DOE Orders Indiana Coal Units Totaling More Than 950 MW To Run Past Retirement Dates By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The U.S. Department of Energy on Dec. 23 ordered Northern Indiana Public Service Co., a division of NiSource, and CenterPoint Energy to continue running three coal-fired units in Indiana, totaling more than 950 MW, beyond their planned retirement at the end of the month. DOE contends that portions of the […]

The Brits Want The Poles To Contain Russia In The Baltic Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Polish Defense Minister announced in late November that his country will buy three A26 Blekinge-class diesel-electric submarines from Sweden as part of a deal estimated to be worth a little less than €2.5 billion. This comes just several months after their first joint exercise, which presaged closer cooperation against […]

Watch: Destroying Kamikaze Drones With Cheap Autonomous Turrets Kamikaze drones, particularly FPV and loitering munitions, have introduced a new dimension to modern warfare, as demonstrated in the Russia-Ukraine war and other active conflict zones globally. These low-cost, off-the-shelf systems are increasingly assessed as a credible threat to civilian targets in the Western world, as highlighted by a recent U.S. government threat […]

How China’s Rare Earth Stranglehold Is Unleashing American Innovation Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The West may have found an unexpected way to chip away at communist China’s dominance in the production of critical minerals: extracting metals from oil wells, waste streams, and discarded electronics in an attempt to scale up processing technologies at home. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Jeff […]

“We Are The Free World Now” – Europe Declares War On Free Speech Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the move by the Trump Administration against five leading figures in the European censorship movement, including Thierry Breton, the former European Union commissioner responsible for digital policy. The United States is finally responding to what is an existential threat to American values. It is worth […]

Latvia Hails Completion Of 175-Mile Fence Along Russian Border Latvia has finally finished building a long anticipated nearly 175-mile fence along its border with Russia, according to regional media on Tuesday, which cited the state-linked company responsible for managing the project. The fence cost an equivalent of nearly $20 million, and so at that price points to it being defensively minimal and low-tech, however […]

‘Bribes For Votes’ Scheme Uncovered In Ukraine Parliament Involves Members Of Zelensky’s Party Via Remix News, Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities have announced charges against members of an organized crime group that operated in the Verkhovna Rada. Among the suspects are five members of parliament from Volodymyr Zelensky’s party, reports Do Rzezcy. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Special […]

The Lifespan Of A Country Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, It will be no secret to readers that more and more people are coming to the realization that the economic, political, and social problems in the world are becoming quite pronounced – worse than at any other point in their lifetimes. Increasingly, such people are turning to publications such as this one to find answers as to: (a) where it will all end; […]

Immigrant Truckers File Lawsuit To Stop 20,000 CDL Cancellations In California California’s Department of Motor Vehicles is facing a class-action lawsuit over plans to cancel nearly 20,000 immigrant truckers’ commercial driver’s licenses, a move plaintiffs say would cause widespread disruption, according to Fox News. The case was filed Tuesday by the Asian Law Caucus, the Sikh Coalition, and the firm Weil, Gotshal & […]

US Commits $2 Billion For Foreign Aid But Tells Agencies To ‘Adapt, Shrink, Or Die’ Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, The United States and the United Nations have finalized an agreement that includes $2 billion in humanitarian funding and what the State Department described as radical reform to save Americans’ tax dollars while avoiding ideological projects. The finalized agreement supports the U.N.’s 2026 plan to […]

Hollywood Blamed The Fans For Their Failures And Now They Face Collapse In November, the entertainment media was energized by the news of potential studio mergers and a potential jump in content spending by Disney and Paramount.  The possibility of more cash flowing into productions was seen as a light at the end of a long dark tunnel for a film industry crushed by endless box office and TV streaming failures.  Maybe this new […]

UAE Announces Full Withdrawal Of Forces From Yemen After Violating Saudi ‘Red Line’ Via The Middle East Eye The UAE has announced that it will withdraw its military personnel from Yemen, hours after Saudi Arabia struck its Yemeni allies and made an extremely rare public condemnation of Abu Dhabi’s conduct in the country. The Emirati defense ministry said in a statement that “in light of recent developments” it was […]

Trump Admin Freezes All Childcare Payments To Minnesota As Somali Daycare Scandal Goes Viral The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday announced that it has frozen all federal childcare funding for the state of Minnesota, citing rampant fraud allegations largely attributed to the Somali community.  In a post on X, Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O’Neill wrote that “You have probably read the serious allegations that the […]

Researchers Successfully Reverse Alzheimer’s In Mice: Peer-Reviewed Study Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Scientists have reversed Alzheimer’s disease in mice, potentially showing a pathway to treat the illness among humans, according to a Dec. 22 peer-reviewed study published in the Cell Reports Medicine journal. A nurse holds the hands of a person suffering from Alzheimer’s disease at Les […]

Hilarious Video: Humanoid Robot Kicks Operator In The Balls A video that surfaced late last week from an unnamed Chinese lab has captivated the internet, capturing a teleoperation session gone comically awry with Unitree Robotics’ G1 humanoid, Interesting Engineering reports. An engineer, clad in a motion-capture suit and positioned alongside the robot, performs martial arts moves. As both face the same direction, his attempted low […]

America Is Arguing About Free Speech… The World Is Putting People In Prison For It Authored by Matt Schlapp via The Epoch Times, As the freest nation in the world, America has long understood the value of free speech—not as an abstract ideal, but as a fundamental right. The Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) newly released 2025 “Freedom of Speech Around the World Ratings” cut through the noise with a […]

Vegas Police Roll Out Fleet Of Tesla Cybertrucks After $2.7M Donation Last month, the Las Vegas police department became the first in the US to deploy a fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks for patrol, according to The Guardian. The 10 black-and-white vehicles, equipped with sirens and emergency lights, were donated — costing taxpayers nothing, according to Sheriff Kevin McMahill. “They represent something far bigger than just a police […]

Amid Economic Crisis, Mossad-Affiliated X Account Encourages Further Protests In Iran Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, A Farsi-language X account claiming to represent Israel’s Mossad encouraged protests in Iran on Monday and suggested that the Israeli spy agency has operatives involved in demonstrations on the ground. “Let’s come out to the streets together. The time has come. We are with you. Not just from afar and […]

“Significant Safety Concerns” After Salem, Oregon Appoints Convicted Killer To Public Safety Boards Salem, Oregon, is facing backlash after appointing Kyle Hedquist — a convicted murderer whose sentence for a 1995 killing was later commuted — to two influential public safety bodies: the city’s Community Police Review Board and its Civil Service Commission, which oversee police conduct and public safety employment matters, […]

The Most Prominent Buzzwords For The US Economy In 2025 Were “Affordability” And “Layoffs” Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, If you are having a really difficult time keeping up with the rapidly rising cost of living, you are certainly not alone.  This year, “affordability” was a buzzword that was constantly on the lips of politicians, economists and talking heads on television.  As you will see below, […]

Starbucks Shuttering About 400 Locations, 40+ In New York City Alone Starbucks is quietly shrinking its physical footprint in some of the nation’s largest cities, signaling a major shift for a brand that spent decades in near-constant expansion, according to WSMV. The company intends to eliminate about 400 US locations, with the heaviest impact in major metro areas. Closures are already underway — New York City alone has lost 42 […]

Judge Blocks White House’s Attempt To Defund Consumer Watchdog Agency Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the White House cannot lapse its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a watchdog that has long drawn the ire of congressional Republicans. In a ruling, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote that the CFPB should continue to receive its funding from […]

Putin Authorizes Military Reserve Call-Up To Protect Critical Energy Sites One significant theme which emerged over the course of the last year of the Russia-Ukraine war is greater Ukrainian effectiveness in striking Russian territory, sometimes even distant targets many hundreds of miles away. On a regular basis at this point, oil and gas infrastructure and refineries are blown up, export terminals damaged, and even military bases […]

Yale No Longer Has A Single Republican Professor Across 27 Departments Authored by Jonathan Turley, Yale has finally achieved liberal nirvana. According to a recent report from the Buckley Institute, there is now not a single Republican found across 27 of 43 departments at Yale University. In a nation roughly evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats (with a slight advantage to the GOP), only 3 percent are Republicans […]

Feds Charge Mexican-American With Trying To Arm ISIS Via Undercover FBI Agent The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Texas resident and charged him with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization — namely, ISIS. Depending on their level of faith in domestic counter-terror enforcement, some observers will applaud the news unquestioningly, while others may wonder if it’s another situation where the man in […]