A Turning Point For Europe: Historic EU Parliament Votes Signal Rightward Realignment On Migration, Privacy, And Transatlantic Ties On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg delivered what many are calling one of the most significant setbacks in recent memory for the EU’s traditional bureaucratic and centrist consensus. In a single day, MEPs advanced stricter mass deportation rules, rejected controversial mass […]

UN Adopts Slavery Resolution Calling For Reparations Despite US, European Objections Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.N. General Assembly on March 25 adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations. U.S. First Lady Melania Trump (R) and Kwesi Essel-Blankson, museum educator, tour the Cape Coast Castle, a […]

Eurasia Energy War? As analysts and traders continue to assess the Gulf energy shock and its implications for the global economy, another alarming development has emerged across the energy sector: Ukrainian kamikaze drone strikes have reportedly disrupted a significant portion of Russia’s oil export capacity, according to Reuters. Reuters calculates that recent Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia’s oil and fuel export […]

‘Changes Everything’: The A-10 ‘Warthog’ Proves Its Worth Again Over The Strait Of Hormuz Authored by Mike Fredenburg via The Epoch Times, Despite Air Force claims that the A-10 has no place on the modern battlefield, a claim they have been making for decades, the A-10 is once again using its unmatched versatility and loitering capability to destroy fast-attack watercraft, drones, and enemy positions. And for the role it is […]

Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s ‘Orwellian’ Supply Chain Risk Label On Anthropic – For Now It looks like Anthropic isn’t as radioactive to other defense contractors – for now, and on paper.  In a sharply worded 43-page order issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin (Biden) of the Northern District of California granted Anthropic PBC’s motion for a preliminary injunction, blocking key punitive measures imposed by the Trump […]

BYD And VinFast Race To Dominate Southeast Asia’s EV Market BYD and VinFast are rapidly expanding their presence in Southeast Asia, where electric vehicles are gaining traction and competition is intensifying, according to Nikkei. Both companies have emerged as the fastest-growing car brands in the region’s six largest markets in 2025, with sales rising about 95% for BYD and 90% for VinFast compared with the previous year. […]

Former Taiwanese Presidential Candidate Sentenced To 17 Years In Corruption Case Authored by Dorothy Li & Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), TAIPEI, Taiwan – A Taipei court on March 26 found a former presidential candidate guilty of corruption-related charges and sentenced him to 17 years in prison, a verdict that has attracted domestic media attention amid the ongoing political deadlock in Taiwan. Ko Wen-je, […]

AirGas Declares Force Majeure On Helium Shipments As Qatar Production Collapses Earlier this week we reported that global chip production was in peril as “Qatar Warns Helium Exports Set To Collapse.” Best known as the gas that makes party balloons float, helium is far more important as a key input in chipmaking, space rockets and medical imaging. The problem is that Qatar supplies a third of the world’s helium, and the Gulf […]

Fetterman Says Some Democrats Possibly Afraid To Reopen DHS Due To Party Activists Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, Sen. John Fetterman said Wednesday night that activist pressure within his own party is prolonging the partial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, offering his observations from within the Democratic caucus for why the standoff has stretched into its sixth week. Appearing on Fox News’ […]

Data Shows Where ICE Has Been More Effective… And Why Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that President Donald Trump “is seeking to lower the profile of his mass deportation effort, and has directed his top advisers to adopt a new approach on one of his central campaign promises.” According to the report, Trump has had conversations with his top advisors and First Lady Melania Trump in which he’s indicated that […]

Trump To Sign Order To Pay TSA Agents Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump plans to sign an order that will pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents who have not received a check since the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entered a partial shutdown in mid-February. “I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, […]

Woke Star Trek Series Canceled After Embarrassing Critical Failure “Get Woke, Go Broke” wins once again.  For many years the political left in Hollywood along with the allied progressive media argued that wokeness was the dominant social trend of our era.  They claimed that any company that refused to adapt to the new far-left “modern audience” would be choking on the dust of companies that wrapped themselves in the rainbow […]

IOC Bars Transgender Athletes From Women’s Events For Olympic Games Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Only females will be allowed in women’s events at the Olympics, according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). People take part in a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear arguments in two cases in which states have banned males from participating in female-only […]

Philippines Declares State Of Emergency As Energy Crisis Looms As we outlined in our recent analysis on Australia’s dangerous vulnerability to disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, most of Asia is heavily exposed and faces an unprecedented energy crisis should the war in Iran continue to prevent safe passage of oil and natural gas from the Gulf.  As Australia debates the potential for a national emergency, the Philippines has […]

Iranian TV Declares ‘One Million’ Soldiers Have Mobilized To Create ‘Hell For American Forces’ The US-Israel war against Iran is nearly one month in, and amid the ongoing escalating threats and warnings Iran is touting that it is able to tap more than one million fighters for a potential ground confrontation with the United States, according to Tasnim News Agency citing a military source. Some 7,000 additional US troops, mainly […]

United Airlines CEO Warns Summer Airfares Will Spike, Tells Travelers To Book Now United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby told ABC News on Wednesday that the month-long U.S.-Iran conflict and the resulting spike in jet fuel prices are set to push domestic summer airfares higher. Kirby told ABC that ticket prices will have to rise by 20% to offset the more than 80% jump in jet fuel prices since the conflict began late last month. He said […]

Measuring Poverty Correctly Reveals A Hard Truth About The Welfare State Authored by Tyler Turman via TheDailyEconomy.org, America has spent more than $20 trillion on fighting poverty since the introduction of President Johnson’s Great Society program in 1964. Sixty years later, how are we doing? That depends, as it turns out, on how you measure it. Last month, Senator Kennedy (R-LA) introduced a bill that would require […]

Republican Lawmakers Led By Nancy Mace Begin To Break With Trump On Iran War: ‘We Were Misled’ Republican lawmakers are belatedly starting to wake up to the potential for the United States to once again get bogged down in yet another Middle East quagmire, but this time with a country double the size of Iraq (both in geography and population). GOP Rep. Nancy Mace has led the charge this week, blasting any potential Trump admin move […]

Can The Courts Delete Democracy? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Our forefathers had the idea of creating a government of, by, and for the people. The crucial tool to make this possible was the vote: The people would have their way, within law, and through their elected representatives. The idea was rooted in the ancient idea of democracy but with a republican twist—it would not be mob rule. There would be […]

Ukraine Government Schemed To Funnel War Aid To Biden Campaign According to a newly declassified intelligence report, U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted communications from Ukrainian government officials back in 2022 discussing a scheme to siphon off hundreds of millions in American taxpayer dollars. The funds, earmarked for clean energy projects in the war-torn country, were allegedly redirected to the United States to benefit […]

O’Keefe Catches Skid Row Fraudsters Paying Homeless People To Forge Signatures On Ballots Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Paid activists in Los Angeles, California, have been caught on hidden camera paying homeless people on skid row to forge signatures of registered voters on ballot initiatives. O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) released part Two of its undercover investigation into the Democrats’ blatant election […]

Pentagon Weighs Sending Another 10,000 Ground Troops To Middle East, Suggests Seizing Iran-Controlled Islands Summary The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give the US President more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran, according to unnamed Department of War officials     The earlier five-day deadline for resumption of US attacks on Iranian energy […]

Iran Earning $139 Million A Day From Oil As Hormuz Crisis Locks Out Rivals By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice Iran’s oil exports have not collapsed and are fetching much higher prices than before the war, handing Tehran handsome extra revenues from its crude, which is the only one unimpeded from transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Unlike all other Gulf producers, Iran is passing its oil through the Strait of Hormuz and its export […]

Microsoft Freezes Hiring In Cloud And Sales As Stock Suffers Worst Start To Year On Record Microsoft shares were trading lower Thursday afternoon, leaving the stock deeper in bear-market territory and down about 24% on the year. Seasonal data suggests it is the worst start to a year for Microsoft on record.  A new report from The Information says Microsoft executives have instructed managers across major divisions, including […]

Coinbase Opposes Stablecoin Compromise In Senate Crypto Bill: Report Authored by Jesse Coghlan via CoinTelegraph.com, Crypto exchange Coinbase is reportedly against the latest compromise over stablecoin yields that the Senate is looking to include in its crypto market structure bill. Coinbase representatives told Senate lawmakers in a meeting on Monday that they had concerns over the language around stablecoin yields in the new […]