5 States Limit Soda, Candy For SNAP Recipients To Curb Obesity Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Residents in five states receiving federal food assistance will face new restrictions on their benefits when it comes to purchasing soda, candy, and other items categorized as unhealthy starting Thursday, marking the first push to overhaul the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, […]

Nick Shirley Teases New “Crazier” Video: “It’s Going To Be A Masterpiece” Independent journalist Nick Shirley, fresh off his viral exposé documenting apparent widespread fraud in Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded childcare programs – much of it linked to the state’s Somali community – has teased a major follow-up investigation into additional abuses. “We have a whole ‘nother video coming out about other fraud that’s taking […]

What Do You Resolve For 2026? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, One of the most underrated intellectuals of the 20th century is Henry Hazlitt, author of “Economics in One Lesson” (1946). His career is far more varied than people know. Long before he was writing free-market treatises, he was a working journalist on Wall Street and, later, literary editor of The Nation and then H.L. Mencken’s chosen successor at […]

12 NASA Satellite Images That Tell The Story Of Earth In 2025 From devastating wildfires to swirling cloud vortices, NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites captured remarkable views of our planet throughout 2025. As Visual Capitalist’s Nick Routley shows below, these images reveal both the beauty and fragility of Earth’s systems, documenting natural phenomena, climate events, and human impacts visible from space. All […]

American Legal Sovereignty Threatened By Greenpeace’s Retaliatory EU Lawsuit Authored by John Swallow via The Epoch Times, The strength of the American civil legal system rests on a simple principle: those who break the law on U.S. soil answer to U.S. plaintiffs in U.S. courts. Our constitutional order depends on juries empowered to weigh evidence, judges and plaintiffs entrusted to enforce verdicts, and a system insulated from […]

Finnish Police Seize Russia-Linked Ship Accused Of Cutting Undersea Cable The Europeans have taken yet more ‘counter-Russia’ actions amid widespread allegations that Moscow has sponsored sabotage campaigns targeting EU communications infrastructure. Finnish authorities have newly detained a cargo ship suspected of damaging an undersea communications cable. The vessel has been identified as the Fitburg, and had departed St. […]

HHS Freezes Childcare Payments Nationwide After Bombshell Somali-Linked Daycare Fraud Allegations In Minnesota The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all federal childcare payments to every state following alleged Somali-linked welfare fraud involving Minnesota daycare and autism centers. These revelations shocked the nation earlier this week after being exposed by citizen journalist Nick Shirley. A growing army of […]

Russia’s Secretive Hypersonic, Nuclear-Ready Oreshnik Missiles Go Operational In Belarus Belarus has announced that Russia’s Oreshnik intermediate-range nuclear capable ballistic missile system has been deployed on its territory, though details and specifications – including range – of the projectile remain secretive. On Tuesday, the Belarusian Ministry of Defense released a video it claims shows the Oreshnik system being deployed […]

The Real Existential Threat Facing Europe Authored by Nouriel Roubini via Project Syndicate, Contrary to what far-right leaders claim, Europe’s greatest challenge is not immigration or “wokeness,” but its own economic and technological backwardness. With productivity growth lagging and innovation increasingly taking place elsewhere, Europe must confront its structural weaknesses or risk falling further behind. US President […]

40 Dead, About 100 Injured After Fire Rips Through Swiss Ski Resort Bar Swiss emergency services responded to an explosion and fire that killed 40 people and injured about 100 during New Year’s celebrations at a bar and lounge called Le Constellation, located in the ski resort town of Crans-Montana in southwestern Switzerland. BREAKING: Swiss police say “several dozen” people are dead, and “100 or so” people have been injured […]

2026: The Year Of Living Dangerously Authored by Lawrence Kadish via The Gatestone Institute, The British were the first to develop the aircraft carrier as an emerging weapon of war. But it was the Japanese who perfected the ship by combining as many as four aircraft carriers into a single battle group and deploying a task force that led to their devastating strike against the American fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. […]

Are Fireworks Integral To New Year’s Eve? Fireworks are bad for the environment, distressing to animals and people with conditions such as PTSD, as well as dangerous – resulting in thousands of injuries in the United States alone each year. Yet, come New Year’s Eve, they are set off all around the world, as the clock strikes 12 in one timezone after another. In the U.S, the market is even booming, with the U.S. fireworks […]

Obama’s Trojan Horse: How His Refugee Machine Engineered The Billion-Dollar Looting Of US Treasury Authored by X user Saggezza Etern, Obama’s Billion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud Empire The Heist You Paid For Imagine waking up tomorrow to find your bank account empty. Every dollar you saved for your children’s tuition, your retirement, your security—gone. Now imagine looking out the window and seeing the thief driving a Porsche […]

China’s EV Makers Are Powering Southeast Asia’s Bus Revolution Chinese-made electric buses are rapidly gaining ground across Southeast Asia as governments push to decarbonize public transport and Chinese manufacturers seek growth beyond a slowing home market, according to Nikkei Asia. In Jakarta, that shift is already visible. Transjakarta, the capital’s main bus operator, introduced electric buses from China’s BYD in 2022. It […]

US Instructs Its Western-Nation Embassies To Report On Abuses Due To Mass Immigration Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of State has instructed U.S. embassies located in Western nations to report human rights abuses occurring there due to mass immigration, according to a Dec. 30 thread on X. The embassies will “analyze government policies that facilitate mass migration or privilege migrants over […]

Trans Covenant School Shooter Made Pros-And-Cons List Before Massacre The public has been waiting for years to see the contents of Audrey Hale’s journals and manifesto ever since she shot and killed three students and three staff members at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 27, 2023. Her writings were kept under wraps for years by the Biden administration and local law enforcement as court battles dragged on, […]

Trump Pulls National Guard Out Of Chicago, Los Angeles & Portland President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he’s pulling National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland.  “We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact,” he wrote on Truth Social, adding […]

New Trump-Xi Showdown Approaches As Chinese Tankers Press Ahead To Venezuela Despite Blockade Two Chinese-flagged very large crude carriers are proceeding toward Venezuelan waters despite a U.S.-imposed blockade on sanctioned oil tankers, raising the prospect of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over Venezuela’s crude exports. Thousand Sunny oil tanker (photo: Tommy Chia) Shipping data published by Lloyd’s List on […]

In Texas, A 400-Acre Muslim Development Sparks Controversy Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, JOSEPHINE, Texas – This rural town with farmland stretching to the horizon might as well be a million miles away from New York City with its skyscrapers and big-city worries. But the residents of the Big Apple and Josephine have something in common—controversy over the construction of a mosque. Perhaps not […]

Hundreds Of Thousands In Moscow Experience Rare ‘Total Blackout’ After Drone Wave Something very rare just happened in Moscow. Large swathes of Russian capital were plunged into darkness Wednesday after a swarm of inbound Ukrainian drones resulted in a fire at a key electrical substation. People reported widespread outages across the Moscow region, including a “total blackout” in areas southeast of the capital, leaving homes […]

Americans Will Drop Everything (And Anything) To Celebrate New Year’s Eve Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, Millions worldwide will watch a crystal ball descend 139 feet down a flagpole in Manhattan’s Time Square as a throng of thousands counts down the last 10 seconds of 2025 and ushers in 2026 in a blizzard of confetti and a cacophony of kazoos, party horns, whistles, and whatever else imaginative noisemakers can […]

National Guard Patrols New Orleans Ahead Of New Year Amid Vehicle-Ramming Threats Weeks after National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent warned that thousands of known and suspected terrorists entered the U.S. during the Biden-Harris regime years of a nation-killing open-border invasion, and days after a U.S. government threat assessment flagged elevated risks from lone wolves and small terror cells potentially targeting […]

Citizen Journalists Uncover Defunct Shell Organization Linked To 40 Ohio Daycares Update (1520ET): Dozens of citizen journalists are combing through public filings and conducting on-the-ground investigations in corrupt Democratic-run cities, aiming to map out the scale of an alleged Somali-linked welfare fraud network. The on-the-ground footage these journalists have posted on X suggests that some daycare operations may be front […]

Investors Scoop Up 40% Of Vacant Lots Sold After Los Angeles Fires: Report Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Almost a year after January’s devastating California wildfires, real estate investors have been buying up nearly 40 percent of the land sold in the areas impacted by the fires. A Dec. 30 report from Redfin stated that many of these now-empty lots once retained some of the nation’s most expensive homes, […]

Iran Protesters Try To Break Into Govt Building In 4th Consecutive Night Of Unrest Update(1440ET): Al Jazeera is reporting that groups of Iranian protesters have been observed trying to breaking into government buildings, a trend which could grow to various places: Iranian protesters demonstrating over economic hardship and a plummeting currency attempted to break into a local government building, state media reported, as the […]