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Washington has said it was not involved in the strikes, but vowed to protect American and Israeli forces from potential retaliation Several top US officials have warned Tehran against targeting American forces…

Washington was aware of West Jerusalem’s “preemptive” strike on Iran beforehand, but was not involved militarily, the president has said The US will “defend itself and Israel” if Iran retaliates for West…

The Indian prime minister called the scene of the accident “saddening” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Ahmedabad on Friday morning to visit the site of the Air India Boeing 787-8…

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stopped to briefly answer a media question after the event where Democrat Senator Padilla attempted to ambush Secretary Noem and was forcibly removed by federal security officials.  WATCH:…

Democrat Senator Alex Padilla claims he was in the federal building waiting for a scheduled briefing with federal officials and General Guillot, when he heard DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was giving a…

President Trump signed three congressional resolutions related to former President Biden-era electric vehicle standards, blocking California’s electric vehicle sale mandates and diesel engine rules. At the conclusion of the bill-signing, President Trump…

It was always going to be difficult to balance the long-term illegal alien workforce removal against the contrasted aggressive ICE deportation operation.  President Trump’s two statements on the issue today highlight the…

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says airstrikes will not go unanswered Iran will retaliate for Israeli strikes on its territory, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Friday, confirming that senior commanders were killed…

Tehran is 7.5 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time.  As was widely expected, overnight in Tehran, Israel has begun a series of what it calls “preemptive strikes” against Iran. Iranian state media…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech outlining the motives and intentions of the IDF attacking Iran to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons from Iran.  “Operation Rising Lion” Within the…

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…

According to most information flowing from the region, a second wave attack from Israel us underway (or just completed).  The first wave targeting was the Iranian military leadership and nuclear scientists, the…

GOP Lawmakers Reiterate Asks For Clean Energy Credit Tweaks In Reconciliation Bill By Lamar Johnson of Utility Dive Kiggans and a nearly identical group of House Republicans wrote to their House colleagues…

The IDF launched a “preemptive” attack on military and nuclear sites on Friday Major General Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed in an Israeli strike…

Trump Can And Should Fire Fed Boss Over Economy Authored by Christian Whiton via RealClearPolitics, Federal Reserve kingpin Jerome Powell is busy doing what he does best: sabotaging a prosperous economy so…

Democrat Judge Rules Against Trump Over Use Of National Guard In California Riots A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles, and has directed…

Data Center Boom May Turn Into Long-Term Glut Risk, Goldman Warns In a note to clients earlier this week, Goldman analyst Vinay Viswanathan provided an update on the U.S. data center securitization market…

Left In The Lurch: Are PA Partisans Flipping Sides On Fetterman? Authored by Christopher Nicholas via RealClearPennsylvania, Are the party positions on always-newsy senior U.S. Sen. John Fetterman flipping here in Pennsylvania?…

Smartmatic Accused Of Deleting Evidence In $2.7B Fox News Defamation Case: Court Docs Executives at voting software firm Smartmatic ordered the deletion and doctoring of key evidence tied to the company’s $2.7…

Explosions and missile interceptions reported in Tehran on Friday Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Friday that the Israeli Air Force has conducted a “preemptive” strike in Iran. Iranian media reported…

The attack comes days before the sixth round of nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington Israel announced a “preemptive” strike in Iran on Friday and declared a state of emergency in anticipation…

Russia Relocates Strategic Bombers To Protect From Ukraine Drone Swarms Following Ukraine’s long-range drone assault on June 1st which was dubbed ‘Operation Spider’s Web’ – and which resulted in the destruction of…

Kiev’s top diplomat argued that Moscow should not be “rewarded” on the world stage Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga has criticized countries that sent congratulatory messages to Russia on its national holiday….

The Case For Saying I’m Sorry Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary Elon Musk and Donald Trump had a blowup last week that grew unusually sharp,…

House Approves Bill To Codify $9.4 Billion In DOGE Cuts To Foreign Aid, Public Media Authored by Jackson Richman & Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The House of Representatives…

Putin Reminds West That Russia Has World’s Most Advanced Nuclear Weapons Russian President Vladimir Putin during a Wednesday meeting of government ministers and military leaders took the opportunity to remind all other…

The Great Climate Science Swindle Goes On Authored by Chris Morrison via The Daily Sceptic, It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that…

Locked Out Of The Dream: Regulation Making Homes Unaffordable Around The World Authored by Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox via RealClearInvestigations, The first in a two-part series on the global housing crisis….

White House Fears Iranian Response To An Attack Could Overwhelm Israel’s Air Defenses Iran’s military says it’s ready for anything at a moment President Trump has reiterated that an Israeli attack on…

The new branch of the Russian military is expected to be formed already this year Russia is in the process of establishing drone forces as a separate branch of the military, President…

The figure includes some 7,500 ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as other sophisticated munitions, according to the Russian president Russian forces have shot down more than 80,000 aerial targets during the…

LA Riots Hand Republicans Script For Midterms Authored by Philip Wegmann & Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, The masked man on the motorcycle, the one who waved a Mexican flag in front of…

Senators To Propose Ban On Big Pharma Ads As TV Networks Stand To Get Wrecked Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine, both independents, on Thursday will introduce legislation…

Trump Administration Launches Website For ‘Gold Card’ Visas Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has launched a new website for people interested in so-called gold…

There’s a coordinated silencing of victims across religious and political hierarchies There are crimes so profound that words fail to capture them. Last week, several survivors testified to the Israeli Knesset about…

Widespread Google Outage Hits Services With “Intermittent Failures” Google Cloud is experiencing widespread outages late this afternoon, according to the outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. While Google has yet to issue an official statement,…

Potential Israeli military action looms as nuclear talks between the US and Iran stall Israel is poised to launch a military operation against Iran, multiple US media outlets reported on Thursday, citing…

Appropriations Process In Disarray As House Moves to Slash $9 Billion In Federal Programs The House is expected to vote Thursday on a sweeping $9 billion-plus rescissions package that would slash foreign…

Trump Says He Won’t Fire “Numbskull” Powell, But Demands Rate Cuts President Trump said he did not plan to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, days after saying he would “soon” pick his…

Army General Says Marines May Temporarily Detain Protesters In LA Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The 700 Marines and 4,000 National Guard troops ordered to Los Angeles…

South Korea Lab Makes Bird Flu 100% Lethal In Mammals: ‘Virology Journal’ Authored by Jon Fleetwood via JonFleetwood.com (subscribe here), South Korean scientists have conducted a lab experiment that made a purported…

AUKUS-ward If You “Don’t Do Geopolitics” By Michael Every of Rabobank US CPI, even weaker-than-expected 0.1% m-o-m headline and core and 2.4% and 2.8% y-o-y, wasn’t the main event. Neither was President…

PPI Shows Companies Eating Tariff Costs, Bloomberg Finds Earlier today, when analyzing the latest PPI data, we concluded that – at least so far – it is companies that are eating tariffs…

Tennessee Sues US Department Of Education Over Hispanic Student Funding Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A civil rights lawsuit filed on June 11 in federal court for…

Stellar 30Y Auction Stops Through Amid Jump In Foreign Demand After a medicore 3Y auction to start the week, a solid 10Y auction yesterday, jittery traders were left with just one Treasury…

The agreement aims to boost Russian studies, joint vocational programs, and student exchanges Russia and Republika Srpska, an autonomous region within Bosnia and Herzegovina, have signed a memorandum to expand cooperation in…

Man Who Flew 120 Times For Free By Posing As Flight Attendant Convicted Of Fraud Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A man was convicted by a federal…

The US secretary of state’s message is a sign of willingness to engage in dialogue, spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Russia Day message is “very positive…

A terrible and tragic incident.  An Air India Boeing 787 departing Ahmedabad, India, crashes into a populated area during departure.  Details begin to surface and there are no survivors from the airplane,…

Moscow’s top negotiator in the talks with Kiev has offered to send Mark Rutte a history book NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte should have paid closer attention in history class, because he apparently…

House Strips Reconciliation-Ineligible Provisions From ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ In Procedural Vote The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a procedural resolution to strip provisions out of the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill act…

Core Producer Price Growth Slides To Lowest Since August As Companies Eat Tariff Costs Following another month of cooler than expected CPI, US Producer Prices followed and printed well below expectations in…

Micron To Invest $200 Billion In America To “Reinforce” Global Chip Dominance Micron Technology announced massive plans to expand its U.S. investments to $200 billion—allocating $150 billion toward domestic memory manufacturing and $50 billion…

“Here Come The Layoffs”; Jobless Claims Rise To 8 Month High As Continuing Claims Unexpectedly Soar The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time jumped to 247k last…

Energy Regulations Threaten Pennsylvania’s Tech Boom Authored by Elizabeth Stelle via RealClearPennsylvania, Pennsylvania is on the short list of destinations for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI). However, the commonwealth – thanks to ill-advised…

Picnic Or Not, Rand Paul Reveals The One Thing That Will Secure His Vote For Trump Tax Bill Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) continues to be a prominent holdout against President Donald Trump’s…

RFK Jr. Announces New Members Of Vaccine Advisory Panel Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has chosen eight new members for the…

Under Martin Jager, the Federal Intelligence Service will get more funding and leeway in conducting espionage, the media outlet claims Germany’s ambassador to Ukraine, Martin Jager, will soon be appointed as the…

Kiev’s Operation Spider’s Web was jointly planned by the CIA and MI6, the public policy analyst has claimed Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russian military airfields earlier this month were a “Western intelligence…

An Air India Boeing 787-8 has crashed during takeoff An Air India flight carrying 242 passengers from Ahmedabad to London has crashed after takeoff. A video shared online shows the Boeing 787-8…

Bullion has gained in prominence as central banks increasingly seek to diversify reserve assets Gold has overtaken the euro to become the world’s second-largest reserve asset by market value, according to the…

Is Gold Peaking, Or Just Warming Up? Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, Are we approaching a peak in the price of gold? According to several mainstream economists, we are indeed. But,…

This Is The Salary Needed To Buy A Home In 50 US Cities Since 2017, the salary needed to buy a home in America has more than doubled. Fueled by rising unaffordability…

TikTok’s Most Popular Star Khaby Lame Leaves US After Being Detained By ICE Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, TikTok star Khaby Lame has voluntarily left the United States after…

A third group of soldiers has returned from Ukrainian captivity under a major prisoner exchange, the Russian Defense Ministry has said Moscow and Kiev exchanged a third group of POWs on Thursday…

Musk Says Tesla Robotaxi Rides Could Begin June 22 In Austin, Texas Authored by Austin Alonzo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Tesla’s long-awaited robotaxi service could begin offering rides as soon…

Futures, Dollar Slide As Trump Renews Tariff Threats, Middle East Tensions Spike Stock futures, bond yields and the dollar are all lower after Trump ramped trade war tensions back up saying he…

Russia and North Korea have signed an agreement to enhance cooperation, including language centers and joint events  Russia and North Korea have signed an agreement to deepen cooperation in education, including the…

Youth leaders from BRICS nations convened in Brasilia to discuss the sustainable energy future and policy recommendations The BRICS Youth Energy Summit is “a flagship platform” for young people from the Global…

Congress should avoid actions that could harm the peace efforts between Moscow and Kiev, Scott Bessent has said A proposed package of tougher sanctions against Russia could undermine diplomatic efforts, US Treasury…

Disney and Universal are seeking an injunction and damages from Midjourney over the alleged use of copyrighted characters Hollywood giants Disney and Universal have filed a joint lawsuit against artificial intelligence firm…

The reported move follows Seoul’s decision to halt its own similar campaign the day before North Korea appears to have stopped its border broadcasts as of Thursday morning, South Korea’s military has…

The president’s special envoy has called his boss an “incredible friend” of the Jewish people US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has quipped that Donald Trump could serve as…

The headline is written to draw the contrast from what the professional economic pundits previously -and continuously- proclaim. Two charts tell the story.  The first is “Tariff Revenues”: [SOURCE] The Second Chart…

We can discuss opinion and motive in the comments section.  I’ll drop my thoughts below the fold: [SOURCE] [SOURCE]     Posted in Big Tech, DOGE, Donald Trump, Predictions, Spying, USA The…

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend a performance of Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center of Performance Arts.  As they walked the red carpet, President Trump paused to answer…

U.S. Secretary of State / National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio, and Director of National Intelligence ODNI Tulsi Gabbard continue making background moves well worth noticing. ♦ Secretary Marco Rubio has moved forward…

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…

If Israel were to attack Iran on/around the same timeline the leftists have their ‘day of rage’ scheduled on June 14 (Sat), it would be the worst possible timing.  Of course, that…

Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University. Mr Sachs has been against the Ukraine-Russia conflict from the outset and provides a…

Britain Threatened To Withdraw From ICC Over Israel War Crimes Probe Hungary created a stir when in early April it withdrew from the International Criminal Court (ICC), expressing outrage over The Hague-based court’s…

Nearly All Abrams Tanks The US Gave Ukraine Have Been Destroyed Or Disabled Russian media outlet RIA Novosti has cited a study which says the majority of the 31 US-supplied M1 Abrams tanks delivered…

Trump’s Travel Ban Courts Both Controversy And Support In Africa Authored by Darren Taylor via The Epoch Times, Some critics of President Donald Trump’s latest proclamation of bans from entering the United…

Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner Bound For UK Crashes An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad moments…

CENTCOM chief Michael Kurilla has said Islamabad has been successfully targeting ISIS-Khorasan US Central Command (CENTCOM) chief General Michael Kurilla has called Pakistan a “phenomenal partner” in counterterrorism efforts.  Testifying before the…

Washington has blacklisted four justices over the Gaza probe, just as it did during investigations into war crimes in Afghanistan The US has imposed sanctions on four International Criminal Court (ICC) judges…

A veterinarian performed cardiac massage on the reptile and then the team warmed the snake all night With unwavering dedication to conservation, a python ensnared in electric clear-vu fencing at a secret…

The weekend accident in KwaZulu-Natal left two student pilots and a medical student dead Investigators are piecing together what happened in the moments before a Piper Cherokee crashed in KwaZulu-Natal, claiming the lives…

A Message To Georgians: America Will Not Protect You By Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton A speech to the Tbilisi Summer Forum on June 6, 2025 [emphasis ZH]… No offense, but Georgia’s…

The US secretary of state has reiterated his hope for a lasting peace between Moscow and Kiev US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has congratulated the Russian people on Russia Day, while…

Escobar: How To Fact-Check Techno-Feudalism Authored by Pepe Escobar, The Global Digital Forum last week in delightful Nizhny Novgorod represented a landmark in the quest for a more equitable media landscape across…

President Aleksandar Vucic stressed that he had refused to condemn Moscow during his visit to Ukraine Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has rejected claims that his recent visit to Ukraine constituted a betrayal…

China Resumes U.S. Propane Imports, Easing Fears Of Plastic Plant Shutdowns In April, we warned that the U.S.-China trade war was pushing the global economy toward a breaking point, particularly in one…

A Timeline Of The Immigration Crisis Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), With so much else going on, not enough writers have been able to focus on…

LA More Than An Insurrection, “It’s A Bolshevik-Style Revolution” Driven By Foreign Money Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Renowned attorney Larry Klayman predicted on USAWatchdog months ago that there would be full-blown, legal civil war…

“Another Reason To Leave”: Top Maryland Power Official Warns Of Regular Rolling Blackouts Democratic lawmakers in Annapolis—more focused on Marxist reparations schemes to fleece taxpayers, taxing the hell out of Marylanders, having margaritas with…

Rubber Futures Plunge In Response To BYD Price Cuts Prices of natural rubber have fallen in response to Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD’s significant price cuts fueling fears of a price war…

Ambassador Alexander Darchiev discussed restoring bilateral ties with the US president Russia’s new ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, said he held a brief but “very constructive” meeting with President Donald…