China Expanding New Outpost In Antigua & Barbuda, Alarming The Pentagon US officials are deeply alarmed at new reports that China is greatly expanding its economic, diplomatic, and possibly even military presence in the island paradise region of the Caribbean, just off America’s doorstep.  Newsweek says it has in its possession leaked documents which show China has established a sprawling economic zone and outpost on Antigua […]

Man Who Filmed Ashli Babbitt Killing Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), John Earle Sullivan, the onetime racial-justice activist and provocateur who filmed the deadly shooting of Ashli Babbitt at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to six years in federal prison by a judge in Washington D.C. Activist John Earle Sullivan reacts to the shooting of Ashli […]

Elon Musk Makes Surprise Beijing Visit As Tesla Seeks Full Self-Driving Rollout  Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday and met with Premier Li Qiang, one week after postponing a trip to India. A source familiar with the visit told Reuters that Musk was expected to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving software and permission to transfer data overseas with top Chinese officials.  X user Yan Chan captured the moment […]

Justice Kavanaugh Warns Of Vicious Cycle Of Malicious Prosecutions That Could End Presidency Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, During Thursday’s deliberations at the U.S. Supreme Court on former President Donald Trump’s immunity claim, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh warned that a decision in the case has future implications for whether future presidents are shielded from vicious cycles of malicious prosecution […]

“Wasted Protest Vote”: Trump Says He’d Take Biden Over RFK Jr. Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid for presidency in the 2024 elections, pointing out his progressive stances on climate, guns, border, and energy. “RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant,’ a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst […]

California Homeowners: Insured No More Amid Fire Danger America’s largest and, for some owners, only option for a home insurer is pulling back its operations in the state of California, leaving many with no more options to secure their property’s value amid wildfire danger in the state reaching new heights. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, after saying in May of last year that it wasn’t giving out any new California […]

Worst In 70 Years: Biden Approval Rating Absolutely Dismal President Joe Biden has the worst job approval rating since Eisenhower during his recently completed 13th quarter in office, according to a new poll by Gallup. While Biden clocks in at 38.7%, the previous low was set by George H.W. Bush at 41.8% in 1992. Donald Trump and Barack Obama averaged 46.8% and 45.9% respectively during the same point in their presidencies. Prior […]

What’s Really Behind Poland’s Interest In Deporting Ukrainian Draft-Dodgers? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz expressed support in an interview for Ukraine’s latest conscription-related policy of refusing consular services for draft-aged men aged 18-60. The form of assistance that Warsaw provides Kiev in returning these draft-dodgers depends on the regime, but he […]

How Skeptical Are Europeans About Vaccinations? 31 percent of people surveyed in Poland as part of Statista’s Consumer Insights survey say they have little confidence in the safety of vaccinations. The low influenza vaccination rate among older individuals in Poland points to the potential practical consequences of such attitudes – although the data does not conclusively demonstrate a causal relationship. As Statista’s Anna […]

PM Orbán At CPAC: The 5 Methods Of Oppression Liberals Use To Silence Conservatives Authored by John Cody via ReMix News, In the run-up to major elections across the West, including the U.S. presidential election and the EU parliament elections in June, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned that conservatives face unprecedented pressure from liberals, who are lashing out over fears they may lose power. During his speech […]

Majority Of British Public Does Not Back ‘Rwanda Plan’ A survey by YouGov conducted on April 24 has found that six in ten people in the United Kingdom think that the Rwanda plan will not be effective in stopping migrants from crossing the English Channel between France and the UK. As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the following chart, this figure rises to over seven in ten respondents among Labour voters and Lib Dem voters. […]

Ukraine Withdraws Abrams Tanks From Frontlines After Russian Drone Attacks Authored by Will Porter via The Libertarian Institute, The Ukrainian military has opted to withdraw its US-supplied M1 Abrams main battle tanks from the front lines due to the threat posed by Russian drones, American officials told the Associated Press. Kiev has reportedly lost several of the tanks since their long-delayed deployment in February. The […]

Iran’s Nightmares Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Details of the recent limited Israeli retaliatory strike against Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions. Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed to stop such incoming ordnance. The target was near the Natanz enrichment […]

Americans Are Increasingly Negative About China Data by Gallup shows that Americans’ views of China have continued to worsen after 2018. The deterioration started with the U.S.-China trade war under President Donald Trump, continued during the coronavirus pandemic that originated in China and has recently taken on yet another dimension among concerns about widespread Chinese tech and industrial espionage and subversion as […]

The Scramble For Antarctica Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, The “scramble for Antarctica” is slowly gathering steam, and it is not unrelated to a new “scramble for the Americas.” The ramifications for the Indo-Pacific and, indeed, for the global strategic balance are also profound. By 2024, Antarctica had at least 82 bases from more than 30 countries. China has five bases, three built within the past […]

“A Marriage Of Ineptitude & High Self-Esteem” – Tucker Exposes The Liberal Cognoscenti “The marriage of ineptitude and high self-esteem is really the marker of our time,” explains Tucker Carlson as part of his wide-ranging discussion with Joe Rogan. Reflecting on the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Karine Jean-Pierre, Carlson remarks that “I’ve nothing against dumb people at all. My dogs are dumb and I love my dogs…” […]

How The Supreme Court’s Immunity Decision Could Limit The Cases Against Trump Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court indicated on April 25 that it would issue a narrow ruling refining the scope of presidential immunity while leaving the details of former President Donald Trump’s other legal battles up to lower courts. The most immediate effect of their decision on President Trump’s legal battles would […]

Adam Schiff Robbed In San Francisco Via the Post Millennial, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff’s luggage was stolen out of his parked car in a downtown San Francisco parking garage on Thursday. He later attended speaking event and dinner in a shirt and hiking vest.    According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the left-wing Senate hopeful was at the event to thank high-profile lawyer Joe Cotchett for his support to […]

Bitcoin Is Built To Last: How The Network Defends Against Attacks Via Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoin is one of the most robust distributed systems in the history of mankind. For fifteen years it has ticked along block by block with only two disruptions in its first few years that were very quickly handled by responsive developers the minute they manifested themselves. Aside from that, it has ticked along producing a block roughly every […]

Which City Has The Most Billionaires In 2024? Some cities seem to attract the rich. Take New York City for example, which has 340,000 high-net-worth residents with investable assets of more than $1 million. But there’s a vast difference between being a millionaire and a billionaire. So where do the richest of them all live? Using data from the Hurun Global Rich List 2024, Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao ranks the top 20 […]

Chinese Nationals Charged With Conspiracy to Export US Technology Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice has arrested two Chinese nationals who allegedly plotted to export U.S. technology to advance the People’s Republic of China’s military operations. Han Li, 44, and Lin Chen, 64, have been charged with several counts of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act […]

These Are The Countries That Have Become ‘Sadder’ Since 2010 Can happiness be quantified? Some approaches that try to answer this question make a distinction between two differing components of happiness: a daily experience part, and a more general life evaluation (which includes how people think about their life as a whole). The World Happiness Report – first launched in 2012 – has been making a serious go at quantifying […]

Office Market Availability Rate Hits Record High In San Francisco Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, A confluence of factors continues to impact San Francisco’s office market, with vacancy and availability rates reaching record highs in the first quarter of 2024, according to commercial real estate analysts at global companies Avison Young and CBRE. Availability – the combination of vacancy and sublease […]

Putin Did Not Order Alexei Navalny’s Death, US Intelligence Finds In a surprising turn, The Wall Street Journal has issued a new weekend report saying that US intelligence agencies do not believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin planned or ordered the death of opposition activist and politician Alexei Navalny. “U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny to be killed at the […]

From Bird Flu To Climate Snakes Authored by Breeauna Sagdal via The Brownstone Institute, Seasoned veterinarians and livestock producers alike have been scratching their heads trying to understand the media’s response to the avian flu. Headlines across every major news outlet warn of humans becoming infected with the “deadly” bird flu after one reported case of pink-eye in a human.  The entire narrative is predicated […]