What Are The Real Reasons Behind Washington’s Latest Show Of Force Against Venezuela? Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, The US Empire’s drums of war are once again beating loud and hard in Latin America… Three US destroyers equipped with the Aegis system, a defence technology designed to track multiple targets and neutralise air or sea threats simultaneously, will be arriving off the coast of Venezuela in […]

To Afford Seattle Rent, You Need Nearly $91,000 A Year Renting in Seattle now requires a much higher income than just a few years ago, according to new Zillow data sourced by Axios.. To afford the typical monthly rent in the metro area, a household must earn nearly $91,000 annually — about 23% more than five years ago. Zillow uses the standard guideline that rent should take up no more than 30% of household income. Based on […]

When Smartphones Get Smarter, Do We Get Dumber? Authored by Makai Allbert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As Mohamed Elmasry, emeritus professor of computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, watched his 11- and 10-year-old grandchildren tapping away on their smartphones, he posed a simple question: “What’s one-third of nine?” Illustration by The Epoch Times, Freepik, Getty Images Instead of taking a moment to […]

HHS Rolls Out ‘MAHA In Action’ To Spotlight Health Reforms Early in his tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to make transparency a key element of the department under his leadership. This week, HHS announced the debut of MAHA in Action, an online platform highlighting federal initiatives and state-led reforms implementing the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. MAHA in Action offers […]

Microsoft Failed To Disclose Key Details About Use Of China-Based Engineers In U.S. Defense Work, Record Shows Authored by Renee Dudley with research by Doris Burke via ProPublica, Microsoft, as a provider of cloud services to the U.S. government, is required to regularly submit security plans to officials describing how the company will protect federal computer systems. Yet in a 2025 submission to the Defense Department, the […]

These Are The US Cities Where Groceries Are The Most Expensive Grocery bills vary dramatically across the U.S., and some cities are feeling the pinch more than others. Adding to the strain are record meat prices, driving up up food price inflation 3% compared to June of last year. Meanwhile, vegetable prices are spiking as farmers struggle with labor shortages amid rising deportations. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s […]

Hunger Games: AI’s Demand For Resources Poses Promise And Peril To Rural America Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, HOLLY RIDGE, La. – More than three millennia ago, indigenous people built a massive ceremonial mound a few miles from here, an engineering marvel called Poverty Point and one of the oldest known building projects in North America. Today, this is ground zero for what may prove a defining feature […]

Trump On ‘Lowlife, Unpatriotic’ Bolton: ‘Going To Find Out’ If He Leaked Classified Info Update(1418ET): President Trump’s first comments since the early morning FBI raid on John Bolton’s Maryland home and D.C. office haven’t disappointed. Trump made clear he’s no fan, but that he didn’t personally get involved in the crackdown over allegations of mishandling or keeping classified documents.  “I’m not a fan of John Bolton. He’s […]

Ghislaine Maxwell Says Father Was Intelligence Asset, Trump ‘Was Never Inappropriate’: DOJ Transcripts The DOJ has just released transcripts and audio from two days of interviews last month with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who said that President Trump was “never inappropriate with anybody” while he and Epstein were associates, and that her father was an intelligence asset.  “Did you ever hear Mr. Epstein or […]

Atlas Robot Moves Spot Parts From One Place To Another As Humans Keep Playing Tricks On It Authored by Daniel Patrascu via autoevolution, Thanks to the many ongoing projects in this field, we’re used by now to seeing humanoid robots performing all sorts of impressive, almost human-like tasks and movements. But it’s not until you see one performing something as mundane as moving things from one box to another, or arranging stuff on […]

Washington D.C. Has The Highest Unemployment Rate In The Nation The U.S. labor market remains resilient in 2025, but unemployment figures vary widely by state. While the national unemployment rate stood at 4.1% in June, some regions are experiencing far higher (or far lower) joblessness. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, highlights the unemployment rate by state using data from the Bureau of Labor […]

How Managers Are Using AI To Hire And Fire People Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace is evolving rapidly, and some are warning that using AI to make executive decisions without careful consideration could backfire. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images AI is being used more and more in recruitment, hiring, and performance evaluations […]

India, Russia Set $100BN Trade Target, Rejecting US Pushback Via The Cradle India and Russia plan to increase their annual trade to $100 billion over the next five years – an increase of 50% – despite US opposition to the growing cooperation between New Delhi and Moscow, a top Indian minister announced on Thursday. During the first day of a three-day visit to Moscow on Wednesday, Indian External Affairs Minister […]

Trump’s Tariffs Will Reduce Deficits By $4 Trillion Over Next Decade, Says CBO Report Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A report released on Friday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will reduce federal deficits by around $4 trillion over the next decade. If Trump’s global tariff hikes continue, increased revenue could shrink primary deficits by $3.3 trillion […]

Dutch Foreign Minister Steps Down After Israel Sanctions Blocked, Caretaker Govt Fragments Dutch parliament is fiercely divided on whether it should take more measures which add teeth to recent actions calling out Israel for the mounting civilian death toll and starvation conditions in the Gaza Strip. Just last month, the hardline Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who actively assist in Jewish settler expansion […]

Shocking NEW Documents Expose Multi-Front Effort To Protect Clintons While Framing Trump Submitted by Peter Schweizer & Seamus Bruner of The Drill Down,  Newly unearthed documents show deep state government actors once again circling the wagons to protect Bill and Hillary Clinton — and suppressing evidence that implicated them. Last week it was the FBI, this week it is the IRS. In 2019, the IRS Criminal Investigations […]

U.S. Government Finalizes Deal For 10% Equity Stake In Intel, Will Release $8.87 Billion In Funding Update 8/22/25 1657EST: Bloomberg is reporting that the deal will see the U.S. government acquiring 433.3 million shares of Intel at $20.47 per share. The government will be “passive” owners with no board members and agrees to vote with the company’s board of directors. The government’s stake will be funded by $5.7 billion in award […]

RNC Elects Trump-Backed Joe Gruters As Chairman Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times, The Republican National Committee (RNC) has formally chosen its outgoing treasurer, Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters, as its new leader. He was elected on Aug. 22 at the RNC’s summer meeting in Atlanta. “The midterms are ahead, where we must expand our current majority in the House and Senate,” Gruters said after his election. […]

Armed National Guard Troops To Patrol D.C. Streets In Historic Clean-Up Of Failed Democratic Leadership President Trump’s historic effort to “Make D.C. Safe Again” has led to the deployment of 2,000 National Guard members to crack down on lawlessness fueled by years of failed Democratic leadership in the District of Columbia. The D.C. Council’s decision to defund the Metropolitan Police Department – despite leftist Mayor Muriel […]

‘Wake Up & Smell The Coffee… We’re Marching Into A Promised Land Of Accountability…’ Authored by James Howard Kunstler, By The Batch “The problem with the future is that it is both unpredictable and inescapable.” – Tarik Cyril Amar Please everybody, extricate yourselves from the mud-wallow of cynicism. Naysayers arise and open your eyes! Sleepwalkers and black-pillers, smell the coffee and wake up! Sob-sisters dry […]

US House Adds CBDC Ban To Massive Defense Policy Bill Authored by Jesse Coghlan via CoinTelegraph.com, The US House added a provision banning the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) into an almost 1,300-page bill setting the country’s defense policy for the 2026 fiscal year. A revision of HR 3838, the House’s version of a bill implementing the National Defense Authorization Act, […]

Mass-Casualty Bus Crash Reported On New York Highway A deadly bus crash has been reported on I-90 near Pembroke, New York. The accident has been declared a mass-casualty incident. New York State Police confirmed multiple fatalities, including at least one child. More than 50 people were on board the bus when it lost control and flipped into a ditch.  Local outlet WIVB reported that several air transport helicopters and […]

Canada’s Carney Backs Down On Tariffs As Trump Welcomes Another Win Another major economy and country backs down, and Trump wins again – as on Friday Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada will drop its retaliatory tariffs in step with the United States as both countries work to de-escalate their trade dispute. Carney in a Friday press conference said the US side clarified it would not apply tariffs to Canadian […]

Trump Reinstates FBI Whistleblowers Punished By Biden, Grants Back Pay Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, FBI Director Kashyap Patel claimed on Thursday that nearly a dozen whistleblowers punished by the Biden administration would be reinstated with back pay. Patel said that 10 FBI agents would be impacted and added that their security clearances would also be restored. The move will likely come in the form of […]

Awkward: “Brazen Election Cheating” Allegations Rock Minneapolis Mayoral Endorsement Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party stripped the party’s endorsement of radical leftist Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh in the Minneapolis mayoral race over “brazen cheating.” The emerging election cheating scandal hilariously occurred amongst Democrats. Awkwardly, this comes from the same party of woke leftists that insists U.S. […]