Watch: Migrant Chinese Trucker Caught With Trailer Load Of “Puffing Gas” For Teens Submitted by American Truckers United,  America’s interstate highways, the backbone of its economy and critical infrastructure, are increasingly traversed by an invisible fleet of truck drivers tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Through lax enforcement of non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs), Beijing-linked networks are […]

Russian Pundits, Military Bloggers, Are Angry: Maduro’s Capture Highlights Failed Zelensky Ouster Earlier we featured the headline Chinese Social Media Explodes: US Invasion Of Venezuela A ‘Template’ For Move On Taiwan – which featured Chinese Weibo users complaining that if Washington can quickly invade and remove the leader of a ‘nuisance’ government in its own backyard, then China can forcibly reunite Taiwan. There is a […]

ICE Agent Shoots Woman After Alleged Attempt To Run Over Officer During Minneapolis Illegal Alien Crackdown A federal immigration officer shot and killed a person whom Homeland Security described as a “violent rioter,” while local Democratic lawmakers said she was a “legal observer,” after DHS said she attempted to run over an agent. The incident comes as ICE officers in Minneapolis conduct targeted operations to deport criminal […]

UnsAIfe AI systems are moving from novelty to infrastructure. They write, code, search, and increasingly act on our behalf. That speed has put a spotlight on a harder question: how seriously are AI companies managing the risks that come with more capable models? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, visualizes and compares the safety scores of major AI companies using data from the AI Safety Index published by […]

Immigration Agents Surge Into Minneapolis In ‘Largest Operation Ever’ Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has launched what officials described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever Tuesday in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, initiating the deployment of federal agents and officers in a crackdown tied to widespread fraud investigations allegedly involving mainly Somali […]

Trump-Defying Conservatives Shower Massie With Cash After President’s Latest Rant In a new iteration of a seemingly self-defeating tactic, President Trump’s latest social media rant against Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has triggered a deluge of contributions to the man Trump has targeted for a primary challenge in May. However, with three billionaires on his side, Massie’s challenger is building a formidable war chest, making this […]

Blackstone Craters After Trump Teases Institutional Ban On Single-Family Homes Shares in Blackstone cratered on Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced that he would be ‘immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes,’ and will be calling on Congress ‘to codify it. “For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream. It was […]

Pseudo-Recessions Authored by Victor Davis Hanson (get well soon) via American Greatness, As the 1992 campaign approached, incumbent president George H.W. Bush was seen as a shoo-in for reelection. The First Gulf War ended in 1991 with a spectacular U.S. victory at the head of a coalition that had expelled Saddam Hussein from Kuwait with few losses. For much of 1991, Bush’s approval ratings hovered between 90 and 70 percent. […]

Spot The Odd One Out: Life Expectancy Vs Healthcare Spending As Warren Buffett popularized: “Price is what you pay, value is what you get”. As Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins details below, just because someone pays the most, doesn’t mean that they extract the biggest payoff from a product or service. Today’s visual from Our World in Data that compares life expectancy with healthcare spending per capita hints at […]

US Service Activity Expands At Fastest Pace Since 2024, In Mirror Image To Manufacturing Slump It’s only fitting that two days after we got the weakest US Manufacturing ISM print in over a year, earlier this morning we got a diametrically opposite report from the Service sector, which according to the Institute for Supply Management expanded in December at the fastest pace in more than a year, fueled by solid demand growth and a […]

Truth Is The Best Weapon In The War On Woke Insanity Authored by Rob Smith via RealClearMarkets.com, Now that Epiphany has begun and Christmas is over, perhaps it’s time to stop being so excessively nice to “groups” that do the most damage to an orderly and civilized world. The greater good requires us to hurt some feelings.  Remember in Star Trek when the Klingons attacked the USS Enterprise and Captain Kirk raised a […]

“Market That Never Existed”: Nvidia CEO Sparks Frenzy In Memory Stocks Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized in his Monday CES keynote that memory will be a major value driver across the AI universe, a view that aligns with our observation in 2H25 that data-center buildouts are aggressively absorbing DRAM and HBM capacity. With supply already tight and pricing soaring, this environment is translating into earnings tailwinds for memory […]

Trump’s Energy Boss Discusses US Control Of Venezuelan Oil Sales, Failed Green Energy, And Nuclear Power Update (Wednesday): Following President Trump’s overnight Truth Social post that Venezuela would transfer “30 to 50 million barrels of high-quality, sanctioned oil” to the U.S., Energy Secretary Chris Wright outlined next steps for both the oil and the sales proceeds during remarks at a Goldman Sachs conference. Earlier, Wright […]

US Announces Revision Of American Citizenship Tests Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has revised the naturalization tests that all applicants must pass to officially become citizens, the agency said in a Jan. 5 post on X. Children participate in a U.S. citizenship ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) district office […]

China Launches Anti-Dumping Probe Against Japan Over Key Chip-Making Chemical The China-Japan spat now seems to be accelerating by the day, with Tokyo warning in the aftermath of Tuesday’s dual use export curb announcement by China’s commerce ministry that the fresh action could “impact more than 40% of Chinese exports to Japan” – according to Bloomberg. In unveiling its fresh punitive measures Tuesday, marking a serious […]

Job Openings Plunge Below Lowest Estimate As Gov’t Openings Crater; Hiring Plummets While today’s ADP report was a solid rebound from the worst monthly report in years (even if it missed expectations due to a sudden plunge in California payrolls), the same could not be said for the JOLTS job opening report that followed less than two hours later, and which was another epic disaster: for the month of November (recall JOLTS lags the […]

False Choice: Individualism Vs Collectivism Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The Second World War had ended and the Cold War had already begun. The public was exhausted from grand ideological struggles. The notion that the United States would embark on yet another global campaign seemed implausible. And yet, there was Harry Truman in 1948 warning about the new threat: the Russians. The Republican Party was in no […]

Dumbocracy? US Falls Below The OECD Average At Math Math skills are a foundational input into modern economies. They support innovation, productivity, and long-term competitiveness. As technology and data-driven work become more central, countries with stronger math outcomes often gain an edge. This infographic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, ranks countries by their average math scores among 15–16 year-olds. The data […]

An Arctic Chill In Greenland By Elwin de Groot, Head of Macro Strategy at Rabobank You may already have buckled yourself up, but an arctic chill may also require you to wear an extra vest these days. President Trump and some officials in his administration amplified threats to take Greenland. Preferably by “buying” it, but by force if necessary. The White House yesterday said it is discussing options for acquiring Greenland, […]

Donroe Doctrine: US Seizes Russian-Flagged Tanker In Atlantic, Intercepts Dark-Fleet Ship In Caribbean Update (1014ET): “Donroe Doctrine” to clean up the Western Hemisphere was busy Wednesday morning, with the seizure of the Russian-flagged oil tanker Marinera (formerly Bella 1) in the North Atlantic, followed by U.S. forces seizing a stateless dark-fleet tanker in the Caribbean region. The seizure of Marinera is the headliner […]

Some Republicans Are Distancing Themselves From MAGA Tuesday marks five years since the January 6 unrest of 2021, when self-proclaimed MAGA supporters entered the Capitol. Now, with Donald Trump back in the White House and entering the second year of his second term in office, a recent poll by NBC News Decision Desk shows signs that his strong support base has started to splinter. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, the […]

Somali UN Ambassador Linked To Ohio Health Care Company Sanctioned For Medicaid Fraud, HHS Says Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has confirmed that Abukar Dahir Osman, Somalia’s permanent representative to the United Nations and the current president of the U.N. Security Council, is associated with an Ohio-based home health care company that the federal government […]

Climate-Change Fears Drop, AI Anxiety Pops: What Will Happen In 2026? If the last years have shown us anything, it’s that a lot can change, fast. While many events cannot be foreseen, can others? Ipsos asked more than 23,600 people across 30 countries about their predictions for the coming year, with a survey on topics ranging from artificial intelligence to the climate and the World Cup. This data is based on one […]

ADP Private Payrolls Rebound But Miss Estimates After California Jobs Tumble One month after ADP reported a dismal -29K private payrolls print for November, tied for the worst month since March 2023, and just in time to validate the Fed’s latest rate cut, moments ago ADP reported that in December, the US added 41K payrolls, which while a solid jump from last month’s -29K, missed consensus estimates of a +50K print.  The […]

Medicaid Will ‘Claw Back’ Fraud Funds From Minnesota: Agency Head Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times, Minnesota will feel an “increasing vise grip of financial penalties” to help make up for taxpayer dollars lost to fraud, Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service, said Jan. 6. His agency is auditing all 14 Medicaid programs that Minnesota flagged as vulnerable to fraud; that […]