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Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 hour ago

After Murder Of Henry Nowak, Amnesty International Condemns Right Wing 'Political Commentary'

After Murder Of Henry Nowak, Amnesty International Condemns Right Wing 'Political Commentary' Via Remix News, Amnesty International’s reaction to the murder of Henry Nowak has prompted outrage, with the organization having nothing to say about the atrocious and inhumane actions of the police during the incident, but sharply condemning the “political commentary” in the wake of Nowak’s death. “At a time when hate crimes are rising, and violence and fear are becoming a daily reality ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 2 hours ago

EU Could Lose 1.3 Million Jobs Due To Energy Price Surge From Iran War

EU Could Lose 1.3 Million Jobs Due To Energy Price Surge From Iran War Up to 1.3 million jobs across the EU are at risk because of the ongoing war in the Middle East, European Commissioner for jobs Roxana Mînzatu said on Wednesday. "Due to the war in the Middle East, up to 1.3 million jobs are at risk, particularly in energy-intensive industries," Mînzatu said at a press conference. "Let me also underline that increased energy costs will have a particular negative impact on lowe...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 3 hours ago

Iran To Deepen Ties With 'Principal Strategic Partner' China: Ghalibaf

Iran To Deepen Ties With 'Principal Strategic Partner' China: Ghalibaf Via The Cradle Iranian Parliament Speaker and special representative for China affairs, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, held the first joint meeting with key economic officials on Wednesday to align Tehran's economic strategy toward Beijing. The session in Tehran included the ministers of economy, oil, and industry, alongside the central bank governor and the head of the Plan and Budget Organization. The assembly ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

US Formally Rejects Somaliland Sovereignty In Blow To Israel

US Formally Rejects Somaliland Sovereignty In Blow To Israel Via Middle East Eye The US has reaffirmed “the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Somalia, in a move seen as a blow to Somaliland, the breakaway region recently recognized by Israel and close to the United Arab Emirates. In a report to Congress on “Potential Areas for Improved United States Engagement with Somaliland”, the US State Department stated that Somaliland was included in the Federal Republic of Somalia. ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

US Govt. Lab Launches Advanced Battery Lab To Help Power Grid

US Govt. Lab Launches Advanced Battery Lab To Help Power Grid Authored by Georgina Jedikovska via Interesting Engineering, The US has recently launched a new battery production line, which is expected to help researchers develop safer and cheaper energy storage technologies for the electric grid. PNNL's new prismatic cell line will allow researchers and industry partners to create, test and demonstrate real-world prismatic cells at an industrially relevant scale. (Andrea Starr/Paci...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

Samsung Joins Blue-State Exodus, Moves U.S. HQ From New Jersey To Texas

Samsung Joins Blue-State Exodus, Moves U.S. HQ From New Jersey To Texas We're still trying to settle on a name for the new "Rust Belt" for blue states, where high taxes, de-growth climate policies, permitting paralysis, and an obsession with woke governance have sparked a historic outflow of people, businesses, and capital to red states. The old Rust Belt was hollowed out by decades of deindustrialization. This new version in blue states is being hollowed out by self-inflicted prog...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

US Special Ops Fields Caliber-Swapping MK24 Rifle For 7.62 Combat And 6.5 Range

US Special Ops Fields Caliber-Swapping MK24 Rifle For 7.62 Combat And 6.5 Range Authored by Aamir Khollam via Interesting Engineering, A new rifle heading to U.S. special operations forces can switch between 7.62mm NATO and 6.5mm Creedmoor ammunition in roughly a minute, giving operators a way to adapt to changing mission requirements without carrying separate weapon systems. MK24 modular rifle (LMT Defense on Facebook) The weapon, known as the MK24 Medium Range Gas Gun Assault (M...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

Lefty Tech Rag Panics As Manhattan Institute Pivots From Killing DEI To Crushing NGO-Funded Riots

Lefty Tech Rag Panics As Manhattan Institute Pivots From Killing DEI To Crushing NGO-Funded Riots Left-leaning Condé Nast, through Wired, appears to be running narrative cover for the protest-industrial complex, gaslighting readers over efforts to impose real penalties on chaos and disorder stemming from protests and riots. Wired reporter Ali Winston's target is the Manhattan Institute. She appears to be upset that the Manhattan Institute is pushing for new state laws that make va...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

Colonoscopy: The Most Used Screening Test For Colon Cancer, Here Are The Benefits And Risks

Colonoscopy: The Most Used Screening Test For Colon Cancer, Here Are The Benefits And Risks Authored by Mercura Wang via The Epoch Times, Medically reviewed by Jimmy Almond, M.D. Colonoscopy is the most widely used screening test for colon cancer, which is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. It is considered the gold standard and is more accurate than two other common screening methods - stool tests and sigmoidoscopy - because it allows doctors ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

Is John Cornyn Trying To Sabotage Ken Paxton?

Is John Cornyn Trying To Sabotage Ken Paxton? Texas Republicans handed Sen. John Cornyn one of the most humiliating defeats in the state's modern political history in this year's primary runoff. A week after being clobbered by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, he is amplifying a Libertarian candidate, in an apparent attempt to siphon conservative votes from Ken Paxton in the general election in November. In a post on X, Cornyn shared a Houston Public Media interview profiling Li...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

Amazon Plans Data Center In Wheatfield, Indiana; Will Pay $1.25BN To Reduce Energy Cost Impact On Local Payers

Amazon Plans Data Center In Wheatfield, Indiana; Will Pay $1.25BN To Reduce Energy Cost Impact On Local Payers By Georgia Butler of DataCenterDynamics Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking to develop a data center campus in Wheatfield, Indiana. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, the cloud giant has purchased more land in India. Located in Jasper County and southwest of Michigan City, Wheatfield is a small town and has a population of around 900 as per the 2020 census. AWS p...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 9 hours ago

Andrew Left's Conviction Could Change The Rules For Every Market Commentator...But How?

Andrew Left's Conviction Could Change The Rules For Every Market Commentator...But How? Andrew Left's fraud conviction is sending shockwaves through the activist short-selling community, not simply because of the verdict itself, but because it has exposed deep uncertainty about what market commentators are legally allowed to do, according to the Financial Times. For years, activist short sellers operated in an area where investors would build positions, publish research or opinions...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 9 hours ago

Scientists Boost Battery, Fuel Cell Performance By Over 300%

Scientists Boost Battery, Fuel Cell Performance By Over 300% Authored by Neetika Walter via Interesting Engineering, Researchers in South Korea have developed a new catalyst design strategy that boosts the efficiency of reactions used in batteries and hydrogen fuel cells without changing the catalyst itself. New catalyst approach could improve fuel cells and batteries  (Representational image)Shutterstock The team, led by Professor Seung Jun Hwang of POSTECH and Professor Jaeyune ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 10 hours ago

Central Bank Gold Buying Rebounds In April From Dramatic March Selloff

Central Bank Gold Buying Rebounds In April From Dramatic March Selloff First the good news: according to the latest World Gold Council update, central banks, a key pillar of the bullish case for gold, have returned to adding holdings in April after notable selling in March sent the price of the precious metal tumbling. The 17 ton purchase represents a turnaround from steep sales in March, which at nearly 30 tons were the largest monthly gold sales in years, driven almost entirely by...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 10 hours ago

House Passes Dem Resolution to Block U.S. Military Action Against Iran In Narrow Vote

House Passes Dem Resolution to Block U.S. Military Action Against Iran In Narrow Vote The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on June 3 directing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from armed hostilities with Iran, in a closely divided 215–208 vote. Four Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the measure, which invokes the 1973 War Powers Resolution to require President Donald Trump to either end the operations or seek explicit congressional approval to continue them...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 10 hours ago

Broadcom Crashes After AI Chip Revenue Forecast Misses

Broadcom Crashes After AI Chip Revenue Forecast Misses Broadcaom stock is plunging in after-hours trading, after the company reported Q2 results which delivered a disappointing forecast for AI chip revenue, signaling that the company is either progressing more slowly than anticipated in the burgeoning industry, or that unlike its peers, is actually truthful in predicting the potential of the AI bubble. The historicals were ok: in the fiscal second quarter, which ended May 3, sales ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

SPLC Employee Funneled $1.2 Million To Neo-Nazi Lover - And More: DOJ Superseding Indictment

SPLC Employee Funneled $1.2 Million To Neo-Nazi Lover - And More: DOJ Superseding Indictment The Southern Poverty Law Center built a massive empire - ballooning to over $787 million in assets - by promising donors it was the frontline defender against "hate" and white supremacy. But according to the Department of Justice's superseding indictment, the organization allegedly funneled millions in tax-exempt donor dollars to the very extremists it publicly condemned. The Juiciest Rev...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

Federal Inspection Reportedly Finds Delaney Hall In Compliance On Virtually All Standards

Federal Inspection Reportedly Finds Delaney Hall In Compliance On Virtually All Standards Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill has repeatedly claimed that conditions in the Delaney Hall ICE facility are abhorrent, inhuman, and intolerable. Democratic leaders claimed that the conditions were so horrific that there was a hunger strike going on. As is often the case, there is a closed loop of information fueling such claims. The med...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

India Throws Open The Bond Gates: Modi Slashes Foreign Investor Taxes In Scramble To Halt Rupee Collapse

India Throws Open The Bond Gates: Modi Slashes Foreign Investor Taxes In Scramble To Halt Rupee Collapse Having spent the better part of a decade assuring the world that the Indian growth miracle was self-sustaining, structurally sound, and impervious to the “fragile five” indignities of yesteryear, New Delhi has quietly arrived at the only conclusion that ever follows a currency in freefall: print incentives, slash taxes, and beg foreigners to please, please come back. According t...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

California's 'Wealth' Tax Is Coming For Everyone

California's 'Wealth' Tax Is Coming For Everyone Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, If you own property in California, you're not safe. A new ballot measure will empower the state to confiscate a percentage of the assets of any resident, even though its initial provisions don't communicate that intent. California's "One-Time Wealth Tax for State-Funded Healthcare, Education, and Food Assistance Programs Initiative," which has already qualified for the November ballot, ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

Never Let Politicians Decide What Is True

Never Let Politicians Decide What Is True Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, We are living through an age that has abandoned the dedicated pursuit of truth. Our politicians and news personalities talk about "the narrative." Our academies teach young minds to accept "expert opinion." Our philosophers argue that truth is "subjective." Social theorists argue that truth is an "illusion" that powerful people use to control others. Whenever I hear Democrat Senator Cory Booke...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 13 hours ago

IBM Announces Five-Year, $10BN Quantum Investment

IBM Announces Five-Year, $10BN Quantum Investment IBM is set to invest more than $10 billion in quantum computing over the next five years. According to the company, the investment will cover RandD, capex, manufacturing scaling, ecosystem partnerships, and MandA; areas that IBM says will help accelerate its quantum roadmap beyond 2029, when it expects to deliver the world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The announcement comes two weeks after the US governme...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 13 hours ago

Uber Introduces $1,500 Monthly Cap On AI Coding Tools After Budget Blowout

Uber Introduces $1,500 Monthly Cap On AI Coding Tools After Budget Blowout Uber has set a $1,500 monthly cap on employee spending for specific AI coding tools after the company exhausted its entire 2026 budget for those tools in the first four months of the year. The limits apply to agentic coding platforms such as Anthropic’s Claude Code and Cursor, according to Stocktwits. Prior to the caps, some engineers were generating monthly bills between $500 and $2,000 in token consumpti...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

Latest Fed Beige Book Underscores "K-Shaped" Split Of US Economy

Latest Fed Beige Book Underscores "K-Shaped" Split Of US Economy Economic activity increased at a "slight to moderate" pace for ten of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts, while one District reported a slight decline and one reported no change, according to the latest Fed Beige Book. The just released Beige Book - prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City based on information collected on or before May 27, 2026, and is the second one to capture the effect of the war on t...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

Dispersion And Correlation Are Screaming Overbought, Downside Hedging Is Cheap

Dispersion And Correlation Are Screaming Overbought, Downside Hedging Is Cheap Submitted by SpotGamma CBOE’s Dispersion Index (DSPX) is at levels only seen during Covid and the April ’25 tariff crash, while Correlation (COR1M) is near all-time lows. This divergence signals extreme positioning risk driven by the AI stock chase, and makes SPY downside hedges historically cheap. Traders have been chasing AI related names in such heavy-handed fashion that it has now created positionin...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

New York Democrats Move To Redraw Congressional Maps

New York Democrats Move To Redraw Congressional Maps Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, New York Democrats are moving to give state lawmakers the power to redraw the state’s congressional maps, entering the national fight over control of the U.S. House. The proposed constitutional amendment would allow lawmakers to draw district lines themselves and redraw them mid-decade. It had not been formally filed as of Tuesday morning, but The Epoch Times has reviewed a memo des...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

Iran Issues 4-Stage Proposal For Deal With US, After Most Intense Overnight Clashes Since April

Iran Issues 4-Stage Proposal For Deal With US, After Most Intense Overnight Clashes Since April Summary State media issues four-stage proposal for deal with US, says indirect talks are 'ongoing'. GCC blasts 'cowardly attacks' after Kuwait International Airport rocked by Iranian missiles: one dead, 63 injured. Overnight saw US-Iran exchange fire in Strait of Hormuz - as US attacked Qeshm Island - and Iran unleashed more projectiles on Gulf states. Most intense fighting since April...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

SDNY Prosecutors Looking At Valuation Discrepancies In Private Credit Market

SDNY Prosecutors Looking At Valuation Discrepancies In Private Credit Market In a move that is long overdue, Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said his office is looking at possible valuation discrepancies in the private credit marketplace.  Wall Street’s top prosecutor addressed the issue Wednesday while speaking at the Bloomberg Global Credit Forum in New York. Clayton said the difference between the price at which assets are marked on one balan...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago

'The Pricking Is Coming': Dalio Warns AI Bubble Will Burst Like Dot-Com, But Tech Will Endure

'The Pricking Is Coming': Dalio Warns AI Bubble Will Burst Like Dot-Com, But Tech Will Endure Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio appeared on Bloomberg TV today and delivered a measured yet cautionary assessment of the artificial intelligence investment frenzy. He highlighted classic bubble dynamics - sky-high valuations, rampant speculation, and "paper wealth" vastly outpacing actual cash flows - while drawing direct parallels to the 2000 dot-com era. "All great technology ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago

Snubbed By SpaceX, Jefferies Now Helping Traders Short World's Biggest IPO

Snubbed By SpaceX, Jefferies Now Helping Traders Short World's Biggest IPO Two weeks ago, when the SpaceX IPO prospectus landed, we observed, that "Goldman is lead left; and pretty much every other bank is on the cover." Goldman is lead left; and pretty much every other bank is on the cover. They need that to sell it to retail https://t.co/9JogVIxo1i pic.twitter.com/nSnvx6tWqs — zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 20, 2026 Yet one bank was missing: middle-market specialist (with a penchant...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 17 hours ago

Rabo On Regime-Change At The Fed: What Warsh Can (And Should) Do First

Rabo On Regime-Change At The Fed: What Warsh Can (And Should) Do First The honeymoon period for Warsh is over. The FOMC could have given him the professional courtesy of allowing him to settle in, but in recent weeks several Committee participants have staked out their position. They want to drop the FOMC’s easing bias and instead take a more neutral stance. This means it will be more difficult for Warsh to convince the Committee of cutting rates anytime soon. Against that int...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 17 hours ago

Quantum Computing: Hype Or The Real Deal?

Quantum Computing: Hype Or The Real Deal? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The word “quantum” is defined as “an amount,” with its Latin root meaning “how much.” In physics, a quantum is the smallest discrete unit of any physical property. The adjective form, as in “quantum leap,” describes a sudden, significant, and fundamental change. It is also a perfect adjective for coining the next potential technological innovation—quantum computing. Quantum compu...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 18 hours ago

Oil Prices Hold Gains As Gasoline Stocks Hit 12 Year Lows, Cushing 'Tank Bottoms' Loom

Oil Prices Hold Gains As Gasoline Stocks Hit 12 Year Lows, Cushing 'Tank Bottoms' Loom Brent crude prices are rising back toward $100 per barrel this morning following the latest flare-up in fighting to threaten the U.S.-Iran ceasefire Prices rose after the U.S. military said Iran fired missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain, which failed to hit their targets. The United States said it then struck an Iranian military ground control station on an island in the Strait of Hormuz.   API...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

Step Aside Private Credit: Partners Group Is First Private Equity Fund To Gate Investors

Step Aside Private Credit: Partners Group Is First Private Equity Fund To Gate Investors The private credit gating-gate is spilling over to private equity.  Partners Group Holding AG has capped withdrawals at one of its evergreen private equity funds amid heightened redemption pressure, as the investor anxiety that hit private credit vehicles is now spilling over to other asset classes within private markets, Bloomberg reported. The Swiss firm, one of Europe’s largest listed alter...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

SpaceX Reportedly Targets $135 IPO Price As Morningstar Says Valuation Should Be Halved

SpaceX Reportedly Targets $135 IPO Price As Morningstar Says Valuation Should Be Halved Last week, Elon Musk called Bloomberg's "SpaceX Said to Cut IPO Value" story "false," marking the latest clash between Musk and the MSM over coverage of his companies. Reuters has released a new report, which, based on sources, says SpaceX is planning an IPO at a price of $135 per share, aiming to raise a record $75 billion by selling about 555.6 million shares at an estimated $1.75 trillion ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

Family Of Henry Nowak's Migrant Killer Sparks Outrage After Asking For "No Further Pain" In Tone-Deaf Statement

Family Of Henry Nowak's Migrant Killer Sparks Outrage After Asking For "No Further Pain" In Tone-Deaf Statement Via Remix News, The family of Vickrum Digwa has been accused of adding insult to injury after issuing a statement asking that Henry Nowak’s murder not be used to cause “further pain,” despite fierce public anger over the way the 18-year-old was stabbed, falsely accused, handcuffed and left dying in the street. Vickrum Digwa was sentenced to life in prison with a minimu...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

Major Iranian Attack On Kuwait International Airport Leaves One Dead, 63 Injured

Major Iranian Attack On Kuwait International Airport Leaves One Dead, 63 Injured Kuwait International Airport has come under Iranian missile and drone attack on Wednesday, in a significant strike that killed one person and left 63 people injured - according to the country's health ministry, with several of the victims being seriously wounded. A passenger terminal was directly struck, damaging facilities including diplomatic missions at the airport, Kuwaiti authorities have said. Ar...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

ADP Reports US Economy Added The Most Jobs In 16 Months In May

ADP Reports US Economy Added The Most Jobs In 16 Months In May Following a shockingly strong JOLTS report, ADP just reported a stronger than expected rise in jobs added in May. ADP says 122k jobs were added in May - better than the 120k expected - and the biggest monthly addition since January 2025 Source: Bloomberg "Hiring was more broad-based in May than we've seen in the last few years," said Dr. Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP. "The labor market continues to show sus...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

These Two Things Are Not The Same...

These Two Things Are Not The Same... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, Viral images of a grand classical arch and a twisted modernist one reveal the unbridgeable divide between leaders who celebrate America's heritage and those who seem determined to replace it with something cold, crooked, and alien. The contrast could not be clearer or more deliberate. On one side stands towering marble, golden eagles, and inscriptions evoking "One Nation Under God." On the other, a bent...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

Trump Team Proposes New Tariff Round On 60 Countries Over Forced Labor Practices

Trump Team Proposes New Tariff Round On 60 Countries Over Forced Labor Practices The U.S. Trade Representative has issued an overnight statement and proposed a new round of tariffs of at least 10% on imports from 60 trading partners, marking the administration's largest attempt yet to rebuild its tariff empire after the Supreme Court struck down earlier levies. The new duties stem from Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which investigates whether trading partners are failing to ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

Bass Advances To Runoff In LA Mayor's Race; Pratt Leads Contenders

Bass Advances To Runoff In LA Mayor's Race; Pratt Leads Contenders Authored by Jackson Richman and Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advanced to the November runoff election for Los Angeles mayor. The Associated Press called Bass’s advancement after 1:30 a.m. ET on June 3. Reality TV star Spencer Pratt and Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman lead 11 other candidates in the race for runner-up. The runner-up will face Bass in the runo...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 22 hours ago

"Dramatically Less Accessible To The Average Fan": Knicks Finals Tickets At MSG Sell From $3K To $280K

"Dramatically Less Accessible To The Average Fan": Knicks Finals Tickets At MSG Sell From $3K To $280K For the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are heading to the NBA Finals. For fans, it's a dream decades in the making. For anyone hoping to attend a game at Madison Square Garden, however, that dream comes with a staggering price tag in the thousands of dollars.  The 2026 NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs have produced some of the most expen...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 22 hours ago

Commodity Markets Are Living On Borrowed Time

Commodity Markets Are Living On Borrowed Time Authored by Helen Thomas via City AM, Governments and industry have softened the impact of energy and commodity supply disruptions by releasing reserves, reducing inventories, and increasing operational flexibility. These measures are temporary, and continued inventory drawdowns are pushing oil and metal markets toward historically tight conditions. Once inventories become critically low, higher prices may become the primary...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago

Reactor Developers Advance Sweden's Nuclear Ambitions While State Puts Up $3.7 Billion

Reactor Developers Advance Sweden's Nuclear Ambitions While State Puts Up $3.7 Billion Sweden advanced its nuclear revival with two major filings for new capacity and a government proposal to commit up to $3.7 billion in state capital for SMR projects. On May 18th, Blykalla submitted the first application for an advanced reactor park under Sweden’s new siting process. The Norrsundet site would host six 55-MWe SEALER lead-cooled reactors, for 330 MWe total.  CEO Jacob Stedman cal...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Welsh Police Officers Ordered To Log Anti-Islam Comments In Chilling Free Speech Crackdown

Welsh Police Officers Ordered To Log Anti-Islam Comments In Chilling Free Speech Crackdown Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Britain's free speech traditions face fresh erosion as South Wales Police directs officers to record conversations and comments about Islam that stray beyond what the force deems "legitimate" discussion. The policy, exposed in recent social media posts, risks logging lawful criticism as hostility incidents that could surface in future employment...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

White Girls Raped By Dogs, Whisky Bottles, and 100s Of Men: Britain's Migrant Grooming-Gang Scandal Exposed

White Girls Raped By Dogs, Whisky Bottles, and 100s Of Men: Britain's Migrant Grooming-Gang Scandal Exposed Via Remix News, Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe used a Westminster Hall debate on Monday to confront MPs with harrowing testimony from White girls and women who were raped, tortured, trafficked, and degraded by migrant grooming gangs, and abandoned by the very authorities that should have protected them. The debate was secured after 260,974 Brits signed a petition calli...

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US Warns Ally Oman That It Better Pick The 'Right' Side In Hormuz Standoff

US Warns Ally Oman That It Better Pick The 'Right' Side In Hormuz Standoff The saga of rare Washington pressure on its longtime regional ally Oman continues, with on Tuesday The Wall Street Journal reporting that US officials are growing "increasingly frustrated" with Muscat's neutral stance, which they now view as hostile to US interests. Oman has stood accused of cooperating with Iran on a proposed toll collection scheme which would benefit Tehran and circumvent America's aims fo...

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Russia Weighs $50 Million Plan To Influence Armenia's Election

Russia Weighs $50 Million Plan To Influence Armenia's Election Via Eurasianet, Reuters reported that Russian officials discussed influence operations aimed at weakening Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary election. One alleged proposal involved temporarily bringing Armenian passport holders living in Russia back to Armenia to vote for opposition candidates. Despite the reported efforts, polling suggests Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party...

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Early Returns Show Surprises In California As Other States Wrap Up

Early Returns Show Surprises In California As Other States Wrap Up Update (0030ET): Voters in six states went to the polls today for key primaries. While many races followed expectations, California delivered notable early drama with slow-counting mail ballots still to come. California Governor (Top-Two Primary) The race to replace term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom remains the biggest story. In a crowded nonpartisan jungle primary, early returns (approx. 45-50% counted) show: Steve ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Barbarian Mindset: How Leftists And Third-World Invaders Think Alike

Barbarian Mindset: How Leftists And Third-World Invaders Think Alike Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The fall of the Roman Empire is often presented as symbolic of the slow but steady decline of the western world today, and it’s true, this comparison might be more accurate than many people realize. The disastrous collapse which escalated over the course of the 5th century was driven by economic crisis, a split of the empire into eastern and western halves, government re...

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How China Is Remaking Its Vast Western Frontier

How China Is Remaking Its Vast Western Frontier China is undertaking a vast effort to reshape its western frontier, transforming Xinjiang and Tibet from remote borderlands into strategic hubs for industry, energy, tourism and trade, according to a new lengthy report from Financial Times. Under President Xi Jinping, Beijing is pouring investment into highways, railways, renewable energy projects, manufacturing bases and tourism infrastructure across a region that covers nearly a thi...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Cliffwater Private Credit Fund Gates Investors For Second Straight Quarter After Redemption Requests Soar To 17%

Cliffwater Private Credit Fund Gates Investors For Second Straight Quarter After Redemption Requests Soar To 17% The market may be in full-blown face-ripping bubble mode, and software stocks are now gripped in by a category 5 gamma squeeze hurricane, but not even that is helping the ongoing debacle that is private credit. The flagship private credit fund of Cliffwater, a fund which has was slammed by redemption requests in the past quarter as the private credit crisis came to a for...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Feds Seize Over A Ton Of Cocaine At Massive US-Mexico Drug-Smuggling Tunnel

Feds Seize Over A Ton Of Cocaine At Massive US-Mexico Drug-Smuggling Tunnel Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Authorities charged four suspects on June 1 with felony drug distribution violations after finding a hidden tunnel used by drug runners inside a retail store in San Diego County that led into Tijuana, Mexico. Investigators also seized more than a ton of cocaine worth about $45 million in connection with the subterranean tunnel, according to the U.S. Attorney...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Whistleblower Leaks Stanford's Private Foreign-Funding Records, Exposing CCP-Linked Donors

Whistleblower Leaks Stanford's Private Foreign-Funding Records, Exposing CCP-Linked Donors Some of America's top universities have become soft targets for foreign espionage and influence operations, creating potential gateways for adversarial powers to access sensitive research, elite policy networks, and federally funded innovation pipelines. The latest report from The Stanford Review should be viewed as yet another warning about the urgent need to protect academic institutions fr...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Do We Really Believe In Freedom?

Do We Really Believe In Freedom? Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, Do we really believe in freedom? Or do we only believe in freedom when it applies to people who agree with us? Do we trust people we fundamentally disagree with to remain free citizens? Or do we believe they must be controlled through laws, censorship, surveillance, or social pressure because they are too dangerous to be trusted with liberty? That question sits at the center of what I am most i...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Leftists Try To "Cancel" Giants Quarterback For His Appearance At Trump Rally

Leftists Try To "Cancel" Giants Quarterback For His Appearance At Trump Rally Leftists often claim that when someone of celebrity status appears with Donald Trump, it gives Trump "legitimacy."  This is the common rationale they use to justify their insane cult-like behavior - Their habit of using mobs of mindless activist zombies in order to frighten people with status away from openly identifying as conservative.  The truth is, the political left is a paper tiger, an astroturf move...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

High-Dose Vitamin D Lowers Diabetes Risk In Some People

High-Dose Vitamin D Lowers Diabetes Risk In Some People Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times, A specific variation in the vitamin D receptor gene may determine whether high-dose supplementation lowers diabetes risk in prediabetic people. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock Nearly 115 million Americans are on the road to diabetes. New research suggests an inexpensive, widely available supplement could slow that journey, but only for some of them. A genetic qui...

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US Treasury Sanctions Iran's Largest Crypto Exchange

US Treasury Sanctions Iran's Largest Crypto Exchange Peace talks appear stalled, or even halted completely - despite President Trump's denials - and the US Department of Treasury is still swinging hard, as part of the ongoing effort to bring about economic collapse in Iran and 'solve' the Hormuz Strait shipping crisis. In the latest installment of Washington's economic whac-a-mole, the US on Tuesday unveiled sanctions on Iran's biggest cryptocurrency exchange - and several others, ...

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Trump Signs AI 'Cyber Defense' Executive Order

Trump Signs AI 'Cyber Defense' Executive Order Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, AI companies would be required to submit their frontier models on a voluntary review basis before public releases. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2 intended to address cybersecurity threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the new frontier models being released by major industry players. Signed in private, the order allows some AI firms to sub...

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US, China Militaries Hold 'Candid' Deconfliction Talks In Hawaii As Trump Goes Quiet On Taiwan

US, China Militaries Hold 'Candid' Deconfliction Talks In Hawaii As Trump Goes Quiet On Taiwan American and Chinese military officers have sat down for rare deconfliction talks in Hawaii, soon on the heels of the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing last month. According to a late Monday statement from the Chinese Navy, the two superpowers held what they described as "candid and constructive" exchanges during a two-day closed-door meeting. It happened last week in Honolulu, reports have newly...

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US Bill Would Prevent Chinese Connected Cars In Canada From Entering United States

US Bill Would Prevent Chinese Connected Cars In Canada From Entering United States Authored by Olivia Gomm via The Epoch Times, Two U.S. lawmakers are set to introduce a bill aimed at preventing Chinese-connected vehicles from entering the United States via Canada and Mexico, amid growing concerns over Chinese-made electric vehicles entering the Canadian market. BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded on a ship are stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port at S...

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Iran Sends Missiles, Drones Targeting Airbases Across Gulf After US Nighttime Attack On Qeshm Island

Iran Sends Missiles, Drones Targeting Airbases Across Gulf After US Nighttime Attack On Qeshm Island Summary: Two bases come under fresh missile attack in Kuwait, Fars and Reuters report. Iran state media says retaliation for night US attack on Qeshm Island. Explosions and air raid sirens also being reported in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain. It seems that war is popping off once again. rump insists reports that Iran and US have not been talking for days is 'fake news'; Rubio als...

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"The Value Didn't Arrive": Bain Finds Cost-Savings From AI Are Falling Far Short Of Projections

"The Value Didn't Arrive": Bain Finds Cost-Savings From AI Are Falling Far Short Of Projections Now that attention within the AI revolution has one again firmly turned toward the cost-benefit equation (i..e., ROI) of tokens (see "From Singularity To Tokenomics: The AI Narrative Just Hit A Serious Snag") in particular, and the trillions behind the AI spending rollout in general, and we say once again because every few months we get some iteration of the following report from Goldman ...

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Dems Have A Voter Problem. Gerrymandering Was Never Going To Fix It

Dems Have A Voter Problem. Gerrymandering Was Never Going To Fix It Authored by Ryan Young via RealClearPolitics, In November 2024, 47% of Virginia voters cast ballots for Republican congressional candidates. Under the map Virginia Democrats tried to push through, those voters would have ended up with exactly one Republican district out of 11. Going from a 6-5 to a 10-1 split was what Democrats called "restoring fairness." To get it done, Democrats bypassed a bipartisan redistri...

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Woman Fatally Stabbed "Two Dozen Times" In Brazen Daytime Attack On Atlanta's MARTA Train

Woman Fatally Stabbed "Two Dozen Times" In Brazen Daytime Attack On Atlanta's MARTA Train A woman riding a MARTA train in Atlanta was killed in a brutal daytime attack Saturday, suffering nearly 20 stab wounds in what investigators say was a seemingly random act of violence, according to the NY Post. Police allege that 25-year-old John Elijah Matthews approached 66-year-old Margaret Swan after boarding the train Saturday morning. Surveillance video reportedly shows him lingering ne...

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A Mass-Graves Myth Is Media Malpractice

A Mass-Graves Myth Is Media Malpractice Authored by Daniel McCarthy via PJ Media, A hoax costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and appears to incite arson attacks against dozens of churches. No, this isn't the latest headline out of Minnesota - look a little further north. Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 In 2021, at a time when media throughout the Western world were still in a state of agitation after the killing of George Floyd, Canadian outlets pick...

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Permadrought: 75% Of Global Population Lives In A Country Affected By 'The Great Drying'

Permadrought: 75% Of Global Population Lives In A Country Affected By 'The Great Drying' Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Our planet is drying out at a pace that is unlike anything we have ever seen before. Once massive lakes are rapidly shrinking, once mighty rivers are steadily dwindling, and colossal underground aquifers are being pumped dry all over the world. This is an absolutely enormous problem, because very soon we simply will not have enough fres...

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DOGE Alumni Launch AI Startup To Target Waste On Main Street - And Already Have Their First Target

DOGE Alumni Launch AI Startup To Target Waste On Main Street - And Already Have Their First Target Two alumni of the Department of Government Efficiency are bringing their cost-cutting experience from Washington to the private sector, launching Special, a startup that aims to harness artificial intelligence to wring inefficiencies out of what it describes as America's $10 trillion Main Street services economy. Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox spent much of 2025 at DOGE, where they s...

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Venezuela Oil Exports Hit 7-Year High

Venezuela Oil Exports Hit 7-Year High Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Venezuela’s oil exports inched up from April to hit a fresh seven-year high in May as shipments to the United States and India continued to rise. Venezuela exported an estimated 1.25 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in May, up by 0.7% compared to April’s 1.23 million bpd exports and a massive 61% jump compared to May 2025, according to ship-tracking and vessel-loading data reviewed by Reut...

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Shake Shack Gets Smoked After Cutting Guidance

Shake Shack Gets Smoked After Cutting Guidance Shake Shack plunged on Tuesday, hitting its lowest levels since November 2023, after the burger chain slashed second-quarter guidance only about a month after issuing it. Baird analyst David Tarantino said the new outlook is viewed as "incrementally negative" for Shake Shack. Tarantino noted that management had set an "unusually high bar" for 2Q comparable performance with its previous outlook, implying mid- to high-single-digit com...

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Pentagon Restricts Press Office Access Over Privacy Concerns

Pentagon Restricts Press Office Access Over Privacy Concerns Via American Greatness, The Pentagon announced Monday that reporters will no longer have open access to the War Department’s public affairs office after the space was redesignated as a classified facility to accommodate staff handling sensitive material. The announcement marks the latest effort by the Pete Hegseth-led War Department to tighten operational security and reshape longstanding media access practices inside ...

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HSBC Warns Of Commodity "Super-Squeeze" As Goldman Hikes Copper Forecasts

HSBC Warns Of Commodity "Super-Squeeze" As Goldman Hikes Copper Forecasts Copper is inching closer to its mid-May all-time high of $14,153 a ton on the London Metal Exchange, trading around $13,832 on Tuesday morning, as Goldman raised its year-end price targets and HSBC warned that commodities face a "super-squeeze" with the Hormuz maritime chokepoint still largely shuttered in early June. Let's begin with HSBC analysts, who wrote in a note to clients that "metal prices are genera...

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State Department Issues Travel Advisory For Mexico

State Department Issues Travel Advisory For Mexico Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The State Department updated its travel advisory for Mexico on May 29, continuing to warn Americans who plan on visiting the country to be wary of terrorism and crimes. “Many violent crimes take place in Mexico. They include homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, sexual assault, and robbery. There is a risk of terrorist violence, including terrorist attacks and other activity in Mexic...

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Trump Blasts 'Fake' Reports Of Iran Talks Freeze As Rubio Insists To Congress Tehran Ready To Negotiate Nuclear Curbs

Trump Blasts 'Fake' Reports Of Iran Talks Freeze As Rubio Insists To Congress Tehran Ready To Negotiate Nuclear Curbs Summary: Trump insists reports that Iran and US have not been talking for days is 'fake news'; Rubio also tells Congress talks are ongoing, despite fresh Iranian denials, and even claims the nuclear file is part of it. Washington has seen the Lebanon partial truce as opportunity enough to press forward on broader talks, with Trump saying he expects a broader Iran d...

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Short-Seller Andrew Left Found Guilty In High-Profile Market Manipulation Jury Trial

Short-Seller Andrew Left Found Guilty In High-Profile Market Manipulation Jury Trial Andrew Left, the founder of Citron Research and a well-known figure in the short-selling community, was convicted on 13 of 17 counts following a three-week federal trial in Los Angeles, according to Bloomberg. Prosecutors alleged that between 2018 and 2023, Left used public stock recommendations and social media posts to influence market prices while privately trading in ways that contradicted his ...

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Facebook Is Accused Of Fostering Ethnic Enclaves At Headquarters

Facebook Is Accused Of Fostering Ethnic Enclaves At Headquarters Authored by Jose Nino via Headline USA, Tech advocacy group blames visa programs for enabling corporate tribalism. A terminated software engineer is accusing Facebook parent company Meta of allowing Chinese migrants to take over entire departments while American employees face systematic exclusion and layoffs, Neil Munro of Breitbart News reported. Jeremy Bernier, who graduated from Virginia Tech in 2012, lost his...

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'Crypto Spring': StanChart Sees Ethereum Outperforming As Mt. Gox Moves $739M BTC From Cold Wallets

'Crypto Spring': StanChart Sees Ethereum Outperforming As Mt. Gox Moves $739M BTC From Cold Wallets “Over the past week, we acquired 26,497 ETH,” Bitmine Immersion Technologies Chair, Tom Lee, said in a statement on Monday. “In our view, ETH prices are not reflecting the strengthening of Ethereum fundamentals, but then again, this is not surprising given we are in the early stages of crypto spring.” As CoinTelegraph reports, Bitmine is the largest Ether treasury company with 5.4...

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Massachusetts Church Cancels Traditional July 4th Celebration "To Better Understand Our Own Whiteness"

Massachusetts Church Cancels Traditional July 4th Celebration "To Better Understand Our Own Whiteness" Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, In Nantucket, there is an interesting conflict between churches after the Nantucket Unitarian Universalists (NUU) canceled its traditional celebration. In a letter from the church and the Rev. Erin Splaine of the Second Congregational Meeting House Society, residents were told the traditional reading of the Declaration of Indepen...

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Euro Area Inflation Tops 3.0% For First Time Since 2023, Cementing ECB Rate Hike

Euro Area Inflation Tops 3.0% For First Time Since 2023, Cementing ECB Rate Hike Euro Area inflation topped 3% for the first time since September 2023, further cementing expectations for a rate hike when the ECB meets next week.  Consumer prices rose 3.2% from a year ago in May, and up from 3% the previous month, in line expectations. But core inflation, which excludes volatile items like food and energy, jumped more than anticipated to 2.5% (technically 2.55%), while the closely w...

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California, Iowa, 4 Other States Hold Primaries: Key Races To Watch

California, Iowa, 4 Other States Hold Primaries: Key Races To Watch Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The California gubernatorial and Los Angeles mayoral primaries are among the most closely watched races today. A voter fills out a ballot at a polling station in Des Moines, Iowa, on Nov. 6, 2018. Joshua Lott/Getty Images Voters in six states will go to the polls today for a series of key races. The biggest item of the night will be the litany of races ...

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Bringing Sexy Back: Victoria's Secret Shoots Higher After Abandoning Woke Ideology

Bringing Sexy Back: Victoria's Secret Shoots Higher After Abandoning Woke Ideology Shares of Victoria's Secret surged a mind-boggling 40% in the U.S. morning cash session after the bras-and-lingerie retailer delivered a stronger-than-expected first quarter, boosted its outlook, and showed signs of a turnaround plan in motion. Net sales rose 15% to $1.56 billion in the first quarter, beating guidance, while comparable sales increased 13%, signaling that CEO Hillary Super's turnaroun...

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Where's The Limit

Where's The Limit By Stefan Koopman, senior market strategist at Rabobank The ancient Greeks left a rich intellectual legacy, as our global strategist Michael Every showed last week in The Hormuz Odyssey. The same fertile ground also produced a famous set of puzzles that have challenged thinkers for centuries. These are the paradoxes of Zeno. In the Dichotomy Paradox, Zeno argued that a runner can never reach the finish line on a straight track. The logic is simple. The runner must...

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Shocking JOLTS: Job Openings Soar By 731K, 9-Sigma Beat, As Quits Bizarrely Plunge To 6 Year Low

Shocking JOLTS: Job Openings Soar By 731K, 9-Sigma Beat, As Quits Bizarrely Plunge To 6 Year Low We had to do a double take when the BLS reported today's JOLTS job openings: with consensus expecting no change from last month's print of 6.866MM, and near the lowest in two years, moments ago a flashing red headline revealed that in April the US added a stunning 731K jobs to 7.618 million, up from an upward revised 6.887 million, and up 520K from a year ago. For context, this was a...

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Tencent Soars Most Since 2022 On Report It's Set To Launch AI Agent For China's Most Used App

Tencent Soars Most Since 2022 On Report It's Set To Launch AI Agent For China's Most Used App Tencent shares jumped the most since late 2022 after an FT report that the Chinese company was testing a prototype AI agent for WeChat, China’s most widely used app for everything from messaging and social media to ride-hailing and payments, fueled optimism about the company’s artificial intelligence efforts.  The Chinese internet giant plans to begin a compliance process for a public laun...

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Iran Denies Progress Despite Hasty Lebanon Truce: US Talks Halted For 'At Least A Few Days'

Iran Denies Progress Despite Hasty Lebanon Truce: US Talks Halted For 'At Least A Few Days' Summary: Washington has seen the Lebanon partial truce as opportunity enough to press forward on broader talks, with Trump saying he expects a broader Iran deal "over the next week". But Fars denies this Tuesday: "exchange of messages between Iran and the US has been stopped for at least a few days" on MOU. In Lebanon, "While the ceasefire appears to be largely holding, there was further v...

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Oil Spikes As Iran Denies Progress Despite Hasty Lebanon Truce: US Talks Halted For 'At Least A Few Days'

Oil Spikes As Iran Denies Progress Despite Hasty Lebanon Truce: US Talks Halted For 'At Least A Few Days' Summary: Washington has seen the Lebanon partial truce as opportunity enough to press forward on broader talks, with Trump saying he expects a broader Iran deal "over the next week". But Fars denies this Tuesday: "exchange of messages between Iran and the US has been stopped for at least a few days" on MOU. In Lebanon, "While the ceasefire appears to be largely holding, there...

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Trump Taps Housing Regulator Bill Pulte As Acting Director Of National Intelligence

Trump Taps Housing Regulator Bill Pulte As Acting Director Of National Intelligence President Trump said Tuesday that he is appointing Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to serve as acting director of national intelligence after Tulsi Gabbard leaves the post. Gabbard announced her resignation on May 22, citing her husband Abraham Williams’ recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone cancer. Her resignation is eff...

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Europe Has "Serious, Really Serious Problems" If US Cuts Oil Exports, Currie

Europe Has "Serious, Really Serious Problems" If US Cuts Oil Exports, Currie Last night, the Carlyle Group’s Jeff Currie and Veriten’s Arjun Murti joined Real Vision's Ash Bennington for a ZeroHedge Debate on what the oil market is getting wrong.  Surprise surprise… the EU is not looking good. But the U.S. may be in trouble too. Currie doubled down on his reserves-to-run-dry-by-July call. They each gave their outlook on structural supply constraints that existed before the Hormuz ...

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Marvell Soars After Nvidia CEO Says Chipmaker Is Headed For Trillion-Dollar Club

Marvell Soars After Nvidia CEO Says Chipmaker Is Headed For Trillion-Dollar Club Computex 2026 in Taipei is underway for the second day. Let's begin with Monday's wrap-up of the event: Nvidia CEO Declares AI PC Reinvention A "New Beginning" On Par With Smartphone Shift AI, Chips, Humanoid Robots: Top Takeaways From Computex 2025 There was no shortage of fireworks on day two, as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage and greeted Marvell Technology CEO Matt Murphy, stating ...

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Another Hurricane Season Is Underway: What To Know

Another Hurricane Season Is Underway: What To Know Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, June 1 marked the start of yet another hurricane season for the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of America.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is forecasting a lower-than-average number of named storms between now and Nov. 30 thanks to “El Niño.” This is a recurring weather event known to lower the jet stream over the southeastern United States and cre...

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Abivax Crashes Most On Record After Cancer Cases In Trial Data Spooks Wall Street

Abivax Crashes Most On Record After Cancer Cases In Trial Data Spooks Wall Street French biotech Abivax suffered its largest intraday decline on record after reporting new data on its lead experimental inflammatory bowel disease drug, which showed cancer cases among patients in the clinical trial. The new data certainly point to regulatory headwinds and raise the risk profile for approval. Abivax's ABTECT maintenance data showed strong efficacy readout, with both once-daily obefazi...

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Trump Slashes Tractor Tariffs In Bid To Revive Ag Belt Optimism

Trump Slashes Tractor Tariffs In Bid To Revive Ag Belt Optimism The Trump administration appears to be trying to inject new optimism across the nation's farm belt following the China meeting last month, during which Beijing committed to making billions of dollars of new purchases of U.S. agricultural goods. The White House's latest move is to reduce tariffs on tractors and combines, a policy shift aimed at easing cost pressures on farmers already squeezed by diesel, fertilizer, and...

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Net Zero and Statism Deliver Stagnation: How Interventionism Undermined Growth In The UK and Canada

Net Zero and Statism Deliver Stagnation: How Interventionism Undermined Growth In The UK and Canada Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Governments are terrible at picking winners and even worse at choosing losers. Net zero and interventionist “Keynesian” policies in Canada and the UK have proven that government intervention has created a worse outcome than anyone would have expected. The result is higher costs, distorted incentives, and weakened productivity growth, with increased depende...

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Tesla Posts Strong Registration Growth Across Europe In May

Tesla Posts Strong Registration Growth Across Europe In May Tesla showed signs of regaining momentum in Europe during May, posting strong registration growth across several major markets, according to Reuters. New registrations climbed to 1,750 vehicles in Denmark (+136%), 1,690 in Spain (+113%), and 858 in Sweden (+71%), based on data released by local industry groups. Reuters writes that the trend extended across the region. Norway recorded 3,345 Tesla registrations, up 29% from ...

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Britain's White 'George Floyd' Moment?

Britain's White 'George Floyd' Moment? Update: Vickrum Singh Digwa, 23, received a life sentence with a 21-year minimum on Monday for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak. Judge William Mousley describes Nowak as a “much-loved, kind, hard-working and ambitious young man, devoted to his family and with a bright future.” Mousley includes agonizing testimony from Nowak’s family: Nowak’s death has caused his sister’s world to “fall apart,” she said; Nowak’s father describes his son’s...

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The Cost Of The Grain That Feeds Half The World Just Posted Biggest Monthly Surge Since 2008

The Cost Of The Grain That Feeds Half The World Just Posted Biggest Monthly Surge Since 2008 Asian rice prices logged their biggest monthly gain in nearly two decades in May, as a Gulf energy shock collides with an expected El Niño event later this year. The spike adds to the mounting risks of a broader food price shock that could emerge as soon as six months from now. Any time rice prices spike, it is a major concern because the grain feeds more than half the world's population, ...

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How Contagious Is Ebola?

How Contagious Is Ebola? More than 200 people are suspected to have died in Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, according to the latest figures published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 29. The vast majority of these are in the DRC. With no vaccine available for this strain, the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern on May 17. As Statista's Anna Fleck details below, Ebola is a...

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Britain's Nuclear Renaissance Faces Mounting Cost Pressures

Britain's Nuclear Renaissance Faces Mounting Cost Pressures Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com, Sizewell C and Hinkley Point C are expected to play a major role in expanding Britain’s nuclear generation capacity and reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Both projects have faced concerns over delays and rising costs, with Hinkley Point C’s estimated price nearly doubling from its original forecast. The U.K. aims to increase nuclear capacity to 24 GW by 2050, ...

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London Bans Israel Critics Hassan Piker, Cenk Uyghur From Entering UK

London Bans Israel Critics Hassan Piker, Cenk Uyghur From Entering UK Via The Cradle Pro-Palestine streamer and commentator Hassan Piker was banned from visiting the UK by the British Home Office, ahead of his planned meeting with former Labour Party chief Jeremy Corbyn. Piker was also due to meet with Green Party leader Zack Polanski. "The UK has revoked my visa as well. All at the behest of Israel. The west is betraying ‘liberal values’ for a genocidal fascist foreign government....

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Iran Has Dug Out More Missile Tunnels Than Previously Thought: Satellite Analysis

Iran Has Dug Out More Missile Tunnels Than Previously Thought: Satellite Analysis During the current but tenuous ceasefire, Iran has successfully managed to excavate multiple key sites tied to its missile program that were previously bombarded by the American-Israeli warplanes during the initial five weeks of Operation Epic Fury. While the revelation is not exactly new, a fresh CNN report has confirmed through recent satellite imagery that more missile tunnels have been dug out tha...