Why Couldn’t The SCO Defense Ministers Agree On A Joint Statement? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, India refused to sign the document since it didn’t condemn late April’s Pahalgam terrorist attack… India found itself at odds with the SCO once again less than two weeks since it clarified that it didn’t participate in the group’s joint statement on the Iranian-Israeli War. This time its Defense […]

CA Republicans Urge Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants Authored by Kenneth Schrupp via The Center Square, Six California Republican state lawmakers sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement to avoid “sweeping raids” and create “a path to legal status” for “non-criminal undocumented immigrants.” “We have heard from employers in our districts that recent ICE raids are not only […]

New Mexico Is The Most-Dependent State On The Federal Govt, New Jersey The Least How reliant is your state on Uncle Sam’s wallet? Every year, billions in federal tax dollars are redistributed to the 50 states and the District of Columbia through grants, contracts, and benefit programs. Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao ranks the states to see who benefits the most from the flows so readers can see the fiscal winners and losers […]

UPenn, Trump Admin Reach Deal To Strip Trans Swimmer Of Past Titles & Awards Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, The transgender swimmer who won an NCAA Division I crown in the women’s category in 2022 was stripped of that championship medal and all records as a female competitor at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) under the school’s recent agreement with the Department of Education, officials announced. […]

“Shame & Name” Climate Activist Satellite Backed By Bezos Lost A high-resolution Earth-observation satellite designed to monitor and map global methane emissions has been lost after a power failure. The $88 million satellite, called MethaneSAT, owned by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and backed by Jeff Bezos, was lost ten days ago…  On Friday, June 20, the MethaneSAT mission operations lost contact with […]

Rubio Announces USAID Has ‘Officially’ Ceased Operations Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Tuesday the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which had been rapidly dismantled earlier this year by the Trump administration. In a blog post on the State Department’s website, Rubio wrote that foreign assistance provided by USAID had failed to […]

“This Is The Next Level”: AI-Powered “Digital Workers” Deployed At Major Bank To Work Alongside Humans If you’re working in banking, your next colleague could be a bot. Once unthinkable, the Bank of New York Mellon announced that it has deployed dozens of artificial intelligence-powered “digital employees” that operate with human employees, and even have their own company login credentials. The Wall Street Journal reports: […]

The Curbing Of The Administrative State Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court delivered an opinion last week that not even the best of the punditry class was prepared to understand. The decision was Trump vs. CASA, and the topic concerned the nationwide injunction against Trump’s management of U.S. immigration policy. As with more than 40 other cases, federal district judges have intervened to stop the […]

Productivity Gains From Using AI As AI tools become increasingly integrated—and in some cases, even mandated—into professional workflows, their real-world impact on productivity is becoming more evident. This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, compares the average time it takes U.S. adults to complete 18 common work tasks with and without the use of generative AI, based on a December 2024 survey of 4,278 […]

Judge Orders Halt To Mass Layoffs At Dept. Of Health And Human Services Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on July 1 ordered officials to stop the overhaul of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), finding that the layoffs enacted in April likely ran counter to federal law. “With respect to the merits, the Court concludes the States have shown a likelihood of success on their claims that […]

FATF Warning On Stablecoin Crimes Is Not Anti-Crypto, Intel Firms Say Authored by Yohan Yun via CoinTelegraph.com, Cryptocurrency regulations are increasingly aligning with global standards; 73% of eligible jurisdictions have now passed laws to implement the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Travel Rule. The Travel Rule mandates crypto service providers to collect and share users’ transaction data, similar to traditional […]

Family Of Karmelo Anthony Asks For Millions In Donations After Murder Indictment Things are not going well for Karmelo Anthony compared to a couple months ago.  Despite confessing to the stabbing that led to the death of athlete Austin Metcalf at a track event on April 2, 2025 in Frisco, Texas, Anthony was given greatly reduced bail and allowed to remain under house arrest by a progressive activist judge. Anthony’s family posted a […]

Thiel: AI Is The Only Thing Keeping The World From Total Stagnation Authored by Guillermo Flor via theaiopportunities.com, Peter Thiel just did the most mind-exploding, crazy interview I’ve ever listened to. It’s so drastic, I still don’t know what to think – other than everyone should listen to it. So I dissected it piece by piece and organized it to draw some conclusions. This is what you cannot miss: 1. We are […]

Iraq Claims Top Spot Among OPEC Crude Suppliers To The US Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Iraq exported nearly 7 million barrels of crude to the U.S. in May, surpassing all other OPEC members. The surge in Iraqi shipments meets U.S. demand for heavier Middle Eastern crude grades amid OPEC+ output cuts. Rising oil exports provide vital fiscal support for Iraq, where crude sales generate about 90% of […]

Senate Passes Trump’s $3.3 Trillion Tax And Spending Bill Update (1207ET): The Senate has passed the GOP’s tax & spending cuts bill by a vote of 51-50.  🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill has officially PASSED the U.S. Senate, with JD Vance breaking the tie It now heads back to the House for a vote on the changes made. It COULD still hit Trump’s desk by July 4th. pic.twitter.com/qszGm5sAt3 — Nick Sortor […]

RFK Jr. Unloads Disturbing Vaccine Secrets On Tucker… And Surprises Everyone On Trump Via VigilantFox.com, It’s not every day an active HHS Secretary sits down for 90 minutes straight with Tucker Carlson. But that’s exactly what happened, and Kennedy instantly seized Carlson’s attention with a chilling story of CDC corruption. He revealed that the health agency buried a 1999 internal study led by researcher Thomas […]

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $10B As Trump Threatens To Unleash DOGE On Him Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI secured $10 billion in fresh capital, doubling down on its challenge to OpenAI as the race to dominate the AI landscape intensifies. The funds were evenly split between secured debt and strategic equity investments. The influx gives xAI more resources to expand its […]

Takeover Begins: Robots Set To Outnumber Humans At Amazon Warehouses Amazon hasn’t set a public date for fully replacing warehouse workers with robots, but all indicators suggest a gradual transition is well underway, with significant workforce reductions likely, alongside productivity gains driven by automation and AI through the 2030s. The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon, the nation’s second-largest private employer in […]

Noem Accuses Anti-ICE App Developer Of Obstructing Justice; Leavitt Blasts CNN For “Promoting” It Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday that “ICEBlock,” an app designed to alert individuals of immigration enforcement operations, appeared to constitute obstruction of justice.  “This sure looks like obstruction of justice,” Noem wrote on X, responding to […]

Attorneys Push For Class Action In Birthright Citizenship Case After Supreme Court Ruling Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, Attorneys are urging a federal judge in Maryland to use an alternative legal mechanism for granting a sweeping block on President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order after the Supreme Court ruled against the use of nationwide injunctions. A conference on June 30 marked the first set of […]