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Productivity Gains From Using AI As AI tools become increasingly integrated—and in some cases, even mandated—into professional workflows, their real-world impact on productivity is becoming more evident. This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s…

Rubio Announces USAID Has ‘Officially’ Ceased Operations Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Tuesday the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development…

The Curbing Of The Administrative State Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court delivered an opinion last week that not even the best of the punditry class was…

“This Is The Next Level”: AI-Powered “Digital Workers” Deployed At Major Bank To Work Alongside Humans If you’re working in banking, your next colleague could be a bot. Once unthinkable, the Bank…

Meta launches AI division to pursue technology beyond human-level capabilities Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a new division dedicated to building AI systems that…

The Health Secretary accused his former party of abandoning core values in blind opposition to President Trump US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused the Democratic Party…

The hypersonic weapon will be stationed in the country by the end of the year, President Alexander Lukashenko says Russia’s Oreshik hypersonic missile systems are set to arrive in Belarus by the…

FATF Warning On Stablecoin Crimes Is Not Anti-Crypto, Intel Firms Say Authored by Yohan Yun via CoinTelegraph.com, Cryptocurrency regulations are increasingly aligning with global standards; 73% of eligible jurisdictions have now passed…

Family Of Karmelo Anthony Asks For Millions In Donations After Murder Indictment Things are not going well for Karmelo Anthony compared to a couple months ago.  Despite confessing to the stabbing that…

A new law in Denmark subjects 18-year-old females to the draft starting July 1 Women in Denmark are now subject to conscription, following a change to the relevant law made by the…

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said he will oppose any agreements to end the fighting Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said that the war in Gaza must continue until “a decisive…

A deadly Russian police raid on alleged Azerbaijani crime ring has prompted a major diplomatic flare up between the two nations The relationship between Russia and Azerbaijan has rapidly deteriorated in the…

Judge Orders Halt To Mass Layoffs At Dept. Of Health And Human Services Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on July 1 ordered officials to stop the…

♦ Some people just can’t take a win.  For the “I need to be outraged” group I would suggest their best time for complaining would be to join the collective association of…

The conversation is the first phone call between the leaders since September 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron held their first phone call in nearly three years on…

Aluminum, copper and nickel shipments have surged this year, according to trade data Beijing has increased purchases of Russian metals as Moscow pivots toward Asia amid Western sanctions, Bloomberg has reported, citing…

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $10B As Trump Threatens To Unleash DOGE On Him Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI secured $10 billion in fresh capital, doubling…

Iraq Claims Top Spot Among OPEC Crude Suppliers To The US Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Iraq exported nearly 7 million barrels of crude to the U.S. in May, surpassing all…

Noem Accuses Anti-ICE App Developer Of Obstructing Justice; Leavitt Blasts CNN For “Promoting” It Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday that “ICEBlock,” an app designed to alert individuals of…

While holding a conference and press availability from the new Florida location for speedy processing of illegal aliens, President Trump hears the news of the Senate passing the Big Beautiful Bill. President…

The foreign aid agency has failed to advance America’s interests, the US Secretary of State has said Washington has formally shut down its foreign aid agency USAID, Secretary of State Marco Rubio…

Takeover Begins: Robots Set To Outnumber Humans At Amazon Warehouses Amazon hasn’t set a public date for fully replacing warehouse workers with robots, but all indicators suggest a gradual transition is well…

“Party’s Over”: Auto Sales Sputter After Tariff-Fueled Surge The auto sales slowdown that emerged in June is largely a hangover from the spring surge, when consumers rushed to dealerships nationwide to beat tariff hikes…

Oklahoma Ends Recommendation To Add Fluoride To Water Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Oklahoma State Department of Health has removed its recommendation that fluoride be added…

Attorneys Push For Class Action In Birthright Citizenship Case After Supreme Court Ruling Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, Attorneys are urging a federal judge in Maryland to use an…

Both crew members operating the SU-34 fighter-bomber are said to have ejected and survived A Russian SU-34 medium-range fighter-bomber crashed during a training flight in the country’s Nizhny Novgorod Region on Tuesday,…

Circle Applies For US Trust Bank Charter To Manage Its USDC Reserve Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, Stablecoin issuer Circle has applied to establish a national trust bank in the United…

Poland’s prime minister has announced the reinstatement of temporary checks on the borders with Germany and Lithuania Poland has decided to temporarily reintroduce border controls along its frontiers with Germany and Lithuania…

The Russian and French presidents have discussed the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine, the Kremlin press service has said Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken with his French counterpart Emmanuel…

The incident took place during a US operation against the powerful criminal organization, the Department of Justice has revealed A hacker working for Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel accessed the phone records…

President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem meet with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at the new illegal alien detention and transfer facility known as Alligator Alcatraz. All three government leaders held…

President Trump, Governor DeSantis and Secretary Noem deliver remarks from the Alligator Alcatraz facility. WATCH: During a tour through Alligator Alcatraz (raw feed below) President Trump and DHS Secretary Noem were asked…

The final vote was 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance breaking a tie. Republican Senators Susan Collins, Rand Paul and Thom Tillis of North Carolina joined Democrats and voted no. WATCH: ….

As Final Vote Looms, Eight GOP Holdouts Threaten Passage Of Trump’s $3.3 Trillion Tax And Spending Bill After more than 21 hours of continuous voting, late-night negotiations, and a rare floor appearance…

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…

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…