Fire Engulfs Former Volkswagen Factory, Which Now Makes Chinese Brand, South Of Moscow Fire crews extinguished a fire that broke out early Wednesday at the former Volkswagen plant in Russia’s Kaluga region, now repurposed as part of Moscow’s post-sanctions auto ecosystem. There’s been little in the way of a cause mentioned in international reports, amid an investigation, though skeptical headline consumers will note there’s been a […]

Orbán Backs Weidel’s Demands That Ukraine Pay Germany Reparations For Nord Stream 2 Sabotage Via Remix News, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán backed Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel, who is demanding compensation from Ukraine for the explosion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline and tens of billions of euros in German financial support. Orbán responded to the German politician’s statement with a short […]

Turkey Says It Foiled Iranian Intelligence Plot At US Incirlik Base Various Turkish and Middle East sources are reporting that Iranian intelligence attempted to spy on the major US airbase at Incirlik, and that a cell of Iranian agents has been busted. The report, originally in Turkey’s Sabah newspaper on Wednesday, said that Turkish intelligence and Istanbul police detained six people across five provinces. The report claims […]

UK Government To Create ‘British FBI’, Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition Cameras Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The British Home Secretary unveiled plans in Parliament on Jan. 26 for a new National Police Service (NPS), which is modeled on the FBI and will take over the fight against terrorism and organized crime in the United Kingdom. Undated image of Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood speaking in […]

Why The US Was Right To Leave The WHO Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary The United States has pulled its membership in the World Health Organization (WHO), and many other nations are rethinking their participation. Of course, this could change with some future administration. The institution itself is not going anywhere. This is why it is crucial to understand the case for why the United […]

New Footage Appears To Show Alex Pretti Spit At ICE, Break SUV Tail Light In Prior Minneapolis Confrontation The killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last Saturday sparked national outrage – particularly when it comes to the 2nd Amendment and his right to carry while protesting. The incident resulted in two federal agents involved in the shooting being placed on leave, and the ouster of US border patrol chief Gregory […]

The Campaign Against ICE Is All About Open Borders Authored by Kevin M. Spivak via RealClearPolitics, Most of the recent vitriolic opposition to ICE is a feint by unrepentant open-borders progressives. They won the first round when Joe Biden was elected president, lost the second when Donald Trump returned to office, and are back for a rematch. Democratic leaders portray ICE agents as violent Gestapo thugs and murderers. They […]

Putin Hosts Syria’s Sharaa As Russian Forces Exit North In Tandem With US Drawdown  Syria’s self-declared President Ahmad al-Sharaa is in Moscow on Wednesday, where he has met with President Vladimir Putin, at a moment Russia’s long-running presence in Syria is in question. Sharaa, formerly Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, who founded Syrian al-Qaeda and began fighting the ousted President Assad under the flag of ISIS, is trying to shore […]

Free Speech Isn’t Free and It Cost Charlie Kirk Everything Authored by Kristan Hawkins via RealClearPolitics, The First Amendment protections for free speech have inspired people worldwide and laid the foundation not just for American society but also for entire industries – from social media to this very publication. But as someone who travels the country both speaking and setting up events on college and university campuses, I […]

California Man With Underground Bunker, Weapons Cache Arrested In CHP Raid Reminder to Californians; you do not live in a free state, and they don’t play around.  Michael Jay Kamfolt, pictured in a red sweatshirt and hat, at a No Kings protest on Feb. 17, 2025 in Redding, California. Photo by Annelise Pierce. Last week the California Highway Patrol (CHP) announced that they arrested Michael Jay Kamfolt, a 40-year-old conservative […]

Century Aluminum To Construct First US Aluminum Plant In More Than 40 Years Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Illinois-based Century Aluminum Co. has entered into a joint development agreement with Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) to construct the “first new primary aluminum production plant in the United States since 1980,” Century said in a statement on Jan. 26. Employees work with aluminum […]

GM CEO Warns Of ‘Very Slippery Slope’ As Canada To Import Cheap Chinese EVs Shortly before Davos, Canada and China announced a 5-point ‘strategic partnership’ which includes slashing tariffs on Chinese EVs from 100% to 6.1% for the first 49,000 units, in exchange for China cutting tariffs on Canadian canola from 85% to 15% until at least the end of the year.  After Donald Trump stomped his feet and threatened to slap a 100% […]

NASA Set to Launch 1st Manned Moon Rocket In 50 Years: What To Know Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA has mounted a rocket on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a manned flight around the moon. Artemis II sits in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 16, 2026.  Jim Watson/AFP via Getty […]

“Will Bring Country To Halt”: Far-Left NGOs Prepare To Mobilize Children As ‘Ice Out’ Protesters A network of far-left nonprofits linked to Marxist financier Neville Roy Singham is leveraging Minnesota-based Black and Somali student organizations to mobilize child protesters in a planned “ICE Out of Everywhere” action on Friday, assessed as a coordinated general strike intended to inflict economic disruption amid widespread […]

Why Your Brain Overreacts To Fear – And How To Fix It Authored by Debbie Cohen via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We’ve all been there: that jolt of panic before a job interview, the knot in your stomach while public speaking, the dread during a difficult conversation. Your heart pounds, your breath turns shallow, and your palms sweat. Your body reacts as if physical danger is imminent, even when it’s not. At the center of […]

2026 Brings Big Changes To Charitable-Deduction Rules Now that we’re into 2026, many provisions of last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) are coming to life. One set of tweaks brings major changes to the tax treatment of charitable contributions, getting non-itemizers back into the tax-saving game but curtailing tax benefits for itemizers and higher-income filers.  Ever since standard deductions were nearly doubled in […]

US Launches Revamp Of FAA To Improve Safety, Modernize Airspace Operations Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration on Jan. 26 unveiled what it described as the largest overhaul of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the agency’s history to enhance safety and support modernization efforts. The overhaul includes launching an airspace modernization office to oversee the installation of a […]

Multiple Polls Show Majority Of Americans Want All Illegals Deported For months the political left and a small cadre of centrists (and some libertarians) have been denying reality on immigration and border controls.   They claim (as if they are mind readers) that when Donald Trump ran his 2024 election campaign on mass deportations of illegals, voters actually thought he would only deport “violent criminal” illegal aliens, or […]

DOJ Announces 31 New Indictments in Alleged Tren de Aragua ATM ‘Jackpotting’ Scheme Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Jan. 26 said that a grand jury had returned an additional indictment against 31 people allegedly involved in a scheme to steal millions of dollars from ATMs through the use of malware. “This indictment alleges 32 counts including conspiracy to commit bank fraud, […]

Tesla Surges After Reporting $2BN Investment In xAI, Stronger Than Expected Profit Going into Tesla earnings, we wrote in our preview that Morgan Stanley saw a “particularly wide dispersion in financial KPIs into the 4Q print and for 2026.” The bank said that the stock reaction will depend on the incrementality of updates around scaling robotaxi/Cybercab, launching Unsupervised FSD, Optimus Gen 3, and AI5 on the earnings call. It […]

Mamdani Pressures Hochul To Jack Up Taxes On Rich Amid NYC Budget Woes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has lots of ideas – virtually all of which require extracting more money from taxpayers, as socialists tend to do.  To accomplish this, he’s gonna need some help – and has been leaning on Gov. Kathy Hochul to hike taxes on the state’s richest residents and corporations in the hopes of raising billions more to send to the […]

“How Silly It Would Be”: Columbia Student Explains Why She Did Not Report Her Own Gang-Rape To Protect Attackers Authored by Jonathan Turley, Columbia PhD candidate, Anna Krauthamer, has caused a stir over her column in the far-left Nation on “Why I Didn’t Report My Rape.” The reason? Krauthamer is a prison abolitionist and wanted to protect her rapists, saying it would be “silly and strange” for her to subject these […]

Russian Crew Of Seized Tanker Finally Freed By US, On Their Way Home: Kremlin Washington has quietly released two Russian sailors detained earlier this month by the US Navy’s enforcement arm of Venezuela sanctions, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Wednesday. “Two Russian sailors have been released and are on their way home to Russia,” she announced. The men were part of the crew aboard the […]

Meta Stock Jumps Despite Soaring Capex, Expense Forecast As we wrote in our Mag 7 earnings preview, investor sentiment has soured considerably on META since the Q3 25 print when it became abundantly clear that Zuckerberg’s foot remains firmly pressed down on the OpEx/capex accelerator. To date, investors have seen little tangible evidence that the Meta Superintelligence Lab is capable of producing a leading edge model, and as […]

Rubio Says We Must “Preemptively Prevent” Iran From Attacking US Forces Already In Region Update(1629ET): One Mideast regional analyst has pointed to a significant contradiction in the current White House stance and rhetoric on Iran, amid the military threats and build-up, and suggests this time the warnings of US action are much more serious: If you read Trump’s latest post on Iran carefully, you will understand what America’s […]