Patel Says Ex-CIA-Linked Afghan Shooter Now Under Terrorism Investigation Update (1018ET): FBI Director Kash Patel told reporters that the horrific National Guard shooting just down the street from the White House is being investigated as an act of terrorism. Patel said agents seized “numerous electronic devices,” including smartphones, iPads, and laptops, all of which are now being analyzed.  When a reporter asked how the […]

What Does A Thanksgiving Dinner Cost In 2025? Each year the American Farm Bureau Federation releases a price survey of classic items found on the Thanksgiving dinner table. This year, as Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, the average cost of feasting stands at $55.18, which is 5 percent less than last year but still constitutes a $5.75 increase from before the pandemic. You will find more infographics at Statista The most […]

The Economy’s In The Earliest Stages Of Pricing In The Singularity Authored by Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross via X, The cost of superintelligence is crashing. Ilya Sutskever argues that algorithmically leapfrogging the frontier labs requires only ~$3 billion in pure research compute, implying the trillion-dollar clusters are mostly burning cash on inference and app bloat while the real signal remains efficient. The models are also […]

Futures Flat With US Markets Closed For Thanksgiving It’s a quiet session, with S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures flat as US markets are closed for Thanksgiving. The largest US stock index has recovered almost all recent losses, and is back to just 1% below all time highs after four days of gains, as sentiment was boosted bets that the Fed will cut interest rates faster than previously thought (Dec rate cut odds have gone from 85% […]

Hundreds Missing, Scores Dead In Massive Hong Kong Apartment Inferno A terrible death toll is mounting after a cluster of high-rise Hong Kong apartment towers was engulfed in an inferno on Wednesday: At least 44 people are dead, but approximately 279 are still missing in what is already the deadliest Hong Kong building fire in more than 50 years. Accusations of gross negligence have been directed at a construction company that’s […]

We Must Resist The Rise Of A Global Censorship Regime Authored by Kristen Waggoner via The Epoch Times, The ordeal of Finnish Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen, who just stood trial a third time – after being acquitted twice – for a 2019 tweet in which she simply shared a Scripture verse and her faith-based views on marriage and sexuality, is a warning to all who value the right to speak freely across the world. When governments […]

Tether’s 116-Ton Gold Hoard Rivals Reserves Of Korea And Hungary: Jefferies Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Stablecoin issuer Tether holds 116 tons of physical gold, placing it on par with central banks such as those in South Korea, Hungary and Greece. Tether is “the largest holder of gold outside central banks,” Jefferies wrote in a recent analysis, per a report by the Financial Times. The investment […]

FBI Seizes $13-Million Mercedes Unicorn From Olympian Snowboarder Turned ‘Cocaine Kingpin’ Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper, In the aftermath of their second Ryan Wedding indictment bombshell, the FBI’s Los Angeles field office dropped one of the most surreal photos of the Giant Slalom case this week: a silver, open-top Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR roadster — valued at roughly US$13 million — parked under fluorescent lights in a […]

US Adoptions From Abroad Are Declining The number of children adopted from abroad is declining in the United States, according to data from the U.S. Department of State. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, while more than 12,700 children were adopted internationally in 2009, that figure has dropped to under 1,200 in 2024. You will find more infographics at Statista This is due to several reasons. For example, although […]

Where Do You Find The Most AI Leaders In Europe? Corporate spending on AI is surging. So, our friends at The Big Search asked themselves a practical question: who is actually building and deploying AI inside Europe’s major consumer goods, retail and digital marketplace companies? For this analysis they identified 471 individuals, who have proven themselves as AI trailblazers. As Statista’s Mathias Brandt details below, […]

Le Pen’s Revenge? Bardella Projected To Win 2027 French Election Runoff In All Scenarios Via Remix News, A new poll indicates that Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally (RN), would secure a victory in the second round of the 2027 French presidential election in every matchup tested. Although elections are still 18 months away, it shows a considerable shift in French public support to right-wing, conservative positions. […]

Revisiting Rush Limbaugh’s True Story Of Thanksgiving – Now More Relevant Than Ever The late radio host Rush Limbaugh used his 2010 Thanksgiving broadcast to remind listeners of the true story of Thanksgiving. It’s a lesson that feels especially relevant today, as the Democratic Party is being swallowed whole by radical left-wingers in the Democratic Socialists of America movement, who seek to undermine the nation from within (in […]

Thanksgiving: America’s Forgotten Religious Holiday Authored by J.T. Young via RealClearReligion, Thanksgiving is America’s forgotten religious holiday. Not simply a holiday, it was meant to be a true holy day. That it is forgotten as such runs counter to the original Thanksgiving. It also runs counter to logic. And it also runs right into those who seek to imbue it with their own cultural causes. America has many holidays […]

FDA Chief: Fauci ‘100% Involved” In “Massive” COVID-19 Origins Cover-Up Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary accused former top health official Dr. Anthony Fauci of orchestrating a “massive cover-up” of the origins of Covid-19. In an interview with “Pod Force One” podcast, Makary said that Fauci, who served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease during the pandemic, worked to […]

Alzheimer’s Disease: The Most Common Neurodegenerative Disease – Here Are The Causes Authored by Mercura Wang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder that gradually destroys memory, thinking skills, and the ability to perform everyday tasks. As the single most common neurodegenerative disease, it affects more than 6 million Americans—most of them age 65 or older. The […]

Schweizer Exposes DEI Fraud Machine Inside Federal Contracting Complex  Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and the investigative journalist who broke the Clinton Cash corruption story, has uncovered what may be one of the most brazen grifts operating inside the Capital Beltway. His new reporting exposes deep cronyism and corruption inside the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business […]

Domestic Military Manufacturing Is Essential For National Security Authored by Scott Vadnais via RealClearDefense, For nearly a century, America’s military strength has come largely through self-reliance. We not only made the ships, airplanes and tanks, our country supplied the parts and materials for these complex systems. But a lot has changed in recent times. Unfortunately, our military has increasingly relied on sourcing […]

Taiwan Boosts Defense Budget To $40BN As President Lai Lashes Out At Beijing Taiwan on Wednesday announced a highly significant increase to a $40 billion defense budget, which it says is necessary in response to growing Chinese military pressure and harassment. Significantly it comes as nearby US-ally Japan is locked in a diplomatic battle with Beijing over Tokyo’s increasingly vocal pro-Taiwan independence stance. China has […]

“Access To Power” Has Become “Access To Energy” By Ben Hertz-Shargel of Woods Mackenzie As industry concerns over an AI bubble mount, the scale of data center ambitions continue to grow. As of mid-October, the US data center pipeline reached 245 GW of planned capacity, driven by a handful of enormous, speculative projects. These projects, and the renewable deals hyperscalers are signing, skew heavily toward Texas. More than a […]

“Allahu Akbar”: D.C. National Guard Shooter Identified As Afghan National Who Entered U.S. During Biden Years Update (2020ET): CBS News reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez confirms that the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., is 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Law-enforcement officials told Galvez that Lakanwal entered the U.S. in 2021 during the Biden-Harris regime. CBS News: […]

Thanksgiving Is Now One Of America’s Most Dangerous Holidays, New Analysis Shows Insuranceopedia reviewed national datasets from the NSC, FEMA, NFPA, NHTSA, and the CDC to analyze accident trends surrounding Thanksgiving. The results show that Thanksgiving surpasses Christmas, Memorial Day, and even the Fourth of July in several key danger categories. Thanksgiving is the most dangerous U.S. holiday for fires, with a 388% spike […]

Did Rubio ‘Neo-Con’ Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan? Authored by Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute, Lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas; lie down with neocons, you wake up with wars. –Me So goes President Trump’s 28 point peace plan to end the Russia/Ukraine war. Revealed at the end of last week, the plan initially received a cautious but cautiously optimistic reception in Moscow. It was hardly […]

‘Seditious Six’ Scripted Video Appears To Be Part Of Left’s Broader Color Revolution Against Trump America could use a breather from the Democratic Party’s billionaire-backed dark-money NGO machine, which has spent years running a rolling color-revolution-style campaign against President Trump and anything aligned with America First (one that we’ve coined “invisible insurrection”).  The pressure campaign is constant: activist […]

Public Schools Are Failing And Parents Are Bailing Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, Students attending American public schools are struggling. Test scores from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), released this year, indicate that 33% of 8th graders—a greater percentage than ever before—are reading at the “below basic” level. Additionally, only 22% of high school seniors are […]

Trump-MbS Meeting Was Strained Behind Closed Doors: ‘Disappointment & Irritation’ Axios reported some new details this week related to the recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. There were more tensions in the private dialogue between the two leaders than previously known, and some significant disagreements centered on policy toward Israel. While the two […]