Trump Threatens To Invoke Insurrection Act As Left-Wing Chaos In Minneapolis Spreads Update (1024ET): In response to overnight left-wing chaos, what can only be described as the Democratic Party’s “George Floyd 2.0” attempt, President Trump wrote on Truth Social about the very real possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act. 🚨Pics from North Minneapolis last night where rioters destroyed federal vehicles and stole firearms, […]

Airlines Still Avoid Iran, Iraq Airspace Despite Reopening – Trump Assures Tehran No Strikes Imminent Overnight, the world was on edge watching for potential signs of a new US military strike on Iran. This sense of anticipation was only heightened when Iran issued a nationwide “NOTAM” – or “notice to all airmen” – for its airspace which lasted nearly five hours. All flights were banned except ones to and from Tehran which had been […]

Trump Invokes Section 232 To Seek Foreign Supplies Of Processed Critical Minerals, Avoids Tariffs For Now President Trump said on Wednesday he had opted against imposing tariffs on rare earths, lithium and other critical minerals – for now – and instead ordered his administration to seek supplies from international trading partners.  By invoking Section 232 not to slap immediate tariffs, but to renegotiate how the US imports […]

Trump To Meet With Venezuelan Opposition Leader Machado Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the White House today (Jan. 15). “She’s a very nice woman,” Trump told Reuters in a Jan. 14 interview. “I think we’re just going to talk basics.” The United States said in 2024 that then-Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro […]

What Is “America First”? What does “America First” actually mean in 2026? Once a unifying MAGA slogan, the phrase has increasingly become a fault line, splitting conservatives largely along foreign policy lines. The divide is particularly stark on the question of American support for Israel and was widened by the recent ousting of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro. The Right is torn over whether “America First” means […]

Watch: This Is Just Absolutely Insane Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In an incredible Senate hearing meant to address the dangers of abortion pills sold online without proper oversight, a Democratic witness turned the spotlight on herself by refusing to acknowledge that only women can get pregnant. Dr. Nisha Verma, an OB-GYN tapped by Democrats, evaded direct questions from Republicans, prioritizing […]

Initial Jobless Claims Plunge Back Near Record (56 Year) Lows Once again, weekly jobless claims data shows no signs of pain the labor market with the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time dropping back below the Maginot Line of 200k (198k – below all estimates)… Source: Bloomberg Interestingly, the unadjusted data surged higher (330k) as its seasonal pattern continues. New York saw the largest […]

Futures Jump As Blowout TSMC Earnings Reboot Tech Trade US equity futures are higher led by Tech stocks which bounced back on Thursday after chipmaker TSMC revived confidence in the durability of artificial-intelligence demand, as signalling a strong outlook with $56BN in CapEx spending in 2026 (a 25% increase), restoring confidence in global AI growth and sending Europe’s ASML to a record high. Silver dropped for the first time […]

Oil, Precious Metals Tumble After Report Signaling No Imminent Action Against Iran With traders across the globe refreshing their X accounts every 3 seconds, expecting to see news of imminent “kinetic action” in Iran, what they got instead was a report from NBC which indicated that military action is far from certain, and at best could take days before it is launched. According to the report which cites multiple anonymous sources […]

TSMC’s Bullish AI Outlook Prompts Goldman To Say ‘Anyone Hoping For A Pullback Will Get Disappointed’ Europe’s semiconductor stocks moved higher on Thursday, with ASML Holdings surging to a record high after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported a 35% jump in fourth-quarter profit and signaled plans to boost capital spending by nearly 40% this year. TSMC, a supplier to tech giants including Nvidia and Apple, […]

Witkoff Announces Start Of 2nd Phase Of Gaza Peace Plan Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Presidential peace envoy Steve Witkoff, on Jan. 14, announced the start of the second phase of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. Displaced Palestinians walk through floodwaters following heavy rains in Gaza City on Dec. 15, 2025. Omar al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images In an X post on Wednesday, Witkoff said […]

US Navy Sailor Sentenced To Nearly 17 Years In Prison For Selling Military Secrets To China Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A former U.S. Navy sailor who had been found guilty of providing the Chinese communist regime with sensitive U.S. military information in exchange for money was sentenced to 200 months in prison, the Justice Department said on Monday. The Department of Justice in Washington on Feb. […]

Are Deportations Making Affordability A Winning Issue For The GOP? Democrats entered 2026 confident they could make “affordability” the rallying cry that would win back suburban voters and propel them back into the majority. But an inconvenient political twist has upended that plan: Donald Trump is the one actually delivering on affordability – and doing it in ways his opponents are almost certain to despise. The foundation of […]

President To Sign Bill Allowing Return Of Whole Milk In Schools Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump will sign the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act on Wednesday, overhauling previous U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines that required milk served in school cafeterias to be fat-free or low-fat. President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. […]

Senators Want To Ban Chinese Students From Government Labs Eleven US senators wrote to Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday seeking to ban Chinese nationals from US national labs – contending that their access undermines the United States’ position in the artificial intelligence (AI) race.  The Department of Energy building in Washington on Nov. 13, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The DOE notably oversees 17 national […]

Tyrants Authored by Lars Møller via American Thinker, History is replete with revolutionary figures who transformed society through “vision”, “vanity”, and “violence” – a vicious triad covering the strategy of being ideologically uncompromising, outmaneuvering rivals, and eliminating political opposition, respectively. From Wikimedia Commons: Execution of Louis XVI (Charles Monnet, 1794) Maximilien Robespierre and […]

Zelensky Declares Permanent State Of Emergency For Energy Sector Already Ukraine’s power grid has long suffered, with rolling blackouts having been in effect across parts of the country for much of the past year, but this week things have gotten worse amid a harsh freeze. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that the government is declaring a state of emergency in the energy sector after repeated Russian strikes […]

UK Bans Dutch Commentator For Criticizing Starmer While Welcoming Illegal Migrant Hordes Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Under Keir Starmer’s Labour government, the UK has become a dystopian nightmare where criticizing the Prime Minister gets you banned from entry. Meanwhile, boatloads of illegal migrants wash across the Channel daily, rewarded with hotel stays and taxpayer-funded perks. Dutch commentator Eva […]

China Orders Domestic Firms To Stop Using US, Israeli Cybersecurity Software On ‘National Security’ Grounds Via The Cradle Chinese authorities instructed domestic companies to stop using certain US and Israeli cybersecurity software, citing national security concerns and the risk of sensitive data being transferred overseas, according to informed sources cited by Reuters on January 14. Chinese officials, speaking through the […]

Jim Bovard: Germany’s Latest War On Freedom Authored by Jim Bovard “There is no censorship here in Germany,” according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of speech except for ideas that politicians and government contractors and nonprofit activists don’t like. Germany is providing a road map for freedom can be squashed throughout the western world. Germany was the […]

Iran & Israel Secretly Agreed Not To Attack Each Other Through Russian Backchannel There may have been some back-channel dealmaking and a ‘mutual understanding’ reached between Iran and Israel far behind the scenes as protests unfolded on Iran’s streets, and as President Trump began to make threats about striking Tehran. At a moment Trump seems to have climbed down (at least for now) from the threatened drive to intervene […]

How BRICS May Deliver Structural Shock To US Dollar System Authored by Pepe Escobar, The oligarchy that really controls the Empire of Chaos has hit the panic button, as the structural contours of Hegemony seriously wobble. The petrodollar is one of the key features of this Hegemony: a recycling machine channeling non-stop buying of US Treasuries then spent on Forever Wars. Any player even thinking of diversifying from this […]

Tesla Shifts Full Self-Driving To Subscription-Only As Musk Targets Pay Package Milestones Elon Musk announced early Wednesday that Tesla will eliminate the one-time purchase option for its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software beginning in mid-February, transitioning the product to an exclusive monthly subscription. “Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14. FSD will only be available as a monthly subscription thereafter,” Musk wrote […]

Risk For Thee, Safety For Me: Celebrity Activism Authored by Christian Vezilj via American Thinker, Hollywood has mastered the art of moral performance. Award shows have become political stages where actors speak with the confidence of prophets and the certainty of philosophers. But beneath the applause lines and emotional crescendos lies a contradiction that becomes impossible to ignore: the courage they demand from others is […]

China Blames Trump For Its Staggering $1.2 Trillion Trade Surplus Amid European Howls Of Outrage At the start of December, China stunned the world when it reported that its trade surplus had surpassed a record $1 trillion, with one month still left to go in calendar 2025. Fast forward to last night when China reported that in December, its trade balance rose from $112 billion in November to a whopping – and the second highest on […]