Prosecution Rests Case In Trial Of Trump Assassination Attempt Suspect: 5 Takeaways Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Prosecutors called their last witness on Sept. 19 in the trial of Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, and sought to triangulate the suspect’s movements in the weeks leading up to the incident using cellphone location data. […]

Another Week Of Madness: The Left’s Reaction To Kirk’s Assassination The assassination of Charlie Kirk has revealed troubling truths about America’s political divide. On the right, Christians have responded with prayer, vigils, and church services. There was no rioting, no burning of private businesses or government buildings after Kirk’s murder. This stands in sharp contrast to how Democrats respond to pivotal events (remember the […]

Anti-Money Laundering Is The Stablecoin Use-Case No One Talks About Authored by Debanjan Chatterjee via CoinTelegraph.com, The trajectory of the stablecoin industry is heavily influenced by warring factions on opposite sides debating possible criminal use. Stablecoin opposers point to transfers of illicit funds. Proponents argue that the transparent nature of blockchains can be used to detect such crimes.  There is a lack […]

Watch: UK Cop Grills Woman In Her Own Home Over Facebook Post That “Upset Someone” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An American woman living in Britain got a taste of what it’s like to have your freedom of speech taken away when a police officer visited her house to interrogate her over a Facebook post that he claimed had “upset someone.” Yes, really. The officer demanded that she apologise about the post, […]

Rate Of Alzheimer’s Cases In The US Has Doubled Since 2000 The rate of people dying of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States has doubled since the year 2000, according to the Alzheimer’s Association’s latest report. Where an average of 17.6 people per 100,000 died from the form of dementia at the turn of the millennium, the figure had climbed to 34 per 100,000 people as of 2023. This is likely the result of an aging […]

Hungary Warned About Brussels’ Three Regime-Change Plots In Central Europe Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warned in a Facebook post last month after talks with his Slovak and Serbian counterparts that Brussels is plotting regime change against them. This comes after Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reported that the EU and Ukraine are backing the Hungarian […]

Visualizing Europe’s Housing Cost Burden By Country For many European countries, housing costs are eating up a larger share of workers’ paychecks. Given rising unaffordability, protests have erupted across Spain, Lisbon, and Berlin as the gap between wages and rent widens. In Hungary, for instance, home prices have soared 234% between 2010 and 2024 – far outpacing the EU average of 55.4%. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s […]

Germany’s Machinery Industry Faces Catastrophic Collapse Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, The collapse of the German economy continues unabated. The German Engineering Federation (VDMA) now expects a dramatic decline in production this year and lashes out at the federal government. A rebound in the German economy this autumn has failed to materialize. Just a week ago, the Federal Statistical Office revised the country’s GDP decline […]

Number Of US Student Visas Issued To Asians Tumbles Both India and China, the two biggest source countries for international students in the United States, saw a drop in the number of F-1 visas issued in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period one year before. India, which has taken the lead since 2021 as the country receiving the most F-1 visas, saw a particularly large decline, falling from 25,990 visas to 14,697 – […]

Waste Of The Day: Veterans’ Hospital Equipment Is Missing Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: The Veterans Health Administration has lost an estimated 5% of its reusable medical equipment worth at least $211 million — including exam tables, computers and microscopes — and “will continue to do so if processes are not improved,” according to a new audit from the Veterans Affairs inspector general. […]

Fragile Democracy The rise of democracy has been one of the greatest collective human achievements of the last century, allowing large shares of the world’s population to live in relative freedom and have the ability to participate meaningfully in the politics and society of their country. However, as Statista’s Felix Richter details below, in recent years, this progress has come under threat, with authoritarianism making an […]

Majority Of Democrats Refuse To Support Resolution Rejecting Political Violence In a vote that exposed the dark side of the majority of Democrats, the House on Friday passed a resolution honoring slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk and rejecting the political violence of recent years.  The passage, however, was not without substantial opposition.   The vote was 310-58, with 95 Democrats joining all 215 Republicans in voting […]

Nuclear Weapons Issue Was Less Pressing Than Netanyahu Claimed Before Attacking Iran: Israeli Media Via The Libertarian Institute Private discussions between Israeli officials before launching the war against Iran in June indicate that Tehran’s development of nuclear weapons was not an immediate concern. At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran’s nuclear program was an immediate threat. “We are at a […]

Trump’s New $100,000 Visa Fee Could Be Devastating For India’s Economy Many Americans are simply not aware of how much of the global economy survives by siphoning cash and jobs from the US through immigration (legal and illegal).  If they knew, they would probably have demanded that the door on H-1B visas be slammed shut much sooner.   Indian officials on Saturday said they are examining the implications of the United States’ […]

Raising Retirement Age To Shore Up Social Security May Be On The Table Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A range of options to shore up finances for Social Security are being considered, including the possibility of raising the retirement age, as the program edges closer to insolvency. Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the US Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia, Pa., on July […]

Leftist Boomer Arrested For Shooting Into Sacramento ABC TV Station  The Sacramento Police Department announced on X early Saturday that 64-year-old Anibal Hernandez-Santana was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into an occupied building, and negligent discharge of a firearm. The incident targeted an ABC affiliate television station in Sacramento. It came just days after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s […]

Making Standard Time Permanent Will Be Healthier For Americans: Study Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Adopting a permanent standard time in the United States rather than changing times biannually is a healthier option for Americans, according to a Sept. 15 peer-reviewed study published in the PNAS journal. Dan LaMoore adjusts the hands on a Seth Thomas Post Clock at Electric Time Company in […]

NATO Country’s Defense Chief Urges Shooting Down Russian Warplanes A top government official from a NATO country is calling for shooting down Russian aircraft the next time they breach an alliance member’s airspace, following several drone and border incidents this month. “NATO’s border in the North East is being tested for a reason. We need to mean business,” Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalienė wrote on X Friday, the […]

IRS, Treasury Release Details About ‘No Tax On Tips’ Deduction Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Treasury Department and IRS on Sept. 19 released details about a provision backed by the Trump administration and Republicans, passed by Congress earlier this year, that would provide a tax break for many employees who receive cash tips. A view of the IRS building in Washington on April 11, 2025. […]

White House Pushes Congress To Approve $6BN Weapons Sale To Israel Despite growing international pressure on the Netanyahu government, which has of late admitted it is coming under increasing global isolation due to the Gaza war, the Trump administration plans to keep the arms flows going stronger than ever. The White House has requested congressional approval for a nearly $6 billion arms deal with Israel, according to The Wall […]

SEC Backs Trump’s Proposal To Shift Earnings Reports From Quarterly To Semiannual Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to propose a rule change that would shift corporate earnings reporting from a quarterly schedule to a semiannual basis. Paul Atkins, head of the Wall Street regulatory watchdog, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Sept. 10 that he welcomed President […]

Educational Crisis: Baltimore High School Fails To Produce A Single Proficient Math Student In Four Straight Years President Trump’s executive order earlier this year to dismantle the Department of Education comes as the president highlighted a disturbing and inconvenient truth about Baltimore City’s Democratic Party-run “failure factory” school system: 40% of public high schools have zero students proficient in math. This damning […]

Great Leaders Don’t Ignore Red Flags Authored by Glennys Hyland via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Great leaders are quick to recognize signs and warnings that indicate a potential toxic dynamic. They don’t ignore behaviors that cause uneasy and uncomfortable feelings. Lying, controlling attitudes, self-seeking, manipulation, and blaming others instead of taking responsibility are all strong signs or warnings that need […]

Americans Will Hold 6 Of 7 Board Seats On TikTok’s US Operations; Oracle Biggest Winner The US operations of TikTok will be majority-owned and controlled by Americans under a deal reached this week to spin off the platform from its Chinese ownership, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. Speaking on Fox News, Leavitt said Saturday that Americans would hold six of the seven board seats for TikTok and that more […]

Fear, Dread And How America Got To This Point Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearWire, A week before Charlie Kirk’s murder, some friends and I were trying to identify the seminal events that have shaped this American century. We all lead happy lives, but the incidents we listed told a story of fear and dread. We immediately mentioned 9/11 and the economic collapse of 2008, both of which galvanized an aching sense of […]