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Three Killed In Cessna Crash Near Boca Raton Airport A Cessna 310R crashed near the Boca Raton Airport in South Florida on Friday morning.  Boca News Now reports: We have learned three people were…

Bombshell DoD / DIA Reports Suggest Biden Pentagon Suppressed COVID-19 Origins Investigation Two newly uncovered documents – one from the Defense Department and another from a medical intelligence unit within the Pentagon…

The British royal has toured a rehabilitation center for wounded Ukrainian troops Prince Harry has made a secret trip to the city of Lviv in western Ukraine, which was only announced to…

Trump Urges Mexico To Honor Water Treaty Or Face Possible Sanctions, More Tariffs Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened Mexico with possible sanctions and…

The White House is reportedly weighing advertising and cash incentives to persuade residents of the Arctic island to join the US US President Donald Trump’s administration is planning a public relations campaign…

Citi’s Former Global Strat Head: Gold More Room To Run “[Gold] is certainly a large position in my portfolio.” That was Matt King, former head of global strategy for Citibank, from last…

Tehran has reportedly deemed it unrealistic to reach a comprehensive accord within the two-month timeframe set by the US Iran could pursue an interim nuclear deal with the US as a stopgap…

Washington’s policy will go down “as a joke in the history of world economics,” according to Beijing China likened the United States’ tariff policy to a ‘numbers game’ with no practical meaning…

Utilizing Ukrainian resources is acceptable but not in the manner Trump proposes, the former secretary of state has claimed Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said he sees nothing inherently…

Energy Secretary Hints At Military Action Against Iran’s Global Oil Exports Amid Trump’s anti-Iran ‘maximum pressure’ and the current climate of the White House telling Tehran to negotiate a new nuclear deal or…

Producer Prices Plunged Most Since COVID In March Following the cooler-than-expected consumer price inflation print, producers prices were expected to accelerate modestly in March. The analysts were totally wrong… Headline PPI fell…

There are no winners in a tariff war, the Chinese president has said The United States risks isolating itself by pursuing unilateral trade restrictions, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned on Friday during…

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that talks between the Russian president and Steve Witkoff could stretch to several hours Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to meet with Steve Witkoff, special envoy for…

The former US vice president has kept a lower public profile since her defeat to Donald Trump in the 2024 election Former US Vice President Kamala Harris is considering a run for…

Tesla Quietly Removes Model S/X “Order Now” Button From Chinese Site Tesla has quietly removed the “Order Now” button for its Model S and Model X vehicles on its Chinese website, signaling potential…

Futures Flat, Gold Soars, Dollar Crashes After China Hikes US Tariffs To 125% Things are moving so fast it’s becoming pointless to do static market wraps like this one, but may as…

Bitcoin: Exit-Ramp From Dollar Hegemony Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance The recent selloff in U.S. Treasury bonds—once considered the bedrock of global financial stability—could signal something far deeper than just a market…

China Escalates With 125% Tariff On US Imports, Signals Will “Ignore” Future Retaliation Around the close of Hong Kong trading hours, Beijing retaliated against President Trump’s tariffs by hiking levies on U.S. goods…

Bud Light Reclaims Top Spot As America’s Favorite Beer As Americans celebrated National Beer Day on April 7 – the anniversary of the Cullen-Harrison Act, which marked the end of Prohibition in…

JPMorgan Reports Mixed Q1 Results: Record Trading Revenues As FICC Misses; Credit Reserves Soar And they’re off. Moments ago Q1 earnings season kicked off when JPM reported earnings, and while everyone has…

Morgan Stanley Shares Cling To Gains After Equity Trading Unit Beats, Wealth Mgmnt Disappoints Morgan Stanley shares are holding on to gains in the pre-market after the bank reported Q1 equities sales and…

The foreign minister stressed that nobody “would even hypothetically consider handing over those people” to the Ukrainian leader  Vladimir Zelensky’s openly declared hatred for Russians means he must not and will not…

Hollywood’s Box Office Blow: China Plans To “Moderately Reduce” US Film Releases President Donald Trump announced an increase in tariffs on Chinese goods to 125% on Wednesday, shortly after Beijing retaliated by…

France Surpasses Germany As Europe’s Top Asylum Destination So Far This Year Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Germany is no longer the leading destination for asylum seekers in Europe, according…

The US-mediated moratorium was intended to safeguard crucial infrastructure on both sides of the Ukraine conflict Ukrainian forces have launched five separate attacks against Russian energy infrastructure in 24 hours, the Defense…

Ether ETF Staking Could Come As Soon As May Authored by Alex O’Donnell via CoinTelegraph.com, Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States may be able to start staking a portion of…

No one on board was harmed during the accident, including the bird South African authorities have announced that a helicopter which crashed in the country on January 19, 2025 had been brought…

Men are being caught in the streets “like animals” by Kiev’s enlistment officers, Anatoly Kinakh has said An increasing number of Ukrainian men are dodging the military draft because they do not…

First quarter shipments abroad totaled 11.8 million tons, according to statistics Russia’s wheat exports to African countries surged in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year, with…

Beijing’s move is a response to the 125% duties announced by the White House earlier this week China will raise tariffs on American goods coming into the country from 84% to 125%,…

Global Executions Hit Highest Level Since 2015 Amnesty International recorded 1,518 executions under the death penalty worldwide in 2024, marking an increase of 32 percent since the year before when 1,153 people were put to death….

Ten Environmentalist Myths Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, The first Earth Day was organized in 1970 in response to growing public concern for the environment. Many of these concerns were entirely justified….

Moscow and New Delhi are aiming to strengthen their bilateral investment cooperation The Indian and Russian governments have reached an agreement to collaborate on six new strategic projects, with an aim to…

The absolute #1 tell highlighting this as a nonsense exercise, a delay tactic on behalf of the swamp, is the venue for Tulsi Gabbard’s “new task force” announcement, Sean Hannity. In order…

The rapid change in Ursula von der Leyen now starts to make sense.  According to a press release [SEE HERE] from European Big Pharma, they recently had a meeting with the EU…

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…

President Trump holds a cabinet meeting and invites the press to attend and ask questions. . Posted in President Trump, Press Secretary – Trump, Trade Deal The post President Trump Invites Media…

Washington is interested in looking at the root causes of the fighting between Moscow and Kiev, the Russian foreign minister has said The US genuinely wants a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine…

Steve Witkoff is expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin on Friday US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, has traveled to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin, Axios has…

Most Americans Now Have Negative View Of Israel – Under-50 GOP Support Craters While the Trump administration earnestly redistributes billions of dollars of American wealth to Israel, that country’s immensely-destructive war in…

US Geopolitical Chess: Strategies Against China, Russia, And Iran Authored by Yang Wei via The Epoch Times, As the United States brokers a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine, the Trump administration’s unique…

Trump Suggests Israel Would ‘Lead’ Possible Attack On Iran At a moment the whole world is closely following Trump’s tariff back-and-forth and the rapid impact on global markets, President Trump has again…

Why Americans Oppose DEI Authored by Scott Yenor via AmericanMind.org, The following is a lightly edited version of a speech that was delivered to university administrators at the annual meeting of the…

Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind To The Machine? Authored by Edward Curtin via Off-Guardian.org, We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle…

The US president has praised his government efficiency tsar for doing a “fantastic job” US President Donald Trump has heaped praise on Elon Musk, the head of his government waste-cutting task force,…

America Has Failed To Secure Red Sea Navigation: Houthi Leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, leader of the Yemen’s Houthi group, is once again directly challenging the United States by essentially declaring victory over US…

3 Shocking Truths Most People Don’t Know About Money In Bank Accounts… Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Henry Ford once astutely observed that a revolution would occur overnight if people truly understood…

Brussels could target American “digital services” if tariff talks collapse, according to Ursula von der Leyen The European Union is prepared to impose bloc-wide tariffs on major US tech companies, such as…

The Supreme Court Must Clarify Presidential Power Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Signs are appearing all over my neighborhood. They say “Rejecting Kings Since 1776.” It does not take…

Moscow Dragging Beijing Into Ukraine War By ‘Systematic’ Recruitment, Zelensky Says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues trying to put pressure on China and make the case to Western allies that there’s an…

A Decade Of Headwinds Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, These headwinds will persist for the next decade or two. The stock market is rallying hard after a brutal sell-off–not…

The Silence On China’s Chipmaking Emissions It’s hard to understand why Bloomberg would undermine its credibility by citing a report from the radical far-left environmental group Greenpeace —but here we are.  Greenpeace,…

President Donald Trump has suggested there must be “something artificial” during a Cabinet meeting US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a large-scale federal initiative aimed at…

The Atlantic Insists On COVID Denial Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, In a spectacular feat of reality-denying partisanship, the political left has convinced itself that they’ve somehow admitted wrongdoing…

March Deficit Unexpectedly Tumbles To 5 Year Low As DOGE Cracks Down On Democrat Money-Laundering Schemes One month ago, when looking at the latest US Treasury income and spending, or as it…

Idaho Governor Signs Bill Banning Businesses, Schools From Requiring Medical Procedures Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed legislation that bans businesses and…

“Significant Bad-Faith Actor”: Trump Pulls Security Clearance For Ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs, Orders Investigation Into Censorship The Trump administration has pulled security clearances for former CISA head Chris Krebs and ex-DHS official…

Kiev’s backers remain split on a proposed “reassurance force” that could potentially be deployed to Ukraine Only six Western nations have pledged to send troops to Ukraine after the hostilities between Kiev…

The Estonian Orthodox Church could reportedly be forced to cut ties with Russia under a new law Estonia’s parliament has approved a law that could force the Estonian Christian Orthodox Church (ECOC)…

The Washington Post Engages In Negligent Fear-Mongering About NIH Authored by George F. Tidmarsh via RealClearPolitics, Is the WaPo journalistically challenged when it comes to science? You decide. An April 6 article…

CCP Spills Beans At Secret Geneva Meeting, Acknowledges Role In US Infrastructure Hacks “Volt Typhoon” is the name assigned by U.S. cybersecurity officials to a state-sponsored cyber operation linked to the Chinese Communist…

Fatal Helicopter Crash Reported In Hudson River A Bell helicopter crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon—shortly after 3:00 p.m. ET—near West Side Highway and Spring Street, closer to the Jersey…

The Darién Gap Is Now… A Ghost Town! Authored by Olivia Murray via AmericanThinker.com, In an article published today at the New York Post, journalist Emily Crane described the Darién Gap route as a…

Ten Tariff Questions Never Asked Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The real trade war wasn’t Trump’s – it was decades of lopsided deals, deficits, and double standards America tolerated…

Teachers Need To Ditch Their Union Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, The Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus decision asserted that no teacher or any public employee has to pay a penny to a union…

“Coercive Control”: Parents Could Lose Custody Under Proposed Colorado Law For “Misgendering” Authored by Jonathan Turley, Parental rights are emerging as one of the major civil liberties movements of this generation —…

US agents hunted for the Nazi leader in South America for a decade after his supposed death, the documents show The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted a secret search for Adolf…

Schiff Warns “The World Is Getting Rid Of Dollars” As Gold Hits New Record High Via SchiffGold.com, In a special video released yesterday, Peter discusses the ongoing fallout from President Trump’s tariff…

The tendency to attack non-mainstream politicians in the bloc is becoming “increasingly evident,” Dmitry Peskov has said The EU is drifting away from the “democracy standards” it has long preached and systemic…

The facilitation of diplomatic missions’ operations topped the agenda, according to Moscow and Washington officials The Russian and US delegations at Thursday’s talks in Istanbul, Türkiye, mainly focused on the restoration of…

Greenpeace activists were arrested in London while demonstrating against American weapons sales to Israel Five UK Greenpeace activists have been arrested after pouring biodegradable “blood-red” dye into the pond outside the US…

White House Official Says More Than 15 Countries Have Made Trade Deal Offers Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A senior White House trade official said that more than 15…

Stellar 30Y Auction: 2nd Highest Direct Award, 3rd Biggest Stop-Through On Record After this week started with a dismal 3Y auction and a solid 10Y auction yesterday, both of which however saw…

Novavax Shares Crash After RFK Jr. Comments  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in his first national TV appearance as Health and Human Services Secretary under the Trump administration, questioned the effectiveness of Novavax’s…

Within the Executive Order modifying the April 2nd global reciprocal tariffs [SEE HERE] section #4, we note a massive increase in the duty fees for mailed products from China formerly shipped under…

Six of the victims found in a recently liberated village (in Kursk Region) had gunshot wounds, according to investigators Nine civilians were shot dead by Ukrainian forces during their retreat from a…

Trying to salvage and empower an empire in decline, only to end up hastening its demise – we’ve seen that somewhere before The Great Trump Toddler Tariff Tantrum that we have all…

Rubio Negotiates Release Of US Ballerina Jailed In Russia Over $50 Donation To Ukraine Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, An American-Russian dual national imprisoned in Russia last year on…

House Passes Bill Requiring Proof Of Citizenship To Vote The House on Thursday passed a bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, the first step…

“Shit’s Breaking Again…” While many of the biggest trading desks are saying, “buy Mortimer buy!” as Trump provided the pain relief yesterday, most obviously highlighted by the 3rd best day for US…

Such journalists cannot be trusted to deliver an “honest story,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt says The administration of US President Donald Trump refuses to engage with reporters who list their gender…

HSBC And Former Citi Heavyweights Breakdown Tariffs’ Impact On Global Economy A ceasefire has been called in Trump’s trade war… well in every country except China where he materially escalated. Was this…

Some member states are opposed to confiscating the funds due to fears of legal risks, Dmitry Peskov has said The Kremlin is aware of divisions within the EU over the fate of…

Liberation Day Do-Over By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The President undid a few things yesterday with a single post on Truth Social yesterday. It sparked a market rally of almost 10%…

Chinese Sellers On Amazon Panic After Trump’s Tariff Bazooka   President Trump announced an increase in tariffs on Chinese imports to 125% on Wednesday afternoon, following the Chinese government’s move to raise tariffs…

EU Pauses Countermeasures Against US Steel Tariffs For 90 Days Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, The European Union said on Thursday that it will pause its countermeasures against U.S….

Vladimir Zelensky has alleged that Chinese nationals are fighting for Russia, a claim rejected by Beijing Claims by Vladimir Zelensky that Russia is involving China in the Ukraine conflict are false, Kremlin…

Several of the bloc’s heavyweights, including Germany and France, earlier warned of legal consequences of an outright confiscation Several EU member states are “strongly opposed” to handing Russian assets frozen by the…

The African state has disbursed $3.1 million to 378 farmers who were displaced under controversial land reform The government of Zimbabwe has started payment of white commercial farmers who lost land during…

Southern Africa will mostly bear the brunt of America’s new trade policy On April 2, 2025, US President Donald Trump during his ‘Liberation Day’ Speech announced the intention to impose reciprocal tariffs…

Adam Schiff has called for an investigation into who profited from the president’s tariff pause US Democratic Senator Adam Schiff has called on Congress to investigate President Donald Trump for possible insider…

The Ukrainian leader used a slur to condemn Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s economic envoy who has been engaged in talks with Washington Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has insulted Kirill Dmitriev, an aide to Russian…

US Spy Chief Gabbard Starts Task Force To Investigate Intelligence Community Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she is setting up…

March US Consumer Prices Fall Most In 5 Years The normally crucial consumer price index measure of inflation printing today for March is likely to take a back seat to the next…

Futures Slide As Traders Lock In Gains After Wednesday’s Record Surge The record (notional) bounce-back in global equity markets, which pushed the S&P higher by nearly $5 trilllion in market cap after Trump…

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, allegedly a key plotter in the 2008 attacks, was transported on a special flight A suspected key plotter in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks has been extradited to India…

Komrade Ursula von der Leyen represents the European Commission command and control authority, regardless of whether the individual members within the containment zone agree with the HQ in Brussels. Komisar von der…

Jobless Claims Keep Rising In ‘Deep TriState’ Region As DOGE Impact Accelerates Another week, another solid jobless claims print, seemingly crushing the Paul Revere-ish cries of “a recession is coming” from the…

Social media activity in support of terrorist groups such as Hamas or Hezbollah will be viewed as hate speech and grounds for visa denial The US immigration will review applicants’ social media…