Oil Drops On Reports Of Iran-Oman Coordination To Reopen Hormuz Strait, While Exchange Of Strikes With US-Israel Intensify Summary No mention of ceasefire while vowing to keep hitting Iran ‘extremely hard’ in Wed. night Trump speech. Escalating tit-for-tat overnight strikes. Oil drops on reports of Iran-Oman coordination to reopen strait. US intelligence assessments say Iran is not ready to negotiate given it believes it has […]

“Everything About This Market Is Wild”: European Diesel Futs Top $200 As Global Scramble Accelerates The global tug-of-war for fuel looks set to accelerate, with traders scrambling to secure supplies even more aggressively after President Trump showed no signs of an end to hostilities (and a reopening of the Strait) any time soon. The longer the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, the more intense the competition is likely to become. […]

“A Defining Moment”: Nano Nuclear Submits Construction Permit For Kronos Reactor In Illinois Nano Nuclear submitted a Construction Permit Application (CPA) to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for their Kronos microreactor project at the University of Illinois. The filing marks the latest step in a project we’ve tracked since site characterization began last fall. Watch: Modular Energy Pioneer Nano Nuclear Begins […]

When Will This Sh*t Stop? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A career criminal with 23 prior arrests and 70 charges was allowed to roam free until she stabbed a pregnant woman in broad daylight outside a Harris Teeter in Charlotte’s Cotswold Village Shopping Center on March 18.  The 38-year-old victim was loading her car with her three-year-old child nearby when Marvina Marie Hardy (also known as Marvina Marie […]

Tesla Delivers 358,023 Vehicles In Q1, Missing Wall Street Expectations For Second Consecutive Quarter Tesla reported a disappointing first quarter, delivering 358,023 vehicles worldwide, falling short of Wall Street expectations of about 372,000, according to Bloomberg-compiled estimates and the company’s own release. The miss marks Tesla’s second consecutive quarter below forecasts, underscoring continued pressure on its core […]

Private Credit Bank Run Begins: Blue Owl Gates After Shocking 41% Of OTIC Investors Ask For Their Money A week ago, in an attempt to calm the market, Goldman’s economists published a lengthy, if at times disjointed, report discussing why a crisis in private credit would not lead to another financial crisis. We are about to find out if they were right.  Recall that in mid-March, while attention was understandably focused on the […]

Globalstar Soars On Amazon Buyout Report Amid Satellite Constellation Race Globalstar shares surged 12% in premarket trading in New York… …marking their biggest jump in nearly five months, after the Financial Times reported overnight that Amazon is in talks to acquire the satellite operator, a move that would certainly intensify the race to build satellite constellations.  The FT cited people familiar with the […]

Democrats Ask Judge To Block Parts Of Trump’s Election Order Authored by Kimberley Hayek and Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, Democrats asked a federal judge Wednesday to block parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order on federal elections. The lawsuit challenges Trump’s directive, signed a day earlier, that will create a list of eligible voters in every state and prohibit the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from […]

‘No Hire, No Fire’ Economy Continues As Job Cuts Tumble, Claims Near Record Lows U.S.-based employers announced 60,620 job cuts in March, up 25% from 48,307 cuts announced in February. It is down 78% from the 275,240 cuts announced during the same month last year, according to a report released Thursday from global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. “Removing the wave of federal layoffs […]

Futures, Bonds Tumble, Oil Soars After Trump Dashes Hopes For Early End To Iran War Global risk assets, including US equity futures and global markets, as well as Treasuries and precious metals, tumbled as oil soared with Brent hitting $110 this morning after Trump’s late Wednesday speech refused to pivot and dashed hopes that the Hormuz Strait would reopen soon and the war in the Middle East is nearing a swift resolution. As of […]

Colonial Restarts Largest U.S. Gasoline Pipeline After Georgia Damage Summary: Colonial Pipeline’s Line 1 flows were restored after the damaged section was repaired in Georgia. Colonial Pipeline’s Line 1 halted operations on Thursday night after a third-party work crew caused damage in Paulding County, Georgia. Colonial Pipeline’s Line 1 Flows Restart   The good news for U.S. East Coast drivers is that Colonial […]

4 Million Children Have Been Signed Up For Trump Accounts: IRS Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, American taxpayers have signed up over 4 million children to the tax-advantaged Trump Accounts, and more than 1 million of those accounts have elected to receive the $1,000 pilot contribution from the government, the IRS said in a March 31 statement. “Contributions to Trump Accounts can be made starting July 4, […]

U.S. Alerts Goldman Sachs Paris After Iranian Group Threatens Terror Bombing Five days after French authorities foiled a terror plot targeting Bank of America’s Paris headquarters, the threat environment facing U.S. financial institutions in the French capital appears to be worsening. New reporting from Le Parisien says Goldman Sachs’ Paris headquarters was placed under police surveillance on Wednesday night following threats […]

Oil Spikes As Trump Vows To Hit Iran “Extremely Hard Over Next 2-3 Weeks”, Threatens To Send It “Back To The Stone Ages” Summary Trump declares ‘core strategic objectives met’, threatens 2-3 more weeks of bombing, no mention of ceasefire Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has released an open letter to the American people, questioning whether Washington is truly putting “America First” or merely acting as a “proxy for […]

New Bill Opens Door For Killer AI Weapons Authored by Jon Fleetwood, A newly introduced U.S. Senate bill would allow the military to deploy autonomous lethal artificial intelligence systems by granting the Secretary of Defense the authority to override its own restrictions. Senate Bill S.4113—the “AI Guardrails Act of 2026,” introduced March 17, 2026 by U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)—is being presented as a framework […]

New Warning Sign: 1 In 4 Workers Have Cut 401k Contribution Rate Another light on America’s economic dashboard is blinking red, as money-pinched workers are cutting their 401k contribution rates. The news follows our earlier report on hardship withdrawals from the cornerstone retirement savings accounts hitting a record high. Critically, these numbers don’t reflect what workers are doing right now — amid war-driven gas price-hikes […]

Is Trump About To Crush The Cartels In Ecuador? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump is taking the fight directly to the drug cartels by launching aggressive military operations in Ecuador with the full backing of the country’s right-wing president.  Trump believes that the time has come to directly confront the narco-terrorists flooding American communities with poison. […]

Watch: Armed Robot Dog Leads Close-Quarters Combat Drill A video circulating on X appears to show a close-quarters battle exercise, possibly involving the Chinese military, in which a heavily armed quadruped robot is used for clearing of rooms and hallways. A private company in Shandong, China, demonstrated the correct use of robotic “wolves” and drones: they first provide fire suppression, then soldiers advance. I think the […]

Solar Installations Fell 22% In 2025 By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive, Solar developers installed 26.5 GW last year, down 22% from the 33.8 GW they installed in 2024, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).  The decline in solar installations took place despite the ongoing rush to bring projects online in order to qualify for the Inflation Reduction Act tax credits, which had their timelines curtailed by […]

India Unveils AI Kamikaze Drone As Global Powers Rush To Acquire Cheap Loitering Munitions The most visible weapon in the wars across Eurasia, from Ukraine to the Middle East, is the low-cost one-way attack drone. It has forever changed the economics of war and how war is fought on the modern battlefield by enabling swarm strikes at a fraction of the cost of traditional air-delivered munitions. Ukraine and Russia both proved this, […]

France Approves Record Number Of Asylum Applications In 2025, Up 12% YoY Via Remix News, The latest data released by the National Court of Asylum reveals a historic statistical milestone: asylum grants in France have reached an unprecedented peak. In 2025, a record 78,782 individuals were granted asylum, marking a 12 percent increase over the previous year. The recognition rate has also climbed to an all-time high of 52.1 […]

Ayatollah Breaks Silence, In Written Message Praises Hezbollah & Shia Leaders Of Iraq The new, younger Ayatollah Khamenei – who may have been wounded in the early days of US-Israeli strikes, hasn’t been seen in any public way, not even on TV, throughout the war. There have not so much as been any official recent images of him circulated. But Mojtaba Khamenei has apparently been issuing some limited written statements, mainly […]

Indians Are Online Bragging About Scamming Europe’s Education System Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Europe is literally paying Indians hundreds of euros a month to “study” while its own students can’t afford rent and are drowning in debt. In a now-viral video, an Indian student in Europe boasts about the arrangement. He explains how the EU provides him with 1400 euros every single month that covers rent, […]

Why The Shield Of The Americas Matters Now: Noem’s Latin American Visit Signals A New Security Doctrine Authored by Duggan Flanakin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The rapid evolution of U.S. national security strategy in the Western Hemisphere has taken a decisive turn with the launch of the Shield of the Americas—a multinational initiative that is already reshaping diplomatic, military, and law enforcement cooperation […]

China Tests World’s Heaviest 7-Ton Cargo Drone With 1,850-Mile Range For Recon Ops Authored by Aamir Khollam via Interesting Engineering, China has pushed further into heavy unmanned aviation with the first flight of the Changying-8 (CY-8), which it claims is the world’s heaviest cargo drone. China’s Changying-8 (CY-8) cargo drone. The aircraft combines high payload capacity with short-runway performance, targeting logistics […]