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Bank of Canada Cuts Rates As Expected, Ends QT, Restarts QE, And Drops Guidance On Looming Trade War Just hours before the Fed’s dovish pause, the Bank of Canada extended its easing…

New Delhi has strongly rejected official report by Ottawa, asserting that truth is Canada has interfered in its internal affairs New Delhi has denied “insinuations” made against it in an official Canadian…

Government efficiency watchdog said it has stopped “unnecessary” new hires, diversity initiatives and certain “improper payments” The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), created by President Donald Trump and led by Tesla…

Watch Live: Howard Lutnick Testifies At Senate Hearing For Commerce Secretary The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee announced on Jan. 23 that it will hold its hearing on the nomination of…

Antwerp has witnessed a sharp decline in trade volumes due to the Western ban on the Russian gems, according to a report Belgium’s multibillion-dollar diamond industry in Antwerp is facing a ‘perfect…

90% of outlets rely on foreign aid and over 80% have been funded by USAID, the head of Ukraine’s Institute of Mass Information says The vast majority of Ukrainian media have been…

In 2024, the Biden administration drew criticism for not identifying the origins of objects spotted over the East Coast US authorities have dismissed speculation that mass sightings of drones in the past…

The traditional spiritual values of the Russian people are being “crossed out,” Patriarch Kirill has said The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has warned about attempts to use multiculturalism…

Futures Flat Ahead Of Fed’s Dovish Pause, Tech Giant Earnings Futures are flat with Tech/Small-caps big higher as the market looks to recover from Monday’s tech plunge. As of 8:00am S&P futures…

ASML Recoups DeepSeek Losses After Solid Orders Ease Demand Woes ASML shares surged as much as 12% in European trading, the biggest intraday gain since 2020, after the chip equipment maker posted…

The causes of the conflict in the DR Congo are deeply rooted in colonial times It’s been over six decades since the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared independence, yet its…

Police Arrest Man With Molotov Cocktails Plotting to Assassinate Trump Admin Officials Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A Massachusetts man was arrested near the U.S. Capitol on Monday, according…

Biden Leaves Office With All-Time-Record US Trade Deficit In December It wasn’t just his approval rating that was at a record low when President Biden left office; data from the Commerce Department…

The move will help to diversify the country’s reserves, according to Ales Michl The governor of the Czech National Bank (CNB), Ales Michl, wants to invest a substantial amount of the country’s…

American service personnel have been told that relying on the Chinese-developed AI model raises security and ethical concerns The US Navy has barred its sailors from using the artificial intelligence model from…

Public trust in legacy media is declining, according to presidential press secretary Karoline Leavitt The administration of US President Donald Trump has invited members of the “new media” to take a prominent…

Chinese and Russian brands dominated sales in the $50 billion market, according to Avtostat Russians spent a record 4.91 trillion rubles ($50.1 billion) on new cars last year, according to data from…

Kiev’s brigades in the Donbass are consistently understaffed, according to commanders Kiev’s forces are struggling to maintain their ranks in Russia’s Donbass amid mounting manpower shortages, Ukrainian commanders have told the Economist…

Jean-Noel Barrot’s remarks come amid tensions between Denmark and the US, with President Trump demanding the island be ceded to Washington French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has said his country would be…

LVMH Reports “Mixed” Results As Goldman Says “Buy On Any Weakness” LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE posted better-than-expected full-year sales but delivered mixed fourth-quarter results, highlighting a sluggish luxury recovery. Shares…

Ruh Roh, Pepsi… Republican Congressman Introduces FIZZ-NO Act To Nuke Soda From SNAP Ahead of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing for the role of Secretary of Health and Human Services, set…

ECOWAS had given Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger until July to reconsider the move, but they said their departure was irreversible Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have formally withdrawn from the Economic…

The World’s Worst Financial Catastrophe Could Happen Soon Authored by Zoltan Istvan, Today, there are developers around the world working on creating artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can autonomously do millions of…

45% of survey respondents reportedly also recorded that they see President Donald Trump’s interest in the island as a threat Greenlanders are overwhelmingly rejecting the idea that US President Donald Trump could…

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have spent seven months in space instead of the originally planned eight days US President Donald Trump has asked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to bring back two…

Ray Dalio Warns Of Brutal AI War Between U.S. And China: ‘No Country Can Lose’ Billionaire investor and Bridgewater hedge fund founder Ray Dalio warned in an interview with All-In podcast co-host…

The levies on certain nitrogen-based fertilizers will jump to a “prohibitive” level, the European Commission has said The European Union plans to impose “prohibitive” tariffs on certain agricultural products and fertilizers from…

Trump’s Fight Against Online Censorship Quickly Goes Global Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClearInvestigations, Flanked by some of the Big Tech executives whose companies had suppressed the views of his supporters throughout…

Leaders have adopted the Dar es Salaam Energy Declaration to drive power infrastructure African leaders have pledged to provide electricity to 300 million people across the continent by 2030. The ambitious target…

Latvia’s top rehabilitation center says it hopes to be able to resume the training program once US funding is restored Latvia has halted a training program for Ukrainian doctors after US President…

The Example That Trump Made Out Of Colombia Will Reverberate Across The World Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Colombian President Gustavo Petro thought that he’d rebalance lopsided relations with his returning…

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 has become the first independently developed aircraft to reach Mach 1.1 A test aircraft built by Boom Supersonic, a US start-up, has broken the sound barrier for the first…

Slovakia sought gas transit talks with the Ukrainian leader but instead received a document pledging support for Kiev’s NATO bid Vladimir Zelensky wanted Robert Fico to sign a protocol promising to support…

Pfizer To Pay $60 Million In False Claims Settlement Over Drug Kickbacks, DOJ Announces Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. has agreed to pay…

US, British Commercial Ships Cautiously Return To Red Sea As Gaza Truce Holds American and British vessels are cautiously returning to the Red Sea as the Gaza truce and prisoner exchange deal continues to…

The controversial case of a former Nagorno-Karabakh leader is not just a legal matter; it is a question of what kind of future the region envisions for itself. In a Baku courtroom,…

The company is pursuing “countermeasures to protect” its intellectual property amid Chinese rival DeepSeek’s rapid growth OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has vowed to combat the potential use of its intellectual property…

At least ten people were killed at the Maha Kumbh festival as Hindu devotees gathered for a holy dip A stampede at the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India has led to…

The UN says peacekeeping personnel and troops have been forced to shelter in their bases amid escalating clashes Fighters from the M23 rebel group, which is carrying out a major offensive in…

Washington previously funded the vast majority of “independent news outlets,” an NGO has said Multiple Ukrainian media outlets have started appealing for emergency donations to stay afloat, after US President Donald Trump…

Plotting to assassinate the Russian president is a direct path to nuclear war, Vyacheslav Volodin has said The claim by American journalist Tucker Carlson that the previous administration of US President Joe…

US tech mogul Sam Altman has vowed that his firm will deliver “much better models” in the future The Chinese-developed DeepSeek AI is an “impressive model,” OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman…

Ukrainian Media Outlets Start Asking For Donations After US Funding Is Paused Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Major Ukrainian media outlets are asking for donations following the Trump administration’s 90-day foreign…

According to media reports, President Trump has removed the entire leadership structure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), previously run by Samantha Power. This is not necessarily a domestic…

Acting Attorney General James McHenry has fired more than a dozen career prosecutors from Main Justice citing their work with the Special Counsel Jack Smith targeting of President Trump.  This is an exceptionally…

Moments after President Donald Trump posted a snarky tribute to Jim Acosta losing his timeslot at CNN Fake News, Acosta quit the network. “Wow, really good news! Jim Acosta, one of the…

Orthodox priests have emphasized the role of spiritual guidance in maintaining soldiers’ humanity during combat The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has announced plans to significantly increase the number of military chaplains, to…

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…

ICE Immigration Enforcement Operations: What To Know Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump is making good on his campaign promise to deport illegal immigrants….

Putin Declares He Won’t Negotiate With Zelensky As Ukrainian Leader Has Outlawed Peace Talks In a huge development which significantly raises the stakes for any future potential Trump-backed negotiations related to seeking…

The suspended employees are suspected of attempting to undermine the US president’s executive orders The Trump administration has placed approximately 60 senior career officials at the US Agency for International Development (USAID)…

Do We Need A Final Crusade To Save The Western World? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, During the past week I’ve been watching the frenzy over Donald Trump’s cabinet confirmations, specifically…

Greenlanders share a common language with some of Siberia’s indigenous peoples, Vitaly Milonov has argued The Danish autonomous territory of Greenland should join the Russian Federation because its indigenous people and Russia’s…

DeepSeek AI App Demonstrates Pro-CCP Bias, Influence Authored by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek, which triggered a sharp drop of AI-related stock prices…

Trump Executive Order Bans “Chemical And Surgical Mutilation” Of Children Hours after signing an executive order restricting transgender service in the US military, President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive…

US Prosecutor Opens Probe Of DOJ’s Jan. 6 Cases Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A U.S. prosecutor said on Jan. 27 that he’s investigating why federal prosecutors…

IEDs Were Found – US Issues ‘Do Not Travel’ Warning For Several US–Mexico Border Areas Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. State Department has issued the…

Watch: F-35 Stealth Jet Crashes In Alaska Dramatic footage on X shows a Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter jet crashing at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. The pilot is reported to…

The “preposterous waste” of taxpayer money worsened the country’s inflation crisis, according to press secretary Karoline Leavitt The Biden administration spent the federal budget recklessly during its tenure, White House Press Secretary…

U.S. Navy Bans DeepSeek Over ‘Security Concerns’ As ‘Substantial’ Evidence Emerges Chinese AI Ripped Off ChatGPT The U.S. Navy has instructed service members to avoid using the Chinese AI platform DeepSeek, citing…

Roger Ver’s Pardon Plea: ‘Lawfare’-Victim Or Tax-Evader? Authored by Aaron Wood via CoinTelegraph.com, Early Bitcoin adopter Roger Ver has launched a social media campaign pleading with US President Donald Trump to pardon…

UN Chief In Open War With Israel & US After ‘Hamas-Sympathetic’ Relief Agency Banned The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is now in a full and very…

China Appears To Build Giant Nuclear Fusion Research Site Submitted by Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com China is believed to be constructing a huge fusion research site in its southwest, which could help…

The recent power shift in Damascus “will not change the nature” of Russian-Syrian relations, Deputy FM Mikhail Bogdanov has said Moscow and Damascus intend to maintain their historically stable and mutually beneficial…

Russia’s Smolensk has come under a mass drone attack, according to the regional head Multiple Ukrainian drones targeted civilian infrastructure in Russia’s Smolensk Region, with at least one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

Trump To Offer Buyouts To ‘Unacceptable’ Work-From-Home Feds In December, then-President-elect Donald Trump warned federal employees working from home that they would have to return to the office, or “they’re going to…

Border Reporter Has “Never Seen Anything” Like This Before… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin published a post Monday outlining how he has never seen anything like…

Grand DOJ Purge Continues: Acting AG Mass-Fires Lawyers Who Prosecuted Trump It’s often said that “elections have consequences.” More than a dozen Department of Justice lawyers can testify that truth, having been…

The Ukrainian leader is an “enemy” of Slovakia, PM Robert Fico has said Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has pledged to veto any EU aid to Ukraine, calling Vladimir Zelensky an “enemy”…

Several member states continue to object while Brussels supports Kiev Brussels is prepared to accelerate membership talks with Kiev by opening two “clusters” of negotiations by mid-2025, the EU Commissioner for Enlargement,…

Watch: Trump Announces “Immediate” Construction Of Iron Dome After Signing Executive Order President Donald Trump on Monday announced that the construction of a “state-of-the-art Iron Dome missile defense shield” will begin “immediately,”…

Kremlin Responds To Carlson’s Claim That Biden Admin Tried To Assassinate Putin Tucker Carlson has unleashed international controversy this week when in an interview with journalist Matt Taibbi, Carlson claimed that former…

Nasdaq Proposes In-Kind Redemptions For BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Authored by Mark Mason via BitcoinMagazine.com, Nasdaq has submitted a groundbreaking proposal to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that could transform the operational framework…

The country previously banned Russian energy cargoes from its own terminals Germany has boosted purchases of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) via other EU countries, despite having previously halted direct shipments of…

Copenhagen’s plan comes after US President Donald Trump suggested purchasing the territory The Danish government has announced a comprehensive initiative to combat racism and discrimination against Greenlanders residing in Denmark, the Copenhagen…

New Delhi has condemned alleged use of force by Sri Lanka amid an ongoing dispute over fishing rights India has condemned the Sri Lankan Navy following reports it opened fire during the…

The Ukrainian leader does not even have the authority to lift his own ban on negotiating with Moscow, the Russian president has said Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky can participate in possible talks with…

Moscow allegedly targeted the head of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall, a senior official has claimed A NATO official has claimed that Russia was behind a string of sabotage incidents and assassination plots…

“No Consistent Patterns”: Scientists Find No Evidence That Closing Schools Materially Reduced Transmission Authored by Jonathan Turley, For years, scientists and commentators who questioned COVID policies were censored, blacklisted, and canceled across…

A notorious Venezuelan gang leader is reportedly among those detained Heavily armed US law enforcement agents launched a series of pre-dawn raids across New York City on Tuesday morning, arresting scores of…

Google Says It Will Change Gulf Of Mexico To ‘Gulf Of America’ For US Users Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Google said on Monday that it will change the…

The EU purchased more than half of the volumes despite vows to eliminate dependence on the sanctioned country’s energy, data shows Russia exported a record 33.6 million tons of liquefied natural gas…

Zelensky is dependent on Western life support, the Russian president has said Ukraine is entirely dependent on its Western sponsors and the conflict could end within two months if Kiev runs out…

“Landman” Vs The Environmentalists Authored by Douglas French via The Mises Institute, Peter Kalmus, a data scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and noted climate scientist, told the Bloomberg audience that the California fires are…

Court Battles Imminent As Trump’s White House Pauses Federal Grants, Loans Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed federal agencies, in a Jan….

Thousands of records about the US president’s assassination in 1963 still remain classified US President Donald Trump has ordered the declassification of all remaining records pertaining to the assassination of President John…

Conference Board Confidence Continues To Collapse Post-Election… Americans’ consumer confidence fell for the second month in a row in January according to The Conference Board, dropping from an upwardly revised 109.5 (how…

Trump Says He Sent Troops To “Turn On The Water” In California Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump issued an emergency directive to send active duty troops to California to…

Norway secretly agreed to provide additional NASAMS anti-aircraft systems to Kiev, leaked documents show A Russian hacker claims to have breached the Norway-based defense company Kongsberg and obtained highly sensitive documents exposing…

Is ChatCCP A DeepFake By Benjamin Picton, senior macro strategist at Rabobank, US stocks fell sharply on Monday as the market reacted to news that Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek had overtaken American…

National Faculty Union Urges Resistance To Trump Efforts: “Vigorously And Loudly Oppose” By Gabrielle Temaat of The College Fix ‘The outlook for higher education is dire,’ group states Scholars should “loudly oppose”…

Today at 1:00pm EST, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold her first briefing from the Brady press room in the White House. With eight days of rapid activity from the…

“Monday Afternoon Massacre”: USAID Employees Placed On Leave For Allegedly Circumventing Trump’s Orders Officials for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have been placed on paid (!) leave after allegedly trying…

Over 5,000 civilians, including children as young as four, suffered as a result of “Ukrainian aggression” in 2024, according to the document The Russian Foreign Ministry released a report on Tuesday on…

Brussels has cited the alleged use of gaming consoles in drone operations The EU has proposed banning the export of video game consoles to Russia as part of its upcoming 16th sanctions…

With customary jaw affixed, Vivek “the slick” Ramaswamy spins his exit from DOGE as a matter of distinct differences in approach to the reduction of the federal workforce.  Proclaiming his grand grasp…

Denmark has requested that confrontational reactions to US President Trump’s aggressive overtures be avoided, according to the newspaper Denmark has asked NATO and the European Union not to comment on the US…

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…