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Time For An AI-Tech Supply-Chain Channel-Check In Asia. Here Are Key Takeaways… Channel checks in Asia’s tech supply chain are critical and can be used as early signals or leading indicators when…

Delivering remarks from the Oval Office, Border Security Czar Tom Homan delivers a mic drop statement noting how President Trump and Customs and Border Patrol have essentially shut down illegal immigration, saving…

Homan Urges Politicians To Stop Attacking ICE, Border Patrol Officers Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Politicians should stop attacking immigration officers trying to enforce laws while putting their lives…

The US president accuses the British broadcaster of attempting to influence last year’s election President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC, accusing the British state broadcaster…

End Of An Era: Pro-Democracy Icon Jimmy Lai Found Guilty Of Sedition In Hong Kong The high profile trial of Hong Kong’s foremost pro-democracy media tycoon has just wrapped up, and it…

FBI Hunting Down Members Of 764 Network: Dan Bongino Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The FBI is in the process of pursuing members of the 764 criminal network, Deputy…

The blue slip process has been a part of the Senate’s judicial nomination procedure since at least 1917. When a President nominates an individual for a U.S. circuit or district court judgeship,…

Supertankers Bound For Venezuela Make U-Turns, Fearing US Interdiction, As PDVSA Hit By Cyberattack Fresh reporting in Reuters has tracked at least five supertankers which have changed course on Monday after initially heading…

Two Years Of Milei: A Resounding Success? Authored by Daniel Lacalle, When we analyze the economic situation in Argentina, we must first understand the calamity to which the country was left by the…

European leaders expect the US to support their “multinational force” EU and UK leaders have outlined their vision for peace in Ukraine, including the deployment of a European-led multinational military force with…

China Blasts ‘Premeditated’ Provocations Of US-Allied Philippines At Disputed Shoal China continues to squabble and get in maritime incidents with US allies in regional waters of the Western Pacific. Lately it has…

“Offensive To Decency”: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Free Speech Case Over Vanity Plate Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away a Tennessee woman’s appeal…

The Evidence Is Clear: Masks Don’t Do Anything… Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, We’re being hit with the “Super Flu” (allegedly), and that means everyone wants us to wear masks again. We…

National (Energy) Security Strategy The White House recently released its newly updated National Security Strategy, a roadmap “to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history, and…

10 Major Laws Taking Effect In California In 2026 Authored by Cynthia Cai via The Epoch Times, The new year is right around the corner, which means a new batch of laws…

Clinton Judge Orders Destruction Of Key Evidence In Case Against James Comey A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Washington has stepped into the James Comey saga with an order that effectively tells the…

Ukraine peace deal is “closer than ever,” President Donald Trump believes US President Donald Trump has said he had a “very good conversation” with European leaders and also spoke directly with his…

Owners Of Inherited IRAs Face Dec 31 Deadline To Start Taking Withdrawals If you inherited an IRA in 2020 or later, you could be facing a Dec 31 deadline to start taking…

US Gov’t Foils Terror Plot By Far-Left Group Plotting New Year’s Eve Bomb Attack Our warning that the radical left protest industrial complex is not peaceful, but instead amounts to “civil terrorism,”…

D.C. Appeals Court Pauses Boasberg’s Contempt Hearings On Trump Deportations Via American Greatness, A federal appeals court has granted an emergency motion sought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to halt…

Anger Mounts As Police Release Video That “Shows Nothing” In Brown University Shooting Brown University has roughly one surveillance camera for every nine undergraduate students. Yet, despite that high level of surveillance,…

Population Collapse, Fiat Money, And The Future Of The Global Economy Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The fundamental problems of our society can largely be traced back to the collapse of reproduction rates….

Watch: Ukrainian Sea Drone In Direct Hit On Docked Russian Submarine In what appears an unprecedented first of the war, Ukraine is touting that it deployed a new underwater drone, named “Sub…

Russia’s central bank is seeking damages over immobilized sovereign assets held at the clearinghouse A Moscow court has agreed to hear the $230 billion lawsuit filed by the Central Bank of Russia…

Free And Fair? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The prison sentence made Ms. Peters, 70, a martyr for the election-denial movement, and launched a fruitless campaign by Mr. Trump’s followers to win…

Washington has apparently pressured Kiev to cede territory to Moscow, but Vladimir Zelensky has so far ruled out such concessions US negotiators have “appeared unwilling to compromise” with their Ukrainian counterparts over…

The confidence in the bloc’s leader, the US, has also sharply declined Only a third of Ukrainians trust NATO, a new poll indicates, signalling a sharp decline in the confidence of the…

Deaths already suffered as war-damaged homes continue to crumble in winter weather, local authorities told media War-damaged buildings in Gaza are at risk of collapse due to severe winter weather, threatening to…

Warsh Overtakes Hassett As Fed Chair Favorite “I think the two Kevins are great,” said Trump on Friday, but this weekend has prompted a rather violent shift from one Kevin (Hassett) to…

“It’s Outrageous”: US Military Plane Nearly Collides With JetBlue Flight Off Venezuela A US military aircraft narrowly avoided a collision with a JetBlue passenger jet in skies near Venezuela after crossing into…

Bull Market Genius Is A Dangerous Thing Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, During extended upward-trending markets that reward risk-takers and punish caution, everyone is a “bull market genius.” That dynamic flips investor psychology…

Georgia’s pause exposes a growing gap between Brussels’ expectations and political reality The European Union is coming to an uncomfortable realization: it is losing influence over a country that once stood at…

The Wealth Gap Widens: Survey Shows Rich Now Means $2.3 Million Net Worth Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, The benchmark for wealth in America has undergone a dramatic transformation. According to a report by…

Mexico Bends The Knee, Agrees To Fulfill US Water Treaty Commitments Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The United States and Mexico reached an understanding in which Mexico will meet…

Today, President Trump will participate in a Mexican Border Defense Medal award ceremony at the White House. The anticipated start time is 3:00pm ET with livestream links below. . . Posted in…

Wealthy U.S. Investors Embrace AI Tools… But Don’t Let Them Run Their Retirement Accounts Despite the rapid expansion of AI-powered investing tools in 2025, most affluent American investors remain reluctant to hand…

The closure of Volkswagen’s Dresden plant comes as the company buckles under cash flow pressure amid rising energy prices and other headwinds Germany’s largest automaker, Volkswagen, is set to cease production at…

Key Events This Very Busy Week: Jobs, Payrolls, CPI. Retail Sales And Central Banks Galore With just days left in 2025, it’s an extremely busy week for global markets, with a dense…

Aussie PM Invokes ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ After Islamic Terrorist Attack, Vows Crackdown On Guns In the wake of a Sunday mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach that left 15 dead and more than two…

Aleksey Levkin, a notorious neo-Nazi militant fighting for Ukraine, gave a speech at the National Academy of Internal Affairs in Kiev An institute overseen by Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has apparently provided a…

Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas Explores SpaceX IPO, Emerging Orbital Data Center Race Let’s recap what’s unfolded over the past few weeks as America’s space industry prepares to gain momentum: Elon Musk confirms…

If Europe and Kiev were smart, they would have rushed to cut a deal with Russia before it was too late, the US political scientist says Many among Europe’s elites realize Ukraine…

Enthusiasm For AI Stocks Is Finally Being Replaced By Questions By Jane Foley Senior FX Strategist at Rabobank Perhaps inevitably, the enthusiasm for AI related stocks in the past few years is now…

Estonia could help Budapest pay penalties for terminating contracts with Moscow, President Alar Karis has suggested Estonia could help Hungary pay contractual penalties if Budapest cuts energy ties with Moscow, the Baltic…

The Dept of Justice and FBI held a press conference today outlining a foiled plot to build and detonate bombs in Southern California on New Years Eve. WATCH: WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters)…

Moscow has condemned the “barbarian extremist attack” that left at least 15 people dead DETAILS TO FOLLOW

Xi Blasts “Reckless” Projects Exaggerating Growth After China Reveals Dismal Macro Data For November China’s economic momentum slowed broadly in November, with a marked weakening in consumer spending, adding pressure on Beijing…

Here’s How Markets Have Performed Since The Start Of America’s MAGA Experiment By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management MAGA: I remember 2017 well. It brought me to one knee….

Ivan Osterman rose from a crucial ambassadorial post in Europe to head Imperial Russia’s diplomatic service A monument to Ivan Osterman, an 18th-century Russian statesman who was the empire’s minister of foreign…

Chile Turns Hard To The Right: Tough-On-Crime, Anti-Immigration Candidate Easily Wins Presidency In an election where the decisive themes echoed mounting concerns in the Americas and Europe, a conservative who’s vowed to…

The tech billionaire has alleged that the country now has more discriminatory laws than those imposed on the black population under apartheid South Africa’s presidency has condemned comments by tech billionaire Elon…

Rob Reiner And Wife Allegedly Killed By Their ‘Troubled’ Son, Report Says Legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home…

Hammer Drops On Clintons: Appear For Epstein Depositions Or Face Contempt Of Congress Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, House Oversight Chairman James Comer is done playing games with Bill and Hillary…

The bloc continues to finance Kiev despite massive corruption, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said Ukraine is a “black hole” of corruption that has swallowed billions of euros sent by the…

The German chancellor wrongly singled out US tariffs as the main reason for his country’s flagging competitiveness, Kirill Dmitriev has said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has only himself to blame for the…

Leaders under pressure at home are shifting their problems onto the world stage, Matteo Salvini has said Europe is obstructing efforts to reach a Ukraine peace deal because leaders facing trouble at…

Interactive Brokers Now Accepts Stablecoins In Bid To Remain Competitive Authored by Olivier Acuna via CoinDesk.com, Interactive Brokers will now allow retail investors to fund individual brokerage accounts with stablecoins, a step…

Over 10,000 Illegal Immigrants Arrested In Los Angeles In Last 6 Months: DHS Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Federal immigration authorities have arrested more than 10,000 illegal…

Tapping the funds by overriding Budapest’s opposition is unlawful and helps fuel the Ukraine conflict, Hungary’s PM has said Any move by the EU to seize frozen Russian funds without Budapest’s consent…

The 70-foot monument to Argentine star Lionel Messi was revealed amid a fan frenzy in Kolkata India has unveiled a giant 70-foot statue of Lionel Messi as the Argentine football legend started…

Doctors save lives every day. It is a high-responsibility profession that requires high-quality education, hands-on practice, and strong mentors. The Russian medical school combines a rich history with modern technologies. Students from…

The personnel from Bangladesh were deployed under a mission in the disputed Abyei area in the war-torn African state Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers have been killed in a drone strike on a United…

Hanukkah Security Ramped Up Across West After Sydney Terror Attack Shocks World Major cities across the Western world are ramping up security around Hanukkah events after a terrorist attack killed 16 people…

iRobot Crashes After Filing For Bankruptcy, Chinese Owner Emerges Some of us may be old enough to remember when iRobot released its first robot vacuum, the Roomba, in 2002. Nearly 25 years…

The man was attempting to cross into Romania as most adult men are banned from leaving the country under mobilization rules A presumed draft evader has been thwarted in his attempt to…

US Futures Recover Most Of Friday’s Dump As “Bad News Is Again Good News” Stocks are set to recoup some of Friday’s tech-driven losses, with a big week of data releases ahead, as the…

Look around you. Music, cinema, theater, books – everything that surrounds us and makes us feel is created by people of art. For centuries, this creative energy in Russia has maintained its…

New Delhi is reluctant to open up its market for American agricultural products India has continued to take a firm stand on refusing to open up its market for US agricultural products…

The Ukrainian leader has said he is willing to drop Kiev’s bid, but he could actually still invite foreign military detachments Vladimir Zelensky’s statement of Kiev’s willingness to drop its much-discussed but…

Nigeria’s Christians Are Caught in A Tide Of Jihadi Violence Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times, Nuhu Dauda was on a missionary trip, about 125 miles away from his home…

New Delhi says it has never allowed its territory to be used for activities harmful to Bangladeshi interests India has rejected allegations by Bangladesh that its territory is being used for activities…

A 53-year-old man has been taken into custody in Germany after the gems were found hidden in his carry-on bags Customs officers at Frankfurt am Main Airport have confiscated 11,276 undeclared diamonds…

These Are The US States With The Most Low-Wage Workers Low-wage work remains widespread across the United States. Even as the labor market continues to expand, wage gains have been uneven, leaving…

Citizens coerced by Kiev’s special services into criminal activities face long prison terms, the agency has warned Ukrainian intelligence services are exploiting phone-scam techniques to pressure Russian citizens into carrying out terrorist…

Why Is Europe Feverishly Preparing For World War III? Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, If there is going to be peace, why are we witnessing…

Previously, overnight Saturday/Sunday police arrested a man named Benjamin Erickson (24) as the suspect {link} in the Brown University attack that left two people killed and nine injured.   At the time of…

A Collapse In Germany’s Chemical Sector Is A Bad Omen Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, Historically, the chemical industry has proven to be an excellent early indicator of severe economic downturns. Its present…

Cocaine: Local Cultivation, Global Consumption Although cocaine is consumed in every part of the world, its base, the coca plant, is mainly cultivated in three Latin American countries: Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. As…

Visualizing The Complete History Of European Colonization Europe’s colonial empires have shaped the world’s political and economic systems for over 500 years. From Portugal’s early ventures in the 1400s, to Britain’s massive…

ECOWAS has threatened targeted sanctions against individuals obstructing the process of returning the country to constitutional order West Africa’s main political and economic bloc, ECOWAS, has rejected a proposed transition roadmap put…

Los Angeles police are conducting a homicide investigation following the discovery of the bodies of Rob Reiner and his spouse Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele have been found dead…

Russia is the homeland of great inventions and scientific breakthroughs. It was here that the first satellite was launched, the first humans ventured into space, and the first artificial heart was developed….

Backing Palestinian statehood has stoked anti-Semitism, the Israeli prime minister has claimed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has linked Australian government policies to the deadly attack on a Jewish gathering in Sydney…

The proposed Ukraine “reparation loan” will undermine the US-designed global financial system, Kirill Dmitriev has warned European leaders seeking to finance Ukraine using frozen Russian funds are eroding the international financial system,…

A crisis at India’s largest carrier, IndiGo, revealed a deeper issue in the world’s fastest-growing major economy, where key sectors are nearly monopolized For more than two weeks, the Indian aviation sector…

National Trust Sues Trump Admin Over White House Ballroom Project The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and federal agencies on Dec. 12 over the ballroom…

According to breaking news, Hollywood actor and director Rob Reiner (78) and his wife Michelle Singer Reiner (70) were murdered in their Los Angeles home by their son, Nick Reiner. Rob Reiner…

When You’re In A Hole, Stop Digging Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, President Trump was onto something when he replaced Joe Biden’s White House portrait with a mocking picture of…

The Los Angeles authorities hold a press conference to announce they are awaiting search warrants to be able to send detectives into the home of Rob Reiner whose body is reportedly laying…

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…

DC Pipe Bomb Arrest Raises Questions About Christopher Wray’s FBI Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClearInvestigations, It’s a tale of two investigations. In one version – based on past comments by former…

A New Republican Vision For Health Care Authored by Monique Yohanan via RealClearHealth, The shutdown dispute offered a clear view into a problem that has shaped federal health policy for more than…

President Trump delivers remarks during a Christmas reception meeting at the White House. . Posted in Big Government, Celebrations, Christian Values, Melania Trump, President Trump, Uncategorized The post President Trump Delivers Christmas…

As with all information during high-stakes negotiations, particularly ones covered in geopolitics, trillions at stake and power dynamics on this scale, it is prudent to ignore most media reporting and focus on…

A refueling aircraft with its transponder reportedly off flew dangerously close to a JetBlue airliner A passenger airliner nearly collided mid-flight with a US military aircraft near the Venezuelan coast on Friday,…

Santa Vs The Grinch, Diets, & QE By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Santa vs The Grinch, Diets, & qe The week ended with a bang. At Academy’s Holiday Party, the Marines…

The two gunmen who killed at least 16 people at Bondi Beach on Sunday reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) terror group A father and son have been identified as…