Kirill Dmitriev will reportedly meet with Trump’s Ukraine negotiator, Steve Witkoff Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, will visit Washington this week, CNN and Axios reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar…

Iran ‘Incredibly Weakened’ By Over 200 US Strikes On Houthis: White House The White House on Tuesday declared that Iran has been “incredibly” weakened as a result of the Pentagon operation against…

Russian Arctic LNG 2 Project Resumes Gas Processing By Charles Kennedy of Oilprice.com Arctic LNG 2, the processing and export facility that was billed as Russia’s flagship LNG project, has gradually resumed…

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) says that it has run out of funds because of Donald Trump’s executive order The US state-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) began furloughing staff at its…

FBI Weaponizes Background Checks To Enforce California Gun Ban Submitted by Gun Owners of America, When you go to a gun store to buy a new gun, you can expect a few…

Top presidential adviser Mike Waltz reportedly kept “potentially exploitable” information on his private email Members of the US National Security Council (NSC), including national security adviser Mike Waltz, have used personal Gmail…

China’s Role In US Fentanyl Crisis Directed By Regime Leadership, Expert Says Authored by Terri Wu & Olivia Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Tensions have been simmering between the United…

Indian Refiners Seek Alternatives To Russian Oil After Trump Tariff Threat Indian oil refiners have started looking for alternative supplies of crude after President Trump threatened secondary sanctions on Russian energy exports…

“There Will Be No Negotiating”: Tesla Firebombing Suspect Hit With Federal Charges, Faces 20 Years In Prison Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Justice…