About 2,040 Pounds Of Cocaine, 5,800 Pounds Of Marijuana Seized At Sea Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, U.S. authorities have seized about 2,040 pounds of cocaine and almost 5,800 pounds of marijuana in three separate maritime interdictions carried out with international partners. Action by JIATF-S and Costa Rican authorities led to the capture of a boat allegedly involved in drug smuggling. Courtesy of the […]

China Builds Full-Scale Model Of US Destroyer In Remote Desert Security analysts poring over satellite photos of China have shared a surreal image: There’s a detailed, full-scale replica of a US Navy destroyer in the middle of a remote stretch of Chinese desert. It’s a vivid indication of the seriousness with which the Chinese government takes preparations for a potential war with the United States, perhaps over Taiwan.   This […]

War Returns: Pentagon Initiates 3rd Consecutive Night Of Iran Strikes As IRGC Targets More Vessels In Hormuz Summary Trump warns will hit Iran ‘hard’ tonight or tomorrow; Pentagon confirms 3rd night of strikes has begun Reports of Houthi missiles launched on Saudi Arabia: oil extends gains near month-highs. Trump says US blockade of Iran ports ‘reinstated’: states that US to be reimbursed at rate of 20% of cargo shipped for […]

28.8 Million Queries: The AI Heist That Tripped No Alarms Authored by Joseph Hoefer via RealClearDefense, When we picture intellectual property theft, we picture a break-in. A hacker slips past the firewall, copies the source code, and disappears. So, when an American AI company tells Congress that China just pulled off the largest extraction campaign it’s ever recorded, the natural assumption is that someone cracked the vault. […]

Where It Costs The Most To Own A Car In America Buying a car is only the beginning. Every year afterward, drivers face a steady stream of expenses—from insurance and fuel to repairs and taxes—that can add up to thousands of dollars. Using data from LendingTree, Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld created this map comparing average annual car ownership costs across every U.S. state and Washington D.C., excluding car payments, […]

While The Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds The Digital Police State Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rurtherford Institute, “You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” – George Orwell, 1984 While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus – cheering for their […]

China’s Memory-Chip Challenger Faces A Test Of How Far US Curbs Can Reach ChangXin Memory Technologies is approaching a turning point. The Chinese memory-chip maker has advanced far enough to draw interest from some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Apple Inc., which has considered using its chips. But the same growth that has raised CXMT’s commercial standing has also made it a more prominent target in the […]

Mind Control: Duncan Trussell On How Social Media Algorithms Weaponize Trauma Via VigilantFox.com, Duncan Trussell tells Theo Von why the horrifying stuff the algorithm feeds you is not an accident, and explains what it does to your brain. It starts with the phone in your hand. Duncan Trussell tells Theo Von why the horrifying stuff the algorithm feeds you is not an accident, and explains what it does to your brain. It starts […]

US Officials Say Iran’s Ahmadinejad Was Mossad Asset, Met With Intel Chief In Hungary Iran’s former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of all people?  The New York Times is out with a bombshell report on Monday which alleges that Israel’s Mossad has for years sought to cultivate him as an Israeli intelligence asset. Flash90 The apparent multi-year effort to recruit and re-install Ahmadinejad as leader of Iran has come to […]

Believe All Women – Unless They’re Inconvenient Authored by Frank Salvato via The American Spectator, The political Left has spent years promoting the slogan “Believe All Women,” using it as a powerful weapon against conservatives, especially during critical events like the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. But this mantra has never been about seeking justice or protecting victims; instead, it serves as a cynical tool for […]

Appeals Court Revives Tylenol Autism Lawsuits Against Kenvue A federal appeals court has breathed new life into litigation accusing Kenvue of failing to disclose alleged risks tied to taking Tylenol during pregnancy, reversing an earlier ruling that had effectively stopped hundreds of cases, according to a new report from Bloomberg. On Monday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the trial judge went too far in […]

US Energy Efficiency: We Have Come A Long Way Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The graph below paints a very interesting picture of US energy efficiency and a key structural economic change in this country. For roughly 25 years after WWII, the US economy’s crude oil consumption nearly tripled. Feeding the growth were a booming post-war economy and strong population growth. To put consumption in a different context, the graph […]

Credit Card Chargebacks Surge As E-Commerce & Cashless Society Gets Messy For Consumers US consumers are disputing card purchases at a record pace, as online fraud, confusing billing practices, and sneaky subscription charges drive a surge in chargebacks. Bloomberg cites new data from research firm Juniper Research on consumers’ aggressive use of chargebacks. Last year alone, US consumers filed 158 million transaction disputes, […]

Mick Jagger Has Some Sage Advice For Trump-Hater Springsteen Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Mick Jagger is pushing back against the trend of rock stars turning stages into campaign rallies, offering a refreshing contrast to Bruce Springsteen’s repeated anti-Trump outbursts. In a recent New York Times podcast interview, Jagger made his position crystal clear. While contrasting his approach with Springsteen’s, he […]

The Absurdity Of The Hunter Biden Defamation Case Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have taught torts, including defamation for over 30 years, but I have never seen the like of the Hunter Biden defamation case. The defendant made defamatory statements and then just refused to appear. That led to an equally bizarre $1.7 million award by U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson of the Central District of California to Biden, consisting of […]

Dubai’s New East Coast Port Signals The Beginning Of End For Iran’s Hormuz Leverage Less than a week into the US-Iran conflict, specifically on March 3, we began to see the writing on the wall: Tehran’s leverage over the Strait of Hormuz would eventually erode. That would happen not only because the US military could systematically destroy IRGC’s radar sites, coastal missile batteries and drone launch sites along the maritime […]

“Don’t Let China Win”: President Trump Presses Senate On CLARITY Act In Final Stretch Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, The Senate returns to Washington on July 13, with the clock running down on the most consequential piece of crypto legislation in years. Lawmakers now have roughly four weeks to schedule, debate, and pass the CLARITY Act before the August recess.  President Trump weighed in directly on […]

This Chevrolet Suburban Is The Secret Service’s New Anti-Drone Weapon For any indication of how seriously the federal government is taking the threat posed by one-way attack drones on the homeland, particularly against President Trump, look no further than the US Secret Service’s new Chevrolet Suburban. The Secret Service’s Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems Branch operates a specially equipped Chevrolet Suburban Premier, known as […]

Lindsey Graham’s Eerie Last Words Revealed The sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reverberated through the capital over the weekend, and some of the veteran interventionist’s final remarks have lent the loss an unsettling poignancy. Gage Skidmore/Flickr In a telephone call with an unnamed individual, Mr. Graham, 71, said he intended to seek medical attention for feeling unwell, but only after his scheduled appearance Sunday […]

Non-Citizen Voting Arrests Continue To Mount, State Officials Put On Notice Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, The Trump Justice Department has secured roughly two dozen non-citizens voting arrests, prosecutions or convictions in the last few months, with another nearly 90 more cases under investigation. Just the News reports that the wave of prosecutions represents a growing number of individuals charged in the […]

Strategy Adds $467 Million In Cash, No Bitcoin As StanChart Warns Saylor Needs Clarity In Pivot Message To Convince Investors Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, raised fresh capital by selling MSTR shares through its at-the-market (ATM) offering last week while leaving its BTC treasury unchanged. As CoinTelegraph’s Helen Partz reports, Strategy sold 4.8 million shares of its Class A common stock for $466.7 million […]

Mamdani’s Affordability Agenda Flops As NYC Rents Surge To Record Highs New York City’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and his radical-left lieutenants in City Hall promised voters free bus rides, government-run grocery stores, cheap housing, and much more. Yet the dream of a left-wing utopia has not materialized. In fact, rents in the NYC metro area just hit a record high. New data from The Corcoran Group, a major residential […]

Obama Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s Anti-DEI Grant Conditions Via American Greatness, A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration’s push to attach anti-DEI strings to federal grant money. The court ruled this week that the executive branch overstepped its constitutional authority by imposing the conditions on a group of West Coast cities and counties. Obama-nominated U.S. District Judge […]

British MP Exposes Secret Society Behind UK’s Lurch Toward Socialism Authored by Ben Sellers via Headline USA, The stunning transformation of Great Britain in recent years – from a beacon of decorum and stiff upper lips to a cautionary tale of wokeness run amok – has been blamed on everything from socialism to satanism. However, Rupert Lowe, a member of the British Parliament and founder of the organization Restore […]

Key Events This Week: CPI, PPI, Retail Sales, Warsh Testifies, China Data, And Earnings Galore As well as two epic World Cup semi-finals before that, and the start of the Open golf it’s a packed week ahead in markets, writes DB’s Jim Reid. The headline events are tomorrow’s US CPI and Wednesday’s US PPI, alongside Fed Chair Warsh’s first Humphrey–Hawkins testimony before the House Financial Services Committee (tomorrow) […]