China Sues Sen. Schmitt And Others For Defamation Over COVID-19 Lawsuit Authored by Jonathan Turley, Years ago, I called the pandemic arguably the greatest case of negligence in the history of torts. However, with millions dead and hundreds of billions expended, it was unlikely that China would ever be truly held accountable for its actions. Those failures include not only the alleged release of the virus from the Wuhan lab but […]

Did Abu Dhabi Just Deliver A Santa Rally: OpenAI To Raise $100BN From Sovereign Wealth Funds While the broader stock market has meandered both higher and lower in the subsequent two months, the Mag 7 trade peaked on Oct 31 and has been drifting sideways – and lower – ever since. What happened on that date? That was the day of the infamous All Things podcast, in which Brad Gerstner (an OpenAi investor) pointed out that the emperor […]

Peak Wokeism & More: Doug Casey On 2025’s Defining Events And What Comes Next Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: As we step back and look at 2025—politically, economically, technologically, and culturally—which developments mattered the most? Doug Casey: Politically, and in every other way, it’s all about Trump. As Shakespeare said of Julius Caesar, “he doth bestride the narrow world. Like a Colossus, and […]

Dan Bongino to Resign As FBI Deputy Director After less than a year on the job, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced his resignation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Dan Bongino leaves after a meeting at the U.S. Capitol on June 25, 2025. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images “I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January,” he said in a Wednesday post on X.  “I want to thank President Trump, […]

America’s Rapidly Growing Happiness Deficit Authored by Michael Snyder, We possess technology that would have been unimaginable to people living 100 years ago, we have access to more entertainment than any other generation in human history, and we have been enjoying an artificially-inflated standard of living that has been fueled by an unprecedented debt binge for decades. So why are so many of us so miserable? One out of every […]

“Children Are NOT Experiments”: House-Passes Bill Criminalizing Transgender Treatments For Minors The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would criminalize transgender-related treatments for minors, which includes surgical procedures and puberty blockers.  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) presides over a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 12, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The bill, […]

Police Investigate Leftist Who Harassed Elderly Target Worker Over Charlie Kirk Shirt Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a swift turn toward justice, police have opened an investigation into Michelea Ponce, the leftist agitator caught on video berating an elderly Target employee named Jeanie for daring to wear a Charlie Kirk “FREEDOM” shirt. The harassment, which exploded across social media, highlights the […]

U.S. Freezes Korea Trade Talks After Seoul Ignores Warnings Over Big Tech Shakedown One month after it looked like South Korea was backing off Big Tech with an ongoing shakedown of fines for violating arbitrary laws, the Trump administration just left the chat – canceling a key bilateral trade meeting and signaling that continued regulatory pressure on American technology firms will carry immediate consequences. Seoul now gets […]

Tether CEO Warns AI Bubble Is Bitcoin’s Biggest Risk In 2026 Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, has raised concerns about how a potential AI bubble could affect Bitcoin by 2026. Ardoino shared his outlook on Bitcoin and the broader crypto industry on Thursday during the Bitcoin Capital podcast, co-hosted by Bitfinex Securities and […]

Court Axes Trevor Milton Lawsuit, Awards Attorney’s Fees To CNBC And Hindenburg A New Jersey appellate court on Monday threw out Trevor Milton’s lawsuit against CNBC and short-seller Hindenburg Research, ruling that the case was time-barred and improperly framed. In a unanimous opinion, the Appellate Division held that Milton’s claims—styled as “trade libel”—were, in substance, ordinary defamation claims subject to New […]

Has Orwell’s 1984 Become Reality? Authored by Bert Olivier via The Brownstone Institute, To some readers it may seem like a rhetorical question to ask whether the narrative of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984), first published in Britain in 1949, has somehow left its pages and settled, like an ominous miasma, over the contours of social reality. Yet, closer inspection – which means avoiding […]

First Brown University Shooting, Then MIT Professor Murder, Police Investigate Possible Link Authorities on Thursday continued the search for the killer of a world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor and fusion energy physicist who was shot and killed inside his home near Boston earlier this week – a suspicious attack that occurred just days after the deadly shooting at Brown University. MIT professor and […]

Watch: Presidential ‘Wall Of Fame’ Gets A Savage Upgrade… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump has seemingly taken his trolling to new heights by installing brutal plaques beneath key presidential portraits at the White House, exposing the failures of his leftist predecessors. The inscriptions lay waste to the deep state’s darlings—detailing Obama’s foreign policy debacles, Clinton’s globalist […]

House Kills Bill On Blocking War With Venezuela Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com The House on Wednesday voted down a War Powers Resolution meant to block President Trump from launching a war with Venezuela without congressional authorization, as required by the Constitution. The bill failed in a vote of 211-213, with nine representatives not voting. Just three Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the bill: Reps. […]

Apocalyptic Environmentalism Collides With Data Center Boom, Fuels Sky-High Mid-Atlantic Power Prices A combination of “apocalyptic environmentalism” and an explosion in data center power demand has left power markets in the Mid-Atlantic heavily strained, triggering a surge in power bills that is roiling working-poor families, middle-income households, and mom-and-pop businesses. Democratic kings, operating under one-party rule in […]

Trump Promises New Evidence Showing 2020 Election Fraud Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has in recent interviews repeatedly foreshadowed new revelations about improprieties in the 2020 election. He has suggested the evidence to be both voluminous and clear. “The election was rigged in 2020. We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you’ll see it come out. It’s coming out in truckloads,” […]

“People Begging Me To Do This”: Trump Signs Executive Order Reclassifying Cannabis Update (Thursday Afterhours): Pot stocks (plus MJ ETF) were pumped, then dumped, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order reclassifying marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III.   *   *   *  Update (Thursday Afternoon): Moments ago in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding access to […]

TSMC Targets 2027 Start For Advanced Chip Output In Arizona Taiwan Semiconductor is set to begin moving chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab around summer 2026, positioning the plant to start 3-nanometer production in 2027, Nikkei Asia reports. Sources say the equipment move is expected in the July–September quarter next year, accelerating a project previously slated to come online in 2028 and aligning with Chairman and […]

Federal Judge Won’t Block White House Ballroom Construction Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A federal district judge on Dec. 17 allowed the ongoing ballroom construction project at the White House to continue, turning away a preservation organization’s request to halt it, at least for the time being. The litigation is still underway, and a court hearing is scheduled for January. Construction on the project, […]

US Approves Largest Taiwan Arms Package In History At Over $11BN Just a day ago the US administration communicated to China that it is ready to defend American interests in the Pacific region. Now, it’s being reported that the US has approved $11.1 billion in arms-sales for Taiwan, the single largest ever such announced transfer and clear show of support from Washington. Unveiled late Wednesday, the major arms sales are intended […]

Former Harvard Morgue Manager, Wife Sentenced For Stealing And Selling Body Parts Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling human body parts donated for scientific research, the Department of Justice said. Cedric Lodge, 58, was sentenced on Dec. 16 during a hearing in federal court in Pennsylvania. His wife, […]

Australian Counterterrorism Unit Rams Car, Arrests Five Men Suspected Of Planning Violence Four days after the Bondi Beach terror attack in Australia, a counterterrorism unit stopped what appeared to be a vehicle carrying five Middle Eastern men in Liverpool, Sydney, who were allegedly heading toward the Bondi Beach area. BREAKING: Australian police ram a car with 5 Islamists travelling to Bondi Beach. Seems like they had info […]

China’s ‘Manhattan Project’ Builds Secret EUV Chip Machine Long Blocked By The West Chinese scientists have built a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine in a high-security Shenzhen lab, a milestone Washington has long sought to block, according to a new report from Reuters. The machine, completed in early 2025 and now in testing, occupies nearly an entire factory floor and was developed by former ASML engineers […]

Fed Inflation Target Nears As US CPI Tumbles More Than Expected In November ‘A grain of salt’ is how many have described their position on this morning’s government shutdown-delayed release of October and November Consumer Price Inflation data. Headline CPI slowed to 2.7% YoY in November (dramatically below the 3.1% YoY expected) Core CPI fell to 2.6% YoY in November (well below the 3.0% YoY expected) and the lowest since March […]

US Judge Plans To Block Hundreds Of Trump Admin Layoffs Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston stated during a court hearing that she would block the departments of State and Education from moving forward with approximately 250 and 150 layoffs, respectively. The decision comes after a lawsuit filed in October by unions challenging the Trump administration’s plans to shrink the […]