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Futures Flat As Tech Stocks, Dollar Rise US equity futures are flat, trading in a narrow range overnight, with SPX unchanged, while Nasdaq futs rise after TSMC beat on sales guidance. Since yesterday’s…

RFK Jr. Fires Top Aides, Appoints New Acting Chief Of Staff Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired several top advisers,…

Senate Passes “DOGE” Recissions Bill, Heads For House Vote As Deadline Looms  The Senate passed a $9 billion rescissions package backed by the White House—targeting the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)…

Trump: Sending Tariff Letters To More Than 150 Countries President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday night that his administration will notify over 150 countries that their exports to the U.S. could soon…

‘DOGE’ Effect Accelerates As ‘Deep Tristate’ Jobless Claims Hit 4 Year high The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time fell last week to 221k – the lowest…

US Retail Sales Surged In June (Despite Sentiment Slump) Despite all the dismal downbeat sentiment signals from various ‘soft’ data, it appears the American consumer is not deterred from spend, spend, spend…

Maurene Comey is the daughter of Donald Trump’s longtime political foe, former FBI director James Comey The Justice Department (DOJ) has fired federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who worked on the high-profile cases…

‘All activism is incentivized activism,’ the veteran publicist has claimed Political protests in the US are rarely acts of pure conviction, according to Adam Swart, CEO of a prominent publicity firm that…

The country wants to host the global showpiece again, Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev has said Russia intends to bid to host the Olympic Games again when the global political climate permits, Sports…

Kiev is showing signs of dictatorship and economic degradation like the Third Reich before it fell, the former Russian president has said Ukraine bears similarities to the Nazi state at the end…

‘No Kings’ In America – Unless They Answer To ‘Your Honor’ Authored by Samantha Flom via RealClearPolitics, “In America, we don’t do kings.” That was the message of the leftist protesters who…

FDA Commissioner Responds To Critics: ‘Be Patient With Us’ On COVID-19 Vaccines Authored by Zachary Stieber & Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The commissioner of the Food and Drug…

Ukraine risks a major toxic spill by placing military assets at an ammonia pipeline, the Russian Defense Ministry has warned The Ukrainian military is trying to provoke a major ecological disaster close…

High Court Ends UK Govt’s £7B Afghan Resettlement Cover-Up After Data Leak Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The High Court has lifted a super-injunction obtained by the UK government that…

These Are Richest People In Every US State From tech moguls to retail tycoons, the richest person in each U.S. state reflects the industries driving wealth across the country. Some are household…

Chrispin Phiri has warned that ICJ rulings must be enforced or the global legal order risks collapse The situation in Gaza is “unquestionably a genocide,” South African International Relations Minister Spokesperson Chrispin…

Paris has reportedly expressed its openness to bilateral collaboration, but failed to acknowledge responsibility for atrocities in Niger France is willing to discuss restitution over crimes committed by its troops in Niger…

The US president has said he plans to send letters informing countries that their tariff rates could be set at 10% or 15% US President Donald Trump has announced plans to notify…

President Trump sent out a very strong message on Truth Social today. “[M]y PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker,” Trump said. Adding, “I don’t want their support…

Perhaps the top tiers of the DOJ are hearing the outrage.  Perhaps this is a ‘tamp down’ effort? Regardless, of structural underpinning, the removal of a demonstrably, perhaps purposefully ineffective attorney from…

Well, what do you know?   An interesting article about Canada suddenly proposing to put limits on the amount of Chinese steel and aluminum they import.  Although missing in the article is a…

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…

As lead operative and narrative engineer on the ‘tick-tock’ effort, John Solomon has once again pushed his way to the front of the narrative engineering effort.  As a genuinely glowing Solomon picks…

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…

Gustavo Petro has accused the US-led bloc’s leaders of supporting “genocide” in Gaza Colombia must cut ties with NATO as the leaders of the military bloc support “genocide” of Palestinians, President Gustavo…

70% Of Spaniards Want Mass Deportation Of Illegal Immigrants Via Remix News, The vast majority of Spain’s citizens want mass deportation of illegal immigrants, and there are even majorities for this policy…

Moscow’s ability to continue the Ukraine conflict must be weakened, Latvia’s foreign minister has said US President Donald Trump should make good on his threat to impose secondary sanctions on Russia without…

Italy Is The Country With The Most World Heritage Sites The UNESCO Committee has inscribed 26 new cultural and natural properties to the UNESCO World Heritage List this year, bringing the total…

Is Easter Canceled In France? Via Remix News, French Prime Minister François Bayrou has unveiled a comprehensive plan for sweeping financial reforms designed to tackle the nation’s burgeoning budget deficit. However, the National Rally’s…

The US president’s less confrontational trade stance divides advisers as some push for a tougher approach on Beijing, sources have told the agency US President Donald Trump has relaxed his combative stance…

Education Department Investigates Foreign Funding At University Of Michigan After Arrests of Chinese Scholars Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into…

AI Sucks Up A Growing Chunk Of VC Funding In The US Thanks to a record-breaking $40-billion funding round announced by OpenAI on March 31, VC-backed companies based in the U.S. raised $80 billion…

The Wearables Trap: How The Government Plans To Monitor, Score, & Control You Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead, “When the states legalize the deliberate ending of certain lives… it will eventually…

David Sacks: This Is How We’ll Know If U.S. Has Lost AI Race To China AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks warned Tuesday that preventing U.S. semiconductor companies from exporting high-powered chips…

DHS Secretary Suggests Liquid Carry-On Limits On Flights Might Be Eased Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More changes could be coming to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),…

US Has Launched Over 50 Airstrikes In Somalia In 2025 But Virtually No MSM Coverage Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, US Africa Command has announced that it launched two separate airstrikes in Somalia…

Huckabee Condemns West Bank Settlers’ ‘Terrorist’ Murder Of Tampa Man In a departure from his usual role as a de facto PR agent for the State of Israel, US Ambassador to Israel…

The monument to soldiers who liberated Lviv from the Nazis “no longer exists,” Andrey Sadoviy has bragged Ukraine is ready to exchange the remains of hundreds of Soviet army soldiers, unearthed during…

RFK Jr. And Other Trump Officials Embrace Psychedelics After FDA Setback Via Headline USA, For decades, proponents of psychedelic drugs have come to Washington with a provocative message: Illegal, mind-altering substances like LSD and ecstasy should be…

A residential building in Voronezh was damaged in the second such attack this week At least three children were injured after a Ukrainian drone crashed into a residential building in the southern…

Trump Believes Russia Will Win In Ukraine, It’s Just A Matter Of How Long “The president’s view is Russia is going to win, it’s a matter of how long it takes,” said…

Caffeine May Slow Cellular Aging By Activating A Protective Stress Response Authored by Rachel Ann T. Melegrito via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), That jolt you feel from your morning coffee isn’t…

Syrian HTS Troops Mass Murder Civilians At Hospital In South, Days After US Drops Terror Designation There is gruesome evidence emerging of mass atrocities in the southern Syrian province of Suwayda, where government…

International Buyers Purchased $56 Billion Worth Of US Homes In 1 Year Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Foreign buyers purchased $56 billion worth of existing homes in…

Batman Vs The Joker: Democrats Will Double Down On Chaos To Save Their Party Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Whenever I think of the behavior of the Democratic Party and the…

Israel Conducts Massive Strikes On Damascus After Sharaa Regime’s Sectarian Attacks “The heavy blows have started” Israel’s defense minister Israel Katz has posted to X above a video (below) showing a Syrian news presenter…

Pushing Back Against The Big Medicaid Lie Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics (emphasis ours), Democrats were virtually salivating as they unanimously voted against Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill two weeks ago,…

Iran Seizes Foreign Oil Tanker In Sea Of Oman It remains important for energy traders to closely monitor the Strait of Hormuz and other key critical maritime chokepoints in the region (recall Red Sea…

China Finalizes New Export Control On Crucial Mine Processing Technologies Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), China has finalized new export controls on technologies crucial to making batteries…

The Department of Homeland Security has blamed “mainstream media lies” for the wave of violence US federal immigration officials have faced a “massive surge in attacks” since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the…

A government source has told RT that only punishing the “Israeli regime” and US for their nuclear site attacks can prevent a new war A senior security official in Tehran has told…

The US president has slammed his supporters who have been left unconvinced by the DOJ’s recent report that says no list of clients was found camp within the Republican Party who have…

‘Genderfluid’ 19-Year-Old Attempts To Firebomb GOP Office In Michigan Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, A 19-year-old man was arrested over the weekend after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Dickinson County Republican…

Emails Reveal FBI Invented Trump Case Out Of Nothing Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Newly released emails further expose the behind-the-scenes push within the Biden DOJ’s push to manufacture a criminal case against President…

Beige Book Spells Trouble For Powell: Mentions Of “Inflation” Tumble To 4 Year Low, As Growth Concerns Mount Many were shocked (again) after the latest CPI and PPI data confirmed that the…

Mike Johnson has claimed the tech mogul ‘ghosted’ him as he tried to explain the benefit of the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ Musk opposed US-based billionaire Elon Musk has changed his mobile…

Enlistment officials have been seen beating draftees and violently packing them into buses, new videos circulating online suggest Multiple new disturbing videos purporting to show extremely violent actions by Ukrainian draft officers…

US Vows To Quit IEA If The Agency Keeps Pushing Green Transition Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The U.S. is pressuring the IEA to shift focus from climate advocacy back to…

US President tries a new tack on Russia: pressure without provocation US President Donald Trump has finally issued his much-anticipated “important statement” on Russia. For days, speculation swirled, particularly among pro-Ukrainian circles,…

Australia could end up with more victims of the legal warfare being conducted by supporters of Israel then there are victims of antisemitism, and that needs to be looked at and addressed…

Bitcoin, Ether Bounce Back As House Passes Procedural Vote On ‘Crypto Week’ Bills After yesterday’s disappointment – and a meeting with President Trump – conservative Republicans flip-flopped and voted to push forward…

Ghislaine ‘Ready’ To Testify As Trump Triples Down, Slams ‘Weakling PAST Supporters Who Believe Epstein Hoax’ While President Trump continues to insist that the “Epstein List” of elites who partook in Jeffrey…

Status Of Tariffs With 15 Top US Trading Partners – What To Know So Far Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump’s administration is working to address trade…

The head of the broadcaster’s Lebanon office, Steve Sweeney, was asked about his work for the Russian outlet, Margarita Simonyan has said The head of RT’s Lebanon office, Steve Sweeney, has been…

The British Foreign Office is at it again: ‘strengthening democracy’ and ‘fighting misinformation’ by paying YouTube personalities There is something profoundly grotesque about a government that funds “freedom campaigns” through secret payments…

Pentagon Awards Contracts To 4 Artificial Intelligence Developers Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Defense announced on July 14 that it has awarded contracts…

The European Council has imposed sanctions on Moldovan individuals and entities close to exiled businessman Ilan Shor The European Council has imposed sanctions on seven individuals and three entities in Moldova linked…

“Maximum Generation Alert” Declared On America’s Largest Power Grid America’s largest power grid has issued another “Maximum Generation Alert” and “Load Management Alert” as temperatures soar across the eastern half of the U.S….

The country is poised to lose 7 million people by 2046, federal statistics agency Rosstat warns A senior Russian demographer has proposed cutting the number of years children must attend school in…

Yerevan froze its participation is the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) a year ago Armenia will likely quit the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said. Yerevan suspended…

Former Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu sentenced to 20 months in prison, reportedly for insulting a public prosecutor Ekrem Imamoglu, the former mayor of Istanbul and a key rival to Turkish President Recep…

Seventeen missile systems, German money, and new strike zones deep inside Russia – what it all means for the war? On Monday, July 14, US President Donald Trump announced that he had decided…

WTI Holds Losses After Surprise Crude Draw As Rig Count Decline Rejects ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Crude futures are lower for a third session in a row with the market refocusing on supply…

(Progressive) Bonfire Of The Vanities, ‘Mad-Mani’ Style Authored by David DesRosiers, President of the RealClearFoundation, New York City has met many challenges in its history as the capital of capital. The constant…

Bats And Newts By Jane Foley, senior FX strategist at Rabobank It has been a while since the details of the US CPI inflation report was poured over so much. On initial…

Trump Sparks Market Chaos: Denies CBS Reports Of Imminent Firing Of ‘Knucklehead’ Powell Update (1200ET): Well that didn’t take long. President Trumnpo was asked in the Oval Office whether he was looking…

The British government funded covert campaigns across Europe via Zinc Network to shape public opinion and affect elections, Declassified UK has found The UK Foreign Office gave millions of pounds to a…

The US should supply Kiev with the systems free of charge rather than force EU nations to pay for them, Ulrich Thoden says During a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on…

Trump Clarifies No Long-Range Missiles To Ukraine, Declares “I’m On Nobody’s Side” Only this week are further contents of a July 4 phone call between Presidents Trump and Zelensky being revealed, 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…

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…

New Delhi has directed airlines to check the fuel switches of some aircraft made by the American manufacturer India’s civil aviation regulator has ordered the country’s carriers to inspect fuel switches on…

Officers in Rostov Region are now receiving the same sum they turned down Police officers in southern Russia’s southern Rostov Region are being rewarded for refusing bribes by receiving the same amount…

The various regional conflicts are increasingly becoming a standoff between the West and the Global South Global events increasingly reflect the growing confrontation between the Western bloc, led by the United States…

The IDF has struck the Defense Ministry as violence escalates across Druze-populated areas of Syria Israel attacked the headquarters of the Syrian military and locations near the presidential palace in Damascus on…

Illegal Border Crossings Hit Record Monthly Low, CBP Says Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Illegal border crossings fell to their lowest level in June, with no parole releases of…

Bank of America Misses On Revenue Despite Stellar Sales And Trading Results, Projects Two Rates Cuts In NII Forecast The strong bank earnings continued for a second day, when after solid results…

US Industrial Production Surges In June US Industrial production rose significantly more than expected in June (+0.3% MoM vs +0.1% MoM exp) with May’s 0.2% MoM decline revised up to unchanged. This…

Watch: Rent-A-Protester CEO Rejects $20 Million Contract To Stage Anti-Trump Protests  Free speech in the U.S. was never intended to serve as a perpetual vehicle for permanent protest. However, over the past…

ASML Shares Plunge As Uncertainty Casts Shadow Over 2026 Outlook Shares of ASML Holding NV plunged in Europe on Wednesday after CEO Christophe Fouquet warned he could no longer guarantee the company’s…

Kiev’s original request to host nuclear-capable, long-range Tomahawks was rejected under the Biden administration Vladimir Zelensky has called on US President Donald Trump to reconsider Ukraine’s proposal to host long-range American missiles….

Several bloc members reportedly only learned they were supposed to fund American weapons for Kiev when it was announced by the US president Several NATO member states were not notified in advance…

The ruling concerns the late opposition leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was accused of misuse of funds The EU General Court in Luxembourg has ordered Marine Le Pen and her two sisters…

The funds that Rome could allocate are “practically non-existent,” according to La Stampa’s sources Italy’s budget doesn’t allow it to participate in US President Donald Trump’s plan to supply American arms to…

RT Africa’s new film will reveal personal memories of South Africa’s first president through the eyes of those who knew him Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first president and a global icon for…

The scheme would violate international law and trigger legal and market risks, the depository’s CEO has said European Union plans to move frozen Russian sovereign assets into riskier investments would amount to…

The removals to Eswatini are to ensure that the deportees never harm another American, Homeland Security has said A US deportation flight carrying a group of immigrants from various countries has landed…

Futures Drop As Tariffs, Earnings And Rising Yields Dent Sentiment US equity futures and global stocks dropped, but were well off session lows, as a stream of negative tariff headlines and dialed-back…

Renault Shock Profit Warning Sends Shares Crashing Shares of French carmaker Renault, trading in Paris, crashed the most since the early days of the Covid pandemic after the company issued an unscheduled…

Trump Accuses ‘Shifty Adam Schiff’ Of Mortgage Fraud, Says He ‘Needs To Be Brought To Justice’ Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Sen. Adam Schiff…