United CEO Pitches Trump On American Tie-Up To Build Highly Competitive Global Carrier A Reuters report stated that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby “pitched” a merger with American Airlines during a recent meeting with President Trump. Shares of both carriers rose in premarket trading in New York following the report. Two sources told the outlet that merger discussions took place during a February 25 White House meeting with Trump […]

Chinese Tanker U-Turns, Iran Mulls Hormuz Shipping Pause To Preserve Talks, Avoid Trump Blockade Showdown Summary Diplomacy is not yet dead, as Bloomberg reports Iran is mulling a short-term pause to shipments through Hormuz Strait, in order to avoid a fresh clash with US forces & avoid testing Trump’s blockade. Mediators are scrambling to put together another round of US-Iran talks in the coming days: Iran is reportedly […]

Xi Says “Global Order Crumbling Into Disarray” As Trump Turns Up Pressure Campaign On China President Trump’s four-and-a-half-month crusade across the Western Hemisphere, and now into the Middle East, increasingly looks like a massive blitz to acquire – or control – energy assets and maritime chokepoints as part of a broader economic pressure campaign against China, which depends heavily on the Gulf and Venezuelan crude.  […]

US Producer Prices Cooler Than Expected In March Despite Surge In Energy Costs The month-over-month change in producer prices had accelerated for five straight months ahead of today’s March data, which is expected to surge thanks to Iran-war impacts on energy costs. Against expectations of a 1.1% MoM rise, March’s Headline PPI shocked everyone by rising only 0.5% MoM (equal to the revised lower 0.5% MoM rise in both of the last two […]

Futures Rise, Nasdaq Up 10 Days In A Row, On Iran De-escalation Optimism US equity futures, and global stocks rise while oil slides on a Reuters report that negotiating teams from the US and Iran could return to Pakistan later this week to resume negotiations to end the war in the Gulf, days after the first peace talks ended without a breakthrough, with chatter from Pakistani media that Trump is said to be in attendance. As of […]

Fearing Iranian Escalation In Red Sea, Saudis Push Trump To Call Off Hormuz Blockade Wary of Iranian escalation that shuts down Red Sea traffic, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is asking the Trump administration to back off from its newly-implemented blockade of Iranian-linked shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday evening. On Sunday, a senior advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei […]

The Iranian Regime’s Crypto Shadow Arsenal Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, In 2025, Iran’s crypto ecosystem swelled to more than $7.78 billion, according to Chainalysis, marking a notable acceleration from prior years amid economic collapse and geopolitical turmoil. For ordinary Iranians—roughly one in six of the population—crypto served as a vital lifeline. Facing relentless rial depreciation (down nearly 90 […]

Texas AG Probes Lululemon Leggings For “Forever Chemicals” Shares of Lululemon Athletica fell as much as 4.5% in late-morning New York trading after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into whether the company, known for its leggings, misled consumers about potential “forever chemicals” in its apparel. Paxton’s probe of Lululemon’s athletic apparel centers around leggings that may contain PFAS, or […]

First Humanoid Robot With Embodied Intelligence For High-Risk Jobs Enters Service Authored by Mriogakshi Dixit via Interesting Engineering, In the dizzying heights of a chemical storage facility, a new kind of worker is punching in. China has reportedly deployed its first “embodied” intelligent humanoid robot designed for high-risk industrial operations.  Embodied AI robot can be seen working on the wall of a large chemical […]

Irish Patriots Are Fighting Back Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, So you say you want a revolution?  Well, take a look at what’s happening in Ireland right now.  Tens of thousands of farmers, truckers, and other fed-up “normies” are taking to the streets of Dublin to protest fuel taxes, mass immigration, and poverty-inducing “climate change” policies.  For the most part, corporate news propagandists in […]

Latest Global Sportswear Supply Chain Read-Through Remains Bearish The S&P 500 Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods sub-industry index (S5TEXA Index), which includes names such as Nike, Lululemon, Deckers Outdoor, Ralph Lauren, and others, is down 15% year-to-date and roughly 65% from its late 2021 peak. With the index now hovering around Covid-era lows, Goldman analysts have published their latest read on textiles, apparel, and […]

ECB Backs Tokenized EU Capital Markets (With Strict Guardrails) Authored by Christina Comben via CoinTelegraph.com, The European Central Bank (ECB) set out a cautious path toward tokenizing Europe’s capital markets, saying the technology can deliver efficiency gains only if it remains anchored to central bank money, infrastructures remain interoperable, and regulation is “robust and supportive.”  In […]

US-Sanctioned Tanker Signaling Chinese Ownerships Test Trump Blockade With Hormuz Crossing Following news that two tankers, one of which indicated China as its destination, had turned around earlier in the day after the Trump blockade of the Straits of Hormuz had kicked in, one of them – a tanker linked to China – is making its way through the Strait of Hormuz, testing President Trump’s naval blockade, Bloomberg reported. Rich […]

From Fiestas To Ferraris, Britain’s Fuel Shock Has Rich And Poor Stealing Petrol Across the U.K., motorists face record-breaking fuel costs at the gas pump as the Gulf energy shock ripples around the world. One of the clearest second-order effects now emerging is a surge in petrol station thefts, spanning from organized crime gangs to even drivers in exotic cars simply filling up and driving off. British newspaper The Times cited […]

Jury Trials Are Vital To The Constitutional Order Authored by David Thunder via ‘The Freedom Blog’ substack, The Labour-led British government is currently attempting to hollow out an ancient pillar of English constitutionalism, trial by jury. Under their planned reforms, trial by jury would survive in England and Wales for certain types of crimes, but its use would be significantly curtailed. For example, according to a […]

France Plans €10 Billion Push To Cut Reliance On Gas and Oil France is shifting its response to rising fuel costs away from short-term relief and toward long-term electrification, according to Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu. Instead of expanding fuel subsidies after oil prices spiked due to the Iran conflict, the government plans to redirect funding into helping households and businesses transition to electric energy, according […]

Rapes In Germany Soar To Nearly 14,000 Cases In 2025, Migrants Vastly Overrepresented Via Remix News, German police statistics for 2025 reveal that the number of reported rapes in Germany has reached its highest level in several years.reaching approximately 13,920 cases under the specific legal paragraphs. What is driving this explosive number of rapes? According to a number of experts and foreigners and people with a […]

How Iran’s Mosaic Doctrine Is Fracturing Authored by Zineb Riboua via Beyond the Ideological, Following President Trump’s announcement of a cease-fire, US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander Admiral Brad Cooper stated: “Iran has suffered a generational military defeat.” Tehran’s response has been a single counterargument: the Islamic Republic still stands. That argument mistakes the question. The survival of the Islamic […]

Mark Carney’s Tough Talk On The US Is Rooted In The Liberal Reset Agenda Are Canadians being primed for an open conflict with the US?  The rhetoric coming from the nation’s liberal government is sounding increasingly hostile, and not just in terms of economic separation.  Prime Minister and avid globalist Mark Carney recently took the stage at the Liberal Convention in Montreal; the event is being heralded as a “battle cry” for […]

The 5 Places In America You Don’t Want To Be When Society Collapses… Authored by Milan Adams via preppgroup.home.blog, There’s a strange kind of comfort people have when they think about disaster. Not the dramatic kind you see in movies, but something quieter, almost subconscious—the belief that if something really bad were to happen, there would still be time to react. Time to think. Time to leave. Time to make the right […]

Marjorie Taylor Greene Predicts GOP “Slaughter” In November After six years as one of Donald Trump’s most reliable foot soldiers, Marjorie Taylor Greene has made it clear that she’s done – not just with Trump personally, but with what she believes the Republican Party is about to become, and is pretty much predicting disaster for them. “Republicans are going to get slaughtered in the midterms,” Greene told Politico in a new […]

Virginia Governor Signs Law Banning ‘Ghost Guns’ Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill to ban so-called “ghost guns,” another making it easier to sue gunmakers and sellers, and two other bills concerning possession of firearms by persons under court orders. The bills – signed on April 10 – are among more than two dozen gun control and gun safety bills that the […]

California Lawmakers Introduce The “Stop Nick Shirley Act” It would appear that independent journalist Nick Shirley’s expose on medical subsidies fraud in California, largely perpetrated by immigrants, was more devastating to Democrats than anyone could have guessed.  After making waves in Minneapolis by revealing rampant daycare fraud run by Somali migrants feeding on millions in government subsidies (and likely funneling some […]

New York Versus The Nuns: The Dominican Sisters Face Penalties For Refusing To Yield On Religious Values Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org, New York has been a godsend for gun rights in passing a series of unconstitutional limits on Second Amendment rights only to result in major adverse rulings. It may soon do the same for the free exercise of religion. New York is now going head-to-head with a group of Dominican […]

Masters Prize Money Soars To Record High: Here’s What Golfers Actually Earned The 2026 Masters delivered golf’s richest payday yet, with a record-shattering $22.5 million purse at Augusta National. This year’s champion, Rory McIlroy, scored a career-highlight $4.5 million, the largest winner’s share in tournament history, as the total prize fund rose $1.5 million from last year and a remarkable $7.5 million since 2022, […]