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An AI-generated image shows the US president in papal robes as the Vatican prepares to elect a new pope after Francis’ death US President Donald Trump has posted an AI-generated image of…

Gunfire has been exchanged in Jammu and Kashmir as New Delhi reports violations along the de facto border Pakistan has once again violated a ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LOC),…

Aleksandar Vucic reportedly had to end his visit to the US due to health issues Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic abruptly ended a visit to the US on Friday after falling ill, Serbia’s…

Joseph Ashitey Hammond says Allied servicemen returned home in 1945 to hunger and betrayal by the British colonial government The colonial powers “failed” the African soldiers who fought for the Allies in…

The package is ready to go, but it is unclear whether Donald Trump will approve it, as ceasefire negotiations continue, the report says The US has finalized a new set of economic…

A series of Ukrainian drone raids has also been repelled across Russia, with a total of 170 UAVs downed Russian anti-aircraft defenses have repelled a large-scale Ukrainian attack, downing eight Western-supplied missiles…

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) has released the jobs and employment data for April [SEE HERE].  Within the data we see 177,000 jobs were gained, beating expectations of 133,000.   The…

Apparently, each week the Dept of Govt Efficiency (DOGE) team gets together for a weekly debriefing and recap session of what is happening in the various agencies under review.  Fox News host…

The report is coming from Axios, so take it with a grain of salt.  It could also be the White House testing the waters for DC reaction to the possibility.  The outlet…

In the USA we have the example of “Russiagate” where the FBI, CIA and DOJ-NSD intel community weaponized against candidate Donald Trump. In Romania, we have the example of the EU intel…

I’m not exactly sure what this event is all about; however, at 4:45pm the White House says tune in.  Livestream Links Below: . Posted in Donald Trump, President Trump, Press Secretary –…

According to the people present, when former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump, his primary objective was to inform President Trump his public demands…

Kevin O’Leary appears on Fox Business to support President Trump’s tariff proposal against China that is targeted to confront the dragon behind the Beijing panda mask.  WATCH: . Posted in China, Donald…

Think about it.  We’ve already heard about the massive stoppages of April factory work in China, causing serious concern for Beijing and Chinese worker protests. American importers front loaded inventory in February…

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…

One In Four Young People In The World Feels Lonely A study by Gallup and Meta, “The Global State of Social Connections,” highlights just how prevalent loneliness is today.  The survey, which interviewed people…

War Between The US And Canada – Is It Now A Real Possibility? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Reality is absolutely downstream from fiction. Did the creators of South Park predict…

US ‘Not Serious’ About Nuclear Talks After Trump’s Secondary Sanctions: Iran Via The Cradle The Iranian Foreign Ministry affirmed on Friday that Tehran is committed to continuing the diplomatic process and negotiations regarding its…

How Daily Incomes Have Changed In Top Economies Over The Past 30 Years The mid-1990s feel like a different world. In the 30 years since, the global economy has shifted dramatically, across…

More Climate Litigation Silliness From Academia Authored by Jonathan Lesser via RealClearEnergy, A recent article published in Nature claims that climate liability lawsuits, such as the ones various U.S. states and municipalities…

These Are All The Things People Use AI For In 2025 Thought leaders dubbed ChatGPT’s emergence – and subsequent generative AI proliferation – as the “fourth industrial age.” Whether it will re-shape the…

Washington denies it is walking away from negotiations Washington will not abandon its efforts to help broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday, after a…

RFK Jr. Says New Parents Should “Do Your Own Research” Into Vaccines Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has advised new parents to research…

California Penal Reform And The Violent Criminals It Let Loose Authored by Ana Kasparian via RealClearInvestigations, Smiley Martin should have been behind bars.  A career criminal with a long rap sheet involving firearms,…

A gunman opened fire at an aeronautics school in Inglewood on Friday A gunman opened fire at the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology in Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, on Friday,…

We Know How To Fix Government – Will We? Authored by J.Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics.com, The Department of Government Efficiency noticed a snag: the sign-in button on the IRS homepage wasn’t where…

Election-Denier Eric Swalwell Bares Fengs, Seeks Subpoena Power To Probe Musk’s Role In Trump’s 2024 Win Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) launched into a conspiracy-laden diatribe over the 2024 presidential election results, suggesting…

Renovation Of Philly’s 30th Street Station Became A Multi-Million Dollar Hotbed Of Corruption, Bribes, & Overbilling Amtrak As is the case anytime government is involved in a project funded with taxpayer cash,…

“Luigi The Musical”: New Show Celebrating UnitedHealth CEO Killer Set To Premier In San Fran Just when you thought you’ve seen it all… A new musical comedy centered on accused killer Luigi…

The attack comes days before the ‘Victory Day truce’ proposed by President Vladimir Putin A Ukrainian drone struck a house in Russia’s southern Rostov Region, Governor Yury Slyusar said early Sunday morning….

The US vice president has slammed attempts to “destroy” the anti-immigration AfD party US Vice President J.D. Vance has compared the German government’s treatment of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party…

Liberation Day 2.0: Trump Terminates Federal Funding For NPR And PBS Authored by Robert Spencer via PJMedia.com, On Thursday, President Trump gave Americans another Liberation Day: He signed an executive order ending…

Stephen Miller Emerges As Frontrunner To Be Trump’s Next National Security Adviser: Report White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller could land the position as President Donald Trump’s next National Security…

The US secretary of state has slammed Berlin for labeling the biggest opposition party in the country as “extremist” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sharply criticized Berlin for designating Alternative…

CIA Pokes The Panda With Mandarin Recruitment Ads In an ultra-provocative and quite bold move set against the backdrop of the growing trade war following Trump’s tariffs, the Central Intelligence Agency on…

What’s Normal, Exactly? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology.”  – Harmeet Dhillon, US Assistant AG for the Civil Rights…

President Trump’s Threefold Opposition Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via DailySignal.com, At the end of the 100 days of the Trump administration, let’s just review for a moment the opposition to it. …

Germany’s domestic spy agency has classified the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party as “extremist” Berlin should not rush into trying to ban the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, outgoing Chancellor…

Kiev is not able to force the Russian army to retreat to the 2014 borders, according to the US secretary of state Ukraine will not be able to reclaim its 2014 borders…

125,000 New Yorkers Fled For Florida The Last 5 Years, Taking $14 Billion With Them More than 125,000 New Yorkers relocated to Florida over a recent five-year span, draining the Empire State…

OPEC Moves Up Meeting To Discuss Oil Production Quotas By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com The OPEC+ members currently participating in voluntary production cuts will meet this Saturday, May 3, instead of Monday,…

Zelensky Relieved As Trump Quietly Drops A Key Demand A key Trump demand of the Zelensky government was quietly dropped as a condition of peace talks as well as the Ukraine minerals…

RFK Jr: HHS Became A “Collaborator In Child Trafficking” Under Biden Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that HHS is no…

Peak Earnings Pulse: Consumer Pullback Theme Gains Momentum A series of disappointing earnings (with peak earnings season this week) from fast-food chains, beverage giants, and consumer companies underscores persistent financial strain on low-…

US Files False-Claim Complaint Against Health Insurance Companies, Brokers Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice filed a complaint under the False Claims Act on May 1 against…

The French president has met with cardinal electors to boost support for his favored candidate, Italian media claims French President Emmanuel Macron is attempting to influence the upcoming papal conclave in favor…

The Awards You Never Get When Investing Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In investing, success is often judged by numbers – returns on investment, percentage gains, and the ability to outperform…

Netanyahu Stirs Fresh Controversy: Victory In Gaza Is Top Priority, Not Hostages According to fresh reporting in Haaretz, Israel is preparing tens of thousands of orders calling more reserve soldiers to active duty,…

Senior lawmaker Daniil Getmantsev has thanked models who pay taxes, adding that he knows many of them personally A senior Ukrainian lawmaker has hailed the contribution models performing on the adult content…

European Union Continues Sabotaging Trump’s Ukraine Peace Efforts The European Union at this point seems much more open about its willingness to sabotage Trump efforts toward achieving peace in Ukraine.  The EU’s…

‘No Participation Trophies’: Trump Revamps Performance Reviews For Top Bureaucrats Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, Performance reviews are about to become much more difficult for the upper echelon of federal government…

The agreement does not provide Kiev with security guarantees, according to Prime Minister Denis Shmigal Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal has confirmed that Kiev’s key demand of US-provided security guarantees is not…

Around $3.4 billion will reportedly be redistributed to Western investors whose funds are stranded in the country Belgium-based clearing house Euroclear is set redistribute around €3 billion ($3.4 billion) of frozen Russian…

Native-Born Workers Surge By Over 1 Million, Back To All-Time High, As Govt Employees Tumble For much of the past 4 years we dutifully reported, month after month, how the US labor…

The country’s most popular party has denounced the designation as “a severe blow” to democracy Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an “extremist” party….

Two Americans Charged In Operating International Child Exploitation Ring Authored by Rachel Acenas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two leaders of a child exploitation network known as 764 have been arrested,…

April Jobs Unexpectedly Jump By 177,000, Higher Than All Estimates Ahead of today’s jobs report, we knew the number would be a big drop from March’s 228K, the only question was how…

Payrolls Post-Mortem: Stocks Soar, Rate-Cut Odds Plunge But There’s Something ‘Disturbing’ Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, The headline data for NFP was much stronger than expected at 177k. That doesn’t…

China Quietly Walks Back A Quarter Of US Import Tariffs Amid Economic Crunch China has quietly started to exempt some US goods from tariffs that likely cover around $40 billion worth of…

Pre-Tariff Surge In Aircraft Orders Sends US Durable Goods Orders To Record High In March While Apple’s Tim Cook was adamant on the call last night that he had seen no ‘pull…

The US has reportedly shared data with the UK and other group members, citing alleged off-planet Chinese and Russian threats The US has begun sharing its “most sensitive” military intelligence on China’s…

Ivy League Showdown: Trump Says Harvard Will Lose Tax-Exempt Status The woke liberal elites, perched high in their Harvard University ivory towers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have been plotted at extreme levels on the…

ZeroHedge Store: Announcing Rancher-Direct Meats & More In Partnership With The Beef Initiative Since ZeroHedge launched our online store in December the response has been overwhelming. Not only is your support of…

Moscow’s global playbook is shaped by history and focused on survival “Only crows fly straight,” goes an old saying from the Vladimir-Suzdal region, where the revival of the Russian state began after…

Separate provisions outline Kiev’s “indefinite obligations” and bypass parliamentary ratification, Irina Gerashchenko has claimed The US-Ukraine minerals agreement announced this week “hides” details of Kiev’s “indefinite obligations” to Washington, a Ukrainian lawmaker…

Excluding Moscow’s representatives from commemorations of the defeat of the Nazis shows a problem with elementary logic and basic decency Eighty years ago, Germany suffered its worst self-induced military – as well…

The national governing body has said the ban is the result of a UK Supreme Court ruling Transgender athletes will no longer be allowed to compete in women’s football in England, according…

Stablecoins On Track For $2 Trillion Market Cap By 2028: US Treasury Authored by Alex O’Donnell via CoinTelegraph.com, US dollar-pegged stablecoins are on track to reach an aggregate market capitalization of approximately…

Frustrated With Boeing, Trump Reportedly Turns To L3Harris For “Interim” Air Force One Jet Frustrated by repeated delays in Boeing’s new Air Force One production timeline, President Trump has reportedly commissioned defense contractor…

Take-Two Plunges After Delaying Grand Theft Auto VI Take-Two’s wholly owned label, Rockstar Games, waited until the end of the week to disappoint global gamers—at least they didn’t wait until Friday evening to…

The sides are nonetheless “far apart,” meaning a breakthrough is needed for the conflict to end, the US secretary of state has said Russia and Ukraine are closer to a peace agreement…

Futures Rise Ahead Of Payrolls After China Hints At Trade Talks US equity futures gained ahead of the April Payolls report, but were well of their highs, after China said it is…

The US president has renamed two WWII and WWI-related holidays to “start celebrating our victories” The US played the most significant role in achieving victories in the two world wars, President Donald…

There are federal MPs and/or Senators who are currently, or have previously been, under investigation by the National Ant-Corruption Commission for criminal and corrupt conduct but we aren’t allowed to know who…

Chay Bowes was detained in Bucharest and subsequently deported after he arrived to cover the presidential election The recent detention and deportation of RT correspondent Chay Bowes from Romania highlights growing “Russophobia”…

Russia, which is integrally connected to Europe, ensures its stability and prosperity The narrative around Russia’s role in European security has become increasingly distorted in recent decades. Once a central player in…

Apollo’s Torsten Slok Unveils Timeline For Trade War Fallout The first wave of the trade downturn is already affecting the U.S. West Coast, with the Port of Los Angeles experiencing a sharp decline…

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce has said it’s time for the two nations to come up with their own proposals to resolve the conflict The US will no longer serve as mediator…

The False Claims Of WHO’s Pandemic Agreement Authored by David Bell via The Brownstone Institute, One way to determine whether a suggestion is worth following is to look at the evidence presented…

Yury Pavlenko has suggested targeting Moscow despite Vladimir Putin’s proposal of a 72-hour ceasefire Kiev could target Moscow’s Red Square during next week’s Victory Day celebrations, a Ukrainian lawmaker has suggested, despite…

The EU is ready raise imports of US goods by $56 billion to address the trade imbalance, the bloc’s trade commissioner says The EU wants to substantially increase purchases of goods from…

An alleged supporter of a terror group planned to blow up a building housing law enforcement in Dagestan, security forces say Russia’s Federal Security Service, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal…

New Delhi hopes Vizhinjam will be a major facilitator for Asian logistics Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has commissioned the Vizhinjam International Seaport in the southern state of Kerala. It is India’s…

President Donald Trump previously said his administration is in contact with Beijing over the tariff dispute, which China has denied China is “assessing” US overtures to begin tariff negotiations, the Commerce Ministry…

Radio Liberty Let The Cat Out Of The Bag Regarding The EU’s Game Plan For Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Russia can expect nothing in return from the EU if…

Where Malaria Has Been Successfully Eradicated As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, a total of 45 countries and one territory had managed to eradicate malaria as of January 2025,…

An alleged supporter of a terror group planned to blow up a building housing law enforcement in Dagestan, security forces say Russia’s Federal Security Service, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal…

“Every Night, Be Afraid!” – Tesla Owners Targeted By Left-Wing Activists In Vienna Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix news, Tesla owners in Vienna are increasingly finding threatening flyers placed on their…

The local governor has said the raid did not result in any damage in Sevastopol The Russian military repelled a series of Ukrainian drone raids overnight, destroying a total of 121 UAVs,…

The terrorist attack in Kashmir was conducted during the US vice president’s visit to India, serving as a reminder of the threat Islamist terrorism poses Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said…

Why Did Russia Officially Acknowledge North Korea’s Military Assistance In Kursk? Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Russia wants the world to know that North Korea might play a larger role in…

Trump Demands Sisi Give US Ships Free Passage Through Suez, Support Against Houthis Via Middle East Eye US President Donald Trump asked his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, for American ships to enjoy free passage…

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…

Japan’s Finance Minister Threatens Liquidation Of US Treasuries, Sparking Shock, Confusion The first rule of diplomacy is you never directly say what you mean, and you never, ever say what you want…

The question can be asked, has President Trump ever had a National Security Advisor who was not compromised? Unfortunately, some people are rushing to the Mike Flynn redo. As a consequence, some…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes are a warning against violence toward the Druze community Israel said on Friday that its jets carried out airstrikes near the presidential compound in Syria,…

I’m not sure why they choose Hannity but given that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now also the interim National Security Advisor, it’s worth quickly visiting his perspectives in this new…

A Curricular Solution To The Crisis Of Civic Illiteracy Authored by David Bruce Smith via RealClearPublicAffairs, John and Abigail Adams envisioned an America with a school in every neighborhood and a well-informed…