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Labor Market Rebounds As Job Openings Unexpectedly Soar One month after the BLS reported that in April the labor market rebounded, as the number of job openings rose sharply by 191K to 7.4…

FBI Charges 4 Californians In Largest-Ever COVID Tax Credit Fraud Scheme Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Four Californians were charged by a federal grand jury on June…

The environment minister has said the proposal would only worsen urban heat France’s environment minister on Tuesday rejected a plan by former leader of the National Rally party Marine Le Pen to…

Timur Ivanov has been found guilty of embezzlement and fraud Russia’s former deputy defense minister, Timur Ivanov, has been sentenced to 13 years in a penal colony after being found guilty of…

The Russian Foreign Ministry has condemned the prosecution in Moldova of regional head Yevgenia Gutsul as politically motivated repression Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has denounced the Moldovan authorities’ efforts to…

Futures Drop As Trade Concerns, Trump-Musk Feud Returns US equity futures – which closed at a fresh all time high after the best quarter since 2023 put them in extremely overbought territory…

Media Forced To Admit Trump’s Tariffs Are Working As Revenues Spike The debate is raging this week over increased government spending and the potential raising of the debt ceiling by $5 trillion,…

Manufacturing Surveys Soared In June… But So Did Prices Despite ‘hard’ data plummeting, catching down to ‘soft’ data’s early demise, expectations were for a modest rise in Manufacturing survey data this morning….

Pretoria says it is negotiating for a maximum tariff rate of 10% from Washington as a worst-case scenario South Africa has asked the US for an extension on a looming tariff deadline,…

B-2 Or Not B-2? That Is The Dollar Question By Michael Every of Rabobank Equity markets at new record highs continue to think 2025 is more of the same-old, same-old. Bond markets…

The US president has also suggested getting DOGE to investigate the billionaire, noting that he has received a lot of subsidies US President Donald Trump has said that he might entertain the…

The chief editors of Sputnik Azerbaijan have been placed into pre-trial detention for four months A Baku court on Tuesday ordered the pre-trial detention of Igor Kartavykh, head of Sputnik Azerbaijan’s editorial…

Why Trump managed to settle the conflict in the Middle East but not in Eastern Europe US President Donald Trump secured his image as a “peacemaker” by swiftly de-escalating tensions in the…

S. Jaishankar has refuted Donald Trump’s claims on mediation between the South Asian neighbors Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has refuted US President Donald Trump’s assertion of using trade as leverage to…

Watch: Rare Footage Of Kim Jong Un Mourning Over Coffins Of DPRK Troops Killed In Ukraine War In a surprising first, North Korea’s state-run media aired footage on Monday showing leader Kim…

Trump Vs. Musk: “Big, Beautiful Bill” Feud Sparks Overnight Political Firestorm Update (0800 ET): President Trump on Elon Musk this morning: TRUMP: MUSK IS UPSET HE LOST THE EV MANDATE BUT ‘HE…

Too Late To Buy Gold? Not Even Close… Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Many are wondering if it’s too late to buy gold, that gold has peaked and they have missed…

Self-styled prophet and cult leader Sergey Torop, also known as Vissarion, has been jailed for harming followers’ health and finances A Russian court has sentenced Sergey Torop, a former traffic policeman who…

Chopper pressers are the best pressers. As President Trump departs the White House for a trip to an illegal alien detention center called “alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, he pauses to talk to…

A Soviet-era signal has been buzzing for over 40 years. Some say it’s a nuclear trigger. Others say aliens. No one knows who’s behind it. At 4625 kHz, a dull mechanical buzz…

The planned overpass to Sicily lies outside of the US-led bloc’s military mobility corridor in the country Italian authorities are looking to classify a long-term project to construct a bridge connecting the…

The bloc’s members have recently pledged to meet a defense spending target of 5% of GDP The results of NATO countries hiking military budgets will be “catastrophic” and lead to the bloc’s…

The US president has unveiled a new line of fragrances featuring a golden statue of himself US president Donald Trump has unveiled a new line of perfumes and colognes, marketed as “Trump…

Moscow has blacklisted Daimler Truck, a key supplier to the German military, banning transactions and contracts with the manufacturer Russia has imposed sanctions on German truck manufacturer Daimler Truck, which is a…

Baku claims that two people were beaten to death by officers after a raid on a suspected Azerbaijani gang The authorities in Baku have accused Russian law enforcement of fatally beating two…

Engineers are using air-dropped charges to disable explosives, military footage shows Weaponized drones are now a fixture on the battlefields of the Ukraine conflict. However, they are also being employed to clear…

Winding Up For A Comeback: UBS Eyes Rolex Recovery Cycle  A team of UBS analysts led by Zuzanna Pusz pointed to new June data from the KOF Swiss Economic Institute showing deteriorating sentiment across…

How The IMF Prevents Global Bitcoin Adoption (And Why They Do It) Authored by Daniel Batten via BitcoinMagazine.com, The Global Pattern In recent years the IMF has: Successfully pressured El Salvador to…

The Tamal is the eighth Krivak-class vessel to be delivered to the South Asian country in the past two decades Russia has delivered a new Krivak-class stealth frigate to the Indian Navy,…

The Kremlin is closely monitoring the situation and hopes to secure the release of the detained reporters, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Moscow hopes to secure the release of Russian journalists detained…

The No-Win Bubble “Wealth Effect”: Either Way We Lose Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, I have endeavored to explain how our economy has changed dramatically over the past 50…

Assimi Goita has described cooperation with Moscow as free from “manipulation” and “demagoguery” Transitional Malian President Assimi Goita has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for his honesty and practical approach to international…

President Trump notes the financial motives behind Elon Musk’s opposition to the Big Beautiful Bill. [Source] Musk has previously said his opposition to the bill stems from the fiscal spending and aggregate,…

The attack targeted an industrial site in Izhevsk, the capital of Udmurtia region A Ukrainian drone strike has caused fatalities and serious injuries at an industrial plant in the city of Izhevsk,…

The continent could become one of the top three destinations for the resources, a Russian Energy Ministry official has said Africa has the potential to become a major market for Russian coal…

New Delhi is looking to produce 5 million metric tonnes per annum of green hydrogen in the next five years India is expected to become a net exporter of energy within the…

US And Russia Vie For Influence In Energy-Rich Turkmenistan Authored by EurasiaNet via OilPrice.com, Turkmenistan has recently experienced a significant increase in diplomatic attention from both the United States and Russia, suggesting…

Kremlin Warns West Against Backing ‘Color Revolution’ in Serbia As Protests Grow This weekend saw ongoing protests in the streets of Serbia’s capital Belgrade explode, resulting in clashes with police which included…

Earlier, the IDF attacked the country, claiming to be protecting the Druze population Former warlord Ahmad al-Sharaa, who seized power in Syria last year, may abandon the country’s claim to sovereignty over…

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has received more US government subsidies “than any human being in history,” the president claimed US President Donald Trump has suggested that Elon Musk should be investigated…

The Future Of Strategic Arms Control Is Dim Due To The Ukrainian Conflict & The Golden Dome Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, There’ll likely be a much greater potential for future…

British MPs Invite Deposed Shah’s Son To Promote Iran Regime Change In Parliament Via Middle East Eye The son of Iran’s ousted shah is giving an address to British MPs in the UK parliament on…

Moscow has accused Kiev of systematically violating the Chemical Weapons Convention Russian troops have discovered a makeshift chemical lab and vials containing banned toxins at a former Ukrainian hideout in the Donetsk…

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…

The State Department has punished Bob Vylan over chants at Glastonbury music festival The US government has revoked the visas of the British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan following their controversial performance at…

The Coward’s Bargain Authored by Josh Stylman via The Brownstone Institute, Everyone’s Afraid to Speak Someone our family has known forever recently told my sister that they’ve been reading my Substack and…

Ultra-Processed Foods Linked To Brain Changes That Drive Overeating Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Ultra-processed foods (UPF) may be literally rewiring your brain to make you overeat,…

$15 Billion!? FBI Says It’s Uncovered ‘Largest Health Care Fraud’ In American History Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) on June…

US Special Envoy for Syria has compared militant-turned-president Ahmed al-Sharaa to George Washington President Donald Trump has signed an executive order dismantling much of the decades-old sanctions program imposed on Syria and…

Protesters Outraged As Trump Expected To Visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in Florida America has the best alligators in the world, big beautiful alligators, perfect for stopping dangerous illegal immigrants from escaping detention until…

The Future Of Crypto Equity Wrappers Authored by Omid Malekan, Co-authored with Frank Cavallo of Motus Capital Management Crypto treasury companies such as Strategy are all the rage right now. Seemingly not…

Quantum Meets AI: Morgan Stanley Maps Out Next Tech Frontier It’s widely accepted that quantum computing remains a long-term bet, with meaningful commercialization unlikely before the 2030s—if not later. Investor enthusiasm plunged sharply…

In what is being billed as the largest single takedown of HHS fraud, today the DOJ announced indictments for a massive $14.6 billion Medicaid/Medicare fraud program operated out of the U.S and…

As the Senate begins debate to amend the Big Beautiful Budget reconciliation bill, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is scheduled to deliver a press briefing today at 1:00pm ET.  Livestream links…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has pushed America-First, anti-terrorism, law and order into the center of the tourist visitor filter. Unstable extremists need not apply for visas to enter the USA, and…

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about this earlier today during her press briefing. CNN is promoting an early warning system for cell phone users that alerts them to Immigration…

As Robert F Kennedy Jr outlines all the bad things the Health and Human Services agency is doing, terrible vaccines, dangerous food additives, horrible health effects from toxic food chemicals, along with…

For those who have spent time in the lead up to this moment, you may remember our warning that Elon Musk would eventually take a position against President Trump and actively work…

New California Laws Effective July 1 Could Impact Students, Paychecks, Airbnb-Stays Authored by Sophie Li via The Epoch Times, A wave of new California laws will take effect on July 1, touching…

Where Can You Order A Robotaxi? Self-driving cars – in real-world applications as of now limited to robotaxis – are simultaneously very real but also scary to many people as technological and ethical implications around…

At least one person was killed and three others injured in missile and drone strikes on Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic Ukrainian forces launched a series of missile and drone attacks on the…

A Translation Guide To Progressive Slavespeak Authored by David Thunder via The Brownstone Institute, I propose that we accompany physical detox with a verbal detox: we need to purge our bloated vocabulary of several…

America’s 75,000 Page Horror Story Via SchiffGold.com, While most of the American government can be characterized by regulatory overgrowth, few areas loom larger in the public imagination than the Tax Code. This…

Disney Hit With More Layoffs As Latest Woke Projects Bomb Hard It would seem that Disney still hasn’t learned its lesson when it comes to DEI in entertainment.  The company which just…

The Decline And Fall Of Our So-Called Degreed Experts Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts…

MIT Invents “Bubble Wrap” That Pulls Fresh Water From The Air…Even In The Driest Places In The World MIT researchers have invented a new water-harvesting device — a high-tech version of “bubble…

Stay Sane! Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Betting against Donald Trump is usually a bad idea.” – Insurrection Barbie on “X” What apparently riles the credentialed political Left — the “gay /…

The anonymous source has claimed that Tehran still possess numerous “new generation missiles,” against which Israel is defenseless Iran’s next military conflict with Israel will be the “last” one for the Jewish…

Russian troops have gained control over all areas of the region, ending Kiev’s occupation of the territory Russian forces have taken complete control of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), after over a…

Ryan O’Leary is wanted in Russia for his participation in the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk Region American mercenary and former US Army National Guardsman Ryan David O’Leary, who fought on Ukraine’s behalf,…

On Monday, authorities in Baku detained three Russian journalists following a police crackdown on suspected Azerbaijani gangs in Russia Russia’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Azerbaijani ambassador Rakhman Mustafaev, following the arrest of…

The Ukraine conflict has no military solution, according to Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar has said the Ukraine conflict cannot be resolved by military means, urging Western…

No injuries or pollution have been reported in the incident so far An oil tanker carrying around a million barrels of crude has exploded off the coast of Libya. No injuries or…

Social Media: The Biggest Threat To Teens’ Mental Health? In 2010, Mashable declared June 30 as Social Media Day, intended to celebrate the impact of social media on communication, connection and culture….

Iran UN Envoy Makes Clear That Nuclear Enrichment ‘Will Never Stop’ In a “Face the Nation” interview on Sunday, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, vowed that Tehran will “never…

Appeals Court Allows Trump Administration To Fire USIP Board Members Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has overturned a lower…

The Foreign Ministry has delivered a note of protest over Kiev’s support for US and Israeli military actions Tehran has summoned Ukraine’s charge d’affaires and delivered a formal protest over remarks by…

Trump Pivots To Pressuring Israel For New Ceasefire Deal In Gaza “MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!!” President Trump wrote on social media early Sunday, pivoting from a month…

SLR: Could It End The Bond Bear Market Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, On June 25th, the Federal Reserve quietly announced a significant change to the Supplementary Leverage Ratio (SLR). While…

An editor with video news agency Ruptly has been detained while filming a police raid on Russia’s Sputnik outlet The Azerbaijani authorities have detained a journalist with Ruptly, the Russian video news…

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Yury Dud has repeatedly failed to identify as a foreign agent in his content, authorities have said Russian authorities have launched a criminal case against a popular youtuber for failing to identify…

Intercepted conversations show that Tehran officials expected a worse impact from the attacks on nuclear facilities US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities were far less destructive than expected, according to intercepted communications…

From the uprising of 2014 to the near-total liberation of 2025, Lugansk’s return to Russia traces a long arc of defiance, war, and statehood After more than a decade of struggle, Russian…

Dwindling demand for loans due to high interest rates is hurting Sber’s profits, its CEO has warned Russia’s largest bank, Sber, is bracing for a challenging 2026, CEO German Gref has told…

Under the new scheme in Austria’s Burgenland, asylum seekers who refuse to work will face welfare benefit cuts Burgenland state in Austria has introduced a scheme requiring asylum seekers to work for…

The End Is Nigh: Liberal Justices Predict “Chaos” & The Demise Of Public Education Without Mandatory LGBTQ Material Authored by Jonathan Turley, The end is nigh. That seems to be the message…

Stablecoins Are Becoming ‘Default Settlement Layer” For The Internet Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Stablecoins have become the backbone of internet payments, with adoption now outpacing major traditional card networks in…

Rafael Grossi has said over 400kg of nuclear material may have been moved before Israeli-US strikes More than 400 kilograms of enriched uranium remains unaccounted for in Iran following Israeli and US…

Baku has arrested the head editors of Sputnik Azerbaijan news agency Authorities in Baku have detained the head editors of Russian news agency Sputnik after conducting searches at the outlet’s office on…

One of the US president’s children has said his family “had not profited from politics” Eric Trump, one of US President Donald Trump’s three sons, has hinted at the possibility of himself…

“Frozen At The Wheel”: Bessent Slams Fed For Delay On Rate Decisions In Wide-Ranging Interview US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday criticized Federal Reserve policymakers for what he described as their…

9 Underage Girls Sexually Abused By Syrians At Swimming Pool, Mayor Points To ‘Hot Weather’ Via Remix News, After underage girls were sexually assaulted in the Barbarossabad swimming pool in Gelnhausen, the…

Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Job Reports Galore, ISMs, Powell And More Prepare to be disorientated this holiday shortened week, as payrolls sees a rare Thursday print ahead of the Independence Day…

Yoweri Museveni has led the African nation for decades after first coming into power in 1986 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has announced his bid for a seventh term in elections set for…

3 Goals For Trump’s Trade Negotiations Authored by Adam Millsap viathe American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), The Trump administration has increased tariff rates on dozens of countries in part to kickstart…

The AI bot’s tendency to affirm users’ beliefs has been found to reinforce harmful delusions, according to a report ChatGPT is linked to “terrifying” psychosis in some users, science and technology media…

Israel has shut out the UN, installing its own group to hand out food to the starving population… except it distributes death instead For nearly 630 days, the world has watched the…

Mysterious Blast Paralyzes Oil Tanker In Mediterranean Weeks After Russian Port Call A mysterious blast struck a tanker carrying 1 million barrels of oil near Libya, and the vessel is now being…