DeepSeek Developing In-House AI Chip In Bid To Cut Nvidia Reliance DeepSeek is developing its own artificial intelligence chip, a move that could reduce its reliance on both US-based Nvidia and China-based Huawei. Leading model developers are increasingly seeking to control more of their compute stacks, particularly for inference, as AI models move from training labs into the mass market. DeepSeek is the latest company to pursue […]

Ukrainian Drone Swarm Attack Hits Eight Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tankers Beyond Ukraine’s increasing kamikaze drone attacks on key Russian energy infrastructure, which appear to be fueling a domestic fuel crisis, Kyiv has now widened the pressure campaign of drone swarm attacks on Russia’s shadow fleet of tankers. Reuters cites a statement from Ukraine’s drone forces that said a swarm of loitering munitions struck eight Russian […]

Alleged Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Not Covered By Trump’s Blanket Pardon: Judge Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, The man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington prior to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, is not covered by President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon for individuals convicted of crimes over their participation in the Capitol breach, a federal judge ruled on Monday. Suspect Brian Cole Jr. had requested that all his […]

Monaco Bombing Attack Suspect Shot Dead In Ukraine, Intelligence Officer In Custody The saga of the Monaco package bomb attack carried out last week against an exiled Ukrainian oligarch just got even wilder and more mysterious, as the prime suspect has been found shot dead near Kiev. The Guardian reports that “Ukrainian prosecutors said on Tuesday the woman had been found with a gunshot wound to the head and that two men had been […]

French Bond Yields Rise After Le Pen Cleared To Run In 2027 Presidential Election Marine Le Pen can enter the race to become France’s next president after judges confirmed her embezzlement conviction on appeal but handed her a reprieve on an election ban. Presiding Judge Michèle Agi confirmed Le Pen’s conviction, saying that she and several others at the National Rally party misused European Union funds earmarked to pay for […]

Futures Fall, Chipmakers Tumble After Samsung Rout; Oil Climbs Stocks fell as freash volatility hit chipmakers after blowout earnings from Samsung Electronics were still not good enough (the company missed some buyside estimates) and left investors wanting even more, and sent its stock tumbling as much as 11%, forcing another 20 minute halt of the Kospi. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures were down 0.2% and Nasdaq futures fall 1%, […]

Double-Tap Bombing Rips Through Damascus Near French President Macron’s Hotel Major explosions ripped through an area in of the Syrian capital near the hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron had been staying, during an official visit of the French leader to Nusrah Front (Syrian AQ) founder and now self-appointed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Macron is said to be safe, after talks with Sharaa at the presidential palace, […]

As NATO Summit Braces For Trump, Ambassador Warns Allies: ‘We’re Not Going Away, Just Doing Less’ Just on the eve of the annual NATO summit, and as President Trump is en route to attend the Ankara-hosted meeting, Washington has reaffirmed its vision of withdrawing from NATO leadership in order to allow other countries to shoulder the collective defense burden. America’s ambassador to the alliance told CNBC on Monday that […]

Qatari LNG Tanker Hit By Iranian Missile In Hormuz Chokepoint A fully loaded Qatari LNG tanker was struck by a projectile near the Omani coast while exiting the Strait of Hormuz, raising fresh concerns that disruptions across the key energy maritime chokepoint could persist longer than traders had expected. Brent crude rose more than 1% to $72.76 a barrel as traders reassessed the war-risk premium in the Gulf area. The Al Rekayyat, […]

Manslaughter Charges Filed Following Fatal Tesla FSD Crash A fatal crash involving Tesla’s driver-assistance technology has resulted in manslaughter charges against a Texas man after his vehicle slammed into a home near Houston, killing a 76-year-old woman inside, according to the Wall Street Journal. Prosecutors say 44-year-old Michael David Butler told first responders he had been using Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) […]

Britain Vs America: 1976 Vs 2026 Authored by John Perry via AmericanThinker.com, July 4, 1976, the American bicentennial.   Along with other American students at University College, Oxford, I attended a grand banquet celebrating the occasion.  In the high-vaulted dining hall, our familiar, plain wooden tables and benches were awash in linen, china, fresh flowers, silver, silver, and more silver: candlesticks, ewers, wine […]

Priced Beyond Perfection: Samsung Electronics Tumbles As Soaring Profit Not Good Enough The memory bubble appears to be rapidly deflating. After the semiconductor/memory sector was walloped in Monday US trading without any clear negative catalyst, the semiconductor-chasing world was eagerly waiting to hear what Samsung – the world’s largest memory maker – would report in its preliminary Q2 earnings report as investors sought to […]

Coffee Shorts Get Roasted As Arabica Stages Biggest Jump Since Dot-Com Arabica coffee futures jumped the most since the Dot Com era as worsening weather in Brazil and shrinking exchange-managed warehouses intensified concerns about near-term supply. This comes as El Niño threats rise across critical agricultural belts worldwide. New York prices jumped as much as 18.5% on Monday to $3.57 a pound, the highest since January. This was […]

Russia’s Oil Windfall Vanishes As Urals Crashes To $42 A Barrel By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Russian crude oil prices have fallen back to where they were before the Middle East war, with its flagship Urals averaging just $41.66 a barrel during the first three days of July. The drop wipes out the revenue boost Moscow received from the conflict and pressures a federal budget that assumes oil prices of about $59 a barrel.  […]

Hamas Announces Dissolution Of Gaza Government, But Israel Warns It’s A Sham Hamas formally announced Monday the final dissolution of its government in Gaza amid preparations to hand power to a technical committee backed by the United Nations as part of a Trump-brokered ceasefire deal. The hardline Islamist group, which has fought Israel in a war for survival – especially since its brutal Oct.7 2023 terror attacks on southern […]

Cuba’s Entire Power Grid Collapses As Castro’s Grandson Seeks Talks With Trump Summary: Cuba’s Power Grid Collapses  Castro’s Grandson Ready To Talk With Trump  Cuba Goes Dark Hours after USA Today published an interview between one of its journalists and Cuban President Castro’s grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, the communist-run island experienced an island-wide power grid collapse. The electrical workers’ union […]

UK Police Crack Down On Dangerous New Threat – People Standing Around Doing Nothing Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, British policing has reached new depths of absurdity and authoritarianism. Officers are inventing pre-crimes, harassing citizens for lawful filming or standing in public, and deploying to pubs to warn people off tweeting about councillors. All while the same forces stand guard over brand-new […]

Lithuania To Lift Ban On Nuclear Weapons, Following Finland First it was Finland which lifted its ban on the deployment of nuclear weapons, declaring its willingness to host NATO’s arsenal (which is largely provided by the US), and now Lithuania has become the latest European country to move to do the same. Lithuania, which has been a NATO member state since 2004, has newly declared its willingness to be part of the alliance’s […]

EU Parliament Banning The ESN Party Alliance Is A ‘Realistic Scenario’ Warns German MEP Via Remix News, For the first time in European history, an EU party alliance could be outright banned in the European Parliament, which would mark a major blow to democracy and rule of law. The Europe of Sovereign Nations Group (ESN), which includes nine right-wing European parties, has been relentlessly attacked by the EU establishment since […]

CIA Investigated Officers For Espionage Over Not Taking COVID-19 Vaccine: Lawsuit Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The CIA has investigated thousands of personnel and contractors for not receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new lawsuit. In 2021, then-President Joe Biden imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal employees and contractors. Shortly after, the CIA’s chief operating officer directed the […]

Zelensky Touts “Battle In The Sky” As Key To Winning Asymmetric Fight With Russia Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that the decisive phase of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shifted from land and sea to the air, making the battle in the sky the determining factor of the war – at a moment Russia has begun to experience a fuel shortage crisis in many locales due to vital energy infrastructure having been struck again […]

Chinese National Madam Indicted For Running Brothels Out Of Boston Apartments Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, A Chinese national living in New York has been indicted for allegedly running a sex-trafficking ring out of several residential brothels located in Boston’s Allston and Brighton neighborhoods. The Department of Justice building in Washington on July 21, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Liu Zengzeng, 40, of […]

Air Force Engineer Accused Of Cutting Down AI Cameras Becomes Unlikely Hero, Raises Thousands For Legal Defense A U.S. Air Force engineer charged with allegedly destroying a series of AI-powered license plate surveillance cameras has become an unlikely cause célèbre among privacy advocates, drawing thousands of dollars in donations to help fund his legal defense, according to Yahoo News. Jeffrey Sovern, a 41-year-old Air Force […]

Trump Says Walmart Will Slash Ground Beef Prices In “Huge Deal” For Consumers President Trump said retail giant Walmart will slash prices on a range of products at his administration’s request, including a 15% reduction in ground beef prices. The move comes on top of falling gasoline and diesel pump prices as the administration intensifies its affordability push and makes it clear that capitalists, not socialists, will solve the […]

NorCal Couple Scammed Of $18,000 From Fake Checks And Online Payments A retired Northern California couple is speaking out after scammers allegedly drained nearly $18,000 from their checking account through a combination of counterfeit checks and unauthorized online payments, setting off a weeks-long battle to recover their money, according to ABC 7. The couple first realized something was wrong after stopping at an ATM and […]