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Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu has held talks with Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval A top security official in Moscow has called for the strategic partnership between Russia and India…

The duties are as high as 41% and target nearly seventy US trading partners President Donald Trump’s new country-specific tariffs came into effect at midnight on Thursday, targeting nearly seventy US trade…

The chatbot gives harmful advice on suicide, drugs, and eating disorders to vulnerable adolescents, according to researchers ChatGPT can give vulnerable teenagers detailed guidance on drug use, self-harm, and extreme dieting, a…

Four NATO States Agree To Buy $1 Billion In US Weapons For Ukraine Via The Libertarian Institute Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands announced they would buy $1 billion in weapons for…

Germany’s Debt Minister Meets Wall Street’s Hawk: Ideologies Collide in DC By Thomas Kolbe German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil wrapped up his visit to Washington last week. His meeting with U.S. Treasury…

IDF Chief Clashes With Netanyahu Over Full Permanent Takeover Of Gaza Strip The Israeli military’s (IDF) chief of staff, Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, reportedly sharply disagreed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a three…

The CEO of mining company Sibanye Stillwater claims plan is aimed at improving Pretoria-Washington relations South African Mining Minister Gwede Mantashe has rejected a proposal by top business leaders to offer the…

New Delhi and Moscow have agreed to strengthen the special privileged strategic partnership India and Russia have discussed ways of strengthening their economic partnership, focusing on cooperation in rare earths, aircraft parts…

A venue has been decided upon for talks between the two leaders, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov has said Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet his US counterpart, Donald Trump, as soon…

The US president earlier imposed a 50% tariff on some Indian goods, citing New Delhi’s imports of Russian oil Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to travel to China in late…

UN Refugee Chief Warns EU: Budget Cuts Driving Migration Surge The UN’s top refugee official, Filippo Grandi, warned that “catastrophic” donor-driven budget cuts to his agency are already fueling increased migration to…

The suspects were recruited online and given a toxic substance which they planted on their target’s car, the agency has said Two teenagers have been detained in Novosibirsk, central Russia for attempting…

Taylor Adam Lee sought to share the vulnerabilities of Abrams hardware with a “foreign adversary,” the Department of Justice has claimed A US Army soldier has been arrested for allegedly trying to…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio appears for an interview with Larry Kudlow to discuss the recent reporting around a potential meeting between President Trump and President Putin. As Rubio notes, following the…

Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump at the White House to announce a commitment by the tech company to increase its investment in U.S. manufacturing by an additional $100 billion…

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…

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…

The US president has praised the “progress” made during special envoy Steve Witkoff’s visit to the Kremlin US President Donald Trump has told his team to “move fast” to arrange a meeting…

The US president has promised “a lot more” secondary sanctions on Russian trade partners US President Donald Trump has said he could impose new sanctions on China as part of a broader…

The cause of the incident, which killed eight and is among the country’s worst in a decade, is not immediately known A military helicopter went down in Ghana on Wednesday, killing all…

Inside NATO’s Efforts To Arm Ukraine Authored by RFE/RL via OilPrice.com, European NATO countries have pledged to buy American weapons, including Patriots, for Ukraine as U.S. support under Trump wanes. The EU…

Registered Sex Offender Arrested For “Humping” Refrigerator At Trader Joes This’ll make us think differently the next time we hear “clean-up on aisle five…” Seattle police were faced with a truly bizarre…

The Modern Slave Authored by Josh Stylman via The Brownstone Institute, “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”  – Fyodor…

Trump To Impose 100% Chip Tariffs, But Will Exempt US Investors Like Apple With CEO Tim Cook standing next to him in the Oval Office as the president announced a fresh (and…

The American Academy Of Pediatrics: Mining Children For Profit Authored by David Bell via The Brownstone Institute, American healthcare is currently providing us with an excellent lesson in what capitalism looks like…

US Government Announces ChatGPT Integration Across Agencies Authored by Vince Quill via CoinTelegraph.com, US President Donald Trump’s administration has signed a deal with OpenAI to provide the enterprise-level version of the ChatGPT…

The Green Hydrogen Hype Is Fading Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, The green hydrogen market is facing significant challenges, including high production costs and insufficient market demand, leading to the cancellation…

Meta Found Guilty Of Eavesdropping On Period-Tracker App Users: Jury A San Francisco Jury found on Friday that Meta had eavesdropped on the users of a popular period-tracking app, Flo.  The lawsuit, was…

Devastating US Report Lays Bare The Abuses Of ‘Settled’ Climate Science And Its Role In Net Zero Authored by Chris Morrison via DailyScheptic.org, Net Zero is dead in the United States and…

A small country alone has no bargaining power against the US, the Brazilian president said Brazil will discuss a response to US President Donald Trump’s tariffs with other BRICS nations, Brazilian President…

As America Soul-Searches, The Rest Of The West Is Falling Apart Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us In terms of geopolitics one could argue that allies don’t have to like each other,…

Ghislaine Maxwell Reportedly Cleared Trump’s Name In DOJ Interview Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly told the Justice Department in a recent interview that she never observed President Donald Trump…

Texas Deputy Threatens To Ticket “Everyone” Because She Didn’t Get Laid The Night Prior A Texas deputy is learning the hard way that TikTok clout doesn’t mix well with police work—especially when…

Howard Stern’s SiriusXM Show In Dire Straits As $500M Contract Nears End  Howard Stern was the undisputed king of U.S. media throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. But somewhere along the way,…

The Dark Side Of Big Solar Exposed As The Fight To Save Farmland Heats Up  This is precious farmland.  Now this is precious farmland bulldozed in the name of the so-called “green” energy movement…

Trump Admin Unveils Rule ‘To Unleash American Drone Dominance’ Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has announced a proposed rule on drones aimed at stimulating the U.S….

The US president has told reporters that the talks in Moscow could lead to progress towards peace in the Ukraine conflict A potential meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Vladimir…

Florida Man Turns In 50 Pounds Of Cocaine He Discovered Floating In The Ocean A Florida boater stumbled upon the plot of a Netflix cartel drama—23 tightly wrapped bricks of suspected cocaine…

The Linguistic Kill-Switch: Inside The Modern Propaganda Playbook Authored by Nick Giambruno via The Epoch Times, The next time someone sneers “conspiracy theorist,” “anti-vaxxer,” “climate denier,” “far right,” “hate speech,” “terrorist,” or…

President Donald Trump has described the recent visit of his special envoy to Moscow as ‘highly productive’ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said progress toward ending the Ukraine conflict has…

Defamation cases before the courts have dropped rapidly over the last few years and it is worth looking at some of the reasons why as social media users still get threatened with…

Vladimir Medinsky has accused Ukraine of derailing prisoner swap efforts Ukraine is refusing to take back a thousand of its soldiers presently held by Russia, Moscow’s chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky has confirmed….

Sen. Cornyn Urges FBI Director To Help Bring Back Texas Democrats Who Left State Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked the FBI to intervene…

Very Ugly, Tailing 10Y Auction Sees Slide In Foreign Demand, Plunge In Bid To Cover After yesterday’s dismal 3Y auction, markets were on edge ahead of today’s $42 billion reopening of the…

Files Of A Would-Be Assassin – Thomas Crooks’ Internet Search History Revealed Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Headline USA has obtained a partial internet search history of alleged would-be Trump…

Shale Giant Diamondback Slashes CapEx Again Ahead Of Crude Supply Flood Three months ago, then-CEO of Diamondback Travis Stice made waves when he declared that US shale-oil production had peaked, a forecast that…

The US president also is reportedly planning to hold a trilateral meeting with Russia’s president and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky US President Donald Trump intends to hold a personal meeting with his…

McDonald’s CFO Reveals Working-Poor Customers “Skipping” Breakfast  McDonald’s beat Bloomberg Consensus estimates on both earnings and revenue for the second quarter, but that’s not the most interesting part. What’s more intriguing is that…

Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics Authored by Eric Salzman via Racket News, When I was told Friday that President Trump fired the BLS commissioner due to a poor July payroll report (a…

The Lucky Continent? By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank While European equity markets ended the day on a slight positive note, the US market could not hold its…

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi breaks down the Russiagate fraud against the backdrop of the most recent declassified revelations.  WATCH: . Posted in Big Government, CIA, Conspiracy ?, Deep State, Dem Hypocrisy, Dept…

The Low Beta Boom: Sidestepping The Dotcom Bust Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Following the release of our article The High Beta Melt Up- Echoes of 1999, we received a few emails…

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appears for an extensive podcast interview with Miranda Devine. It may create ‘splodey heads in Washington DC, but DNI Gabbard is now positioned as the tip…

According to sourced media reporting, Vice-President Vance, Chief of Staff Wiles, FBI Director Patel, AG Pam Bondi and DAG Blanche are meeting today to discuss releasing the audio and transcript of Blanche’s…

“Falsified Bank Documents And Property Records”: Sen. Adam Schiff Under Criminal Investigation For Mortgage Fraud How does the old expression go? “When you point one finger at someone, three point back at…

Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff held another meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier today. This is the fifth meeting between Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin. Witkoff has spent more time with Putin…

Trump Advised To Nominate Temporary Fed Governor To Fill Open Seat Bloomberg reports that Trump’s advisors are “encouraging” him to nominate a temporary Fed governor to fill Ariana Kugler’s soon-to-be vacant seat on…

New Delhi has slammed the additional 25% levy on its imports as “unfair, unjustified, and unreasonable” India has sharply criticized a new US tariff linked to its oil trade with Russia, denouncing…

Demonstrators have demanded nuclear abolition while dignitaries marked the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the city Hundreds of protesters have gathered near the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima to…

New Delhi has denounced the move as ‘unfair, unjustified and unreasonable’ The US will be imposing an additional 25% tariff on Indian imports, the White House has said, pointing to the nation’s…

On the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords, there’s little to celebrate for those who wanted a harmonious coexistence Like him, hate him, Otto von Bismarck – Prussian aristocrat, arch conservative, user…

A campaign image from the online retailer features a Russian-made car never sold in the US Amazon’s latest marketing campaign for its new used-car sales service has inexplicably featured a Russian-made vehicle,…

WTI Prices Hold Post-India Decline Despite Big Crude Draw, Production Drop Oil prices have traded in a volatile range overnight as API reported a big crude draw and then President Trump announced…

Trump Slaps India With Additional 25% In Tariffs Over Russian Energy Trade Just as he warned yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order imposing an additional 25% tariff on India over its purchase…

NATO Member Scrambles Jets As Russia Destroys Gas Facility Key To Imports From US, Azerbaijan Russia carried out an overnight drone strike on a crucial gas pumping and metering facility in Ukraine,…

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s election body has revoked Milorad Dodik’s mandate after a court ruled he had violated the constitution Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik has slammed Bosnia’s election commission for revoking his…

Around 1,000 Ukrainian citizens have been abandoned by Vladimir Zelensky’s administration despite claims it wants “all-for-all” POW swaps Ukrainian prisoners of war rejected by Kiev want to return home to see their…

Spain’s decision reportedly reflects a broader EU militarization drive aimed at defense sovereignty and reduced reliance on US weapons Spain has shelved plans to buy US-made F-35 stealth jets. The move is…

Peter Szijjarto has decried the death of an ethnic Hungarian, allegedly killed by Kiev’s draft officers Ukraine can have no place in the EU and “doesn’t even belong among civilized nations,” Hungarian…

The US president recently said that JPMorgan and Bank of America refused to service his accounts The administration of former US President Joe Biden pressured some of the country’s biggest banks to…

Yury Ushakov says Moscow had an exchange of “signals” with Trump via his envoy on Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin and US special envoy Steve Witkoff exchanged “signals” on the Ukraine conflict,…

A 7% drop came after the Ukrainian leader’s failed attempt to crack down on anti-graft agencies Public trust in Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has dropped by 7% in about a month, according…

Italy intends to write off the multibillion cost of the proposed Sicily-mainland link as part of its contribution to the bloc Italy has approved a long-debated project to build a bridge linking…

‘Sabotage’: Thoughts On Trump’s BLS Director Tirade Via SouthBayResearch.com, “Listen all y’all, it’s a sabotage Listen all y’all, it’s a sabotage Listen all y’all, it’s a sabotage Listen all y’all, it’s a…

Futures Rebound As Dip Buyers Just Won’t Stop US futures rebound from yesterday’s modest drop as the market shakes off stagflationary concerns raised by NFP/ISM, although spoos trade well off their early session gains….

DOGE Worker “Big Balls” Bloodied After DC Attack; Trump, Musk Call To Federalize DC  President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have called for the federalization of crime-ridden Washington, D.C., following the brutal attack…

Pretoria says the profile of the removed migrants poses a security risk, given the country’s proximity to Eswatini The South African government has voiced “deep concern” over the recent transfer of convicted…

Father Feodorit has urged men to fight temptation and lust through prayer Men should pray if they feel temptation and lust when they see women in revealing summer clothing, a Russian Orthodox…

In Latest Empty Promise, Apple To Announce Another $100 Billion Investment In US Manufacturing President Donald Trump will announce that AI laggard Apple will commit to spend another $100 billion on domestic…

Bloomberg has claimed that Moscow is planning to propose an air truce during Steve Witkoff’s visit to the capital this week Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has rejected any limited ceasefire with Russia, insisting…

Disney Earnings: Pay TV Weakness Overshadows Strength In Parks & Streaming Disney shares are trading lower in premarket following Q3 results that were broadly in line but revealed underlying softness. The company raised full-year adjusted EPS…

Restrictions on Moscow’s partners could raise oil prices, inflation, and costs for US consumers, analysts have told the network Potential new US sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict could backfire, hitting…

The State Department says the measure against Malawian and Zambian travelers is part of a pilot program targeting countries with high visa overstay records Zambian and Malawian passport holders applying for certain…

Rail Merger Will Bring “Dismal Service” & “High Rates” Says Shippers Group By Stuart Chirls of FreightWaves, A trade group representing 3,500 chemical, manufacturing, agriculture, and energy companies warned that past history…

Cash Sent Home By Mexicans Craters 16.2% In June As More Immigrants Leave US Workforce The amount of cash being sent home by Mexicans living in the United States cratered in the first…

OpenAI is reportedly in talks about a stock sale that would push its market valuation to half a trillion dollars ChatGPT maker OpenAI is in talks with investors on a stock sale…

Italian Police Arrest 13 In Nationwide Crackdown On Chinese Mafia Groups Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Italian police arrested 13 people in a nationwide sweep against Chinese…

New Delhi has greenlighted the acquisition of more BrahMos missiles and armed drones, along with upgrades to other existing platforms New Delhi has approved defense purchases worth about $7.6 billion in an…

China’s Solar Industry Quietly Fired A Third Of Its Workers China’s biggest solar firms fired nearly one-third of their workforces last year, a Reuters analysis of company filings shows, as one of…

Ilan Shor has condemned the Moldovan government after his ally Evgenia Gutsul was handed a seven-year prison sentence Moldovan opposition politician Ilan Shor has accused the government in Chisinau of resorting to…

The move sideways and downward was registered days after an 8.8-magnitude quake rocked Kamchatka’s coast The Kamchatka Peninsula has shifted by two meters and slightly subsided due to the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake…

The move targets fairer income for producers, a Ghanaian official has said Ghana is raising the official price paid to cocoa farmers by 62.6%, effective immediately, Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson announced…

Germany’s Insolvency Tsunami: Structural Breakdown Underway By Thomas Kolbe Collapse of a Sham Economy Germany is being hit by a wave of insolvencies. Now in the third year of a prolonged recession,…

Beijing Pays Influencers In Africa To Spread Anti-US Messaging Authored by Darren Taylor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), JOHANNESBURG—Chinese and Russian agents are paying social media influencers in Africa to spread…

Zelensky Says Mercenaries From Asia & Africa, Including Pakistan, Fighting For Russia President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of deploying foreign mercenaries along front lines in northeastern Ukraine. This certainly isn’t the…

The authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have reportedly stripped Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik of his mandate The election authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have revoked the mandate of Republika Srpska President…

Steve Witkoff is visiting Moscow to discuss the Ukraine conflict Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding talks with Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of US President Donald Trump, according to footage released…

The late LDPR leader is being tried posthumously for alleged terrorism financing A Ukrainian court has moved to prosecute late Russian politician and nationalist firebrand, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who died three years ago, local media has…

The US has become “the hottest country anywhere in the world,” the president has claimed US President Donald Trump has claimed that NATO leaders are now completely aligned with his agenda, and…

Sudan says it has submitted evidence to the UN Security Council to prove the Gulf nation’s involvement in acts of aggression Sudan’s government says it has “irrefutable” evidence confirming that the United…