Zelensky ‘Ready To Meet’ Putin After Russia’s Call For Istanbul Peace Talks Thursday Is this the massive and key breakthrough the world has been waiting for? It started with President Putin’s Sunday proposal to hold talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on Thursday, May 15. Trump has called it “a potentially great day for Russia and Ukraine” and stressed he would “work with both sides to make sure it happens”. The White House has been […]

Ultra-Wealthy Make It Rain On Luxury Brands As Main Street Tightens Belt While middle-market retailers brace for a slowdown, luxury’s upper echelon continues to soar – underscoring a growing economic divide that may prove as precarious as it is profitable. Photo: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg News Signs of strain are increasingly visible among mass-market players. Retail giants like Target and Macy’s are reporting that their customers […]

Trump Doesn’t Want Netanyahu To Spoil His Gulf Visit As Frustrations Boil Via Middle East Eye US President Donald Trump seems to think Israel could ruin his big trip to the Middle East, and it’s causing trouble. Trump appears to want the Middle East to have a respite from war and mass starvation during his trip to the oil-rich Gulf starting on Tuesday. He is signaling that he can leave Israel in the dust if it doesn’t go […]

How Gold Gets To $10,000 Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance In April 2025, the gold market continued its unprecedented surge in physical deliveries from futures exchanges, signaling a significant shift in global financial dynamics. The COMEX reported the delivery of 64,514 gold contracts, equivalent to approximately 6.45 million ounces or $21.3 billion in value, marking the second-highest delivery volume on record. The CME Comex […]

Hamas To Release American-Israeli Hostage As Goodwill Gesture To Trump Israeli media is reporting Sunday that Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander could be released by Hamas as early as Monday, after direct engagement between Hamas and Washington. “After Hamas confirms that it will release Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, which it is reportedly doing as a gesture of goodwill to US President Donald Trump during his visit to the […]

Employment Data Confirms Economy Is Slowing Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, While coming in much stronger than expected, the latest employment data confirmed what we already suspected: the economy is slowing. The reason the employment data is so important is that without employment growth, the economy stalls. It takes, on average, about 200,000 jobs each month to keep up with population growth, which […]

Teenagers With Mental Health Disorders Spend An Extra Hour On Social Media Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Adolescents diagnosed with mental health conditions spend nearly an hour more on social media daily than their peers and are twice as likely to compare themselves negatively to others online, according to new research. DimaBerlin/Shutterstock The study, involving 3,340 adolescents in the UK, […]

“Glitches In System”: Duffy Calls For Urgent Flight Slowdown After Newark Outages Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy appeared on NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday morning, emphasizing the Trump administration’s urgent push to modernize the nation’s outdated airspace communications infrastructure. Secretary Duffy cited recent outages at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). He described the situation as deeply […]

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Asks Lawyers To ‘Stand Up’ And ‘Fight’ Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a lawyers’ conference that amid escalating criticism in the nation of some federal judges, lawyers need to “stand up” and “fight this fight.” Sotomayor made the comments during an on-stage conversation on May 8 at an American Bar Association conference at the […]

Trump’s ‘Nuclear’ Deportation Options Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, The battle between the Trump administration and the federal courts on the topic of deportation is intensifying. The outlines are clear. Biden and his corrupt cronies left the U.S. southern border wide open for four years. Estimates vary but it’s likely 8 million illegal aliens crossed the border. But the actual number could be 10 million […]

US, China Agree: “Substantial Progress” On Trade Deal After “Very Constructive” 2 Days Of Negotiations Update: 2 hours after the US delegation delivered its constructive remarks on the trade talks, China has done the same and it is generally a carbon copy of with what Bessent/Greer said earlier (hardly by accident): CHINA’S VICE PREMIER HE LIFENG: ON CHINA-U.S. TRADE TALKS, BOTH SIDES HAD IN-DEPTH EXCHANGE  HE LIFENG: TRADE TALKS […]

“Absurd Conspiracy”: French Media Rushes To Quash Claims Macron, Merz & Starmer Caught Hiding Cocaine On Kiev-Bound Train French media are on the defensive after journalists unexpectedly entered a train carriage carrying French President Emmanuel Macron, along with the German and British Prime Ministers, en route to Kyiv on Friday, which sparked a firestorm on social media with allegations of cocaine use by the top leaders. […]

In Volatile Markets, RWAs Like Gold Are A Lifeline Authored by Kevin Rusher via CoinTelegraph.com, It’s a volatile world out there. This year, we’ve seen stocks take a wild ride as gold has pumped and crypto has been caught somewhere in the middle. Investors have dumped risk assets and scrambled for safe havens. Gold is leading the charge. While gold is safe, it is not very hard-working. Unlike cash and treasuries, the […]

Trump Admin To Accept ‘Palace In The Sky’ 747 Jet From Royal Family Of Qatar, ABC Says New details emerged on Sunday morning, revealing that the Trump administration could soon receive one of the most valuable gifts from a foreign government: a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from Qatar’s royal family. The 747 will be retrofitted with communications systems and other equipment to transform into Air Force One. ABC News cited people […]

They’ve Destroyed Jobs And Opportunity For Black Chicagoans By Ted Dabrowski of Wirepoints Illinois and Chicago politicians have made a mess of opportunities for blacks in Chicago. In preparation for my Chicago Tonight’s Black Voices appearance last week – more on that later – I pulled together several key facts on how Chicago blacks were fairing vs. the nation’s other big cities. The data, straight from the U.S. Census or […]

Trump Touts “Great Progress” In China Tariff Talks, Suggests “Total Reset” On The Table President Donald Trump said late on Saturday that “great progress” was being made in ongoing U.S.-China talks over tariffs menacing the global economy, and even suggested a “total reset” was on the table as tariff negotiations are set to continue Sunday in Switzerland. No major breakthrough was announced in discussions that lasted over 10 […]

DeBeers Shutting Down Its Lab-Grown Diamond Brand De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer by value, is shutting down its lab-grown diamond jewelery brand, Lightbox, marking a strategic retreat from selling synthetic gems to consumers, according to a report from mining.com. This move aligns with De Beers’ renewed commitment to natural diamonds, a return to the philosophy behind its iconic “Diamonds are Forever” […]

Freight Fraud, Cargo Theft, Deadly Collisions – Ghost Carriers Are Growing National Security Threat Submitted by American Truckers United’s Gord Magill,  On Tuesday, May 6, another in a pattern of horrific crashes involving 18-wheelers in America took place, this time in the small town of Thomasville, Alabama, about a hundred miles north of Mobile. In a video that went viral earlier this week, we see a tractor-trailer drive full […]

Sweden’s Security Adviser Resigns Less Than 24 Hours After Appointment After ‘Sensitive’ Grindr Pictures Emerge Sweden’s national security apparatus was once again thrust into disarray Friday after Tobias Thyberg, newly appointed as National Security Adviser, resigned less than 24 hours into the job over ‘sensitive’ photos tied to a past dating app profile. Thyberg admitted Thursday evening to failing to disclose information […]

Is Biden’s Family Deliberately Screwing With Democrats? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Democrats are reportedly extremely unhappy with the fact that Joe Biden’s family and his handlers are wheeling him out for interviews knowing full well that he’s completely out of it and that practically anything he says has the potential to harm their already dismal standing. As we highlighted this past week, Biden slurred […]

Slovakia’s Fico Hits Back At EU Criticism For Attending Moscow V-Day Parade Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was the only leader of a European Union country to travel to Moscow in observance of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. He’s received plenty of condemnation from across the EU, also including protests against him in the Slovak capital of Bratislava, where people were heard chanting […]

Pipelineistan War: Syria Announces Major Natural Gas Deal With Turkey Via The Cradle Syria’s interim Energy Minister, Mohammad al-Bashir, announced Friday that Damascus and Ankara have reached a deal for Turkey to deliver 6 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas per day to Syria within the next three months. “I agreed with my Turkish counterpart Alparslan Bayraktar on supplying Syria with six million cubic meters of natural gas […]

Senators Cotton & Graham Work To Sabotage Chances Of Iran Deal Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), two of the most hawkish members of Congress, are working together to sabotage the Trump administration’s chances of reaching a deal with Iran. On Thursday, the senators held a press conference outlining a resolution they’re introducing that demands that any deal with […]

Number Of Jailed Journalists Remains High 361 journalists were imprisoned as a result of their work as of December 1, 2024, according to data from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).  Statista’s Anna Fleck points out that this number was the second highest on record since the CPJ started collecting this data in 1992, following only after 2022 when at least 369 journalists were incarcerated.    You will find more […]

A Matter Of Faith For many people around the world, religion plays a prominent role in their everyday lives, while others embrace secular ideas.  As Statista’s Felix Richter reports, according to a Statista Consumer Insights survey, carried out between January 2024 and March 2025, many of the most religious countries in the world can be found in Africa and the Middle East.    You will find more infographics at Statista Among […]