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“What Did You Do Last Week?”: Musk Says Federal Employees Have Until Midnight On Monday To Explain Work, Or They’re Fired Elon Musk is ‘running the Twitter playbook on the government,’ after…

Kiev should compensate Washington with rare-earth minerals and oil, the president said Ukraine must compensate the US for all the assistance provided to Kiev during its conflict with Moscow, President Donald Trump…

Trump & Russia: Is This Good Or Bad For Markets? Authored by Russell Clark via Capital Flows & Asset Markets blog, Trump has done exactly what he said he was going to…

Netanyahu Vows Revenge On Hamas for Returning Wrong Body: ‘Unspeakably Cynical’ One of the four deceased hostages handed over by Hamas on Thursday was the wrong body, according to an Israeli government…

Kash Patel Is Already Making Huge Changes At The FBI Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel is on fire.  After his swearing-in, he gave a not-so-subtle…

The bloc supposedly plans to extend pipelines from Germany to Poland and the Czech Republic for rapid jet fuel supply in a potential war with Russia NATO is supposedly set to extend…

The billionaire has denied the agency’s report on plans to cut Ukraine off Starlink to pressure it into the rare earths deal Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has accused Reuters of…

Berkshire Cash Hits All-Time High $334BN Even After Paying Record $27BN In Taxes: Shareholder Letter Highlights One of the longest running traditions in modern finance is that every year, one Saturday morning…

Aleksey Arestovich, should he become Ukraine’s president, has claimed he will jail his former boss, Vladimir Zelensky, and his “gang” Former aide to Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky Aleksey Arestovich has pledged to jail…

The Hungarian PM has said that instead of being admitted into NATO, Kiev will remain a partition between the bloc and Russia Ukraine will not be granted NATO membership, but rather will…

California’s High Speed Rail To Face Audit, US Transportation Chief Says Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), LOS ANGELES—Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced he would direct the Federal…

Scott Morrison has started popping up again in the media over the last week or so which can only damage Peter Dutton’s chances of becoming Prime Minister at the federal election which…

The US president’s ‘America first’ policy means Kiev will have to pay its own bills As Washington’s push to secure Ukraine’s mineral wealth intensifies, the latest tensions between Donald Trump and Vladimir…

Crash Landing: The Democratic Spin On Trump Causing Plane Accidents Collides With Reality Authored by Jonathan Turley, For weeks, politicians and pundits have engaged in a ghoulish effort to blame every plane…

DOJ Moves To Dismiss Immigration Case Against SpaceX The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion Thursday indicating it wants to drop a lawsuit accusing SpaceX of hiring discrimination against refugees….

The US president has targeted diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in federal agencies US President Donald Trump has fired the Chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Brown, the…

At least one person has been killed and two injured in the city of Mulhouse, according to TF1 At least one person has been killed and two others injured after an Algerian…

Combination Of These Supplements And Exercise May Slow Biological Aging Authored by Mary West via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Approximately one-fourth of people in the United States age 65 and older…

Mexico President Sheinbaum Warns Against US Military Strikes On Cartels In the wake of President Trump’s designation of several Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday…

Pentagon Purge: Trump Fires Chairman Of Joint Chiefs, Navy Chief And Other Top Brass Making good on a campaign pledge to shake up the senior military ranks to ensure a focus on…

The Answer To 1913 Is 2025: 3 Charts That Show Why The Income Tax, The IRS, & The Fed Should All Be Abolished Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Most Americans don’t…

Washington is ready to continue working with Ottawa but “there has to be reciprocity” in trade, the US secretary of state has said US President Donald Trump’s offer to absorb Canada came…

Ukraine’s leader did not even understand why it was “bad” to “murder” Gonzalo Lira, Elon Musk says Billionaire Elon Musk, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, renewed his attack on…

US Flies B-52 Bombers Over Middle East In Show Of Force Amid Regional Tensions Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Air Force sent two B-52 bombers…

The Palestinian militant group had previously handed over the wrong remains to Israel The family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says it has identified the woman’s remains after Hamas initially handed over…

The US president has demanded access to Ukraine’s rare earths, although Vladimir Zelensky has reportedly refused to sign a deal Ukraine will face “a lot of problems” if it doesn’t agree to…

Peter Schiff: The Government Should Fear The Public Via SchiffGold.com, Last week Peter joined Aaron Hoddinott on the Pinnacle Digest YouTube channel for an interview on Peter’s career, why the Fed can’t get anything…

Russia Says It’s Retaken 64% Of Kursk Territory Lost After Ukraine Offensive Ukraine’s Zelensky has previously signaled he hopes to get territory in the Donbass back from Russia by swapping it in…

Florida has filed a lawsuit against Target, claiming the company misled investors by promoting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives The US state of Florida has sued supermarket giant Target, accusing it of…

Germany’s Baerbock Issues Warning To US Over Failure To Back “Liberal Democracies” After days of EU officials essentially begging Washington to give the bloc a seat at the table in talks with Russia…

European Military Chiefs Proposed Dubious Plan To Send 30,000 Troops To Ukraine Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Times reported on Wednesday that European military chiefs have proposed a plan to deploy 30,000…

The British state broadcaster has violated foreign exchange regulations, the authorities have reportedly found British state broadcaster the BBC has been fined for foreign exchange violations by India’s financial crime fighting agency,…

Over 500 million people have taken a holy dip during the 45-day Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, northern India even as two stampede incidents killed dozens Krishna Saini sat in his car…

Europe should focus on providing more weapons instead, Mikhail Podoliak has said Peacekeeping forces or soldiers from other countries being deployed to Ukraine is not a realistic prospect, Mikhail Podoliak, the top…

Moments ago, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick took the oath of office in the Oval Office as delivered by Vice-President JD Vance. Secretary Lutnick is going to be a very key component in…

Moments ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi delivered the oath of office to FBI Director Kash Patel.  At the conclusion of the swearing-in ceremony, Director Patel delivered remarks to the assembled audience.  WATCH:…

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…

The president suggested that the billionaire will return to science after reforming the US government and encouraged cooperation with him Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russian companies should cooperate with…

The US President has once again suggested that America’s northern neighbor will “have to become the 51st state” US President Donald Trump has joked that Canada can keep its national anthem when…

Arctic Defense: The Growing Geopolitical Battle For The North Authored by Brian Giesbrecht via The Epoch Times, The Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) runs north of the Arctic Circle from Alaska…

First In-Orbit Image Released From Classified X-37 Spaceplane On Thursday evening, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs published the first-ever in-orbit image captured by Boeing’s X-37 spaceplane, which was shared…

Mapping The Growth Of Government Submitted by OpenTheBooks As DOGE continues searching for and flagging waste, fraud and abuse across the federal government, American taxpayers are hearing about a lot of outrageous…

$21 million allotted for India election recently cited by Donald Trump was actually meant for Bangladesh, new report claims  The $21 million of American taxpayer money earmarked for “voter turnout in India,”…

These Are The Countries Who Depend On Remittances The Most Remittance inflows to low- and middle-income countries rose to $685 billion in 2024, up from $647 billion the previous year, according to estimates from…

Former CNBC Analyst To Admit Conning Investors Out Of Nearly $3 Million Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former CNBC financial analyst James Arthur McDonald faces decades behind…

Here’s When Every Continent’s Population Will Peak This Century After 350 straight years of global population growth – including a 4x surge from 2 billion in the year 1920 – this trend…

Blockbuster Yale Study: Millions Of Long COVID Patients Might Actually Be Vaccine Injured Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle, Yale researchers released a study today that posits millions of…

Washington reportedly considers using the satellite technology as leverage when bargaining about mineral reserves US officials have warned that they could block Ukraine from using Elon Musk’s Starlink internet terminals if Kiev…

The track originally performed by two schoolgirls was branded “Russian propaganda” by Ukraine A Russian military choir has recorded its own version of the viral hit song ‘Sigma Boy’.  The video, which…

Nearly 2 Dozen Trinitarios Gang Members Arrested In Massachusetts Authored by Rachel Acenas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly two dozen members of a violent transnational gang were arrested and charged…

Voter Rolls Like They Oughta Be Authored by Doug Truax via RealClearPolitics, Why do we tolerate purposeful government incompetence? Especially when it comes to our voter registration rolls – the lists we…

Social Security Chief Says Millions Of Dead People On Record ‘Not Necessarily Receiving Benefits’ Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The new head of the Social Security Administration…

The assailant has been arrested after a manhunt that lasted several hours German police apprehended the suspect who stabbed a Spanish tourist at the site of Berlin’s iconic Holocaust memorial on Friday….

China’s Vice-Premier Spars With Bessent In Call Over Tariffs & ‘Economic Imbalances’ US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and China’s Vice-Premier He Lifeng held a video call on Friday, kicking off crucial diplomatic…

“The Ever-Expanding Matrix Of NGOs Created An Army Of Useful Idiots…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Funny Money “The revelations that are coming for America possess the potential to reshape our entire…

The US president has denied reports claiming that he would travel to Russia on May 9 US President Donald Trump has denied plans to attend the annual World War II victory parade…

Trump Admin Serious About Combatting Global Censorship Authored by Sean Nelson via RealClearPolitics, President Donald Trump is well known for his America First agenda. Some have interpreted this as an isolationist stance…

Earlier today President Trump confronted Maine Governor Janet Mills for undermining women and keeping men in women’s sports. Heated exchange between President Trump and Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) over executive order banning…

Vladimir Zelensky believes he is still backed by the ‘Deep State’ and seeks to fight the US president, Andrey Telizhenko has told RT The relationship between the US and Ukraine is now…

Moscow is hoping to get Washington to vacate nations that joined NATO after 1990, the tabloid claims, citing anonymous sources Western security services and politicians are worried about a potential exit of…

“You Can’t Take Our Country” Justin Trudeau Tells Trump After Canada Beats U.S. In 4 Nations Hockey Championship As most people know, in recent months, Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested Canada should become…

Well, this is interesting… Or then again, well, it could be just another political Bondi bondo effort. During a segment of Fox News, Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has the Epstein…

US Exceptionalism Over? Alibaba Soars On AI As US-China Tech Valuation Gap “Must Narrow” Hong Kong stocks surged overnight after Alibaba reported a staggering 239% year-over-year jump in net profit for the…

The president has reiterated that the Ukraine conflict can only be resolved at the negotiating table Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rejected an approach by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to…

There’s an irony of fate as the old rivals again look for common ground For years, Russian-American relations seemed to be in an irreversible coma. Diplomacy was dead, overtaken by hostility, sanctions,…

During an interview with Brian Kilmeade, President Donald Trump sounds like he is battling the same cold as me.  However, on the serious side, President Trump goes through the geopolitical map of…

Stocks Puke After China Reports New Coronavirus ‘With Pandemic Potential’ Discovered Stocks suddenly tumbled shortly after lunch and trading desks are scrambling to find a catalyst. With today’s big $2.7 trillion options…

Solana Sees Declining User-Activity As Memecoin Rug-Pulls Erode Trust Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, Rug pulls and insider schemes involving Solana-based memecoins are driving investor outflows and a decline in capital…

Far-Left Judge Who Fought Trump At Supreme Court Refuses To Dismiss DOJ Case Against NY Mayor Eric Adams In echoes of the case against Michael Flynn, a federal judge on Friday refused…

US CEO Confidence Increases Sharply From Cautious Optimism To Confident Optimism Authored by Naveen Athrappullly via The Epoch Times, Optimism among American CEOs surged in the first quarter of this year from…

Speaking to Catherine Herridge, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives further examples of why the Trump administration has grown increasingly frustrated with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. [Short Video, 2 mins – WATCH]…

Domestic solutions are often better than foreign alternatives, the president has said at the Future Technologies Forum Western sanctions have inadvertently bolstered Russia’s economic and technological sectors, President Vladimir Putin said at…

Russia and the US resumed dialogue this week after a 3-year pause Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that all G20 nations welcomed recent US-Russia talks in Riyadh, which aimed to…

Bitcoin, Ether Tumble As Bybit Exchange Confirms Massive $1.4 Billion Hack Crypto prices tumbled this morning – most notably BTC and ETH – on reports that cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has reportedly been…

The Ukrainian leader’s presence would only “make it very hard to make deals,” the US president has said Ukraine’s leader Vladimir Zelensky is actually “not very important” to have at meetings, US…

The Tariff Risk Isn’t In Inflation Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, For Part 1 on “Tariff Risk” read: Tariff Impact Not As Bearish As Predicted. In “Trumpflation” we discussed why the tariff risk was not inflation….

Apple Nukes End-to-End Encryption In UK After Refusing To Give Backdoor Access Apple has elected to remove its most advanced, end-to-end encrypted security feature for cloud data in the United Kingdom after…

Annalena Baerbock insists Europe should make it clear to President Trump that failure to back “liberal democracies” will come at a price Europe should not hesitate to put pressure on the US…

Hooters Goes Tits-Up As Bankruptcy May Come Within Months Hooters of America is reportedly gearing up for a bankruptcy filing in the coming months as the iconic restaurant chain struggles with declining…

UMich Inflation Expectations Explode To 30 Year High After exploding higher (to 4.3%) in the preliminary February data, UMich’s final print for inflation expectations (1Y) was the same but the medium-term (5-10Y)…

US Services Sector PMI Plunges Into Contraction For First Time In 2 Years After plunging in January, analysts expected US Services PMI survey to stabilize in February (and Manufacturing to continue modestly…

Moscow Demanded US-NATO Withdraw Forces From Eastern Europe In Riyadh Talks A fresh report in Financial Times has revealed that during US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Moscow demanded that NATO and…

A Romanian official reportedly said that Russia demanded to the US that the bloc removes its troops from Eastern Europe during talks in Riyadh The Kremlin has rejected a senior Romanian official’s…

Media representatives have suggested that the envoy seek asylum in Britain, Andrey Kelin has claimed Russia’s envoy to the UK has claimed that members of the British media told him he should…

“From Disney World To The Real World”: Europe’s Leadership Continues To Fail Its Citizens By Teeuwe Mevissen, senior macro strategist at Rabobank While Europe is still reeling from the Munich security conference…

US Existing Home Sales Plunged In January As Mortgage Rates Rose The lagged impact of a resurgence in mortgage rates can back to bite existing home sales in January, as they fell…

Are we witnessing a new blossoming in relations between West Jerusalem and Washington? Donald Trump’s reelection as president marked a pivotal moment in US-Israel relations. In early February, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

Delta Offers $30,000 To Each Passenger Aboard Plane That Crashed, Flipped In Toronto Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Delta Air Lines is offering US$30,000 to each of…

“Fake News Strikes Again”: Musk Dismisses Financial Times Report On Tesla & Nissan Update: A Financial Times report claimed earlier that a “high-level Japanese group that includes a former prime minister has…

The bloc should reduce its dependence on the US military, the French president has said The EU needs to develop a “massive defense plan” and boost military investment due to rising tensions…

Former colonies are not seeking a handout but an “appropriate apology,” the Grenadian prime minister has said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been told that former colonial powers must…

Futures Flat As Markets Brace For $2.7 Trillion Option Expiration US equity futures are flat, as European and Asian markets rise, as sentiment improves on the last day of the week. As…

UnitedHealth Shares Puke As DoJ Launches Medicare Billing Practice Probe Shares of UnitedHealth Group plunged in premarket trading after a Wall Street Journal report revealed that the Justice Department had launched a…

Another Undersea Fiber Optic Cable Damaged In Baltic Sea As Incidents Pile Up A new subsea data cable incident occurred in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, raising concerns about the vulnerability of underwater…

Subprime Redux: Commercial Real Estate Bond Distress Hits Another Record High Authored by Artis Shepherd via The Mises Institute, At the end of Q4 2024, commercial real estate continued to exhibit severe…

There is widespread opposition to the Ukrainian leader within the White House, according to the New York Post Vladimir Zelensky should leave Ukraine “immediately” and move to France so as not to…

The bloc has faced soaring costs in recent years after choosing to phase out cheap Russian energy Soaring energy prices could cripple the EU economy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned….

Having been thoroughly snubbed by Trump in favor of actual peace efforts, Kiev and Brussels may be hatching a new plan The US and Russia are sitting down for some grand strategy…

Liz Truss has called for a “Trump revolution” in Britain after claiming she was sabotaged during her tenure The UK can only be saved by a movement similar to US President Donald…