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Tucker Carlson traveled to France in order to interview Telegram Founder and CEO Pavel Durov who remains in French detention as he awaits the judicial system to release him.  Telegram is used…

The allegations of extremism and child abuse are baseless, Pavel Durov has told Tucker Carlson Telegram founder Pavel Durov has called the criminal case against him in France unfair and baseless. In…

David Cameron reportedly warned prosecutor Karim Khan against issuing warrants for Israeli leaders Former British Prime Minister David Cameron threatened to defund the International Criminal Court (ICC) and withdraw the UK from…

Elon Musk’s departure and public feud with Donald Trump is reportedly worrying employees US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff are concerned they could become the next targets of the cost-cutting drive…

IRS Reminds Taxpayers Of June 16 Payment Deadline, And The Penalties Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Estimated tax payments for the second quarter of 2025 are due…

Green Dominoes Fall: Sunnova Files For Bankruptcy After SunPower’s Collapse Sunnova Energy International Inc. has become the second major publicly traded rooftop solar firm to file for bankruptcy within a year following…

Ukraine cannot win the war against Russia on its own, Tommy Tuberville has said Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is well aware that he cannot win the conflict against Russia on his own and…

Israel Unveils Unprecedented Transfer To Ukraine Of ‘Several’ Patriot Missile Batteries In early May it was first reported that a US-supplied Patriot air-defense system that was based in Israel would be refurbished…

OPEC Oil Production Fell Short Of OPEC+ Target In May By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com OPEC’s crude oil production in May increased less than called for in the OPEC+ agreement which had…

China FX Diversification And The Dollar By Martin Lynge Rasmussen of Money: Inside and Out China has been preparing for further tension in the US-China relationship since Trump’s first term, including by…

UBS Warns On Slumping iPhone Demand As WWDC 2025 Kicks Off Watch WWDC 25:  *   *    *    Update (1312ET):  That was quick.  APPLE TURNS NEGATIVE DURING PRESENTATION AT DEVELOPER’S CONF….

Supreme Court Rules 9–0 Wisconsin Violated First Amendment By Denying Tax Exemption To Catholic Charity Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court on June 5…

Flag-burning liberals find out, once again, that crime doesn’t pay The epic battle between illegal immigrants and law enforcement has proven beyond a doubt that the Biden administration committed a grave mistake…

The US has supposedly already given the “go-ahead” to remove the Ukrainian leader, according to Nikolay Azarov Vladimir Zelensky will resign and leave Ukraine, former Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov has predicted, citing…

Errol Musk has said he would like to learn leadership from the Russian president Errol Musk, a South African businessman and the father of tech billionaire Elon Musk, has praised Russian President…

The prime minister has called for the conflict to be solved diplomatically The people of Hungary have no interest in dying for Kiev despite EU officials wanting to continue the Ukraine conflict,…

Inflation Expectations Tumble As Latest NY Fed Survey Suggests Fed Late To Cut For the first time since 2024, inflation expectations tracked by the NY Fed survey of Consumer Expectations dropped across…

China Exports To US Tumble As Transshipments To Evade Trump Tariffs Soar Overnight China published its latest inflation/trade data dump. It showed that, as expected, China is still unable to kickstart its…

Trump Did It: Executives & Administrators Are Increasingly Using TDI To Fight DEI Authored by Jonathan Turley, “Trump made me do it.” Across the country, this is a virtual mantra being mouthed…

Tether USDT Stablecoin Seen On Bolivian Store Price-Tags Authored by Adrian Zmudzinski via CoinTelegraph.com, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has shared photos of goods in a Bolivian airport shop priced in the company’s…

Advance Into Central Ukrainian Region Is Part Of Putin’s ‘Buffer-Zone’: Kremlin We detailed Sunday that Russian forces have begun advancing into Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in the three-year-plus long war,…

British Gov’t: Western Cultural Concerns Are Signs Of “Right-Wing Terrorist Ideology” Authored by Jonathan Turley, Free speech in the United Kingdom has long been in free fall, with expanding criminalization and regulation…

Russia is working with fellow members of the group to create a system of equal and mutually beneficial partnership, the president said Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed cooperation between BRICS members,…

Kiev would not have been able to carry out attacks inside Russia on its own, the foreign minister has said There is no doubt that Britain is helping Ukraine to carry out…

The Northern Sea Route could substantially slash costs, but geopolitical risks deter major players, according to the newspaper Western sanctions on Russia have effectively cut off EU shipping firms from tapping into…

But Apart From All That, Not A Lot Is Happening By Michael Every of Rabobank Friday saw US payrolls do their usual comic thing and prove the ADP employment print using ostensibly…

After years of French-led anti-terrorist missions in the Sahel region it only gets clearer that African problems need African solutions “Our enemies are many and they stand ready to exploit our every…

Two suspects smuggled explosive devices into the facility on instructions from Kiev, the agency has said Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained two Russian nationals suspected of planning a sabotage attack…

Container Ship Rocked By Explosion Off Indian Coast  The Singapore-flagged container ship Wan Hai 503 erupted in flames after an explosion rocked the vessel earlier today off the coast of Beypore, a…

The Russian foreign minister has spoken in support of a fairer and more multipolar world Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has once again expressed his support for the Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral dialogue…

Pope Francis was hailed as a bold reformer – an unexpected aid holds the key for decoding and assessing his complex personality and impact “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak…

Moscow has committed itself to not deploying intermediate-range rockets unless Washington does so first The US has so far ignored Moscow’s call to impose limits on its deployment of intermediate-range missiles, Russian…

Futures Rise Ahead Of US-China Talks US equity futures reverse earlier losses and trade near session highs, with small cap/Russell outperformance pointing to a further potential squeeze in high-beta names as investors…

Strategic Reset: Warner Bros. Discovery To Split Into Two Public Companies As Cable Business Suffers  Warner Bros Discovery’s announcement that it will split into two independent, publicly traded companies by mid-2026 marks…

The average income of white households remains nearly five times higher than that of the country’s black majority, Cyril Ramaphosa has said President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a forceful defence of Black Economic…

Key Events This Week: CPI, US-China Trade Talks, Treasury Auctions The highlight this week will be US CPI on Wednesday and a resumption of trade talks between the US and China today…

Vladislav Loginov has been taken into custody in Krasnoyarsk over allegations that he improperly awarded city contracts Russian authorities have arrested the mayor of Krasnoyarsk on charges of large-scale bribery. The head…

Russian forces have destroyed 26 of 31 units provided to Kiev, according to the outlet The Russian military has reportedly destroyed the majority of US-supplied M1 Abrams tanks delivered to Ukraine, with…

Greta Thunberg Claims She’s Been ‘Kidnapped’ By Israeli Forces Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Climate alarmist turned humanitarian activist Greta Thunberg said Sunday that she’s been “kidnapped” after she and the rest of the crew…

Stock Market Performance As Summer Arrives Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.cm, Breakout! Next Stop, Previous Highs Last week, we discussed the successful test of the 200-DMA. “Most notably, this past week was…

Beijing’s envoy has expressed confidence in revitalizing bilateral ties with New Delhi The Chinese ambassador to India, Xu Feihong, has expressed optimism for strong diplomatic relations between the two nations. Speaking to reporters…

US, China Gear Up For High-Stakes Meeting In London U.S. and Chinese delegations have arrived in the U.K. for talks aimed at patching up a fraying truce in an ongoing trade war…

Rwanda accuses ECCAS of denying it the opportunity to assume the rotating chairmanship Rwanda has announced its withdrawal from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) as tensions rise over its…

US Electric Vehicle Adoption Plummets Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, EV interest among U.S. drivers has dropped to 16%, the lowest since 2019. Key deterrents include high upfront costs, limited charging…

US Manufacturing By State: Who Gains Most From ‘Made In America’? President Trump has championed the idea that a key part of making America great again is bringing back industries that left…

Security forces have fired tear gas and rubber bullets as anti-immigration raid rallies continue for a third day Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has denounced the violent protests raging for a…

The Defense Ministry earlier reported that Russian tank units had entered Dnepropetrovsk Region Russia’s recent advance into Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk Region is part of the push by Moscow to establish a “buffer zone”…

The attack was described as part of Moscow’s retaliation for Kiev’s “terrorist” acts against national air forces Russian forces have conducted overnight strikes on a Ukrainian airfield in the western Rovno Region,…

The Defense Ministry in Moscow did not disclose the exact number of POWs involved DETAILS TO FOLLOW

Two lawyers have been warned after submitting arguments generated by artificial intelligence A judge of the High Court of England and Wales has issued a formal warning to legal professionals, cautioning lawyers…

An attempt to smuggle Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopter parts worth $5 million has been foiled, the Federal Security Service has said The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced that it has…

‘No ID, No Nudes’: Pornhub Pulls Out Of France In Spat Over Age Checks Vive la resistance – in reverse. Pornhub and its sister sites YouPorn and RedTube have gone dark in…

The Fed Is Very Worried About Tariff Passthrough Onto Prices Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The Fed, businesses, and consumers are all concerned over price hikes. Worried About Prices? Please consider…

Kiev supports terrorists in the Sahel region and arms paramilitary forces in Sudan, Muhammad Al-Sirr has claimed Ukraine is carrying out the West’s “dirty work” by backing armed groups behind terrorist attacks…

Kiev has complained that it lags behind Moscow in terms of long-range strike capacity Russia’s air defense systems intercepted 49 Ukrainian fixed-wing kamikaze drones overnight, its Defense Ministry said Monday. Moscow continues…

The burials range from small clusters to sites containing dozens of bodies, an anonymous Sudanese official has said At least 117 mass graves have been discovered across the Sudanese capital Khartoum, amid…

The recreational facility was 50 km from the border in Kursk Region, according to Aleksandr Khinshtein One person was killed and at least five others were wounded in a Ukrainian strike on…

Bulgaria Set To Join Eurozone In 2026 Authored by RFE/RL staff via OilPrice.com, The European Commission has given Bulgaria the green light to adopt the euro as of January 1, 2026, following…

A government “deradicalization” program lists “cultural nationalism” as a potential extremist ideology A UK government training guide has labelled concerns over mass migration as an extremist ideology which could warrant outside intervention…

The US president has labeled protesters “paid insurrectionists,” blaming local authorities for a violent escalation US President Donald Trump has called on California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass…

EU Farmer Protests Far From Over As They Battle Threats From Mercosur Trade Agreement And Ukraine Via Remix News, Farmers in Spain and France were again protesting agricultural imports from Ukraine and…

73% Of Indonesian Men Smoke… In 2025, smoking remains a persistent public health concern, with sharp disparities visible not only across countries but also between genders. The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco use…

In 72 educational institutions in the country there are no white British pupils at all, The Telegraph has reported White British children are currently a minority in one in four schools across…

MOSCOW, JUNE 9, 2025 — On June 9th, RT will be premiering a new program, The Sanchez Effect, hosted by renowned American journalist Rick Sanchez. Over the course of his career, Sanchez has worked…

New Delhi believes secessionists are using the country as a base India is expected to urge Canada to expedite the extradition of 26 alleged terrorists, who government officials in New Delhi have…

After agreeing to pay $15 million to President Trump from a previous lawsuit, apparently ABC executives are not in the mood for more anti-Trump bias revelations within their ranks.  ABC News has…

The blood slowly drains from the face of Margaret Brennan as she faces the indefatigable smiling truth that Kevin Hassett represents. The furrowed brows deepen, the lips pulsate to a purple posture,…

The implication of the remark, as President Trump says, “a better security” venue, is that something of much greater significance than traditional White House operations is in need of attention. To such…

President Trump and Secretary of State/National Security Advisor Marco Rubio depart New Jersey en route to Camp David for a principals group meeting, discussion and strategy session.  As President Trump notes, there…

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…

I know no one likes to watch the Republican warmongers advocate for expanded intervention, conflict and escalated global violence as a means for them to retain power.  However, this is one of…

According to most media estimates, there are over a million illegal aliens in the greater Los Angeles area with many of them currently in a state of uprising against the United States…

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…

At least four people were injured at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, on Monday An explosion rocked a storage depot used to temporarily house unexploded munitions at the US Kadena Air…

Restoring American Maritime Dominance: A National Imperative Authored by Andy Thaxton via RealClearWire, As a career Naval intelligence officer, I spent years observing China’s maritime ascent. Briefing after briefing warned of China’s increasingly…

Washington DC Dominates The US Gun-Deaths League Gun violence remains one of the most pressing public health issues in the United States. But as Visual Capitalist;s Bruno Venditti shws in the following…

The Freedom Flotilla vessel was intercepted before it reached the Palestinian enclave Israeli naval forces have intercepted and detained the crew of the Gaza-bound civilian boat Madleen, which was attempting to deliver…

AI Is Taking Thousands Of Jobs; Is Yours At Risk? Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times, Just as the internet radically changed how America conducts business, artificial intelligence (AI) is…

Lost To History: The Forgotten Thermonuclear Near-Disaster On Big Savage Mountain Six decades ago, in a near-nuclear disaster erased from public memory, a U.S. Air Force B-52D Stratofortress—carrying two thermonuclear bombs—was torn apart six…

Belarusian leader wants to honor his “trusted friend” and the Chinese people for gifting a sports complex to Minsk Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has proposed installing a monument to Chinese leader Xi…

The French Defense Ministry has asked Renault to set up military production lines for Kiev Paris is pushing France’s largest automaker, Renault, to establish a military drone production operation in Ukraine, the…

We Need A ‘Kill Switch’ On Foreign Powers Tampering With Our Electric Grid Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Empowerment Alliance, It has long been acknowledged that the United States’ energy infrastructure…

Civil defense chief seeks $10 billion by the time officials want Berlin to be “ready for war” with Moscow Germany is accelerating plans to expand and modernize its civil defense infrastructure amid…

California governor has pushed back against the US president’s move to suppress pro-immigrant riots in his state President Donald Trump has directed top federal officials to take “all such action necessary” to…

These Are The Worst States To Be A Gun Owner Does your state support your 2nd Amendment rights or make it exceedingly difficult to keep and bear arms? Here’s your chance to…

Data Center Construction Boom Faces Local Resistance In 28 States Authored by John Haughley via The Epoch Times, The need for data centers to drive 21st century cloud computing and win the…

The previous administration spent $300 billion on the Ukraine conflict, the US vice president has said Washington was spending “crazy” amounts of money on Ukraine under the administration of former President Joe…

Make It Make Sense: Why Are We Punishing The Farmers Doing The Right Thing? Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, Why is it that the organic apple must wear a…

Tens of thousands of anti-drone missiles were promised to Ukraine by the Biden administration, Vladimir Zelensky has said US President Donald Trump’s administration has diverted a large military aid package his predecessor…

Rickards: The Truth About Fort Knox And Gold Leasing Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Whatever happened to the Donald Trump and Elon Musk visit to Fort Knox? You’ll recall the buzz…

Some officials in the EU harbor an irrational dislike of Moscow, Fernand Kartheiser has told RT Anti-Russian sentiment in Brussels verges on “war hysteria,” Fernand Kartheiser, a Luxembourgish MEP recently expelled from…

When Diversity Divides Authored by Kenneth Tashky via The Epoch Times, When it was recently reported that protesters disrupted Columbia University’s graduation ceremony, one might ask: which one? In addition to its…

Congresswoman Harriet Hageman from Wyoming outlines background and perspective on the Big Beautiful Bill in a brief statement uploaded to her social media accounts.  Rep Hageman walks through the important aspects of…

Where Are We Now? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities (full pdf available here) Just last weekend, we discussed Confusion versus Uncertainty. We have a long list of potential market moving-events, many of…

Kiev’s forces have attacked a substation in Kursk Region with drones, Aleksandr Khinshtein has said Ukrainian forces have left tens of thousands of people without electricity in a drone strike targeting a…

Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears on Fact the Nation to discuss the escalation of violent protests in Los Angeles, California. As President Trump called for the National Guard to…

Ten UAVs were intercepted over the Russian capital’s suburbs overnight An elderly woman has been hospitalized following a drone attack on Moscow Region on Sunday, according to Governor Andrey Vorobyov. The woman…

The IAEA’s chief has warned of dire consequences as West Jerusalem considers a strike on fortified Iranian nuclear sites Israeli threats against Iran’s nuclear program have the potential to escalate into a…

Musk Hit Bessent ‘Like A Rugby Player’ In White House Fight, Bannon Claims Long-simmering tensions between Elon Musk and other members of the Trump administration exploded into physical violence in mid-April, with…

Chinese-Owned Firm Halts Construction On Battery Plant In America’s EV Heartland Chinese-owned AESC has halted construction of its $1.6 billion battery plant in America’s emerging “Battery Belt,” citing economic uncertainty tied to…