The AI Threat SciFi Predicted Is Right On Our Doorstep Authored by Mike Fredenburg via The Epoch Times, Science Fiction has long predicted the threats and challenges posed by AI. In the Star Trek universe, particularly in the original series, Season Two, Episode 24, “The Ultimate Computer,” Dr. Leonard McCoy delivers this haunting line: “Compassion: that’s the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that […]

China Revives Heavy Naval Firepower With New 155mm Gun That “Could Support An Attack On Taiwan” As modern naval combat increasingly relies on aircraft, missiles and unmanned systems, China is investing in a capability many navies have largely moved away from: heavy naval artillery, according to South China Morning Post. Recent reports indicate that the PLA Navy is testing a new 155mm naval gun, a calibre larger than any main gun […]

Are Banks More Powerful Than Governments? Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, Government is big. Elected and unelected officials wield enormous amounts of power. But lately I have found myself wondering whether we are paying attention to the wrong institution. What if the most powerful institutions in America are not governments at all? What if they are banks and payment processors? A few years ago, during […]

New Oregon Initiative Would Criminalize Hunting, Fishing And Farming Only 1% of the American population identifies as vegan (a person who refrains from using or consuming any animal products), and around 3% of the population identifies as vegetarian.  It is therefore a little confusing as to why American political and social discourse is hijacked by vegan issues so often.  Leftist activists have adopted the age-old mantra that […]

Will Trump Break JFK’s Agreement On Cuba? Authored by Jacob Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation, In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia) came within an inch of all-out nuclear war with each other. To resolve the crisis, President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev entered into an agreement in which the United States agreed not to invade Cuba in return for Russia’s […]

Majority Of Arrested ICE Protesters At Newark’s Delaney Hall Came From Outside New Jersey Arrest records from recent demonstrations outside Newark’s Delaney Hall immigration detention facility show that many of those taken into custody were not New Jersey residents, according to The New York Post. According to information reviewed by The Post, only a small number of the arrested individuals were from the state, while others had […]

Radical Woke Mount Sinai Hospital Exposed: DEI, Child Sex Changes & Epstein Ties Prioritized Over Patients Authored by Tate Rosentreter via The Center Square; Consumer protection organization Consumers’ Research began a campaign Monday highlighting New York City-based nonprofit Mount Sinai Hospital’s prioritization of what Consumers’ calls the hospital’s woke and political ideology as well as having what it says are […]

Iranian Tankers Cross US Naval Blockade After Trump Deal Allows Iran To Restart Oil Sales The first Iranian ships crossed the area of the US naval blockade without obstruction after a memorandum of understanding was reached to end the war between Washington and Tehran, Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported Tuesday. At least three Iranian oil tankers and two cargo ships carrying essential goods broke through the US naval […]

15 Tied To Antifa Charged With Violently Interfering With ICE Operations In Minnesota Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times, Fifteen suspects are accused of conspiring with two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups to violently interfere with federal immigration enforcement, authorities announced on Tuesday.  Daniel Rosen, who heads the U.S. attorney’s office for Minnesota, told reporters at his Minneapolis headquarters on […]

Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Trump’s First-Term Tariff On China Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court on June 15 declined to hear a legal challenge to tariffs imposed on Chinese imports by U.S. President Donald Trump during his first term in 2018. The decision follows an appeal by HMTX Industries and other businesses after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last year upheld […]

Wyoming And Spokane Data Center Pauses Show NIMBY Fury Has Shifted From Nuclear To AI The latest cracks in the data center buildout story arrived this month from opposite ends of the energy-rich West. Crusoe paused development activities on its 1.8 GW “Project Jade” campus near Cheyenne, Wyoming, at the explicit request of its customer.  Just days later, Avista announced it was pausing processing of a 500 MW data center […]

SPLC Official Shared Bank Accounts With Neo-Nazi Informant Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, The New York Post reported on Tuesday the identity of the Southern Poverty Law Center official who, according to court records, was in a relationship with one of the SPLC’s paid neo-Nazi informants. According to the Post, the SPLC official is Heidi Beirich, who was the group’s director of intelligence between 2012 and […]

Record Percentage Of Central Banks Expect Gold Reserves To Increase In Next 12 Months Today, the World Gold Council released their 2026 Central Bank Gold Reserves Survey. Amongst the insights, here is the punchline: a record 45% of respondents expect their own gold reserves will increase over the next 12 months Central banks have accumulated an average of 1,000t of gold over the past four years, up significantly from the 500t […]

“By Any Means Necessary”: Candidate Struck From Alaska Ballot Over Alleged Democratic Dirty Trick Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is an interesting controversy in Alaska where an election official just disqualified a candidate over his name. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) is in what is considered a close race with Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola. The seat is viewed as critical to the Democrats’ retaking power. The race was […]

MLB Scolds Players Who Wrote Bible Verses On Pride Night Uniforms Major League Baseball on Monday issued a warning to three players who represent the gayest city in America, but who dared to write references to a biblical passage on their Pride Night uniforms. The three San Francisco Giants teamed up for the subtle gesture at Friday night’s home game, which they lost 5-1 to the visiting Chicago Cubs.   “The writing on the cap […]

Is California Reaching Critical Mass? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, By any measure, California is a failed state—and a national embarrassment. Taxes? It has the highest income and gas taxes in the nation. Roads? A Reason Foundation survey ranks it 49th among the states. Mass flight? Between 250,000 and 350,000 more Californians leave the state than move in each year. Housing, gas, […]

Semiconductor Stocks Tumble After Microsoft Balks At $3B Oracle Cloud Deal Chip stocks tumbled even further in late Tuesday trading following a report that Microsoft just walked away from talks with Oracle about leasing the company’s cloud infrastructure because of concerns over security and compliance.  The deal, according to Business Insider, would have been worth over $3 billion – as large Silicon Valley tech companies are […]

FBI Raids Soros-Connected Ohio Voter Mobilization Group In Fraud Investigation Via American Greatness, Federal investigators executed search warrants at the headquarters of a Soros-aligned voter mobilization organization in Ohio as part of what sources described as an ongoing fraud investigation. FBI agents searched the offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative on June 11 and conducted interviews with members of the […]

Gavin Newsom And The DOJ Probe Opened Under Biden: Behested Payments, Family Nonprofits, & Questions Of Influence California Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched an aggressive counteroffensive against a federal investigation he calls a politically motivated “fishing expedition” – for a probe which was opened under the Biden adminisgration.  In a video posted to X and a formal letter to the Department of Justice, Newsom demanded […]

San Francisco Judge Dismisses xAI Trade Secret Lawsuit Against OpenAI Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge dismissed a trade secret lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s xAI against OpenAI, ruling that the plaintiff failed to demonstrate the competing artificial intelligence company improperly obtained confidential information. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued the order Monday in San Francisco, dismissing […]

Thune Signals Senate Will Pursue Stand-Alone FISA Renewal Despite Trump’s Demands Via American Greatness, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, (R-SD,) said Monday that Senate Republicans are moving forward with plans to renew a key federal surveillance authority as a stand-alone measure, despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that it be tied to election legislation. Thune told reporters the Senate is working to revive […]

Hardline Israeli Politicians Livid Over Iran Deal, Want Netanyahu Out So They Can Do ‘Real Regime Change’ Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett didn’t mince words on Monday: the clock for regime change in Iran starts ticking the moment Israel gets a new government. Chairman of the “Together” party and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2026. (photo […]

Stellar 20Y Auction Stops Through, With Highest Foreign Demand In 2 Years In a quiet day for stocks, which are now trading near session lows, which in turn is prompting a bid for safety, the Treasury complex was already trading at the best levels of the day ahead of today’s Treasury auction. Then just after 1pm, the stellar results from today’s 20Y auction (technically a 19 Year 11-month reopening of cusip UV8), confirmed the solid […]

QatarEnergy Plans Rapid LNG Production Restart As Hormuz Reopens Qatar shut the world’s largest LNG facility early in the U.S.-Iran war after Iranian Shahed one-way attack drones struck critical energy infrastructure, triggering chaos across global gas markets, just as the Hormuz maritime chokepoint was shuttered. Now, with a U.S.-Iran peace deal set to formally reopen the waterway by Friday, there is encouraging news on the supply […]

Trump Calls On Putin To Reach Deal With Ukraine After Zelenskyy Meeting Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump kicked off his G7 summit meetings on June 16 in the French spa town of Evian-les-Bains, joining a roundtable discussion with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other G7 leaders. (L-R) U.S. President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr […]