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Andrey Portnov was gunned down on Wednesday in a suspected professional hit A top court in the Madrid region has placed a secrecy order on an investigation into the killing of former…

Ideological Capture At Professional Societies Via Open The Books, Disassembling and “deleting” federal agencies is proving to be a difficult task for the Trump administration, which has been working to slash bureaucratic…

NDB president Dilma Rousseff has said Algeria will strengthen the institution’s global influence and regional development role Algeria has officially become a member of the New Development Bank (NDB), the financial institution…

Putin Orders Army To Establish Big Border Buffer Zone Inside Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin is revisiting a strategy first proclaimed last year, but which appeared to be thwarted or put on…

Tariffs on agricultural imports will be reinstated after current waivers expire, as pressure mounts from Eastern European members EU member states have approved the reimposition of import quotas on Ukrainian agricultural goods,…

Lawmakers claim Hungary is undermining EU values with its policies Over 20 members of the European Parliament have urged the European Commission to immediately freeze all EU funding to Hungary as a…

A new round of talks between Moscow and Kiev will take place, but the Vatican is not “a very realistic” venue, the Russian Foreign Minister has said Moscow is at an “advanced…

US Withdrawal: ECB Warns Of Dollar Shortage Submitted by Thomas Kolbe ECB Warns of Dollar Shortage The rift between the European Union and the United States is deepening. Washington’s withdrawal from the…

Jihadists Launch Deadly Attack On Russian Airbase On Syria’s Coast In another clear indicator of just how drastically everything has changed in Syria in the wake of Bashar al-Assad’s ouster in December…

S. Jaishankar has highlighted the stark contrast between the geopolitical circumstances of his South Asian nation and the West Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has said that Europe, until very recently, did…

UAVs have been destroyed over more than a dozen regions, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said Russian air defenses have shot down 112 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Defense Ministry in Moscow…

BBC Reporter Shows How To Spread Extreme Climate Alarm Authored by Chris Morrison via The Daily Sceptic, A gleeful, self-satisfied Mr Punch was often heard to remark: “That’s the way to do…

Will Russia Inevitably Reconcile With The EU & Ukraine Like Putin Predicts? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Putin predicted a few weeks back that Russia will inevitably reconcile with the EU…

President Donald Trump’s appointed lead investigator on the DOJ Weaponization Working Group, Ed Martin, appears on a podcast with Mark Halperin to discuss ongoing events around the Trump administration.  Ed Martin is…

The Dept of Homeland Security has revoked the Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification for Harvard University, thereby essentially cancelling their ability to enroll foreign students into the school.  Harvard was notified…

At issue was President Trump’s plenary authority to remove Gwynne Wilcox, a former member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and Cathy A. Harris, the removed chair of the federal Merit…

Earlier today, President Donald Trump, HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and various cabinet officials within the Make America Healthy Again administration, took part in a MAHA commission event at the White…

Dilbert creator and President Trump supporter Scott Adams revealed days ago that he has the same terminal cancer diagnosis of Joe Biden, metastatic prostate cancer.  According to Adams his lifecycle will likely…

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…

New CCTV video released by Wisconsin media shows Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan outside her courtroom speaking with federal ICE agents who were there to arrest a criminal illegal alien appearing in…

These Are The States With The Highest Freeway Fatalities A recent study by Ladah Injury & Car Accident Lawyers, a Las Vegas-based personal injury firm, sheds light on which U.S. states have…

Justin Trudeau Getting Two Pensions And Severance Worth Over $8 Million Nothing like being rewarded for a job well done. Or, in Justin Trudeau’s case, bringing an entire country to the brink…

8 Habits That Can Add Decades To Life Authored by Brendon Fallon and Emily Allison via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We all want to live as long and as healthily as…

Supreme Court Reinstates Maine Lawmaker Suspended Over Transgender Sports Policy Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court on May 20 reinstated a Maine state lawmaker’s speaking…

Nuclear Stocks Soar After Report Trump To Sign Order Streamlining Reactor Approvals President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders as early as Friday to boost the nuclear energy industry by…

A Look At The New Surgeon General Authored by Jeffrey Folks via American Thinker, Not long ago, U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. defended Trump’s nomination of Casey Means as surgeon…

The Ivy League institution has been given 72 hours to comply with the US administration’s demands The Trump administration has revoked Harvard University’s authorization to enroll international students, escalating its ongoing conflict…

Unmasking The Real Threat To America’s Democracy Authored by Joseph C. Newtz via American Thinker, America isn’t a democracy but a constitutional republic designed to limit majority rule and protect individual rights….

Gerald Darmanin has argued that digital transactions are much easier to trace France’s Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin has proposed abolishing cash transactions, arguing that digital payments – including cryptocurrencies – are much…

North Carolina Communities Rising From The Ruins Of Hurricane Helene Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C.—North Carolina officials estimate that it will take many years,…

22 More People, Entities Charged In Arizona Medicaid Fraud Scheme Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An Arizona grand jury has indicted 22 individuals and entities linked to…

Shielding Your Golden Years: A Retiree’s Essential Guide To Avoiding Scams And Fraud Authored by John Rampton Via The Epoch Times, Who doesn’t look forward to retirement? After all, it’s a much-deserved…

AI, Chips, Humanoid Robots: Top Takeaways From Computex 2025 Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, entered its fourth day on Thursday. Tech blog Tom’s Guide said the spotlight this week has been on…

Stefanie Hubig promises a thorough probe into whether the right-wing AfD poses a “threat to democracy” Germany’s Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig has called for a serious examination into whether the Alternative for…

What The Biden Health Coverup Reveals About The Political Class Authored by Connor O’Keefe via the Mises Institute, Over the weekend, the Biden family announced that former President Joe Biden has been…

Gold And The Great American Monetary Resets: From 1792 To Today Authored by Nick Giambruno via International Man, Gold has been at the heart of the US monetary system since the nation’s…

Senators Question Spending Cuts In Key Nuclear, Science Programs Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A day after the Tennessee Valley Authority announced it had filed a permit…

Watch: Harmeet Dhillon Exposes DOJ’s ‘Color Revolution’ Wing: Secret ‘Resistance’ Memos, ‘Unhappy Hours,’ & ‘Crying Sessions’ In a revealing interview with Tucker Carlson, Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights…

Iran Will Hold US Responsible For Any Israeli Attack On Nuclear Sites: Foreign Minister Earlier this week CNN had issued an alarming report claiming that Israel is currently preparing possible preemptive strikes…

Venezuela Suspends Flights From Colombia To Prevent ‘Entry Of Mercenaries’ Authored by Yeny Sora Robles via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Venezuelan Security Minister Diosdado Cabello on May 19 announced the suspension…

The suspect reportedly drove towards the spy agency’s main gate and ignored orders to stop A shooting unfolded outside the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters near Washington, DC on Thursday, according to…

Senator Ron Johnson’s initiative comes amid speculation of a cover-up at the top after the ex-president was diagnosed with prostate cancer US Senator Ron Johnson, who chairs the Homeland Security investigative subcommittee,…

Kiev has urged the bloc’s members to directly fund the country’s military Ukraine has proposed that EU member states allocate a fixed portion of their GDP to fund the country’s armed forces….

Moderna Withdraws Application For Combination COVID-19–Influenza Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Moderna on May 21 said it withdrew its application for a license for its combination…

Putin Isn’t Ready To End War In Ukraine, Trump Told Allies In Private European leaders have been alarmed in the wake of their May 19 conference phone call with President Trump, as…

Trump Admin Blocks Harvard From Enrolling International Students, Requires Current Foreign Students To Transfer ‘Or Lose Legal Status’ Harvard is having a really bad year. From feds yanking billions in grants, to…

Senate Nullifies California’s Signature Gas-Car Ban, Sends Bill To Trump The U.S. Senate voted 51–44 to overturn California’s ban on gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, sending the measure to President Trump’s desk for signature….

Supreme Court: Children Of Illegal Aliens Or Tourists Are Not U.S. Citizens Authored by Gabriel Canaan via American Thinker, On the very day Donald Trump became president again, he signed an executive…

Positive Hack Days 2025 will spotlight the expanding role of technology in daily life The international cybersecurity festival Positive Hack Days (PHDays Fest) opened in Moscow on Thursday, bringing together government officials,…

An exchange of a thousand POWs from each side was agreed at talks in Istanbul Moscow and Kiev have formally submitted lists of prisoners each wants returned as part of a major…

Russian forces have been building a security buffer along the country’s border, Vladimir Putin has said The Russian military has been tasked with creating a “security buffer zone” along the border with…

Microsoft employees claim that emails mentioning “Palestine” or “Gaza” are being blocked Microsoft is reportedly under fire from employees following claims that its internal email system blocks messages containing terms such as…

Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has said that 40 UAVs were intercepted approaching Moscow, with disruptions reported at all major airports Russian air defenses have brought down a total of 485 Ukrainian drones across…

Two children are among the 12 people who sustained injuries as a result of the attack on Kursk Region, Aleksandr Khinshtein has reported Twelve civilians, including two minors, have been injured by…

Trump Navigating Base’s Opposition To Interventionism With Iran Talks: Victor Davis Hanson Authored by Ryan Morgan and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, As President Donald Trump continues negotiations to limit Iran’s…

Supreme Court Deadlocks, Leaves In Place Block On Nation’s First Religious Charter School Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court on May 22 voted 4–4…

Eco-Fascism – 2026 Ballot Measure Seeks “End Of Farming” In Colorado The Trump administration, focused on delivering economic growth and food production in the U.S., is attracting the opposition of zealots and…

Solar Stocks Plunge After House GOP Budget “Worse Than Deared” For Clean Energy The text that passed the House on a 215-214, party-line vote early Thursday is even less favorable to clean…

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…

A Judge Of Her Peers? Judge Dugan Assigned A Judge Previously Rebuked For Political Comments Authored by Jonathan Turley, Five years ago, I wrote about a federal judge who, in my view, had discarded…

“Business Confidence Has Improved” – US PMIs Surged In May As New Orders Jump While regional Fed surveys and private sector sentiment measures have been screaming pessimism, ‘hard’ data has refused to…

90% Of US Companies Plan To Reshore Amid Tariffs, Allianz Survey Finds Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Nine out of 10 U.S. companies say they expect to bring some…

US Existing Home Sales Weakest April Since Great Financial Crisis US existing home sales dropped 0.5% MoM in April (considerably worse than the +2.0% MoM rise expected), dropping to just 4.00MM sales…

According to reports, the deceased was the principal of the Moscow State Academy of Physical Education A body has been discovered inside the head of ‘The Motherland calls’, an iconic 85-meter statue…

The Russian currency’s rally has been in part driven by geopolitical optimism over a possible peace deal in the Ukraine conflict, analysts say The Russian ruble has climbed to a two-year high…

Brussels keeps slapping ever more penalties on Russia, even while Washington holds back What’s going on between the US and the EU right now over Ukraine feels like you and your buddy…

Why the notorious Soviet leader still matters in modern Russia A monument to Joseph Stalin has been unveiled at Taganskaya station in the Moscow Metro. More precisely, the historical high relief that…

Some 125,000 pounds (62.5 tons) of munitions were dropped by naval warplanes in Somalia, Admiral James Kilby has said The US Navy conducted the largest-ever airstrike from an aircraft carrier during an…

Futures, Treasuries Slide After “Big, Beautiful Bill” Passes US stocks and treasuries sold off after President Trump’s signature tax bill passed the House by the narrowest of margins (214-215), sparking fears that…

DOGE Damage Deepens As ‘Deep TriState’ Continuing Jobless Claims Highest Since Dec 2021 The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time fell modestly last week to 227k (below…

Oil Prices Dip On Report Of Another Potential OPEC+ Supply Boost  OPEC+ is considering a third straight monthly output hike, departing from the norm of stabilizing oil markets. According to Bloomberg, the…

Unlike the Cold War with the USSR, the competition with Beijing is primarily along “economic lines,” Michael Ellis has said China’s economic might makes the Asian nation a unique challenge as the…

Death Of The Dollar: An Eternal Tale Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The following paragraph, courtesy of Amazon, reviews the book Death of the Dollar by William Rickenbacker. Death of the…

The relocated group includes five families, with ages ranging from a 52-year-old matriarch to a 4-month-old calf A significant conservation effort has been under way at the Addo Elephant National Park near…

The Iskander-M rocket hit the billion-dollar US-supplied air defense system in Dnepropetrovsk region A Russian Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system has destroyed a US-supplied Patriot air defense system operated by the Ukrainian military,…

Moscow has repeatedly raised concerns that Kiev could exploit a truce to rearm and replenish its ranks US President Donald Trump has reportedly rejected demands by EU officials that negotiations on the…

The South Asian nation’s purchases of Russian crude are set to reach a 10-month high, according to Kpler data India’s imports of Russian crude oil are expected to reach around 1.8 million…

The US president has hosted his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa in Washington for talks US President Donald Trump voiced surprise at a visit by Vladimir Zelensky to South Africa during a…

Russian Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut has confirmed Moscow’s reserves are sufficient to support future relief efforts Russia will supply 709.5 tons of food aid to Burkina Faso this May as part of…

Bitcoin Hits New Record High, Surpasses Amazon’s Market Cap On ‘Pizza Day’ Today, May 22, is a special day for cryptocurrencies. It’s Bitcoin Pizza Day… and the cryptocurrency is making new record…

Most countries, including those in the EU, continue to trade with Moscow, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing has noted Beijing has accused the European Union and its allies of “double standards,” following…

Pope Leo XIV had previously proposed to host the next round of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev There are currently no formal agreements on holding negotiations between Moscow and Kiev in the…

Almost All ‘Extreme’ UK Temperature Highs Recorded At Junk Sites with Massive Possible Errors Authored by Chris Morrison via DailyScpetic.org, Over the last few days the UK has experienced balmy spring weather…

The Highest-Paying Industry In The US May Surprise You… The U.S. is one of the highest-paying countries globally, but the average earnings differ significantly between industries. This infographic, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, ranks…

Similar claims following an anti-establishment candidate’s first round win last year resulted in the vote being scrapped Romania’s Constitutional Court has rejected an election challenge filed by presidential candidate George Simion, ruling…

‘Strategic Earthquake’ In Europe Signals Age Of Uncertainty Authored by Alastair Paynter via OilPrice.com, A convergence of crises – geopolitical shifts, energy instability, and economic stagnation – marks the end of a…

Which Nationalities Overstay Their US Visas The Most? The Department of Homeland Security annually releases figures on people who overstay their visas and other legal forms of admissions in the United States.  Total…

Foxconn will increase its production of phones in the South Asian nation to mitigate tariff risks iPhone maker Foxconn will invest $1.5 billion in India in attempt to mitigate tariff risks, the…

Norway Bets Big On Offshore Wind Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, Norway announced on Monday a tender for three project areas for floating offshore wind in a highly-anticipated first competition for this type…

Leader Kim Jong-un has demanded the ship’s restoration before June, according to state media North Korean state media reported a “serious accident” during the attempted launch of a 5,000-ton naval destroyer on…

Air defenses have repelled yet another attempt by Kiev to target the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin has said Two Ukrainian drones have been shot down by air defenses outside Moscow, the Russian…

A training base for Kiev’s troops in Sumy Region was hit in a missile strike, Moscow has said Up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in a Russian missile strike on…

An MP has accused an influencer of “poisoning the minds of children” by speaking Russian A Ukrainian entertainer is facing multiple criminal investigations, including a treason probe, after being filmed rolling her…

End Of An Era: Kurdish PKK Disbands After 4-Decade Fight Against Turkey Authored by Christian Orr via The Epoch Times, Some rather surprising (perhaps even “shocking” would be an appropriate adjective?) news…

Spain’s Socialist Govt Pours Taxpayers’ Millions Into Equality Plan To Combat Nationalist Surge Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, As nationalist parties surge across Europe, the Spanish Socialist-led government is doubling…

CCP, Russia, Iran Collaborating With Cartels To Smuggle Fentanyl Into US Through Canada: FBI Director Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times, FBI Director Kash Patel says the flow of fentanyl…

Few Americans Enjoy Using AI Tools using artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, are only liked by 22 percent of Americans in their everyday lives. This places the country towards the bottom of the…

The KGB Spy Who Predicted Our Future Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, My dear friends, I think you are in very big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, YOU ARE…