Mexico Reports Positive Conversation With Trump On Security, Drug Trafficking Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Jan. 12 that she had a productive dialogue with President Donald Trump on efforts to combat drug trafficking and other issues of mutual concern. “We had a very good conversation with the President of the United States, Donald Trump,” Sheinbaum wrote in a post on X on Monday. “We discussed various topics, […]

Trump Imposes 25% Tariff On Any Country Doing Business With Iran “Effective Immediately” After it quietly faded away in late summer, that trade war with China is about to make a triumphal reappearance. In a day that was already flooded by a relentless firehose of newsflow, Trump added to the leaning tower of chaos when said on Truth Social that he was imposing a 25% tariff on goods from countries “doing business” with Iran […]

Trump ‘Favors’ Attacking Iran, Vance Pushing Back, As President Pezeshkian In Streets For Large Counter-Protests Update(1820ET): There are reports of a significant internal Trump administration divide over Iran policy, with Vice President Vance said to be leading the charge for the non-interventionist camp, which much of MAGA might welcome while seeing in Vance the top contender for 2028: President Trump currently leans toward […]

The ICE Elephant: Why The Law Requires All The Facts Authored by Jonathan Turley, In a famous Indian parable, five blind men are brought to an elephant. Each feels a different part of the animal, and they come to radically different views of what an elephant is. It depended on which parts they touched, from tusk to tail. The controversy over the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, 37, is a type of political elephant parable. People […]

Australia Joins The Rare Earth Reserve Rush Australia will begin purchasing and storing key minerals for defense and high-tech industries from local miners as part of a A$1.2 billion ($802 million) national reserve aimed at strengthening global supply chains, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Bloomberg reports that the initial stockpile will target rare earths, antimony and gallium, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, […]

States Poised To Win Supreme Court Battle Over Men In Women’s Sports, Legal Experts Predict Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court will uphold two state laws that ban male athletes who don’t identify with their sex from competing on school sports teams intended for females, legal experts say. The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 5, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Their […]

House Republicans Coalesce Around Stock-Trading Ban For Lawmakers House Republicans are lining up behind a long-sought effort to curb stock trading by members of Congress, signaling what party leaders say may be their strongest opportunity yet to address concerns that lawmakers can profit from insider information. (Image credit: Illustrated | Getty Images) The proposal, drafted by Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI), chairman of the Committee […]

On The Lefty-Left’s Largely Female Hysteria Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Permission Granted: Go Kill Yourself “A mascrosocial cluster B crisis is ripping this nation apart because Leftism has hijacked the minds of progressive females who then LARP out dangerous Gnostic heroic delusions.” – JD Haltigan Historians of the future, grilling beaver-tail paninis over their campfires, will look back in wonder and nausea at […]

Socialism, Not Sanctions, Is Responsible For The Destruction Of Venezuela Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Venezuela is not poor due to sanctions. It is poor because the Chavez-Maduro regime stole hundreds of billions of dollars and demolished the productive fabric of the economy. Venezuela had 12,700 private companies when Chávez came to power, according to Conindustria. Only about 3,800 manufacturing industries are still […]

UK, Germany, France Push New Plan To Appease Trump On Greenland President Trump’s Friday’s remarks to reporters Friday made clear he is willing to take control of Greenland – even if it’s the “hard way” – and this sent the Europeans scrambling over the weekend to come up with plans or strategies for quickly de-escalating inter-NATO tensions. “I’m not talking about money for Greenland yet. I might talk about that. But right now we […]

UBS Explains Why Trump’s 10% Credit Card Rate Cap Is “Unlikely” To Happen Update (1520ET): Analysts Erika Najarian and Tim Chiodo told clients that President Trump’s proposed 10% one-year cap on credit card interest rates is “unlikely.” The analysts explain their reasoning: With the midterms ahead and affordability remaining top of mind for voters, President Trump posted on social media that he is calling for a 10% rate cap on […]

Most US Debanking Cases Stem From Government Pressure, Report Says Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, The majority of debanking cases in the US are a result of government pressure, rather than individual banks’ policies, according to a new report from the American think tank the Cato Institute. Cato Institute analyst Nicholas Anthony explained in a report on Thursday that debanking could take several forms: […]

Small Modular Reactor Developers Push New Partnerships And Use Cases Hot on the heels of the biggest nuclear energy deal by a tech company to date, one which saw Meta validate Oklo’s “proof of concept” by committing to purchase 1.2 GW of new energy … … peer Small Module Reactor (SMR) developers, Nano Nuclear and NuScale Power, released their own updates on new engineering partnerships and potential use cases. Nano Nuclear, […]

Going Full Spartacus: Democrats Hold Chest-Thumping Press Conferences To Fuel Anti-ICE Rage Authored by Jonathan Turley, “Say her name.” From Portland to Philadelphia, the mantra is being used by politicians to fuel the anger over the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. While many of us have noted that the shooting appears to fall within the guidelines set by the Supreme Court for the justified use of lethal force, there […]

Trump May Freeze Exxon Out Of Venezuela After CEO Darren Woods Called It “Uninvestable” Tensions flared between Exxon Mobil and the White House after CEO Darren Woods cast doubt on Venezuela’s appeal as an investment destination during a closed-door meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and other oil executives last week, according to Reuters. Woods argued that without sweeping legal and regulatory changes, the country could […]

10Y Auction Stops Through In Solid Start For 2026 Treasury Sales Shortly after a solid 3Y auction, the first of the year, priced just through the WI by 0.1bps, moments ago we got the first sale of benchmark 10Y paper for 2026 in what was another solid auction. Today’s sale of $39BN in 10Y paper priced at 4.173% just after 1pm ET. This was barely changed from the 4.175% in December in what appears to be duration paralysis. And with […]

Republicans Have Quickly Rallied Behind Trump On Venezuela A week after “Operation Absolute Resolve”, which saw the U.S. military attack targets in Venezuela to capture and extract President Nicolás Maduro, the international community is still grappling over the legality of the U.S. intervention. While some experts are saying that the illegality of the U.S. attack is beyond doubt, U.S. allies are hesitant to openly denounce the […]

Burning The Bridgeheads By Rabobank 2-year Treasury yields closed 4.4bps higher at 3.53% on Friday after December non-farm payrolls showed the unemployment rate falling to 4.4% and wage growth accelerating despite slower-than-expected hiring. Fed-dated OIS has seen a modest upward re-pricing in the market-implied path of the Fed Funds Rate, though two 25bp cuts by the end of the year remain in the curve with the first fully priced […]

Noem: DHS Sending “Hundreds More” Federal Agents To Minneapolis Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in an interview on Jan. 11 that “hundreds more” federal officers will be sent to Minneapolis on Jan. 11 and Jan. 12 to carry out immigration-related operations in the city. “We’re sending more officers today and tomorrow, they’ll arrive, there’ll be hundreds more, in […]

Google & AI Startup Settle Teen Suicide Chatbot Lawsuits Google and artificial-intelligence chatbot startup Character.AI have agreed to settle a wave of lawsuits brought by grieving parents who claim AI chatbots emotionally manipulated – and ultimately destroyed -their children. Megan Garcia with her son Sewell Setzer III. Photograph: Megan Garcia/AP Court documents filed this week show the companies have reached settlement […]

The Pyramid Was Wrong. Local Food Was Right All Along Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), I never cared about the food pyramid. Not once. Not when it hung in classrooms, not when doctors repeated its logic, and not when federal agencies insisted that grains outranked everything else. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock I grew up in a family where food wasn’t a recommendation—it was our […]

Pentagon Tells Trump It Needs More Time To Prepare For War With Iran Authored by Kyle Anzalone via AntiWar.com, Senior Department of War officials have told President Donald Trump they need more time to consolidate American troops deployed to the Middle East before the US launches an attack on Iran.  According to The Telegraph, “Trump has been warned that the US military needs more time to prepare for strikes against Iran.” […]

Apple Selects Google’s Gemini To Power AI Siri Apple shares moved up 1% in the morning U.S. cash session after CNBC reported that Apple will partner with rival Google to power key artificial intelligence features, including Siri, later this year. In a statement cited by CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Apple said it selected Google after a competitive review, calling Gemini “the most capable foundation” to support its AI roadmap and unlock new […]

DHS Blasts Anti-ICE Protesters Sharing List Of Hotels Allegedly Hosting Agents Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Jan. 11 that federal agents in Minnesota were put at risk after a list of their alleged hotel locations circulated online. “Revealing their locations puts them at enormous risk of retaliation from these monsters,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin […]

Mamdani Hails Rat-Infested Bronx Slum As ‘Model’ For His Housing Agenda Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York on a slew of socialist promises marketed under the banner of affordability. On his first day in office, he signed three executive orders to address the housing crisis. The first revives the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, led by tenant advocate Cea Weaver, to coordinate agencies and crack down on abusive […]