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A federal appeals court has suspended an earlier ruling by the trade court A US federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, halting a trade court ruling that…

Senator Chuck Grassley Declassifies FBI Files On Nellie Ohr, Including Lies Told To Congress Via the Conservative Treehouse, Eight years ago, I created a simple graphic to help readers and researchers understand…

Critics warn that vulnerable people may feel pressured to end their lives France’s lower house of parliament has approved a controversial bill to legalize assisted dying for adults with terminal illnesses, amid…

On the 85th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky’s birth, we revisit the exiled Nobel laureate who never stopped writing in Russian A Russian Jew who found spiritual kinship in Christianity and made it…

New US-Proposed Gaza Ceasefire Deal Revealed Amid Conflicting Reports There are reports in Saudi media saying that a new ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is imminent, and that the White House…

Watch: American Contractors Throw Stun Grenades At Gazans Outside Aid Site The United States government has distanced itself from Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) operations, after the aid group’s initial attempts to distribute food…

“Grading For Equity”: San Fran Public Schools Trigger Outcry With Plan To Lower Standards For Students Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Voice of San Francisco is reporting that San Francisco Board of Education Superintendent…

California’s High Costs, Low Incentives Are Scaring Away Film & TV Producers, Report Says Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Low incentives and complicated state regulations, combined with high housing…

Defense Secretary John Healey has said London will increase hacking operations as part of a new military command London will significantly step up offensive cyber operations against Russia and China, UK Defense…

As Merz Teases Taurus Missiles For Ukraine, Russian Sources Warn Berlin Could Become Direct Target “Of course, it is within the realms of possibility,” the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, told TV channel…

Rabobank: Trump’s 90-Day Tariff Pause Is Not A Peace But A Ceasefire To Rearm By Jane Foley, head of FX strategy at Rabobank On Whose Authority If the on/off nature of President…

WTI ‘Off The Lows’ After Across-The-Board Inventory Draws, Diesel Stocks Lowest In 20 Years Oil prices are dumping this morning, after overnight gains following API’s reported big crude draw as soft US economic…

Ukraine cannot operate the long-range missile without German assistance, a top lawmaker has said Russia could authorize strikes inside Germany if Ukraine receives and attacks it with German Taurus cruise missiles, a…

For First Time Since 2019, Trump Invites Powell To White House To Discuss Economy The day after we posted this on X:  Dear @federalreserve does this mean emergency 50 bps rate cut…

Saifedean Ammous: “Nothing Stops This Train” – Tether, Bitcoin, & The Endgame For The Dollar Authored by Jenna Montgomery via BitcoinMagazine.com, At Bitcoin 2025, economist and author Saifedean Ammous laid out a…

The delegation, led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, will be the same as during the opening session, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said Moscow’s negotiation team will not undergo any changes…

Rickards On Gold Leasing: Is It All There? Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, Our friend and colleague Jim Rickards has the energy and drive of a 20-year old. I try to…

Stellar 7Y Auction Sees Highest Stop Through Since 2022, Record Low Dealers It’s only fitting that a week of impressive coupon auctions would conclude with what was the strongest 7Y auction in…

Labour wants to redirect pension investment into the British economy amid waning political support and global tensions The UK has unveiled a sweeping and controversial plan to force pension funds to invest…

Kiev’s demands for early access to a Russian draft memorandum are “unconstructive,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Ukraine’s demands that Russia “immediately” delivers its draft roadmap for ceasefire talks are undermining diplomatic…

The undocumented Mexican man threatened to shoot the US president, according to the US Department of Homeland Security US immigration authorities have arrested a Mexican man who allegedly threatened to shoot President…

Judges have ruled the US president overstepped his authority in imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency powers law The US Court of International Trade has ruled that President Donald Trump…

Hamas has also reportedly received a roadmap prepared by US special envoy Steve Witkoff Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled his readiness to accept the latest ceasefire proposal put forward by…

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…

White House On Tariffs: “Nothing’s Really Changed” The White House on Thursday downplayed the implications of a court ruling that blocked some of President Trump’s tariff measures, and suggested they will win…

DOJ Investigating Whether California’s Law Letting Males Join Girls’ Sports Violates Title IX Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a civil rights investigation…

US Pending Home Sales Plunge Most In 30 Months, Back Near Record Lows US Pending Home Sales plunged 6.3% MoM in April – far more than the 1.0% MoM decline expected (below…

Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Suspending Biden-Era Migrant Parole Programs Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, A federal judge in Massachusetts on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to resume processing…

The Russian currency’s rally has been fueled by rising oil prices and optimism regarding the Ukraine peace talks, analysts say The Russian ruble soared to a two-year high against the US dollar…

Are We Going To War With Iran? Q: “On Iran, did you warn Prime Minister Netanyahu against taking some sort of actions that could disrupt the talks there in a phone call…

Up to 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs may be lost in the next five years, according to Anthropic’s Dario Amodei Artificial intelligence could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the…

Stock Futures Fade Overnight Gains After Activist Judges Block Trump Tariffs, NVDA Earnings Impress US equity futures are higher, but well off session highs and rapidly losing altitude, after stronger NVDA earnings…

Blocked? Authored by Peter Tchir via AcademySecurities.com, Blocked? Back to the latest tariff news impacting markets. This seems to be a good summary of what occurred (from Bloomberg.com) In a ruling issued…

DOGE Is Working: Continuing Jobless Claims In ‘Deep TriState’ Surge To 4 Year Highs The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first rose to 240k last week – the…

Q1 GDP Revision Reveals Big Deterioration In Personal Spending In “Kitchen Sink” Report Of all the economic reports, the BEA’s periodic update of US GDP is the most useless because not only…

The targeted site may have housed foreign fighters, according to Moscow Russian forces have carried out precision strikes on a facility used by Ukrainian special operations forces, the Defense Ministry in Moscow…

US Cancels $700 Million Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine Contract Authored by Jon Fleetwood via Substack, In what could be a massive shift away from bird flu pandemic orchestration, the Trump administration has…

The missing child, identified as Joshlin Smith, was trafficked for about $1,122, according to court documents While the three individuals convicted of kidnapping and trafficking six-year-old Joshlin Smith were sentenced to life…

Funding the production of long-range arms makes German involvement in the Ukraine conflict “obvious,” according to Moscow Berlin will provide Kiev with another €5 billion ($5.6 billion) in military aid on top…

Rubio Announces Visa Restrictions On Foreign Nationals Involved In Censoring Americans Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced new visa restrictions on foreign nationals involved in censoring the speech of U.S….

Germany Vows To ‘Do Everything’ To Prevent Nord Stream Resurrection Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, German Chancellor Merz: Germany plans to do all it takes to keep the Nord Stream 2…

US Tightens Screws: Jet Engine Parts, Semiconductor Tech Exports To China Halted Amid Supply Chain War The Trump administration has intensified the U.S.-China trade war by suspending exports of critical American technologies…

Biotech IPO Winter May Last Until 2026 As Headwinds Mount  The IPO and secondary equity markets for biotech and biopharma have been in a deep freeze this year, and any thawing isn’t expected…

Did Smoot-Hawley Cause The Great Depression? Authored by Christopher Whalen via DailyReckoning.com, Americans are taught in school that the Smoot-Hawley tariff legislation of 1930 greatly exacerbated the Great Depression and sent the…

Certain groups will always choose paper over digital money in order to avoid taxation, according to Sergey Dubinin Russia is unlikely to ever give up cash, according to the former head of…

Arms provided to Kiev by Western allies are being transferred to groups destabilizing the Sahel region, according to a Russian Foreign Ministry official Ukraine is training jihadist fighters and supporting terrorist groups…

Berlin would do well to heed Moscow’s warnings not to supply long-range weapons to Kiev If in a dark hole, dig deeper, especially even deeper than feckless German ex-chancellor Olaf Scholz. That…

The US commerce secretary has said the truce between the two South Asian nations happened due to the president’s intervention The US government has claimed in an official court submission that the…

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said investigators are working to find out where the messages to Vladimir Medinsky are coming from Alleged threats being made against Russia’s chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky and his…

“Race To The Bottom”: BYD Price Slashing To Prompt Chinese EV Consolidation BYD’s aggressive discount campaign is shaking up China’s EV market, pushing rivals to slash prices and raising concerns of an…

Colonial Germany murdered an estimated 100,000 men, women and children between 1904 and 1908 Namibia will never forget the brutal massacre of thousands of its people by German soldiers during colonial rule,…

The popular messaging platform is set to bring Grok AI to over a billion users, CEO Pavel Durov has announced Elon Musk’s startup xAI will invest $300 million and deploy its Grok…

Kiev and its foreign backers are “playing with fire,” the former US Marine Corps intelligence officer has told RT Ukraine must have relied on assistance from the West if it did in…

Thrive Mahua has said Berlin’s response to the OvaHerero-Nama genocide lags behind Holocaust accountability A descendant of Namibia’s OvaHerero and Nama peoples, Thrive Vinomaandero Mahua, has called for greater accountability and reparations…

Merkel’s Back, Warns Europe Could Be ‘Destroyed’ Without More Open-Borders Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is back with a message; Europe could be ‘destroyed’ unless they continue to allow millions of ‘non-Europeans’…

US Lawmakers Demand Answers From Brussels Over Alleged Foreign Interference In Polish Election Campaign Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix news, Several senior members of the U.S. House of Representatives have written…

St Petersburg is set to bar many foreign nationals from courier and taxi work until 2026 St Petersburg plans to ban foreign workers from driving taxis as well as from courier jobs…

The governor of Russia’s Stavropol Region has said Kiev’s operatives were potentially behind the blast on Wednesday A Russian government official who previously served in the Ukraine conflict has been killed in…

Which Types Of Government Rule The World? In 2024, there were a record-breaking number of elections. Over two billion people voted for political leaders in 40 countries. What does the balance of…

Wilders Threatens Collapse Of Dutch Coalition If Asylum Freeze Is Not Implemented Within Weeks By Thomas Brooke of Remix News, Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders has issued a stark ultimatum to the…

The Russian foreign minister and the US secretary of state spoke by phone on Wednesday Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the Ukraine peace negotiations during a phone call with US Secretary…

The Third World Is Forever Chasing The White Man Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us This week I was researching the history of the modern African economy as well as the financial…

US To Start Revoking Visas Of Chinese Students: Rubio Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on May 28 that the United States…

Inside TechNet: What Goldman’s Closed-Door Talks Reveal About China’s AI The recent invitation-only Goldman Sachs TechNet Conference, held at the Portman Ritz-Carlton in Shanghai, China, brought together senior executives from top technology…

How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, California has declared war on its middle class, and the special interests controlling the state are doing everything…

$13 Billion In Renewable Projects At Risk In Vietnam Due To Subsidy Cuts Over 40 investors in Vietnam’s solar and wind energy sector are warning they may default unless the government honors…

Victoria’s Secret Exposed In ‘Security Incident’ As Site Goes Offline For Days, Shares Down 6.9% Fashion giant Victoria’s Secret & Co. has halted certain office operations and told employees to avoid using…

Elon Musk announces the end of his time as a special government employee: [SOURCE] Thank you, Elon Musk.     Posted in Big Government, Big Stupid Government, Big Tech, DOGE, President Trump…

Smotrich Calls For ‘Rebuilding Temple’ During Jerusalem Day Celebrations Via Middle East Eye Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for the rebuilding of a Jewish temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque…

Fannie Mae Partners With Palantir For AI Mortgage Fraud Effort As Trump Works To Take Housing Giants Public Fannie Mae, the quasi-government financial firm overseen by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA),…

Six Mexican Soldiers Killed By Cartel Roadside Bomb At least six Mexican soldiers were killed when a homemade explosive detonated on a roadway at the Michoacán-Jalisco border—territory controlled by the Jalisco New…

Venezuela’s Shadow War Over Oil-Rich Essequibo Is Escalating Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Following ExxonMobil’s massive 2017 oil discovery offshore Guyana, Venezuela has revived and intensified its claim over the Essequibo…

The tech mogul has led the cost-cutting DOGE task force Tech billionaire Elon Musk, head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has announced that he will no longer serve as…

Two days ago, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino sought to address frustration by promising things in the background were taking place and that is why both he and Director Kash Patel were…

Why Ending The War In Ukraine Is So Difficult Now Authored by Connor O’Keefe via The Mises Institute, As President Trump wrestles to deliver on his campaign promise to end the war…

Futures Soar As Federal Trade Court Blocks Trump’s Global Tariffs A US federal court has just ruled President Trump does not have the authority under economic emergency legislation to impose sweeping global…

Eight years ago, I created a simple graphic to help readers and researchers understand how Nellie Ohr was connected to the construct of the Steele Dossier, the core source material that underpinned…

Rustem Umerov says Kiev expects a response from Moscow Ukraine has formally submitted its ceasefire terms to Russia, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has announced. Russia and Ukraine held their first direct…

We all knew the system would strike back. There are trillions at stake. A federal trade court based out of New York has just ruled in a three-judge decision that President Trump…

Kiev has stepped up attacks on the Russian capital in recent weeks A Ukrainian drone struck an apartment block in southwestern Moscow early Thursday morning, as Kiev ramps up its attacks on…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced (via X) the U.S. State Department will begin revoking the student visas of Chinese nationals, “including those” connected to the Chinese Communist Party: [SOURCE BACKGROUND]…

FBI Probing Allegations Of ‘Targeted Violence’ Against Religious Groups in Seattle: Official Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The FBI is investigating after officials said a religious event in Seattle…

Zelensky Proposes 3-Way Meeting With Trump, Putin As US Rejects More Anti-Moscow Sanctions Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for a three-way summit with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a moment…

Trump: I Warned Netanyahu Against Iran Strike President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to not attack Iran, or at least to hold off any…

The Middle Class Is Collapsing: Nearly 1 In 4 Americans Is Now “Functionally Unemployed” Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Do you ever feel like you are “functionally unemployed”?…

Say Goodbye To The Penny Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Mint will stop making the penny next year. The reasons are purely practical. It costs three times…

Trump’s Monetary Reset: Is A Gold-Backed Dollar On The Horizon? Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, “More and more people are asking if a gold standard will end the financial crisis in…

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have denied any wrongdoing British prosecutors have approved multiple charges against social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, including rape and human trafficking. The brothers,…

NVDA Jumps 5% After Solid Q1 Results Despite $2.5BN In Lost Sales To China Earlier today we wrote an extensive preview of what to expect from Nvidia’s Q1 earnings (here), but for…

What the Russian Military Yearbook 2025 reveals about Moscow’s war plans, defense priorities, and global outlook Each year, deep inside Russia’s opaque defense establishment, a select group of generals, security officials, and…

ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle was forced to plead guilty, on Tuesday the 27th of May 2025, after the Albanese government failed for 3 years to pass genuine whistleblower protection laws and failed…

Yale Dean Emails Everyone Anti-Trump Essay: “I Know You Share My Concern” Authored by Ibrahim Garza via The College Fix, A Yale University dean emailed the entire Divinity School a copy of…

Berlin is becoming directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, the Russian foreign minister has said Germany is repeating historic mistakes by becoming involved in the Ukraine conflict, a trajectory that could lead…

London has teamed up with Nordic NATO member states in what Russia views as a dangerous militarization of the region The British government may be considering establishing a permanent military presence in…

US To Have ‘Golden Share’ In Nippon Steel Partnership With US Steel: Sen. McCormick Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, The United States will have a “golden share” in Japan-owned…

Harvard Fires Star Professor Who Fabricated Data For ‘Dishonesty’ Studies A celebrated Harvard professor who researched why people are dishonest was fired and stripped of tenure after a probe found she fabricated…

Record Foreign Demand For Blowout 5Y Treasury Auction What a difference a month makes. A little over thirty days after one ugly coupon auction after another, when the market was panicking that…

President Donald Trump participates in the swearing-in ceremony for Interim USAO for the DC office, Jeanine Pirro.  The media question segment begins at 8:45 of the video below and there is a…

FOMC Minutes Preview: The “Wait-And-See” Meeting Three weeks after the May 7 FOMC left rates unchanged at 4.25-4.50% for a third consecutive session (as expected) with a unanimous vote, at 2pm ET…