Minneapolis City Officials Dismantle ‘No-Go Zone’ Set Up By Anti-ICE Agitators Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Leftwing agitators in Minneapolis on Thursday set up a short-lived  “autonomous zone” that spanned several blocks in the southeastern part of the city, and reportedly declared it a “no-go zone” for law enforcement. The city however removed the barricades surrounding it overnight to allow […]

Watch: New Footage Shows Three Minutes Before Minneapolis ICE-Involved Shooting Update (1410ET): Additional footage has surfaced, apparently from a nearby resident, showing at least three minutes leading up to the ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis of a left-wing activist who was blocking traffic in an attempt to impede federal agents during a deportation operation. The internet has been a battleground of competing narratives, […]

USDA Suspends All Payments To Minnesota’s Food Programs Over Suspected Fraud Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) suspended payments for all federal food programs in Minnesota and Minneapolis Friday over alleged fraud and abuse of federal funds statewide. “Enough is enough!” USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins posted on X, announcing the suspension. “The Trump administration […]

Widow Who Urged Wife To ‘Drive’ In Deadly ICE Incident Rakes In $1.5M In Donations Becca Good, who urged her wife to defy orders from ICE agents and “drive” in dangerous proximity to one of them before he fatally shot her in the head, is now the beneficiary of a $1.5 million windfall, thanks to a GoFundMe campaign to benefit the complicit widow and three children.  In cellphone video released Friday — video taken by Jonathan […]

US And Venezuela Explore Restoring Diplomatic Ties After Maduro’s Capture Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, The United States and Venezuela announced Friday they are pursuing the possibility of reestablishing diplomatic relations, coming a week after a U.S. military operation that captured former leader Nicolás Maduro in Caracas and extradited him to face drug-trafficking charges in New York. A U.S. delegation, […]

“Affordability!”: Trump Calls For Temporary 10 Percent Cap On Credit Card Interest Rates President Trump said on Jan. 9 that he would call for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates of 10 percent, potentially starting later this month, though its enforcement may depend on Congress. In a Truth Social post, Trump said that Americans are being “ripped off” by credit card companies that charge interest rates between 20 and 30 […]

Minneapolis ICE Shooting Shows Left Wing’s Protest Industrial Complex Wants Another ‘George Floyd’-Type Riot The latest iteration of the Democratic Party’s color-revolution-style operation was on full display in recent days as tensions erupted following the fatal shooting of a left-wing activist by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during a federal enforcement sweep in Minnesota. This incident demonstrates that the […]

US Trade Deficit Collapses In October: Structural Shifts In Global Trade Revealed Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The US economy managed to drastically reduce its trade deficit in October of last year. Data delayed due to the government shutdown highlight structural shifts in the global trade landscape. Reducing the massive trade deficit has been a primary goal of the US government’s economic agenda under President Donald Trump. […]

Trump To Meet Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado Next Week President Trump plans to meet with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado next week during her planned visit to the United States. This development comes despite his earlier reluctance to back her for the country’s top leadership role. Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in a taped interview that aired Thursday night that he understands […]

UK Government Threatens Total Ban On X Over Grok Bikini Flap Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The UK’s Labour government under Prime Minister Keir Starmer has escalated its war on online expression, now openly threatening to ban Elon Musk’s X platform entirely. Using the pretext of Grok AI’s image generation capabilities, Starmer’s regime is pushing for total control over what Brits can see and say online, […]

Economic Satisfaction Declines With Age More than four in ten adults in the United States view their personal financial situation positively. This is according to a new survey by Statista Consumer Insights, conducted between October 2024 and September 2025. You will find more infographics at Statista At 43 percent, this marks an increase of four percentage points from one year before. A perception gap persists between age […]

Germany’s Conversion To Planned Economy, War With Russia As Driver Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Moritz Schularick, makes no secret in an interview with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the signs are pointing toward a war economy. It is bizarre to witness how economists succumb to the intellectual mediocrity of central planning. Professor Moritz Schularick, president of […]

Alaskans Spend The Most (Per Capita) On Alcohol, Utah (Surprise) The Least Alcohol consumption patterns in the U.S. vary sharply depending on where people live. Cultural norms, climate, income levels, and access to services all shape how much residents spend on alcoholic beverages. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, maps alcohol spending per adult across all 50 states. The data comes from SmartAsset. […]

Russia On Paris Ukraine Summit: Western ‘Peacekeeping’ Troops Would Be “Legitimate Combat Targets” Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday repeated its long-standing objection to troops from NATO countries deploying to Ukrainian territory as part of a potential future peace deal, as Ukraine and its Western backers continue to push the idea. “The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warns […]

How A Techno-Optimist Became A Grave Skeptic Authored by Roger Bate via the Brownstone Institute, Before Covid, I would have described myself as a technological optimist. New technologies almost always arrive amid exaggerated fears. Railways were supposed to cause mental breakdowns, bicycles were thought to make women infertile or insane, and early electricity was blamed for everything from moral decay to physical collapse. Over […]

Visualizing All Of The World’s Silver Reserves By Country Silver prices surged to new all-time highs in December, extending a powerful end-of-year rally supported by geopolitical uncertainty and a weaker U.S. dollar. Silver futures briefly touched around $80, marking an unprecedented 160% rally in 2025 that outpaced even gold. Against this backdrop, Visual Capitalists Bruno Venditti notes that understanding where the world’s […]

Congressional Budget Office Projects Lower Than Expected US Population Growth Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on Jan. 7 that the U.S. population will likely grow by only 15 million people in the next 30 years, a decline from its last estimate. The office projects 364 million people living in the United States in 2056, up from the current population of around 349 […]

Even Google’s Founders Have Had Enough Of California, And Are Saying Adios Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin quietly began unwinding portions of their financial empires in California in the days leading up to Christmas, according to corporate filings reviewed by The New York Times, as progressive lawmakers consider a proposed billionaire wealth tax. This development confirms our earlier note that California is on an […]

Meritocracy Vs. Credentialocracy Authored by Steven Kritz via the Brownstone Institute, It is generally acknowledged that the Baby Boom generation (of which I am a member) has been the most successful, socioeconomically speaking, in the history of this planet, and the prospects for the generations following to match or surpass us are not looking good. As a confirmation of the disparity, I recently read that while Baby Boomers make […]

Venezuela’s Methane Problem Looms Over Trump’s Oil Revival Plan President Trump’s push to revive Venezuela’s oil sector is colliding with a major technical obstacle: vast methane leaks from crumbling infrastructure that could scare off large international investors, according to Bloomberg. Satellite monitoring shows huge plumes of methane rising from abandoned rigs, corroded pipelines and aging facilities across the country. […]

Three Takeaways From Trump’s Seizure Of A Russian-Flagged Tanker In The Atlantic Authored by Andrew Korybko, The overarching trend is that the US is militarily reasserting its historical “sphere of influence” over the Americas, and enforcing the maritime component of “Fortress America” is so important for Trump 2.0 that it’s willing to rubbish the “rules-based order” over it and even risk an accidental war with […]

Watch: Conservative Honduran Lawmaker Narrowly Survives Bomb Hurled At Her In National Congress A shocking scene played out in a Latin American country Thursday, but this time it’s not Venezuela, but nearby Honduras. A Honduran legislator from the country’s conservative National Party of president-elect Nasry Asfura was speaking to the press within the halls of the Honduran national congress, or just outside, when suddenly an […]

Prosecutor Calls Newsom ‘King Of Fraud’ For Oversight Failures Authored by Dave Mason via The Center Square, U.S. First Assistant Attorney Bill Essayli Thursday called California Gov. Gavin Newsom “the king of fraud,” accusing him of a lack of oversight on spending to address homelessness. FILE – California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, […]

Residential Electricity Prices Are Surging Even More We have been warning about this for months… In one year, this will be the most popular chart on this site pic.twitter.com/h93gWXMoNL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 11, 2025 … and months…. between exploding electricity bills and lack of jobs for grads, a new luddite revolution is coming – they will be burning down data centers within a year — zerohedge (@zerohedge) […]

“The Giant Sucking Sound”: Exodus From California Continues For Taxpayers & Businesses Authored by Jonathan Turley, During the 1992 Presidential Debate, independent candidate Ross Perot famously warned that “there will be a giant sucking sound going south” due to the cheaper Mexican labor and lower regulatory demands on businesses. That sound is being heard again, but this time it is coming from California, which is […]