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Trump Cuts Ukraine Aid As State Dept “Totally Went Nuclear” On Foreign Assistance The Trump State Department on Friday halted spending on almost all foreign aid grants for 90 days, which also…

The women will be freed as part of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire The Palestinian militant group Hamas has announced that it will release four female soldiers as part of a ceasefire deal with…

The CDU and AfD will vote together on immigration restriction, both parties have said Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has said that it will implement strict immigration laws even if it…

US Security Contractors Deploy To Gaza To Operate Key Checkpoint The Gaza ceasefire deal has continued to hold, with Hamas expected to release a second round of hostages Saturday, to include four…

De-Weaponizing The Federal Government Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com, We’re going to be seeing a lot more swamp creatures quickly exiting their positions at the DOJ and throughout our intelligence apparatus….

Why Can’t The Left Understand Restrictions On Immigration? Authored by Alex Berenson via ‘Unreported Truths’ substack, Donald J. Trump is keeping his word on immigration. And Democrats, the media, and the woke…

The incident looks like a “textbook example” of a scheme used to punish dissenting governments in the West, Slovakia’s Robert Fico has claimed A massive cyberattack targeting Slovakia’s state General Health Insurance…

The Great Sorting-Out Begins Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The purpose of a pardon is to correct a miscarriage of justice, not to prevent future judicial action.” – Dr. Joseph Sansone This,…

California AG Files First Charges Against Realtor Over Alleged Post-Fire Rent-Gouging Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed charges Jan 21 against a Los Angeles-area…

Statements by the new commander-in-chief show that he will not go down the path of isolationism Until this week, few people remembered [former US President] William McKinley. When they did, it was…

The US President has named lower taxes and tariffs, and military support for Ottawa as bonuses, were it to join Washington US President Donald Trump has once again stated that he would…

Double-Digit Hike In Homeowners Insurance Rates For 2nd Consecutive Year Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Insurance premiums of American homeowners rose last year, with rates increasing by…

The underage suspect was found with knives and Nazi iconography Police in Belgium have arrested a 14-year-old Ukrainian boy over an alleged plot to attack a mosque in Brussels. The teenage suspect…

Paradoxically, a turn away from ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ values has the potential to defuse some of America’s belligerence Recently, one of America’s most conservative as well as influential newspapers, the Wall Street…

Putin Ready To Meet ‘Smart, Pragmatic’ Trump To ‘Talk Calmly’ On Oil, Energy, Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated Friday that he’s ready to meet with US President Donald Trump in order to hopefully…

The Markets Are Ignoring Everything Trump Said To Focus Just On One Partial Quote By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Davos got hard Trump treatment yesterday. He demanded that…

A 5-day halt in gunfire incidents came amid the country’s largest-ever mass-deportation operation New York City has recorded five days without a single shooting victim  for the first time in three decades,…

Kiev’s troops have lost almost 200 soldiers and three tanks in the Kursk Region over the past 24 hours, the Russian defense ministry has said Moscow’s forces have successfully struck a US-produced…

Nazispalooza: The Left’s Third Reich Mania Collapses Into Comedy Authored by Jonathan Turley, One of the least successful efforts of the left and many in the media this election was to paint…

Rubio Outlines ‘Sweeping Change’ In Cable To U.S. Diplomats Worldwide Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, Shortly after taking the oath of office, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable to…

Texas Instruments’ Bearish Outlook Indicates “Auto & Industrials Have Not Bottomed Yet” Texas Instruments issued a weaker-than-expected earnings forecast for the first quarter, signaling continued softness in key end markets. Goldman analysts reiterated…

Do Money Supply, Deficits, & QE Create Inflation? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I recently debated with Michael Pento, who made an interesting statement that increases in the money supply, the…

Hundreds have taken to the streets in Transnistria, over worsening living conditions and an acute energy shortage Protests have broken out across the unrecognized Transnistria region, calling on Moldova to restore gas…

A Mississippi state senator has called for criminalizing the “discharge” of “genetic material” for pleasure A Mississippi Democrat has introduced a bill seeking to fine men up to $10,000 for ejaculating “without…

2024 US Existing Home Sales Lowest Since 1995 US Existing Home Sales rose for the third straight month in December (longest streak since late 2021), rising 2.2% MoM and up 9.3% YoY…

Jim Acosta Absent From New CNN Program Schedule Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness, On Thursday, the newly-announced program lineup for CNN noticeably did not include at least one prominent figure…

UMich Inflation Expectations Soar As Democrats Panic In the final data for UMich Consumer Sentiment survey, inflation expectations (both short- and long-term) surged higher in January… Source: Bloomberg …but it’s all Democrats…

The Kommersant columnist outlines what Donald Trump’s return means for Russia and the world The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States is this week’s main news…

Former Ukrainian ministers, MPs, and judges will be reportedly allowed to swap prison time for military service Former top Ukrainian officials convicted of crimes will be allowed to apply for military service…

Major Russian Microchip Factory Which Supplies Military Halts Production After Drone Attack Ukrainian sources say that Russia was hit with over 50 explosions at oil and industrial targets as it launched a…

Watch: Davos Globalists Admit “We Have Lost To Trump” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A panel of globalists at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos remarkably admitted that President Trump…

Jack Schlossberg has accused the US president of using declassification as “a political prop” Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of John F. Kennedy, has lashed out at US President Donald Trump for…

A court has temporarily suspended a five-year data sharing ban between WhatsApp and other platforms imposed by Indian regulator Meta, the owner of the Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram, has been given temporary…

Fed-Crazed Markets Are “Reactive And Myopic”; Highlights From Kantro-King Debate Central bank flows dominate markets. This may not come as a shock to many ZeroHedge readers but was refreshing to hear from…

Russia is ready for negotiations on the Ukraine conflict, President Vladimir Putin has said Ukraine’s Western backers should push the government in Kiev to lift its ban on talks with Moscow, Russian…

Those entering the country illegally will “face severe consequences,” President Donald Trump’s press secretary has warned The US has begun flying hundreds of illegal immigrants back to their home countries after a…

The Russian leader believes the Ukraine conflict might have been avoided if Donald Trump had become US president in 2020 Russian president Vladimir Putin has said the 2020 US presidential election was…

Novo Shares Ignite After Next-Gen Shot Shows 22% Weight Loss Shares of Novo Nordisk A/S surged in European trading after the Danish pharmaceutical giant announced promising early-stage trial results for its next-generation…

US Services PMI Pukes In Preliminary January Data, Manufacturing Back In Expansion With expectations mixed (Services down, Manufacturing up) amid a rebound in ‘hard data’, preliminary January PMIs moved as expected but…

The soldiers were left to die chained by their commanders, a Telegram channel linked to Russia’s North military group has said The Russian military has found the chained bodies of Ukrainian troops…

Futures Dip To Close Best Inauguration Week For S&P Since Reagan US equity futures are slightly lower to close out a blowout week for risk assets. As of 8:00am S&P futures are…

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has urged Washington to adopt a realistic strategy The Ukraine conflict cannot be resolved within 100 days unless the US adopts a more realistic approach, Russian Deputy…

The EU’s dependency on liquefied natural gas has soared due to the loss of Russian pipeline gas The EU has substantially increased its reliance on liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports due to…

Group Launches New Recall Effort To Remove California Governor Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A new coalition of Californians, named Saving California, publicly announced a new effort…

BlackRock CEO Wants SEC To “Rapidly Approve” Tokenization Of Bonds & Stocks Larry Fink, CEO of the world’s largest fund manager BlackRock, has expressed his hope that the US Securities and Exchange…

Washington will quit the UN public health agency within a year, in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced cost-saving measures in response to the…

The private sector should take over responsibility, the outlet has cited a senior official as saying US President Donald Trump’s administration is not interested in taking part in the reconstruction of Ukraine…

New Delhi’s military has cleared a state-run dockyard to participate in a multibillion-dollar bid to construct next-generation submarines The Indian Defense Ministry will move ahead with a multibillion-dollar plan to locally construct…

Republican Andy Ogles is seeking to raise the limit for presidents who have served two non-consecutive tenures Republican Congressman Andy Ogles has floated a constitutional amendment that would allow US President Donald…

Some 490,000 people opted to join the army in 2024, including volunteers for the Ukraine conflict, the Security Council has said Russia recruited almost half a million people for military service in…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved the law despite opposition from some parties in the multi-party government After President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Expropriation Bill into law on Thursday, many might have questions about what this means. …

The president wants to “promote US leadership in digital assets” US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to explore the creation of a national cryptocurrency stockpile and establish a framework…

African countries no longer require the presence of colonial troops due to their ineffectiveness, Moscow’s UN envoy says Moscow supports the deployment of a joint force by Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali…

Israel’s army benefited from cloud services and tech tools provided by the US giant, according to leaked documents The Israeli military relied heavily on Microsoft technology throughout its campaign against Hamas in…

With the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president, the question of possible decisions by a new administration in regard to the crisis in Sudan arises The incoming Trump administration’s involvement in…

Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar has commented on the possibility of President Donald Trump cutting US support to Kiev The European Union should not bear sole responsibility for funding Ukraine, Slovak Foreign…

VDH: The Addicted, Petty, And Hysterical Left Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the left’s hysterical style of attacking Trump no longer worked. After…

Trump Tells Hannity: Would “Rather Not” Slap Tariffs On China As Negotiations Ongoing  President Trump’s campaign rhetoric and post-election comments critical of China sparked fears of a renewed trade war on the first day…

Budapest will support further restrictions only if Kiev reviews its approach to the transit of Russian energy, the Hungarian PM says Hungary will back the extension of EU sanctions against Moscow only…

Russia will seek “ironclad guarantees” that Kiev will not enter the US-led military bloc, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Grushko has said Ukraine’s accession to NATO would make achieving peace and establishing any…

Dmitry Peskov has said that although Washington cut ties with Moscow on the issue, Russia remains open to negotiations Moscow wants to resume disarmament negotiations with the US as soon as possible,…

Emmanuel Johnson sees Abuja’s partnership with the group as a way to boost economic growth and geopolitical influence Nigeria’s recent accession to BRICS as a partner state is a major step towards…

Berlin “cannot take part” in a military parade in Moscow, the diplomat has told Russian media Berlin will have no representation at Russia’s 80th-anniversary celebrations of the victory over Nazi Germany on May…

The victims’ families have condemned the ‘unduly lenient’ verdict for the Southport killer, demanding a life term Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to a minimum of 52 years in prison…

There are grounds to believe that crimes against humanity are being committed in Afghanistan, Karim Khan has said International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan has applied for arrest warrants for two…

Moore: Liberals Guffawing Over Trump’s Greenland Vision Might Want To Crack Open A History Book Authored by Stephen Moore via DailyCaller.com, The media and the intelligentsia are laughing at President Donald Trump’s idea…

Grenell To NATO: Ukraine Membership Push Would Face “Big Buzzsaw” In US Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as envoy for special…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is maintaining his pro-Trump agenda position into day #4 of the administration.  Thune appears with the insufferable Sean Hannity to discuss his recent meetings with President Trump…

Seattle District Judge John Coughenour has said the presidential decree is ”blatantly unconstitutional” A federal judge in Seattle has issued a two-week suspension of President Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict birthright citizenship….

Some influential figures could deliberately stoke hostilities between countries as US influence wanes, Sergey Naryshkin has warned The United States is losing its dominant global position, which may prompt Western elites to…

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…

It will be interesting to watch how this unfolds with new Intelligence Community heads moving into position to support or shape the request. This specific Executive Order [SEE HERE] approach runs counter…

“I want to talk to the manager right now!” the tech billionaire wrote Elon Musk, the owner of the social media platform X, has complained about seeing too many Nazi salutes in…

A fake father-of-three claimed his non-existent children were waiting for him in Germany, according to the authorities A Ukrainian man has been caught trying to flee the country by falsely claiming that…

82% are cutting back on spending as most feel their purchasing power has diminished, according to a new poll An overwhelming majority of French citizens say they have been forced to cut…

The UAVs were intercepted above 14 of the country’s regions, Moscow’s Defense Ministry has said Russian air defenses have destroyed 124 enemy drones over the country overnight, the Defense Ministry in Moscow…

Russia is awaiting signals from the new US administration, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready for contact with his US counterpart Donald Trump, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov…

Booking a place in the lavish shelter, limited to just 625 spots, reportedly costs $20 million A luxurious members-only ‘doomsday’ bunker with AI-powered medical suites and indoor pools is being developed in…

The Russian president and Guinea-Bissau’s Umaro Sissoco Embalo have agreed to boost ties, according to the Kremlin Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with Guinea-Bissau’s leader, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, on expanding…

The potential changes to the H-1B visa program under the new administration of Donald Trump have left IT professionals and hirers wondering what lies ahead On a pleasant January morning in Bengaluru,…

EU Updates Digital Rules Requiring Big Tech To Allow ‘Reporters’ To Monitor Hate Speech Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, Under a revised code of conduct on online speech, the…

Musk’s Starlink Is Rapidly Expanding Its Footprint In Africa Elon Musk’s Starlink has rapidly expanded its presence in Africa, now operating in 15 countries as of January 2025. Starlink provides high-speed satellite internet to remote and…

“Remigration Now” – AfD’s Weidel Calls For Mass Deportations After Afghan Migrant Stabs 2-Year-Old To Death Authored by Liz Heflin via Remix News, Following the brutal attack that cost two people their…

US Government Back Door FISA Searches Are Unconstitutional: Federal Judge Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The federal government’s method of searching through information incidentally collected on U.S.-based individuals violates…

FBI Seeking Public’s Help In Identifying “Asian Female” Bank Robber In Seattle Described as an “Asian female” in her 20s, the FBI and Seattle Police are seeking help identifying a serial bank…

These Restorative Executive Orders Should Not Be Necessary Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, You can scour the Founding documents all day and find very little support for government-by-executive-order. It…

The Ukrainian leader “shouldn’t have allowed” a conflict with Moscow to happen, the US president said Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky bears some responsibility for the ongoing armed conflict with Russia, US President…

Portland Church Vows To Protect Illegal Immigrants From Deportation One city not eager to comply with President Trump’s new immigration plans is Portland. The city will be actively working to try and…

Battle Lines Drawn On Trump’s Border Crackdown Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, President Trump’s decision to launch his second term by declaring a national emergency at the U.S. border triggered an…

The tech mogul’s post on social media was offensive, the Anti-Defamation League said A top antisemitism watchdog has accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of making light of the Holocaust, after US President…

Trump Signs Executive Order Releasing Additional JFK Assassination Files Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, releasing additional government files associated with…

The Democrats in the Senate are back to their old tricks of using delay tactics to stall President Trump’s nominees for cabinet positions. The nomination of CIA Director John Ratcliffe passed out…

Trump Brings Stellantis Jobs To Illinois… Pritzker Takes Credit Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, Illinois had some rare, good news yesterday. Stellantis, the Big 3 auto maker, announced it will be…

Thacker Dismantles WSJ Propaganda Over Gain-Of-Function Research The Wall Street Journal is playing sleight of hand over an (allegedly) upcoming Trump executive order that would halt federal funding for gain-of-function (GoF) research….

Meet The ‘Crunchy’ Moms Who Support RFK Jr. As Health Secretary Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A term once reserved for granola-eating hippies, “crunchy” moms has evolved…

From Idlib To Davos: Al-Qaeda Linked Syrian Official On Mainstage At WEF A US-designated terrorist group still remains the current de facto ruling entity in Damascus and over Syria. But for the West, all…

Washington State Seeking To Legalize Homeless Encampments Washington Democrats have introduced House Bill 1380, sponsored by Rep. Mia Gregerson (D-SeaTac), which would prevent cities and towns from banning or heavily restricting homeless…

Trump MemeCoins Set To Be Sued… But To What End? Authored by Ailsa Sherrington via CoinTelegraph.com, Just days before US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the crypto industry was taken relatively by surprise…

Seattle District Judge John Coughenour said that the presidential decree was”blatantly unconstitutional” A federal judge in Seattle has issued a two-week suspension of President Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict birthright citizenship. The…