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US Government Offers $5 Million For Capture Of MS-13 Leader, FBI Top 10 Fugitive Authored by Rachel Acenas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A reward of up to $5 million is…

US Electricity From Fossils Fuels Dips Below 50% For The First Time Ever Authored by Robert Rapier via OilPrice.com, For the first time, fossil fuels provided less than half of U.S. electricity…

Trump Slams ‘Radical Left Lunatics’ Who Are Doing ‘Impeachment Thing Again’ As Dems Distance From Theander Congressional Democrats are apparently furious that one of their members, Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI), introduced articles…

At least 19 hostile UAVs were downed en route to the Russian capital, according to Sergey Sobyanin Moscow has repelled a multi-wave Ukrainian drone attack, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported in a series…

Trump Admin Says It Will Pay Illegal Immigrants $1,000 To Self-Deport Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that illegal immigrants who use the…

The US president insists Catholics “loved” the joke President Donald Trump has dismissed criticism over a viral AI-generated image depicting him in papal attire, insisting the backlash is being driven by the…

Ukrainian Launches Drone Attack On Moscow & Key Black Sea Port Ahead Of Victory Day Events Russia says its military repelled a fresh drone attack on Moscow, with the capital’s mayor Mayor…

There Will Be Boundaries Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Fascism is when Dad says ‘no’”  – Aimee Terese on “X” It’s vain and futile to suppose that the disordered minds of Western…

From One Fake Left-Wing Hysteria To The Next Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID…

The bloc is reportedly preparing a plan to end all imports, including LNG, by the end of 2027 The European Commission (EC) plans to propose legislation to phase out all Russian pipeline…

Former operative of the group, Daniel Romein, also had a prior conviction for child porn possession before getting his job A former Bellingcat operative, known under the alias Daniel Romein, has allegedly…

The UAE-backed G42 group’s reported expansion plans come amid growing AI competition, with China and others closing the gap with the US The United Arab Emirates’ artificial intelligence group G42, backed by…

The Liberal / National Party coalition will never again have majority control of the federal government and the Labor / Liberal duopoly of taking turns for majority control is over. The 2…

What Recession: Goldman Now Expects Q2 GDP To Surge To 2.4% One month ago, Goldman’s Jan Hatzius became the butt of Wall Street nerd jokes when in the span of 73 minutes,…

Trump Says Mexican President “Afraid Of The Cartels” After Rejecting US Army To Hunt Them Down President Trump has responded to comments by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who said that she rejected…

Ron Paul: The Empire Strikes Back Authored by Ron Paul via the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, News this week that Elon Musk will soon be departing his “Department of Government Efficiency”…

Reddit is considering suing the University of Zurich for using chatbots to sway users’ opinions on hot-button topics A major Swiss university has come under fire for running a secret experiment on…

CBS Nominated For Emmy For The Editing Of Controversial Harris Interview Authored by Jonathan Turley, The 46th News & Documentary Emmy Awards nominations are out, and it seems that everyone is talking…

Xi Jinping will visit Russia at the invitation of Vladimir Putin and will attend the celebrations marking victory in the Great Patriotic War Historians seldom completely agree with one another even on…

US Crude Oil Output to Peak As Early As This Year: Kpler By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com U.S. crude oil supply will rise more slowly than expected for the rest of 2025…

Marcel Ciolacu has stepped down after a shock presidential rerun that saw right-wing firebrand George Simion take the lead in the first round Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has announced his resignation…

Indonesia Suspends Sam Altman’s WorldCoin Project Over Suspicious Activity Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s digital identity project, World, formerly known as Worldcoin, faces challenges in Indonesia after…

The company has shut down the once popular service after 22 years, reflecting a shift toward Teams as its main communications app Pioneering internet calling service Skype officially shut down on May…

Third countries are shipping the goods while hiding their place-of-origin, the outlet has reported Chinese exporters are using various methods to avoid steep US tariffs, including shipping goods through third countries to…

Measures include air raid warning sirens and the training of civilians The Indian Home Ministry has ordered several states to hold mock security drills on May 7 in order to ensure effective…

Elon Musk At Milken Conference: AI Will Replace Bloated, Inefficient Federal Gov’t Since President Donald Trump took office in mid-January, the Trump administration has employed Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)…

Trump Just Got A Game-Changing Legal Victory Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, When President Trump returned to the White House, he didn’t just get to work cleaning up Joe Biden’s mess—he…

“Resistance Is Futile” – For Both Bulls And Bears Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Resistance is futile” was a sentence that struck fear in the hearts of Trekkie fans during “Star Trek: The…

Alexander Dobrindt made the remark after the country’s domestic security service officially labeled the right-wing party “extremist” Incoming German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has spoken out against banning the right-wing Alternative for…

Israel Approves ‘Conquering Gaza, Holding Territories’ Ahead Of Trump’s Mideast Trip On Sunday night Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet, after which officials told local media that the cabinet…

25 Years Of Higher Interest Rates Ahead? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Interest rates are linked to inflation, but they’re also linked to risk. As a result of recency bias,…

The popular opposition party has been blacklisted, a big step down the slippery slope towards a total ban Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (literally, the Federal Office for Protecting…

The German foreign ministry has rejected US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks that it was wrong to brand the AfD party as extremist Germany’s foreign ministry has rejected US Secretary of…

The decision has thwarted the expected resumption of operations at Voice of America A US appellate court has rejected a ruling which would have re-opened the government-funded media outlet Voice of America…

The reported plan includes the forced relocation of Palestinians and occupation of the territory The Israeli government has approved a plan for the complete military occupation of Gaza and the forced relocation…

White House Eyes Deep Cuts In Non-Defense Spending, Boosts Military Budget The Trump administration has unveiled an early discretionary spending request ahead of its formal FY2026 budget submission. The proposal aims to…

Futures Slide, Jeopardizing Longest Winning Streak Since 2004; Dollar, Oil Tumble US equity futures are lower after the S&P gained 2.9% last week and erasing all post-Liberation Day losses. As of 8:00am,…

Tether AI Platform To Support Bitcoin And USDT Payments, CEO Says Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, Tether AI, the forthcoming artificial intelligence platform from stablecoin giant Tether, will feature payments in…

Ivan Zaborsky set a new world record as he claimed victory in one of Europe’s most prestigious endurance races Russian ultramarathon runner Ivan Zaborsky has won the ‘6 Days of France’ endurance…

Taibbi: No, State Media And Democracy Don’t Go “Hand In Hand.” Just The Opposite Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, The press watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, or FAIR.org, which…

Rabobank: The Foreign Film Tax Reads Like A Tax On Wealthy Democrats By Benjamin Picton, Senior strategist at Rabobank Australia’s ruling Labor Party was returned to government in emphatic fashion over the…

Key Events This Week: All Eyes On The Fed And BOE After the busiest week of Q1 earnings season, and a blockbuster week for macro, which included a stronger than expected jobs…

Several clips capture FAB-3000s in action, which are some of the most powerful munitions in the series New videos have shown glide bombs deployed by Russian aircraft destroying Ukrainian forces’ positions in…

Europeans are “rightly” concerned by the trend and should fight against any manifestations of the ideology, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Neo-Nazism is on the rise in Europe and extensive efforts are…

ISM Services Survey Surprises To Upside As Prices Paid Surge ‘Soft’ survey data continues to slump into this morning’s Services PMIs as Manufacturing PMIs were weak and Regional Red surveys were a…

S. Jaishankar has called out the hypocrisy of European countries pressuring New Delhi over ties with Moscow Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has rebuked European leaders for their hypocritical attitude when it…

Rwanda has confirmed discussions after Marco Rubio said Washington wants to send some of the most “despicable” people far away from America Rwanda has entered negotiations with Washington to receive migrants deported…

Ebrahim Rasool says the growing “scramble for critical minerals” is fueling global tensions Former South African ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool, expelled from Washington in March after accusing Donald Trump of…

The launch suggests the armed forces are prepared “to thwart any aggression,” officials have said The Pakistani military has successfully test launched a Fatah series short-range surface-to-surface missile, according to the country’s…

Children Advised Against Going Outside In Oregon Due To Air Quality Parts of Oregon are experiencing pollution levels deemed “unhealthy for sensitive groups,” according to an AirNow map from agencies including the…

The suspects have fled the scene in a stolen police car, the Dagestani Interior Ministry has said A group of gunmen has attacked a police patrol car in Makhachkala, the capital of…

Islam Seinaroyev and his accomplices are believed to have stolen around $24.5 million from the state The Turkish authorities have detained a former high-ranking official of the Russian Social Fund (SFR) who…

Russia’s Federal Security Service has declassified a Soviet investigation into underground nationalist Ukrainian groups Top clergy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) actively collaborated with the Nazis during World War II,…

In a rather remarkable message via Truth Social, President Trump proposes the reopening of Alcatraz prison. PRESIDENT TRUMP – “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! For too long, America has been plagued by vicious,…

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…

The original winner of the previous Romanian election in 2024, Călin Georgescu, was removed as the election winner and barred from ever running again because Georgescu did not support the EU security…

President Trump was returning to Washington DC from Mar-a-Lago, when he stopped by the assembled press pool for an impromptu presser.  I wish the background airplane audio was not so loud, but…

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…

Nationalist Dominates First Round Of Romanian Presidential Election In the latest chapter in the country’s months-long political drama that has seen an election thrown out and the winner charged with political crimes,…

First Driverless Heavy Duty Trucking Service Launched On US Public Roads Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pennsylvania-based Aurora Innovation, Inc. has launched commercial self-driving trucking service in…

The Russian president has offered his full support to India in its fight against terrorism Russian President Vladimir Putin called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and strongly condemned the April…

The short-range, shoulder-fired rockets have reportedly been received as part of an emergency procurement contract The Indian Army has received a new shipment of Russian Igla-S air defense missiles, valued at over…

Hollywood is dying a “very fast death,” the US president has claimed   US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he would impose a 100% tariff on foreign-produced films, marking the…

The US president has said top Western officials are urging him to maintain communication with the Kremlin US President Donald Trump has claimed that EU leaders are imploring him to engage diplomatically…

The Ukrainian military is targeting passenger cars with UAV strikes, Aleksandr Khinstein has said Ukrainian drone attacks have resulted in three civilian deaths in Russia’s Kursk Region, according to Acting Governor Aleksandr…

Most of the cars were reportedly stolen in Canada and EU countries before being smuggled Interpol has located around 150 stolen vehicles and seized 75 as the result of an operation in…

Airstrikes on Port Sudan have caused damage to an ammunition store at the Osman Digna air base, the army says Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has launched a drone…

The Ukrainian leader realizes Washington still needs him and he is becoming more authoritarian, Aleksandr Dubinsky has said Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is testing America’s tolerance for abuses of power by sanctioning…

“Europe Does Not Want Peace” – Martin Armstrong Warns US Leadership ‘Get The Hell Out Of NATO’ Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong is back with an…

BP’s Top Sustainability Exec To Depart As The ESG Grift Keeps Dying A Slow Death We think it’s time we can officially present the ESG grift – which we have spoken out…

West Wanted To Provoke Russia Into Using Nukes In Ukraine, Putin Claims Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again made more ultra-provocative remarks aimed at the West concerning Russia’s nuclear doctrine. In…

Poland Slams Germany’s Plans To Tighten Border Controls Via Remix News, Germany and Poland have been at peace for decades, yet the border between the two is still fraught, with this new…

The president envisions an expanded facility to house the “dregs of society” US President Donald Trump has said he plans to revive Alcatraz Island’s historic role as a maximum-security federal penitentiary. The…

Ralph Goff says Washington feared nuclear retaliation and deliberately prolonged the conflict The United States deliberately restricted military aid to Kiev in order to let the country “bleed” rather than “win,” a…

The United Nations Security Council will hold closed door meetings on Monday in response to a request by Islamabad The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold closed consultations to address the…

“Total F***ing Disgrace”: Ex-Obama Officials Slam Biden’s Gaza Policies Via Middle East Eye Former senior Barack Obama administration officials criticised former US president Joe Biden’s Gaza policies on a foreign policy podcast on Thursday, sparking reactions on…

The US president indicated that he wouldn’t allow exceptions for civilian industry US President Donald Trump has said he wants Iran to completely scrap its nuclear program, as negotiations between the two…

Watch: China Hit By Worker Protests Over Unpaid Wages, Factory Shutdowns Amid Trump Tariffs President Donald Trump’s hard-hitting tariffs on China appear to be taking a toll, disrupting Chinese factories and sparking…

Trump To Slap Foreign Films With 100% Tariff; All Eyes On Netflix Think Trump’s tariffs are only for products, think again. On Sunday evening, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to impose a…

Trump Orders Alcatraz Reopened For “America’s Most Ruthless And Violent Offenders” President Trump on Sunday said that he’s ordering the reopening of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary – the historic prison located in the…

Moscow accuses Kiev of trying to spread fear ahead of WWII victory celebrations on Red Square Ukraine is exploiting peace negotiations to extract funds from its Western backers and promote extremism, Russian…

Chinese-US Imports Being Diverted To Canada Amid Trade War Many Chinese exports bound for the U.S. have been rerouted to Canada to skirt tariffs as the trade war continues to escalate between…

Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said the “deplorable” attitude of the European Commission The EU leadership should be held accountable for supporting Israel’s “war crimes” in Gaza, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied…

Policies, Deals And Vibes By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities U.S. stocks finished the week up around 3% (which was in line with markets globally). 10-year Treasury yields finished 7 bps higher,…

Supreme Court’s Ketanji Jackson Says Criticizing Judges Is ‘Attack On Democracy’ People who criticize activist judges (who often refuse to recuse themselves amid wide-ranging conflicts of interest while ruling against Donald Trump’s…

Against the backdrop of Alberta, Canada proceeding with a plan to separate from the land of the Snow Mexican leftists, a leaked video conference call between U.S. President Trump, Alberta Premier Danielle…

‘Egregious’: Senate DOGE Caucus Leader Uncovers Federal Employees Cashing Taxpayer Checks While Doing Union Work Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), chairwoman of the Senate DOGE Caucus, slammed the U.S. government this week for…

President Trump sat down for an extensive interview on NBC Meet the Press with Kirsten Welker.  The topics covered a multitude of professional narratives organized by the leftist media apparatus, focusing on…

At the behest of President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson previously removed House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Chairman Mike Turner from his position. Representative Mike Turner is no longer…

US Creates New Military Zone Along Southern Border Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The United States on Thursday announced the creation of a second military zone along…

US Tariff On Auto Parts Goes Into Effect Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A 25 percent tariff on imported automobile parts took effect on May 3, marking…

California Revises Population Growth Upward, Citing Immigration Surge California has significantly revised its population estimates upward, crediting a larger-than-expected influx of international immigrants for reversing recent trends of population decline, according to…

Right-wing George Simion is leading in the polls with more than 40% of the votes George Simion, a critic of the EU who has been banned from entering Ukraine, won the first…

The Russian foreign minister told Islamabad that Moscow is ready to assist in mediating if both countries agree Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has discussed the escalation of tensions between Islamabad and…

“Everything Is Lining Up” – Tokenization Is Having Its Breakout Moment Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) is evolving from an abstract concept to a practical financial…

After a deadly terrorist attack last month, New Delhi suspended the Indus Waters Treaty that ensured water-sharing between the two rivals India has begun restricting water supplies flowing from its territory to…

Escobar: China Steps Up Its Game In The Global AI Race Authored by Pepe Escobar, Late next month, Huawei will be testing its new powerful AI processor, the Ascend 910 D, even…

The explosion damaged the apartment block and sparked a major fire, with over a dozen residents reported injured A major fire has broken out in southwest Moscow following an explosion at a…

Recipients Of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Had Higher Mortality Than Those Of Moderna: Study Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida adults who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine were more…

The event marking the 80th anniversary of the USSR’s victory over Nazi Germany has taken place in the US, China, and Latin America Immortal Regiment marches in honor of World War II…