France’s Debt Alarm Gets Louder: Fitch Cuts Outlook To Negative In Surprise Warning One week after Moody’s maintained France’s Aa3 sovereign credit rating with a negative outlook, Fitch Ratings revised its outlook to negative in what Bloomberg described as an “unscheduled move,” citing softer economic growth, rising borrowing costs, a widening budget deficit, political fragmentation, and a challenging social backdrop. “The Negative […]

Germany Hits Highest Number Of Suicides In Nearly 30 Years Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix News,The number of suicides in Germany rose to 11,334 in 2025, the highest level in nearly 30 years, official statistics showed, reversing a long-term decline and prompting renewed calls for stronger prevention measures.The Federal Statistical Office reported the figure this month, a 9.3 percent increase from 10,372 deaths the previous […]

Qatar Signals Talks ‘Breakthrough’ As Khamenei Warns Iran’s Retaliation Will Have ‘No Geographical Limits’ If Attacked Could this be the actual breakthrough coming after many months of prior claimed negotiation ‘breakthroughs’ and false starts?Just when the prospect of even getting back to the negotiating table seemed as remote as ever, Qatari newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed is reporting that planned direct talks are back on.Regional […]

Hand In Hand Toward The Abyss Authored by Thomas Kolbe via American Thinker,With massive state demand, Berlin and Paris hoped to escape the debt spiral. But economic data show that, in the end, not even statistical pseudo-growth remains. The pillars of the EU are crumbling amid structural failure.Fateful weeks on the bond markets: The rise in French bond yields continues unabated. At the same time, German yields are falling – the […]

China Rips Off America’s Secret X-37B Spaceplane A newly released US intelligence report, first cited by the defense news outlet TWZ, shows a high-resolution satellite image of China’s experimental spaceplane, revealing a design very similar to the US Space Force’s X-37B.The Defense Intelligence Agency published the image in its latest report on space domain security challenges. Maxar Technologies (now Vantor) first captured the […]

‘We Fear These People’: Scandal Erupts After Berlin ‘Left Party’ Mayoral Candidate Admits Concerns Over Islamists Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix News,Berlin’s Left Party lead candidate for governing mayor, Elif Eralp, privately expressed fear of Hamas-linked figures tied to her party’s orbit in internal notes accidentally returned to Der Spiegel, raising sharp questions about her ability to lead the capital’s security […]

US Puts NATO Allies On Notice To ‘Tone Down’ Anti-Russia Rhetoric Via The CradleUS officials have asked several NATO countries to “tone down their rhetoric” regarding the alleged threat posed by Russia, ​saying that recent statements by European leaders and officials have undermined the security of the continent, Reuters reported on Friday.Citing three European officials and a US official familiar with the matter, the news agency […]

“Operation Ghostbusters” Exposes Kenyan Student Loan Scam The US Department of Justice has announced the first arrests in an ongoing investigation launched in April called “Operation Ghostbusters”, and the results are not surprising.Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald held a press conference this week detailing the discovery of a fraud pipeline exploiting US college loan programs.  The underlying fraud relies on […]

China Secures Massive Discount On Russian Gas As Moscow’s Leverage Weakens Authored by Eurasianet via OilPrice,Russian government projections show China paying approximately 56% less for Russian natural gas than other foreign customers outside the former Soviet Union in 2026.Chinese companies are advancing major copper, port infrastructure, energy, and technology initiatives across Central Asia.Beijing is strengthening its regional […]

Mobile Tax Preparers Indicted Over 9,000 Allegedly Fraudulent Returns Seeking $177 Million, With $81 Million Already Paid Out A federal indictment announced Wednesday accuses six people tied to one Mobile, Alabama, tax shop of filing more than 9,000 false returns that sought more than $177 million in refunds, about $81 million of which the IRS actually issued, prosecutors say.Prosecutors say Jennifer Beverly, 47, owned and ran JB […]

The Doomsday Government: Preparing For The End Of The World, Not The End Of Power Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,”Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other… Monsters are us, the dangerous parts of us. The part that wants to destroy. The part of us with the reptile brain. The part of us that’s vicious and cruel. We express these in our stories as these monsters out there.” – […]

US Army Quietly Begins Drills That Will Chill You To The Bone The U.S. Army has conducted military exercises involving the excavation of mass battlefield graves, preparing for a potential future war in which casualties could become so overwhelming that bringing fallen soldiers home promptly would no longer be possible. The Unit Ministry Team across XVIII Airborne Corps, collaborate and prepare a designated battlefield temporary […]

Trump Considers Lifting Sanctions On Putin’s ‘Slush Fund’ Authored by RFE/RL staff via OilPrice,Washington is considering lifting sanctions imposed on the Russian Direct Investment Fund in 2022.RDIF chief Kirill Dmitriev has become a central figure in negotiations over U.S.-Russia economic relations.Critics warn that removing sanctions could benefit Kremlin-linked investments without securing concessions on Ukraine.Four days after […]

Ilhan Omar’s Ex-Husband And Alleged Brother Describes Himself As ‘Gay Man’ While Frey Aide Says Allegations ‘Almost Certainly True’ Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the ex-husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) who is accused of being her brother, identified himself as a “gay man” in an academic paper published in August. The disclosure surfaces as the Department of Justice is investigating whether the couple’s 2009 marriage was a sham. I […]

Turning The Knife Inward: Xi Purges A Record 33 At Fifth Plenum As China’s Military High Command Shrinks To Two Men Another plenum, another record… just not the kind that goes on the economic scoreboard.China’s Communist Party wrapped up the fifth plenary session of its 20th Central Committee on Thursday after four days behind closed doors, and the Xinhua readout confirmed the expulsion of 33 senior officials, the most ever at a […]

Appeals Court Rejects DOJ Request For California To Set Aside 20,000 Ballots Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,A U.S. appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s request to stop California from counting ballots from 20,000 potential noncitizen voters.In a 39-page ruling, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 that it declines the administration’s “invitation to contravene the […]

‘Decoy Dan’ Skipped Town Two Days Before NYT Bombshell As Feds Surge Into Alaska The second Dan Sullivan on Alaska’s Senate ballot has left his hometown, multiple sources told CBS News on Friday, four days before Alaskans finish voting in a race that could decide control of the Senate.Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired Petersburg schoolteacher running as an independent against Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, was seen on a flight to […]

North Korea’s Kim Orders Drone Buildup In Push For “Absolute Superiority” In Unmanned Warfare North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency reported that supreme leader Kim Jong Un attended an exhibition featuring intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) drones and a variety of one-way attack drones.In a speech at the exhibition, leader Kim focused on the urgent need to seize “absolute superiority in drone […]

A Soggy Paper Straw Is Worse For The Environment Than A Plastic One; Study Finds Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness,A South Korean government study has found that paper straws carry a significantly heavier environmental and manufacturing toll than traditional plastic ones.The Daily Wire reports that a team of researchers from South Korea recently tested four different types of straws, including paper, plastic, […]

California High-Speed Rail CEO Resigns After Reporter Confronts Board Over Consultants’ Nightclub And Cigar-Lounge Tabs Ian Choudri, the CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, resigned late Wednesday, telling the board in an emailed letter that he needed to focus on “important personal and family priorities,” CalMatters reported. The board named Joe Stephenshaw, the state’s Department of Finance director since July 2022, […]

Musk Says Gates Funding His Attackers As Democrats Ready Post-Midterm Witch Hunt With Democrats openly planning to investigate Elon Musk if they take the House on Tuesday, Musk on Friday named the man he says is bankrolling the people coming after him: Bill Gates.”Gates is funding people who attack me,” Musk wrote, replying to Katie Miller, the former DOGE aide who left Musk’s full-time employ last year to launch a podcast. Miller […]

Kunstler: The ‘Two Dan Sullivans’ Case Exposes How ‘Filthy’ Democratic Party Tactics Are… Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation,A Fine, Deliberately Engineered Mess”Can’t we just be Mexico or Paraguay and have peace and quiet while things mostly go to hell?” – Matt TaibbiThe garish stunt pulled by the Democratic Party in Alaska’s US Senate race has been known for months – a florid, festering carbuncle on the […]

Seattle’s Socialist Mayor Faces Business Revolt As Utopia Dreams Implode, Nearly Half Weigh Exit Nearly half of Seattle businesses surveyed by the Downtown Seattle Association and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce have seriously considered moving operations, jobs, or investment out of the city, putting pressure on socialist Mayor Katie Wilson in her first year in office.Socialist Utopia of Seattle All you need to know about […]

New York Bans Artificial Intelligence Features For Children Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,New York’s governor has signed a law that bans artificial intelligence (AI) operators from offering certain chatbot features to minors. Children interact with a programmable humanoid robot during the Global Robot Expo in Madrid on Jan. 31, 2016, in this file photo. Gerard Julien/AFP via Getty Images Prohibited features […]

Russia Hawks Rage With Lavrov In Atlanta For G20 Meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Atlanta on Friday for the G20 meeting of Foreign Ministers, after a flight that reportely took 20 hours, given his plane had to avoid traversing airspace of unfriendly countries which have sanctions on Russia, including its aviation.The G20 Atlanta meeting is set to run through Saturday, in anticipation of the later final G20 […]