21 States Are At Risk Of Losing SNAP Funding Amid Fraud Investigation Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The federal government said it would withhold Supplemental Nutrition Aid Program (SNAP) funds for states that do not report user data.  The news came from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins earlier this week, following months of requests and investigations into […]

Newsom Pleads With Dems To Be More “Culturally Normal” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, California Governor Gavin Newsom is dishing out advice to his fellow Democrats: pretend to be normal while he plots a White House run. Newsom, who’s been eyeing a 2028 presidential bid after loser Kamala Harris’ electoral wipeout, took to the stage at The New York Times DealBook Summit in New York City, urging his party to […]

Ken Griffin Dumps Last Penthouse In Crime-Ridden Chicago Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin is on the verge of dumping his final piece of real estate in crime-ridden, far-left–controlled Chicago, and he hasn’t looked back since moving Citadel’s global headquarters to Miami. Bloomberg reports that Griffin’s penthouse at 800 N. Michigan Avenue, located in Park Tower, one of the premier luxury residential buildings along Chicago’s […]

Texas Law Allowing Ivermectin To Be Sold Over The Counter Goes Into Effect Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, A Texas law allowing ivermectin to be sold over the counter went into effect Dec. 4, but rollout appears slow as pharmacies wrestle with how to proceed. House Bill 25, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in August, allows pharmacies to sell the antiviral drug without a prescription. Ivermectin […]

The GRANITE Act: How Congress Can Strike Back Against Foreign Censors Authored by Preston Byrne, Please find below the draft text of the GRANITE Act, a bill I have offered to New Hampshire legislators for consideration for enactment in that state. It could serve as a template for a U.S. fightback against global censorship, if adapted for federal use. It doesn’t really require a ton of explanation. The gist is simple: the only […]

Generational Betrayal: HUD Reveals Biden Gave Illegal Aliens FHA-Backed Mortgages HUD Secretary Scott Turner told Fox Business on Friday that illegal aliens received federally backed mortgages during the Biden–Harris regime years. Turner characterized this as a significant policy failure by the previous administration and evidence of what he called misplaced priorities that favored illegals over American homebuyers. “You know, […]

Nearly Two-Thirds Of Americans Say College Degree Isn’t Worth The Cost: Poll Authored by Gabrielle Temaat via The College Fix, Nearly two-thirds of Americans don’t believe that a college degree is worth its price tag, according to a recent NBC News survey.   Sixty-three percent of registered voters said a four-year degree is “not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large […]

Journal Retracts ‘Ghost Written’ Monsanto Study Claiming Glyphosate Is Safe Over the past year massive scandals involving academic research have come under the microscope, after dedicated researchers uncovered rigged studies that made it through peer-review with flying colors, and are now being retracted.  On Friday, the Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology journal announced that it has retracted a review, safety […]

Impeachment Mania Returns In Time For The Midterm Elections Authored by Jonathan Turley, The military has long had a saying that “when you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” When it comes to impeachment power, Democrats have long acted as if every problem is a high crime and misdemeanor. After two impeachments against President Donald Trump (including what I labeled as an infamous “snap impeachment“), […]

Southern Oscillation Index Plunge Triggers “Big Winter Storm Signal,” Meteorologist Warns Folks across the Mid-Atlantic, especially in the Washington, DC-Baltimore metro area, woke up to a rare December winter scene: a few inches of fresh snow on the ground. With a solid cold pattern locked in through the middle of the month, this early-season snow is something the region hasn’t seen this early in the cold season in many years. […]

Is A Backdoor Gold Standard Coming? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, For decades, I’ve been vexed over a monetary issue. How can we transition from the present fiat money system to a sound-money standard like we once had in the United States and the world? Clearly the gold standard was superior whereas we now have a fiat standard that has mired the world in debt and big government. A central-bank digital […]

Anti-Free-Speech War Escalates As EU Unleashes DSA On Musk’s X For years, many in the free speech community (most vehemently, Jonathan Turley) have warned about the threat of the European Union to free speech, particularly in the enactment of the infamous Digital Services Act (DSA). The EU has virtually declared war on free speech and is targeting American companies. That war just began with the first DSA fine. Not surprisingly, […]

Germany Scales Back Offshore Wind Auctions After Latest Flop By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Germany moved to reduce the capacity it will auction in its offshore wind tender in 2026, following the flop in the latest auction without a single bid made.   The German Parliament approved legislation narrowing the capacity in the 2026 tender to just 2.5 gigawatts (GW) to 5 GW, compared with an earlier plan of auctioning off 6 […]

French Soldiers ‘Open Fire’ On Drones Threatening High-Secure Nuclear Submarine Base A major security breach of French military airspace has been revealed Friday at a moment European officials have been hyping the ‘hybrid warfare’ threat from Russia, which has of late centered on many dozens of ‘mystery’ drone breaches in EU airspace especially near sensitive locations like airports. French Marines opened fire on five unidentified […]

UK Sanctions Russia After Inquiry Holds Putin Responsible For 2018 Novichok Poisonings Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times, The UK issued new sanctions on Russia on Dec. 4, after a public inquiry into the death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok in the UK in 2018 held Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible for her demise. London also summoned the Kremlin’s ambassador for a response to the […]

Germany’s Merz Secures Pensions Bill, Ending Embarrassing Internal Rebellion Germany’s Bundestag on Friday finally approved a contentious pension reform package which was subject of weeks of internal revolt within Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s own Christian Democratic Union party. But this brings to an effective end yet another challenge in his turbulent first seven months in office. The lower house passed the legislation, which […]

Just How Dystopian Could Starmer’s Britain Become? Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, Scaling back trial by jury, further attacks on lawful speech, the nationwide deployment of deeply flawed facial recognition systems… The list just keeps growing longer.  We first asked this question — Just How Dystopian Could Starmer’s Britain Become? — just over a year ago. At that point in time, with the  […]

“Widespread Misconduct”: Trump Admin Orders All Beneficiaries Of Nation’s Largest DEI Program To Surrender Financial Records The Daily Wire has learned that the Small Business Administration has ordered all 4,300 firms in its 8(a) “socially disadvantaged” program, which receive no-bid federal contracts, to turn over their financial records, including general ledgers, bank statements, payroll files, subcontracting agreements, and […]

Escobar: How The BRICS+ ‘Unit’ Can Save Global Trade Authored by Pepe Escobar, The Unit project, first revealed by Sputnik in 2024, is emerging as the most viable option for breaking the US dollar’s stranglehold on global trade and investment. In his book co-written with top economist Sergey Bodrunov, Regulations of the Noonomy (international edition published this year by Sandro Teti Editore in Rome), leading Russian […]

NY Times Sues Department Of War Over New Media Rules The New York Times on Friday sued the Department of War over new rules for media outlets which restrict reporters’ movements around the Pentagon, require ID badges, and restrict the solicitation of “criminal acts” (encouraging someone to leak).  The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, on March 3, 2022. Joshua Roberts/Reuters “The policy, in violation of the First […]

Health Department Investigating School That Vaccinated Child Without Parental Consent Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Dec. 3 that it has launched an investigation into a school that officials said illegally vaccinated a child without parental consent. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington on Dec. 2, 2025. Andrew […]

Trump’s New National Security Strategy Stuns Mainstream In Saying Europe Faces “Civilizational Erasure” Within 20 Years The Trump administration’s just published new National Security Strategy has generated a lot of ‘shock’ and discussion since it appeared online early Friday. One of its more ‘controversial’ elements is the stark contrast in outlook on Europe in comparison with prior years’ national security strategy documents. […]

China’s Teapot Refiners Boost Crude Buying After New Import Quotas By Michael Kern of Oilprice.com Helped by the newly-issued crude import quotas, China’s independent refiners are buying sanctioned Iranian crude again and raising their processing rates, making room for Iran’s oil to move out of floating and bonded storage and potentially easing the year-end glut on the market.  Chinese teapot refiner The independent refiners […]

FBI Pipe Bomber Breakthrough Exposes Biden Era Failures After Four Years More than four years after pipe bombs appeared outside the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, and less than a month after The Blaze fingered a former Capitol Police officer in a now-retracted report (that their sources still stand by), the Trump administration announced the arrest of Brian Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on Thursday. Cole has […]

Major Climate Crisis Study Retracted Over “Inaccuracies” As Doom Narrative Collapses A widely hyped climate-doom study published in Nature in April 2024, and then amplified by left-wing corporate media outlets (CNN, Bloomberg, you name it), desperate to push the “green” narrative and weirdly obsessed with driving Americans into a state of severe climate shock, has now been embarrassingly retracted. On Wednesday, Nature retracted […]