Illegal Immigrant Crisis Stings Border Town In Unexpected Way Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Benny Rodriguez, an 80-year-old grandfather of seven, beams as he points to faded photographs on the wall and proudly narrates the story of Eagle Grocery, a family-run business since 1939. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times) It withstood a fire in 1948. It […]

41% Of Americans Think Civil War Likely By 2029, Some Say Sooner Amid Chaos  Americans have been stunned by the Democratic megadonors funneling money into Marxist groups, sparking mass chaos across colleges and universities nationwide as risks are mounting that ‘BLM-style’ riots could spill over into city streets this summer. Law-abiding Americans have taken notice of radical left-wing policies pushing this nation further into […]

Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Locations By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Theft and complaints are taking a toll on self-checkout. Now, Walmart wants you to pay $98 a year for Walmart+ for the self-checkout privilege at some stores. Retailers Scale Back Self-Checkouts The Wall Street Journal reports Retailers Scale Back Self-Checkouts to Curb Irritation and Theft Attention, shoppers: Retailers are […]

Mapping The Number Of AI Startups By Country Amidst the recent expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu visualized data from Quid (accessed via Stanford’s 2024 AI Index Report) to highlight the top 15 countries which have seen the most AI startup activity over the past decade. The figures in this graphic represent the number of newly funded AI startups within that country, in the time period […]

Mass Arrests In NYC As More Than 1,000 Pro-Palestine Protesters March To Met Gala The NYPD has begun arresting people after more than 1,000 pro-Palestine demonstrators marched through upper Manhattan towards the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is hosting the star-studded Met Gala. As protesters marched down 5th Avenue towards the event, blocking traffic, cops stepped in at the East 79th Street Transverse at Central Park and […]

Panama Elects New President Who Vows To Shut Migrant Trail, Restore Economy Voters in the Republic of Panama on Sunday elected a new president who has vowed to sever a key segment of the Latina American migrant trail that leads to the United States while restoring the country’s reputation as an investment destination.    “We’ll promote a government that’s pro-investment, and pro-private enterprise,” said Mulino in his […]

Confidence In Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low By Megan Brenan of Gallup With Americans less optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy than they have been in recent months and concern about inflation persisting, their confidence in President Joe Biden to recommend or do the right thing for the economy is among the lowest Gallup has measured for any president since 2001. But Biden is not alone in facing a skeptical […]

Five Simple Policies To Reset America’s “Rigged” Health System   Calley Means, a one-time consultant for big food and pharmaceutical companies in the Washington, DC, swap and now the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables tax-free spending on food and exercise, has outlined on X five simple policies the federal government can implement to correct the “rigged system” that has contributed to the nation’s obesity crisis.  […]

DHS Shuts Down Expert Group That Denied Hunter Biden Laptop Story Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration has agreed to shut down a national security experts’ group as part of settling a lawsuit accusing the group of being politically biased in favor of Democrats. On Sept. 19, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group to provide advice on […]

Key Witness Says Trump Did Not Personally Ask Him To Carry Out ‘Hush Money’ Payments Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 6, 2024. (Peter Foley/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) A witness in former President Donald Trump’s New York […]

How Ridiculous? Blade-Less Swiss Army Knife Debuts As Weapon Laws Tighten  In a world that is fracturing into a multipolar state, with risks of world war erupting in either Eastern Europe or the Middle East, continued threats of conflict in the Pacific, and the migrant invasion across Western countries, the company behind the iconic half-century-old fold-up tool, the Swiss Army Knife, will soon debut a blade-less version because […]

House Panel Calls To Defund Federal Agencies That Stonewall Congressional Probes Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are calling for budget cuts to federal agencies that refuse to cooperate with lawmakers’ investigations, warning that failure to discipline agencies that deny oversight-related requests risks setting a dangerous precedent for stonewalling future […]

Al Jazeera’s Israeli HQ Raided By Police After Netanyahu Called It “Hamas Mouthpiece” On Sunday the offices of Al Jazeera in Jerusalem were raided by Israeli police, after the Knesset voted unanimously voted to ban the Qatar-based news network. The Israeli order effectively shuts down all Al Jazeera broadcasts in Israel and the West Bank. To implement the ban, authorities confiscated equipment at the channel’s Jerusalem HQ inside […]

The Militia Used As An FBI Front Group In 2020 Is Again Proliferating On Facebook Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, The tech publication Wired reported Thursday that the Three Percenter, or III%er, militia is again proliferating on Facebook ahead of the 2024 presidential election. A car passes Facebook’s new Meta logo on a sign at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. / PHOTO: AP The Three Percenters are a national […]

Tyson Foods Warns Low-Income Consumers Are Cracking Under Inflation Storm Tyson Foods, the second-largest producer of animal protein globally, plunged the most in one year after cautioning that heightened inflation is severely impacting its working poor customers, leading them to reduce their purchases of ready-to-eat products from its brands. This ominous warning comes one week after McDonald’s and Starbucks warned that […]

Israel Moving Forward With Rafah Ground Offensive Summary:  Hamas claims to accept ceasefire, hostage deal while Israel says ‘This isn’t what we agreed to’ Bombardment and air strikes on eastern Rafah Over 50 targets hit as IDF prepares for ground operation President Macron warns against ground op Civilians warned to evacuate. Tens of thousands of flyers dropped Biden phoned Netanyahu to urge against […]

The Washington ‘Blob’ Seems “Ready To Wreck The Republic To Save Themselves” Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Prisoners of Themselves “Ok, let’s be clear. If the intelligence community led by the CIA is not the ‘deep state’, what is?” – Jeffrey Tucker You realize, don’t you, that the gross misconduct of government officials from RussiaGate on down to the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan has amounted […]

‘Squeezey’ Stock Market Extends Gains; Bonds & Bullion Bid More of the same today after last week’s tepid payrolls and dovish Powell with gold, stocks, and bonds bid as rate-cut hopes inched higher. The market is now pricing in two rate-cuts in 2024 and three more cuts in 2025… Source: Bloomberg For now the market appears to prefer the ‘bad news’ from declining growth expectations to the ‘bad news’ from soaring inflation […]

Florida Bans ‘Indoctrination’ In Teacher-Training Programs Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill into law on May 2 banning “indoctrination” programs for teachers. The measure, HB 1291, prohibits programs, courses, and curricula in teacher training from “distorting” historical events or promoting political ideologies regarding race, sex, and gender. […]

Where Is “Growth” Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further The first quarter Fed’s Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) – the one place where every three months investors go to find information on changes to both loan demand and bank lending tightness – was released and revealed more of the same: despite daily propaganda of economic improvement, the SLOOS found that more US banks […]

FAA Opens New Probe Into Boeing Over Potentially Falsified Records, 787 Inspections Update (1508ET): Federal air-safety regulators have launched a new probe into Boeing related to the company’s inspections of its 787 Dreamliner – and potentially falsified records. The FAA says Boeing notified them in April that it may not have completed required inspections related to ‘electrical safeguards of bonding and grounding’ where the […]

An American Soldier Has Been Detained In Russia NBC News is reporting that an American soldier has been detained in Russia at a moment of ratcheting nuclear warnings and ongoing heightened tensions with the West. “A U.S. soldier was detained in Russia over the weekend according to three U.S. officials. He has been stationed in Korea and traveled to Russia on his own,” according to national security correspondent Courtney Kube. […]

Maxine Waters Claims Right-Wing Groups Are “Training Up In The Hills Somewhere” For Civil War If Trump Loses Donald Trump “is a dangerous human being,” according to none other than violence-instigator Rep. Maxine Waters. During an interview on MSNBC (of course), the aging congresswoman was asked about whether former President Trump would accept the results of the 2024 election if he does not win. Something must have snapped in […]

Republicans Attempt Rollback Of Electric Truck Rule By John Gallagher of FreightWaves The Biden administration’s recent final rule setting new carbon emissions standards for truck makers could be overturned if Republicans in Congress get their way. Senate and House Republicans on Wednesday introduced a resolution of disapproval of the Environmental Protection agency’s Phase 3 greenhouse gas emissions rule for heavy-duty […]

Toronto-Dominion Bank Risks Entering “Lost Decade” Shares of the Toronto-Dominion Bank have fallen nearly 8% since last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal report that revealed the bank’s involvement in a $653 million drug money-laundering scheme.  The WSJ said a Justice Department investigation was opened into TD Bank’s anti-money-laundering controls, specifically concentrating on how Chinese crime groups and drug traffickers used […]