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Ghana’s president has said his government has agreed a deal with Washington, despite “tightening” bilateral relations Ghana has received 14 migrants from the US under a bilateral deal tied to Washington’s controversial…

Pretoria will continue to work through global institutions to end all acts of “apartheid and genocide” against Palestinians, an official has said South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola has vowed that Pretoria…

Adani Group’s progress with US officials has faltered, as New Delhi and Washington disagree on Russian oil and Pakistan Gautam Adani’s attempts to resolve US fraud allegations have hit a roadblock on…

ECB Keeps Rates Unchanged As Expected, Euro Drops After 2027 Inflation Forecast Trimmed As expected, the ECB left its deposit rate unchanged at 2% and maintained the data-dependent and meeting-by-meeting language in…

US Consumer Prices Rise More Than Expected In August From Services Not Tariffs Following yesterday’s cooler-than-expected PPI (MoM deflation), expectations for this morning’s Consumer Price Inflation were for the further acceleration. Headline…

Texas Sparks Unexpected Surge In Jobless Claims To Highest In 4 Years Time’s Up! After four years of showing no signs of life, initial jobless claims surged higher last week with 263,000…

Surveillance footage has captured the moments before the assault on British-flagged Alma boat The Tunisian Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that a recent attack targeting a Gaza-bound humanitarian ship docked in the…

Russia-Belarus Kick Off War Games Near Polish Border As NATO Tensions Soar Given the last 48 hours of extreme tensions between Russia and NATO after Poland said it shot down Russian drones…

Remembering 9-11: “That Feeling That We Were Really All One People” Authored by Susan D. Harris via The Epoch Times, Next year will be the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror…

What Does Dr. Copper Say? Authored by Richard Woolnough via BondVigilantes.com, We’ve spent nearly two decades on this blog exploring the economic outlook, and history shows that this is especially relevant for…

The Israeli prime minister’s statements are a “shameful” bid to justify the Jewish state’s missile strike on Doha, the country’s foreign ministry has said Qatar has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

ECB Preview: September Pause The European Central Bank is in no rush to lower interest rates again: as Bloomberg’s David Powell notes, policymakers are waiting for clearer signals on how the economy…

EU ‘Chat Control’ Hinges On Germany’s Decision Authored by Aaron Wood via CoinTelegraph.com, As the EU Council heads to vote on the so-called “Chat Control” law, Germany could prove the deciding factor….

Futures Rise To New All Time High Ahead Of CPI Report US equity futures have a slight bid into today’s CPI print – the last key macro datapoint ahead of next week’s…

President Donald J Trump: . Posted in CIA, Death Threats, Donald Trump, President Trump, Press Secretary – Trump The post President Trump Delivers Remarks from White House Following Charlie Kirk Assassination appeared…

Sadly, I had not seen this video until after he was assassinated and it was shared on social media.  That said, the intellectual capacity, the gift of articulation carried within the vessel…

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…

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…

ICE Flights Have Ramped Up Since May The number of deportation flights has ramped up in the United States since May, according to data collected and analysed by Thomas Cartwright for Witness at the…

France In Flames As The ‘Block Everything’ Protest Movement Sweeps The Country Authored by Rick Moran via PJMedia.com, France and its hapless President Emmanuel Macron are in deep trouble… On Monday, Macron’s…

The increasing drive for censorship has created a “poisonous environment” in America, the political commentator told RT The assassination of a political speaker you disagree with is antithetical to American values, making…

The move to reduce Treasury bills came well before Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on most imports from the South Asian nation India has reduced its holdings of US Treasury bills over…

Belarus President Urges Banks To Expand Crypto Use As Sanctions Bite Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has reportedly pushed the country’s banks to expand how they use…

Amb. Huckabee Clarifies The US Won’t Oppose West Bank Annexation Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said in an interview last week that the US has never asked…

The negotiations hinge on Moscow’s territorial claims and Kiev’s push for security guarantees, the US vice president has said Talks on resolving the conflict between Russia and Ukraine have been narrowed to…

Hilaire Diarra had reportedly been assisting Barrick in resolving a dispute with the African state over unpaid revenues A top executive who represented Canadian mining giant Barrick in tense negotiations with Mali…

The conservative US activist and fiery critic of Zelensky was fatally shot during a public event in Utah Slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk had claimed he received death threats on a daily…

How Much Are Teachers Paid Around The World? Teachers’ salaries vary significantly around the world. As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, based on new data published in the OECD Education…

Spain’s Power Grid In One Chart: Net Zero Drive Pushes Economy Toward Paralysis Days before the media celebrated Spain’s first full weekday powered entirely by renewables in late April, the unthinkable happened:…

Sudan’s Hidden War: Muslim Brotherhood’s Grip On Army Threatens Regional Stability, Global Trade Authored by Anna Mahjar-Barducci via The Gatestone Institute, Sudan’s brutal civil war, often overshadowed by global headlines, is not just…

This competition gives high school students worldwide a chance to study tuition-free at Russia’s leading diplomatic university On August 25, 2025 MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia opened…

Europe Is A Powder Keg Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, Americans who don’t spend time in Europe might not fully appreciate what a powder keg the Old World has become.   However bad…

How US Government Stake In Intel Will Affect Tech Race With China Authored by Terri Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The federal government’s move to take a 10 percent stake—and…

Meet The New AI Billionaires Of 2025 In just a few short years, dozens of entrepreneurs and technologists have crossed into billionaire status thanks to the artificial intelligence gold rush. To learn…

The US Might Try To Manipulate Nepal Into Weaponizing Its Revived Border Dispute With India Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The student-driven riots that were putatively sparked by the state’s banning…

The prominent conservative activist was killed during a public debate at a university campus in Utah Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during a Turning Point USA event at Utah…

“Seriously Missed Opportunities”: Canada Roadblocked U.S. Probes Into Snowboarder Turned ‘Cocaine Kingpin’  Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper, In Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, Canadians have been dying violently — a pattern pointing to the…

The channel’s president was forced to apologize for “insensitive” remarks made by Matthew Dowd on air MSNBC has apologized after one of its political analysts, Matthew Dowd, speculated that the fatal shooting…

How MAHA Can Really Save American Lives Authored by Ryan Sheridan via RealClearPolitics, Over 35 years ago, an executive at Monsanto named Harold Corbett delivered a speech titled “Chemical Risk: Living Up…

The US president has promised to “find each and every one” behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk and other attacks President Donald Trump has vowed to pursue not only the assassin of…

It Makes More Sense To Produce Hydrogen With Nuclear, Not Renewables Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClearEnergy, Hydrogen is often thought to be linchpin of a future 100% renewable economy. To make…

Eight Years Of Consumer AI Deployment In One Giant Timeline What unfolds in this sweeping spiral graphic, made possible by Visual Capitalist and Made Visual Daily, is a story of how the LLM…

Why The Democrats’ Latest Framework For Crypto Market Structure Could Hurt Financial Privacy Authored by Frank Corva via BitcoinMagazine.com, This morning, 12 Senate Democrats published a six-page framework for digital asset market structure legislation…

Republicans and conservative allies have long argued that the left’s rhetoric has fueled such attacks Tech billionaire Elon Musk has accused the radical left of fostering a climate that encourages violence against…

Waste Of The Day: Maine Nonprofit CEO Gets Big Payout Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: The Gulf of Maine Research Institute said the loss of up to $4 million in…

MIT President Sally Kornbluth Is A Magnet For Research Fraud And Medical Misconduct Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, The Boston Globe published an incredible investigation highlighting yet another…

Republicans and conservative allies have long argued that the left’s rhetoric has fueled such attacks Democrats have lined up to denounce “political” and “gun violence” in the wake of the killing of…

Deloitte Forecasts Slowest Holiday Sales Growth Since Pandemic Amid Faltering Labor Market The Labor Department’s record annual negative revision of jobs data through March indicates the business cycle may have peaked in spring…

The US journalist says his forthcoming documentary series on the 9/11 attacks will explore overlooked truths Israeli intelligence knew beforehand of the 9/11, American journalist Tucker Carlson has claimed. The topic, as…

The US is bearing witness to an alarming trend of politically motivated violence and high-profile assassination attempts The United States has entered a disturbing cycle of political violence. In the past year…

Local, State and Federal officials will be holding a press conference following the murder of Charlie Kirk.  The Governor of Utah Spencer Cox will be a participant in the press conference.  Start…

Authorities have yet to release the gunman’s identity The FBI has announced the arrest of the suspect in the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley…

The 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska has been brutally mudered on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina The Mecklenburg County court that released a repeat offender who later killed a young Ukrainian refugee was…

His young life’s work will be fulfilled in his legacy. This is indeed a Turning Point for the USA. Dear God, we lack the words.  As the Father of all that is…

From “Europe must fight” to drones sold as peace and a tale of stolen children debunked, the EU president’s state of the union was heavy on rhetoric and light on reality European…

The ‘Mass Manipulation’ Machine Is On Overdrive Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, There are these strange moments in American political history when the whole of the establishment decides to…

Google Admits ‘Open Web’ Ad Ecosystem In ‘Rapid Decline’ In an awkward court filing, Google has admitted that internet advertising in a tailspin – declaring that “the open web is already in rapid…

The prominent US rightwing activist has died after being attacked at a public event in Utah Charlie Kirk, a major supporter of Donald Trump and the executive director of the Turning Point…

Nepal Army Takes Over Capital As Politicians Flee By Helicopter, Mayhem Worsens The collapse of the Nepal government situation has gone from bad to worse overnight and into Wednesday. Parliament has gone…

The US president earlier slammed Democrats for having failed to lock up career criminal Decarlos Brown before he committed the stabbing US President Donald Trump has called for capital punishment for Decarlos…

Violent clashes, dubbed as Generation Z protests, left dozens dead and force prime minister to resign The youth leaders of Nepal’s protest movement have proposed former Chief Justice Sushila Karki to serve…

The top EU diplomat’s “surprise” at the role of the Soviets and the Chinese in WWII reveals the ugly incompetence of Western elites Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s de facto foreign minister…

The massive demonstrations come amid deepening political and economic turmoil in the country Hundreds have been arrested in France as riot police clashed with demonstrators, who vowed to “block everything” nationwide amid…

[READ THIS] For almost two years, there has been a background conversation with a handful of people watching the Silicon Valley network closely and monitoring every move and position they take.  They…

Blowout 10Y Auction: Lowest Yield Since Last September’s 50bps Jumbo Cut; Near-Record Foreign Demand After yesterday’s remarkably strong 3Y auction, which in our view was one of the “top 3″ best 3Y…

The financial punditry are verklempt, puzzled and perplexed as the wholesale inflation rate calculated by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics Producer Price Index [DATA HERE] shows a drop in PPI of…

Main Street Optimism Ticks Higher; Tariff Inflation Expectations Tumble Main Street optimism edged higher in August, as the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index rose to 100.8. As RealInvestmentAdvice.com reports, that reading sits…

‘Delete This’: New Smoking Gun Emails Reveal Fauci COVID Coverup The infamous autopen-pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci lied under oath while testifying before Congress, and Rand Paul just dropped the receipts.  “Emails obtained by the…

North–South corridors will anchor Greater Eurasia The acute phase of Russia’s confrontation with the West in Ukraine is moving toward its end. Moscow has chosen not to employ its most formidable weapons,…

Popular artist Banksy created a graffiti mural in London depicting the current state of the UK censorship system using the courts to trample the rights of British citizens: [SOURCE] It did not…

The executive director of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) was targeted during debate in Utah Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative activist and the executive director of Turning Point USA non-profit organization, has been…

Tucker Carlson Exposes Mark Cuban’s Hypocrisy On Ukraine Aid Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Tucker Carlson confronted billionaire Mark Cuban over his hypocrisy on Ukraine, blasting him for backing taxpayer funding while refusing to spend any…

BREAKING.  Conservative pundit and leading voice of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk was about 20 minutes into a presentation when he was shot, a spokesperson for Utah Valley University told NBC News….

What’s The Opposite Of “Quiet Day”? By Michael Every of Rabobank There haven’t been any ‘quiet days’ in 2025 in global strategy, just a constant flow of conflating developments across geopolitics and…

“Shock To Global Seaborne Gas Trade”: China-Russia Pipeline Seen Displacing One-Third Of LNG Imports By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com China’s planned Power of Siberia 2 pipeline with Russia could displace the equivalent…

Elon Musk Commits $1 Million To Murals Of Iryna Zarutska Nationwide, Turning Public Spaces Into Culture War Battlegrounds Americans are learning this week about the urgent need to rebuild insane asylums and expand prison capacity,…

Miran Clears Key Senate Hurdle In Push For Fed Seat The Senate Banking Committee voted 13-11 along party lines Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump’s pick of Stephen Miran, chair of the…

WTI Holds Gains Despite Biggest Crude+Product Build Since 2023 Oil climbed for a third session as investors weighed President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats on Russian crude buyers, the fallout from Israel’s…

Trump Rape Accuser Boasts Of ‘Trick’ On Jurors By Making Herself Look “F***able” Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll recounted the bizarre “trick” she claimed to have used to convince a…

Trump Ready To Hit China, India With 100% Tariffs To Pressure Putin, But Only If Europe Joins In a curious reverse twist on a global trade war theme, President Trump told European officials…

Kremlin Dismisses Polish Drone Attack Claims, Saying No Evidence Provided Russia on Wednesday formally rejected Poland’s claims that its drones breached Poland’s airspace overnight – citing that no evidence has been provided which…

Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal stops short of outright confiscation of the immobilized funds European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed leveraging Russian assets illegally frozen in the EU for a “reparations…

Moscow has rejected Warsaw’s accusation that it committed an “act of aggression” against the NATO state The Russian military has suggested consultations with its Polish counterparts, after being accused by Warsaw of…

The leader of the South American nation has said Washington is after its oil and gas, and using the fight against drug traffickers as a pretext Washington is seeking to gain access…

The European Commission wants to scrap unanimous voting on the bloc’s foreign policy decisions The European Commission has announced plans to scrap consensus-based decision-making in EU foreign policy, in a step that…

The app’s creator has backed the latest demonstrations and criticized Macron for neglecting his people Telegram founder Pavel Durov has praised the use of his messaging platform in the latest mass protests…

The airstrike on Doha that killed six people violated international law and threatened peace efforts, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said Russia has condemned Israel’s strike on Qatar’s capital Doha as a…

Qatar Says It Reserves Right To Retaliate Against ‘Barbaric’ Netanyahu  Qatar has threatened retaliation after Israel’s strike on Doha Tuesday which killed five top Hamas officials. Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani…

Top NIH Officials Allege Illegal Retaliation For Raising Concerns Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two former top National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials say other officials illegally…

Melania, Please Talk To Donald About Epstein Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, Last Wednesday, an extraordinary press conference was held in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol by victims of sexual…

Goldman, UBS React To Novo Nordisk Axing 9,000 Jobs, Slashing Guidance Amid GLP-1 Headwinds  Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk announced a major restructuring, including the reduction of 9,000 jobs, while slashing guidance for…

FDA Chief Says No Solid Evidence Supporting Hepatitis B Vaccine At Birth Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The head of the Food and Drug Administration said on Sept. 8…

Producer Prices Unexpectedly Dropped In August, YoY Inflation Tumbles Unusually, we get a look at August’s Producer Prices (today) ahead of the Consumer Prices (tomorrow) with analysts expecting a 0.3% MoM increase…

Futures Hit New All Time High After Oracle’s Ridiculous Forecast, PPI Looms US stock futures are trading at another record high, with European and Asian also pushing higher after Oracle underpinned the…

Poland Triggers Article 4 After NATO Jets Engaged Russian Drones In Allied Airspace Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his country would formally request the invocation of NATO’s Article 4 after an overnight…

Survivors have described scenes of extreme brutality, including beheadings, in the assaults by the Allied Democratic Forces At least 89 people have been killed in overnight attacks, including on Christians gathered at…

Warsaw has said several UAVs crossed into its air space, with some later shot down The Russian military has not designated any targets for long-range strikes in Poland, the Defense Ministry in…

Washington sees joint ventures with Moscow and Kiev as a path to peace, the US vice president has said US President Donald Trump does not view attempts to isolate Russia economically as…

The assault constitutes a “blatant” violation of international law and a breach of the principles of territorial integrity, Pretoria has said South Africa has condemned an “illegal and unprovoked” attack carried out…

BYD wants to send engineers and executives to the neighboring country to resume its training programs Chinese electrical vehicle (EV) maker BYD is looking to expand its operations in India, Bloomberg reported…