Trump’s Newest Iran Sanctions Another Shot Across China’s Bow Thursday saw President Trump and the US Treasury unleash a new sanctions pile-on against Iran, with a new rollout of secondary sanctions targeting Iranian oil and petrochemical products, sending crude prices higher on the day… “They will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape, or form,” the President wrote on Truth Social […]

Social Security Cuts Overpayment Withholding Rate To 50% Down From 100% Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced a new policy that reduces the default withholding rate to 50 percent for recovering Social Security benefit overpayments under Title II, the federal program covering retirement and disability insurance. The change, outlined in an “emergency […]

Economic Illiterate Kamala Harris Attacks Trump Tariffs As ‘Absolute Chaos’ It’s an old dictum but it remains true that you never want to interrupt your enemies when they are making a mistake.  That said, it’s oh so tempting to analyze the behavior of the Democratic Party as a perfect representation of blind cultism.  How did they plunge from the heights of the Obama Administration and near complete control of American culture to […]

A Curricular Solution To The Crisis Of Civic Illiteracy Authored by David Bruce Smith via RealClearPublicAffairs, John and Abigail Adams envisioned an America with a school in every neighborhood and a well-informed citizenry that was adept in languages, literature, and music, as well as science, history, and religion. Their vision was practical until the ages recast it, little by little. Then sometime between Joseph McCarthy and […]

Futures Jump After China Says It Is “Evaluating” Trade Talks Update (9:20pm ET): the first reaction from the US side comes in by way of Marco Rubio who speaks in a Fox News interview, and it is very much as expected: he makes it seem that China reached out first, which to Beijing is a non-started as its specific framework is that the US was reaching out in order for Xi not to lose face: RUBIO SAYS CHINA IS REACHING OUT ON ECONOMIC […]

State Department Instructs Employees To Report Anti-Christian Bias Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The State Department recently instructed employees to report workers who exhibited anti-religious bias, including bias against Christians, according to a cable obtained by The Epoch Times. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the April 11 cable directed State Department employees to a reporting form and instructed […]

‘Very, Very Wrong’: Expert Warns China Showing Signs Of ‘End-Of-Regime Conduct’ A China politics expert warns that the communist regime shows signs of potential collapse, driven by a worsening economy exacerbated by Trump’s aggressive tariff policies. “At a time when China needs friends because it’s not selling goods to the U.S., it is going out of its way to antagonize not just the Philippines, not just Taiwan, but also South […]

The California Bullet Train Is A Good Lesson In Political Deception Authored by William Anderson via The Mises Institute, This week, my wife and I have traveled Amtrak’s route to and from Bakersfield, California, with the Amtrak line running down the state’s Central Valley past cities like Fresno and Modesto. As our train sped down the tracks at speeds of up to 83 mph, we could see construction of the much-hyped boondoggle […]

Hegseth Threatens Iran Over Houthi Support: ‘You Will Pay’ The start of this week began badly for the Pentagon, as it revealed it had ‘lost’ a fighter jet in the Red Sea amid the ongoing Yemen bombing campaign. A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet “fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board” – the US military said, and supposedly while the large carrier was making an evasive […]

Tether Plans US Stablecoin Launch As Soon As This Year; Report Authored by Alex O’Donnell via CoinTelegraph.com, Tether plans to launch a stablecoin product in the United States as soon as this year, the stablecoin issuer’s CEO, Paul Ardoino, said in an April 30 CNBC interview. Tether’s flagship stablecoin, USDt, is already the US dollar’s top “exporter,” Ardoino told CNBC.  It has a market capitalization of […]

US House Passes Resolution To Stop California From Banning Gas-Powered Cars The U.S. House of Representatives passed (245-164) Rep. John Joyce’s (R-PA) H.J. Res.88, a resolution blocking the Biden Environmental Protection Agency’s waiver that would let California ban petrol-powered cars and trucks and force dystopian electric vehicle mandates nationwide.  H.J. Res. 88 seeks to overturn a Biden-era EPA decision that […]

What We Know About The Illegal Immigrant Allegedly Helped By A Wisconsin Judge To Evade ICE Authored by Janice Hisle and Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The man arrested by immigration authorities in Milwaukee – despite a Wisconsin judge’s alleged attempt to shield him – is being held in a neighboring county’s jail as controversy continues to swirl around the case. Eduardo Flores Ruiz, 30, was locked up in the […]

Apple Slides On China Sales Slump And Soft Service Revenue, Despite Tariff Frontrunning Revenue Boost And New $100BN Buyback Ahead of Apple’s earnings report this afternoon, which concludes the results from big 4 group of the Mag 7 (including MSFT, META and AMZN) UBS said that sentiment was a 5/10, with the bank’s analyst expecting some pull-forward offsetting soft demand, while creating tougher 2H compares with the consensus too […]

This Was Chosen As ‘Photo Of 2024’ By TDS Impaired Media… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, What was the undeniable best photo of 2024? The image of President Trump, fist raised in defiance, still alive after being shot with blood streaming down his face, Secret Service members rushing him to safety as he screamed “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT.” Yeah, that was objectively the photo of the year. Perhaps photo of the […]

Walmart Increases Support For USA-Made Products At a time when American consumers are increasingly interested in what products are actually “Made in the USA”—as evidenced by a recent report showing a surge in related internet searches—the nation’s largest retailer announced plans this week to boost its support for American-made goods through new initiatives. Walmart has launched a new initiative called “Grow with US,” offering […]

Syria Unravels Further As Jolani’s Army Attacks Another Religious Minority Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, Sectarian fighting in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana left dozens killed, and Israel is already looking to parlay that into a new excuse for military action against the Syrian government, with the idea that they need to “protect” the Druze minority militarily. The Israeli military reported attacking the Damascus […]

Amazon Tumbles On Soft AWS Revenue, Disappointing Profit Forecast Ahead of Amazon’s earnings, and following two blowout results from the first two giga-cap companies MSFT and META, UBS said that the “fast money seems to be short Amazon into the quarter on AWS and North America sales growth, with no upward revisions on the print.” Meanwhile, the longer duration money “continues to like the story around AWS reacceleration, potential […]

The Trump Counterrevolution & The Moral Ledger Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Despite the media hysteria, Trump’s counterrevolution remains on course. Its ultimate fate will probably rest with the state of the economy by the November 2026 midterm elections.  But its success also hinges on accomplishing what is right and long overdue—and then making such reforms quietly, compassionately, and […]

Watch: Illegal Alien Smugglers’ Boat Rammed By CBP Off California Coast Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Dramatic footage shows agents with US Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations halting an attempt by human traffickers to smuggle a boat full of illegals into the country earlier this week. The video posted to X shows the moment the agents rammed into the boat in an incident off the coast of […]

Xi To Attend Russia’s Victory Day, As Zelensky Hints At Attacking Event The Kremlin has confirmed Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the “Victory Day” celebrations in Moscow on May 9, illustrating the close strategic partnership between the two countries, also at a moment that Ukraine is alleging the presence of Chinese fighters engaged in the conflict. “We are waiting for the leader of China,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry […]

“Extremely Bad Breach Of Ethics”: Elon Musk Blasts Wall Street Journal’s CEO Search Report Tesla Chairwoman Robyn Denholm denied a Wall Street Journal report claiming the board had begun searching for Elon Musk’s successor, calling the story “absolutely false.” Musk echoed the rebuke, slamming the story as an “EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS” by the legacy media outlet.  “Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming […]

Amazon Announces $4 Billion Rural Delivery Network, Estimates 100,000 New Jobs Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Amazon will invest $4 billion by 2026 to expand its network in rural America for delivering packages faster in densely populated areas, the company said in an April 30 statement. “This investment will also grow our rural delivery network’s footprint to over 200 delivery stations, and we estimate […]

RFK Jr. Shatters The Measles Narrative With One Brilliant Point Via VigilantFox.com, RFK Jr. is perhaps the most impactful HHS Secretary we’ve ever seen – but if you read the mainstream news, you’d think his first 100 days were a disaster. While chronic disease drains trillions from Americans every year, the press can’t stop obsessing over measles. Just look at these headlines: Many Windows Users Didn’t Know That They […]

Microsoft Will Raise Xbox Console, Game Prices To Break Deflationary Spiral Microsoft is raising prices on its Xbox consoles, games, and accessories, marking a potential turning point after decades of deflation in the gaming industry—even as development costs have continued to rise. The move underscores mounting pressure on developers and publishers to restore margins, while new optimism for the industry builds ahead of this […]

“Somebody Got To Her”: Virginia Giuffre’s Father Says She Wasn’t Suicidal, Demands Investigation Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, The father of prominent Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse victim Virginia Giuffre doesn’t believe the narrative that she took her own life last week, and is demanding an independent investigation. As we highlighted, Giuffre previously stated that she was not suicidal, and her lawyer is adamant […]