Watch: This Is Just Absolutely Insane Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In an incredible Senate hearing meant to address the dangers of abortion pills sold online without proper oversight, a Democratic witness turned the spotlight on herself by refusing to acknowledge that only women can get pregnant. Dr. Nisha Verma, an OB-GYN tapped by Democrats, evaded direct questions from Republicans, prioritizing […]

DNC Launches Massive Voter Registration Effort Ahead Of Midterms After GOP Makes Gains Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Jan. 13 announced a new voter registration initiative it said will be its largest financial investment in registration, launching first in Arizona and Nevada as Democrats look ahead to the 2026 midterm elections. A voter casts her ballot on […]

Five Bitcoin Narratives Analysts Are Watching Beyond Price Authored by Bradley Peak via CoinTelegraph.com, Key takeaways ETF flows reveal real institutional demand beyond short-term price moves. Bitcoin treasury stocks can turn BTC exposure into an equity risk shaped by index rules. Low fees are reviving questions about how Bitcoin may pay for its long-term security. Scaling now means choosing between Lightning, […]

$500 Billion… US-Taiwan Agree Huge Chip Trade Deal Confirming what we previewed on Tuesday, the US and Taiwan agreed to a long-sought trade agreement that would lower tariffs on goods from the self-governed island to 15% and see Taiwanese semiconductor companies increase financing for American operations by $500 billion. While the details are a little murky, duties on Taiwanese shipments would fall from the previous 20% rate – […]

Rare Space Station Evacuation Sends SpaceX Crew Dragon Streaking Over California Central Californians got a rare overnight spectacle as a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule streaked across the sky during its de-orbit burn, ahead of a splashdown off the coast of San Diego. Amazing @SpaceX @NASA pic.twitter.com/IzxTvd2CXN — Nick Shelly (@NShelly) January 15, 2026 Video from my roof of @SpaceX Dragon streaking across the sky over LA […]

Democrats Introduce NOPE Act As Both Parties Claim Politically Motivated Prosecution Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Jan. 14 introduced the No Political Enemies Act, or the NOPE Act, a bill they said would protect Americans and organizations from politically motivated federal investigations, prosecutions, and […]

US Forces Seize Sixth Tanker In Western Hemisphere As Trump Targets Dark Fleet President Trump’s race to secure the Western Hemisphere, in a foreign policy move called gunboat diplomacy, off the coast of Venezuela to dismantle and disrupt a dark-fleet tanker network, has now resulted in a sixth oil tanker being seized by U.S. forces in the Caribbean. The Wall Street Journal reports that the dark-fleet tanker was seized in the U.S. […]

The Grid Is Warning Pennsylvania Authored by William desRosiers via American Greatness, If anyone still doubts how serious the power situation unraveling in Pennsylvania has become, the warning signs are no longer abstract. PJM Interconnection, the regional transmission organization that coordinates wholesale electricity across all or parts of 13 states, including Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, made the problem […]

Trump Takes Fresh Swipe At Zelensky, Says Problem Is Not Putin In what by now, nearly four years into the Ukraine war, seems a biannual exercise, President Trump has taken another swipe at President Volodymyr Zelensky, this time blaming him for holding up the potential peace deal with Russia. The European allies have said the opposite, accusing Moscow of having no real interest in achieving ceasefire. But in a fresh interview […]

“What Will They Do?! Nuke the US?”: Russia Mocks Emasculated Europe As Trump Eyes Greenland Russian officials have been quick to seize on President Trump’s renewed efforts in seeking a way ahead to take control of Greenland, accusing the West of “militarizing” the Arctic while also mocking Europe’s ability to defend the strategically important, mineral-rich island. Trump had on Wednesday even suggested the large island is “vital” […]

Everybody Drink! By Michael Every of Rabobank Key data yesterday pointed directly to the tensions we should all have at back of mind. While the US Beige Book was, well, ‘beige’, China saw a trade surplus for 2025 of $1.2trn, the size of the Dutch economy, and up 20% y-o-y. If that pile grows at the same pace ahead then by 2030 it will be $3.0trn, around the size of the French economy. By 2035, it will be the German plus Italian […]

‘Banks Have Been Meddling’: Crypto Industry Split Over CLARITY Act As Coinbase Says ‘No’ A division appears to be forming among crypto industry executives regarding the market structure bill, with crypto giants such as Coinbase pulling support, but others stating that any regulation is better than none. “Crypto builders need clear rules of the road,” said Chris Dixon, managing partner at a16z Crypto on Thursday. He added that […]

Multifamily Delinquencies Rise Again, Hit New Post-Great Recession High Authored by Ryan McMaken via Mises Institute, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (also known as “GSEs”) have released their November reports on their mortgage portfolios and mortgage delinquencies. Both Fannie and Freddie report that serious delinquencies in multifamily are rising to multiyear highs. For November, seriously delinquent multifamily mortgages (90+ […]

Trump Threatens To Invoke Insurrection Act As Left-Wing Chaos In Minneapolis Spreads Update (1024ET): In response to overnight left-wing chaos, what can only be described as the Democratic Party’s “George Floyd 2.0” attempt, President Trump wrote on Truth Social about the very real possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act. 🚨Pics from North Minneapolis last night where rioters destroyed federal vehicles and stole firearms, […]

Airlines Still Avoid Iran, Iraq Airspace Despite Reopening – Trump Assures Tehran No Strikes Imminent Overnight, the world was on edge watching for potential signs of a new US military strike on Iran. This sense of anticipation was only heightened when Iran issued a nationwide “NOTAM” – or “notice to all airmen” – for its airspace which lasted nearly five hours. All flights were banned except ones to and from Tehran which had been […]

Trump Invokes Section 232 To Seek Foreign Supplies Of Processed Critical Minerals, Avoids Tariffs For Now President Trump said on Wednesday he had opted against imposing tariffs on rare earths, lithium and other critical minerals – for now – and instead ordered his administration to seek supplies from international trading partners.  By invoking Section 232 not to slap immediate tariffs, but to renegotiate how the US imports […]

Trump To Meet With Venezuelan Opposition Leader Machado Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the White House today (Jan. 15). “She’s a very nice woman,” Trump told Reuters in a Jan. 14 interview. “I think we’re just going to talk basics.” The United States said in 2024 that then-Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro […]

What Is “America First”? LIVE NOW: https://t.co/hwDX5KTxke — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 15, 2026 ************************ What does “America First” actually mean in 2026? Once a unifying MAGA slogan, the phrase has increasingly become a fault line, splitting conservatives largely along foreign policy lines. The divide is particularly stark on the question of American support for Israel and was widened by the recent […]

Initial Jobless Claims Plunge Back Near Record (56 Year) Lows Once again, weekly jobless claims data shows no signs of pain the labor market with the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time dropping back below the Maginot Line of 200k (198k – below all estimates)… Source: Bloomberg Interestingly, the unadjusted data surged higher (330k) as its seasonal pattern continues. New York saw the largest […]

Futures Jump As Blowout TSMC Earnings Reboot Tech Trade US equity futures are higher led by Tech stocks which bounced back on Thursday after chipmaker TSMC revived confidence in the durability of artificial-intelligence demand, as signalling a strong outlook with $56BN in CapEx spending in 2026 (a 25% increase), restoring confidence in global AI growth and sending Europe’s ASML to a record high. Silver dropped for the first time […]

Oil, Precious Metals Tumble After Report Signaling No Imminent Action Against Iran With traders across the globe refreshing their X accounts every 3 seconds, expecting to see news of imminent “kinetic action” in Iran, what they got instead was a report from NBC which indicated that military action is far from certain, and at best could take days before it is launched. According to the report which cites multiple anonymous sources […]

TSMC’s Bullish AI Outlook Prompts Goldman To Say ‘Anyone Hoping For A Pullback Will Get Disappointed’ Europe’s semiconductor stocks moved higher on Thursday, with ASML Holdings surging to a record high after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported a 35% jump in fourth-quarter profit and signaled plans to boost capital spending by nearly 40% this year. TSMC, a supplier to tech giants including Nvidia and Apple, […]

Witkoff Announces Start Of 2nd Phase Of Gaza Peace Plan Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Presidential peace envoy Steve Witkoff, on Jan. 14, announced the start of the second phase of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. Displaced Palestinians walk through floodwaters following heavy rains in Gaza City on Dec. 15, 2025. Omar al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images In an X post on Wednesday, Witkoff said […]

US Navy Sailor Sentenced To Nearly 17 Years In Prison For Selling Military Secrets To China Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A former U.S. Navy sailor who had been found guilty of providing the Chinese communist regime with sensitive U.S. military information in exchange for money was sentenced to 200 months in prison, the Justice Department said on Monday. The Department of Justice in Washington on Feb. […]

Are Deportations Making Affordability A Winning Issue For The GOP? Democrats entered 2026 confident they could make “affordability” the rallying cry that would win back suburban voters and propel them back into the majority. But an inconvenient political twist has upended that plan: Donald Trump is the one actually delivering on affordability – and doing it in ways his opponents are almost certain to despise. The foundation of […]