Maduro Open To US Talks On Drug-Trafficking Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he is open to talks with the United States to combat drug trafficking, but did not comment on last week’s U.S. strikes on a docking facility. Maduro made his comments in an interview aired Thursday on Venezuelan state television, repeating his claim that the United States is trying to force a […]

Kathy Hochul Caves On ‘No Tax On Tips’ Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill made a straightforward promise: more money in workers’ pockets. The plan eliminated the federal tax on tips and overtime pay for linemen and factory workers, and created a new deduction for seniors relying on Social Security. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called it “the most pro-worker, pro-family legislation in a generation.”  However, several […]

5 Things To Know About Trump’s Education Policy Rollout Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump prioritized education reform during his 2024 campaign and went to work quickly after taking the oath of office. President Trump, joined by female athletes, signs the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 5, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty […]

A Lot Has Gone Terribly Wrong… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Forecast 2026: In The Vortex Of The Whirl “Whirl is King” – Wm Shakespeare 2026 is the 250th anniversary of our country’s conception. A few years later when the Constitution was ratified, we became a republic — “if you can keep it,” Ben Franklin cracked to anxious citizens waiting outside the great hall in Philadelphia. Our country was predicated […]

Court Reinstates School District Employees’ Free Speech Lawsuit Over Anti-Racism Training Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A divided federal appeals court voted to revive a lawsuit by school district employees who say they were forced to self-censor and make statements they disagreed with to finish so-called anti-racism training. On Dec. 30, 2025, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit voted 6–5 in […]

DOJ Eyes Minnesota’s ‘Vouching’ System For Voter Registration, Demands Records The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) civil rights division demanded voter registration records from Minnesota on Jan. 2, saying the state’s law that allows people to “vouch” for others’ residency for voter registration appeared inconsistent with federal voting laws. According to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ is […]

Push For Censorship On Campus Hit Record Levels In 2025 Authored by Sean Stephens via American Greatness, This year, the fight over free expression in American higher education reached a troubling milestone. According to data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, efforts to censor speech on college campuses hit record highs and across multiple fronts—and most succeeded. Let’s start with the raw numbers. […]

Rep. Massie Blasts Trump’s Iran Warning: “We Have Problems At Home” First it was over the White House’s Venezuela policy, but now conservative and contrarian libertarian-leaning firebrand Rep. Thomas Massie is lashing out at President Trump over his fresh Iran warning and ultimatum. Amid the nearly weeklong economic and anti-government protests in Iran, Trump added fuel to the fire on Friday, stating on Truth Social that if Iran […]

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani Revokes Orders Issued After Adams’ Indictment Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order on Jan. 1 that will undo orders his predecessor, Eric Adams, issued after being indicted on bribery and corruption charges in September 2024. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks after he was ceremonially sworn in as New York City’s […]

Kremlin Makes Show Of Handing Evidence To US Side ‘Proving’ Ukrainian Attack On Putin Residence The Kremlin has really made a big show for the cameras of handing over to American officials what it says is evidence that Ukrainian drones had attempted to strike Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Novgorod region Sunday night into Monday morning. The international community has asked for evidence Putin’s residence was […]

Pretense, Staging, Expediency: The “Solutions” That Implode The Whole Shebang Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Slapdash quick fixes and policies share one characteristic: they eventually implode the whole shebang. We all know how this works: the business is failing and the divorce papers have been filed, but the optics are ugly, so the couple waltzes in, all smiles and lovey-dovey, for who wants to explain how […]

Minnesota To Mandate K–12 Ethnic Studies Instruction In 2026 Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, In the coming weeks, school boards across the Land of 10,000 Lakes state will decide on curricula to meet ethnic studies mandates for the 2026–2027 academic year. There appear to be limited alternatives to the free instructional materials developed with taxpayer dollars and endorsed by the state teachers’ union. […]

UBS Says Soaring Memory Chip Prices To “Turbo-Charge” Samsung Earnings For several months, we have tracked a sharp increase in DDR5 DRAM pricing, as evidenced by DRAMeXchange data, driven primarily by surging AI-related cloud computing demand and hyperscalers accelerating data center buildouts. On day one of the new year, Samsung co-CEO Jun Young Hyun told employees in an internal memo that customers have praised the differentiated […]

10 Very Important Trends To Watch As We Enter 2026 Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Are we on the brink of a worldwide nightmare? Many have described what we are currently experiencing as a “perfect storm”. We have been getting hit with one crisis after another as global events have greatly accelerated in recent months. But now it feels like the next chapter that we are entering is going to take things […]

3 Key Supreme Court Cases To Watch In Early 2026 Authored by Sam Dorman and Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court will resume oral arguments the week of Jan. 12, taking on cases dealing with girls’ athletics, gun laws, and the president’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve. Here are the top cases to watch. 1. Girls’ Sports The Supreme Court on Jan. 13 will hear arguments in two cases—West […]

“Locked & Loaded”: Trump Says US Will Intervene If Iran Kills Protesters President Trump has just become the first sitting US President to explicitly warn that the United States stands ready to directly intervene in Iran if Tehran authorities begin killing peaceful protesters, as he wrote Friday that Washington “will come to their rescue”. In a brief early morning post on Truth Social, he wrote: “We are locked and loaded and […]

Fighting Breaks Out On Saudi Border In Oil-Rich Yemen Region Yemen continues to be a major headache and security risk for the Saudis, and rare fighting has emerged just on the kingdom’s border. Looming over the crisis is the deepening rift between Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Saudi warplanes carried out fresh airstrikes on sites near the Saudi-Yemeni border in Yemen’s Hadramout […]

RFK Jr. Stops Requiring Doctors To Report Patient Vaccine Status Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stopped mandating health care providers report the immunization status of patients. Kennedy decided to stop requiring doctors to list vaccinations children have received, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said in a Dec. 30, 2025, letter to state health […]

NPR’s CEO Refused Internal Demands To Resign “For The Good Of Public Media” Before Loss Of Funding Authored by Jonathan Turley, The New York Times reports that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) called on National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Katherine Maher to resign before all federal funding for both the CPB and NPR was cut off. As in the past, Maher and the NPR board chose their own agendas over the interests of their […]

“Then It Is War”: Elon Musk Responds After Somali TikToker Threatens His Life A Somali TikToker (account now defunct), first highlighted by Libs of TikTok, mocked Americans about alleged Somali-linked fraud in Minnesota and pushed dangerous rhetoric suggesting Elon Musk was “about to die.” Such statements fit a broader alarming pattern surrounding the Democratic Party’s normalization of assassination culture against Musk and […]

US Manfacturing Survey Signals “Wile E Coyote” Scenario With ‘hard’ data showing resilience into year-end, ‘soft’ survey data has cratered (not helped by the government shutdown)… Source: Bloomberg …and this morning brings more weakness as S&P Global’s US Manufacturing PMI (final print for December) dipped to 51.8 – its lowest since July (the only contractionary – sub-50- month of 2025)… Source: Bloomberg The […]

Tesla Q4 Deliveries Fall 16% As Investors Pivot Toward Robotaxi, Optimus Tesla delivered 418,227 vehicles in Q4 2025, below Wall Street’s expectation of roughly 426,000 deliveries, according to CNBC and the company. Production totaled 434,358 vehicles. For the full year, Tesla delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from 2024 and marking the second consecutive annual decline in deliveries. Shares are now down about 10% […]

Could Electricity Prices Become A Structural Inflation Problem Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Most Americans are paying higher electricity prices, and the pressure is unlikely to ease anytime soon. According to the Wall Street Journal, electricity prices have risen meaningfully across much of the country since 2022, and the drivers extend well beyond the frequently cited surge in data-center demand. While electricity prices had […]

Magnitude 6.3 Earthquake Strikes Near Mexico City A powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake was just detected 13 miles northwest of Ayutla de los Libres, Mexico, or about 220 miles from Mexico City. “Not sure what the damage is yet, but a pretty big earthquake just hit Acapulco. My building shook for a good 10 seconds here in Mexico City, about 190 miles away,” one X user said. Not sure what the damage is yet, but a pretty big […]

SBA Suspends 7,000 Minnesota Borrowers Over “Suspected Fraudulent Activity” Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced late Thursday that nearly 7,000 Minnesota borrowers have been suspended over suspected fraud. The move follows a bombshell report last week by citizen journalist Nick Shirley, who detailed alleged large-scale fraud tied to daycare centers operated by Somali-linked networks. The revelations […]