England's last-16 World Cup tie will kick off at 01:00 BST on Monday, after Fifa reconsidered bringing it forward. Continue Reading »

The couple tied the knot in New York on Friday, after months of speculation about when, where and how it would happen. Continue Reading »

The plans changed after it was confirmed they would not have taxpayer funded security, it is understood. Continue Reading »

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the target is key infrastructure "that generates revenue for Russia's war". Continue Reading »

As Starmer gets ready to pack his bags, there's a "bunfight for jobs" in Whitehall, one MP tells Laura Kuenssberg. Continue Reading »

The SpaceX stock purchases come as Elon Musk’s company deepens its role in federal contracting and remains closely tied to President Donald Trump’s Washington. Continue Reading »

Trading volumes on Kalshi and Polymarket both hit record highs in June. Rothera, a new prediction market platform, was also able to manage $2 billion in volume. Continue Reading »

Iran plans a six-day funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with ceremonies across Iran and Iraq before burial in Mashhad. Continue Reading »

France said it has deployed mine countermeasures to the Middle East, including two mine-hunting ships. Continue Reading »

The president defended his family's business and said he feels bad that the presidency creates a conflict of interest in any of his children's investments. Continue Reading »

Par AFP Par Joel CAMACHO © 2026 AFP L'attaquant Julián Quiñones, originaire de Colombie, a mis à ses pieds le Mexique avec trois buts depuis le début du Mondial, qui ont brisé les préjugés associés aux binationaux, avant le choc des 8es contre l'Angleterre dimanche à Mexico.Le parcours de l'ailier d'Al-Qadsiah, meilleur buteur du dernier championnat d'Arabie saoudite mais jamais passé par l'Europe, illustre l'état d'esprit d'une sélection décomplexée qui, après avoir remporté ses quatre premiers matches à domicile, compte rivaliser les yeux dans les yeux avec l'armada de stars anglaise."Même si certains d'entre nous ne sont pas en Europe, cela ne veut pas dire que nous ne travaillons pas à fond", a répété Julián Quiñones mardi après le 16e de finale gagné contre l’Équateur (2-0), au cours duquel il a marqué le premier but puis délivré une passe décisive.Son succès n'était pas écrit d'avance: s'il est devenu l'un des joueurs les plus adulés d'El Tri, Quiñones a longtemps essuyé les critiques d'une partie des observateurs locaux qui ont questionné son allégeance au Mexique.Les binationaux ayant évolué pour le Mexique dans une Coupe du monde se comptent sur les doigts des deux mains et seul l'un d'entre eux, Antonio ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP Parisiens et touristes ont retrouvé samedi les joies de la baignade dans la Seine, avec la réouverture pour l'été de trois sites surveillés et gratuits, hérités des Jeux olympiques de 2024, un répit bienvenu dans une capitale déjà éprouvée par la canicule.Au pied de la tour Eiffel, sur le site de Grenelle (15e arrondissement), des nageurs faisaient la brasse ou discutaient au premier jour de l'ouverture des sites, appuyés sur leur flotteur jaune, obligatoire en raison du courant, sous l'œil de maîtres-nageurs en t-shirt fluo postés sur le quai de bois."C'est mieux que la piscine, c'est pas tout à fait la plage mais ça donne un sentiment d'être déjà un petit peu en vacances", sourit Lauriane Fiorentino, employée d'une entreprise de construction.Sur les quais, où d'autres bronzent tandis que le métro aérien défile sur le pont de Bir-Hakeim, les touristes ne boudent pas leur plaisir. "Regardez cette eau, la tour Eiffel est en arrière-plan (...) Franchement, est-ce que ça peut être plus beau que ça?", s'enthousiasme Benjamin Doncan, un Américain venu avec ses petits-neveux. ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP Le prince Harry, fils cadet du roi Charles III, se rendra à Londres la semaine prochaine sans sa femme Meghan ni leurs deux enfants, Archie et Lilibet, a indiqué à l'AFP une source proche du duc de Sussex.Cette visite, initialement annoncée avec sa femme et ses enfants, devait être leur première au Royaume-Uni en famille depuis quatre ans. Aucune raison n'a été avancée par cette source pour l'absence de Meghan et des deux enfants à Londres.Elle a toutefois laissé flotter la possibilité que la famille se retrouve dans une ville du Royaume-Uni, hors Londres. Selon le Times, Harry arrivera dans la capitale britannique lundi et restera au Royaume-Uni cinq jours.Le couple, qui vit en Californie depuis 2020 après sa rupture fracassante avec la famille royale, a prévu ce déplacement dans le cadre des préparatifs des Invictus Games qui doivent se tenir en 2027 à Birmingham (centre de l'Angleterre).Les Jeux Invictus ont été créés sous le patronage du prince Harry pour les anciens combattants blessés ou malades d'environ 25 pays.Mais les médias britanniques rapportent depuis plusieurs jours le mécontentement du prince Harry face à l’absence de protection policière pour lui et sa famille. La ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP Par Nicolas REVISE © 2026 AFP "Lewis, le plus grand", "Lando, je tatoue ton nom": ils sont des milliers de fans britanniques de F1 au Grand Prix de Grande-Bretagne à aduler leurs champions, dans la grande tradition de ce pays royaume du sport automobile.Massés le long des petites routes qui mènent à l'entrée du circuit de Silverstone, des jeunes, des seniors et des femmes en nombre brandissent des portraits, des photos, des banderoles ou portent des vêtements à l'effigie des cinq pilotes britanniques du paddock. Avec une écrasante domination pour le septuple champion du monde Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) et le tenant du titre Lando Norris (McLaren)."Je suis fan de tous les pilotes britanniques, mais Lando est mon préféré (grâce à) son charisme, sa personnalité, sa manière d'être", confie à l'AFP Alisha Johnson, 28 ans, venue avec son père guetter l'arrivée du champion du monde 2025, dont le sourire, le sens de la mesure et de l'humour lui plaisent autant que son talent sur les circuits. "Il est champion du monde et Britannique" et s'inscrit dans la lignée des ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP Par Nicolas REVISE © 2026 AFP Le jeune Italien Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes), leader du championnat du monde de F1, a repris la main samedi sur le septuple champion du monde Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) en remportant la course sprint du Grand Prix de Grande-Bretagne.Parti en pole position devant son public pour cette petite course de 17 tours (100 kilomètres), Hamilton, 41 ans, s'est fait dépasser à mi-course par le prodige du sport automobile qui aura 20 ans en août."Allez, allez!", s'est encouragé Antonelli à la radio en franchissant la ligne d'arrivée en vainqueur d'une épreuve de moins d'une demi-heure sur le circuit de 5,891 kilomètres à Silverstone, un immense site à 100 km au nord-ouest de Londres.Les organisateurs de ce Grand Prix mythique, le premier que la F1 avait organisé le 13 mai 1950, évaluent à un demi-million le nombre de spectateurs sur trois jours de courses et de spectacles.La plupart des Britanniques sont là pour leurs pilotes qui jouent "à domicile": Hamilton mais aussi le champion du monde en titre Lando Norris (McLaren), le prétendant à la couronne 2026 George Russell (Mercedes) et les deux "rookies" Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) et Oliver Bearman (Haas). "Très marrant avec ... Continue Reading »

The US had no legitimate reason whatsoever to attack Iran, deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has said Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Russian anti-aircraft defenses intercepted over 500 incoming Ukrainian drones and missiles overnight, according to the Defense Ministry Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

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Iran will be shut down on Sunday and Monday to encourage more mourners to join funeral procession. Continue Reading »

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Live coverage and text updates as cohosts Canada play Morocco in the round of 16 knockout stage. Continue Reading »

Yemen's health professionals have been leaving the country in search of higher income and a safer working environment. Continue Reading »

A peaceful, supported end-of-life experience — focused on family and closure — can transform both dying and grieving. Continue Reading »

Witkoff and Kushner head to Doha for meetings on the Strait of Hormuz crisis, while Tehran denies direct negotiations with Washington and keeps pressing its claim over shipping in the strategic waterway Continue Reading »

The confrontation near the village of Abdin began with gunfire toward Israeli troops and escalated into artillery and helicopter fire, forcing residents to flee and raising new questions about Israel’s presence in southern Syria Continue Reading »

Vadym Yermolaiev, his wife and their 13-year-old son are reportedly in critical condition after a shrapnel-filled bomb exploded outside their Monaco home Continue Reading »

Before vanishing in Laos, Masanobu Tsuji helped engineer Japan’s stunning conquest of Malaya and Singapore, fled Allied war-crimes prosecutors, rewrote his own legend in best-selling books and won a seat in parliament Continue Reading »

While Turkey and Azerbaijan sharply condemned the Israeli government’s move, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Yerevan sees no need to respond and will not turn the genocide into a political weapon Continue Reading »

Away from the turmoil in Washington, Americans will mark July 4 in their own patriotic ways. Expect rodeos, line dancing, Tejano music and Led Zeppelin. Continue Reading »

On the eve of July 4, President Trump extolled the nation’s founders while branding his opponents as “communists” in what seemed to be a warm-up for November. Continue Reading »

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei’s absence has raised questions inside Iranian political circles about who is really running the country and allowed open divisions to fester. Continue Reading »

A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money while sophisticated traders did better. Continue Reading »

In his second term, the president has increasingly mused about his predecessors, comparing himself with some and distancing from the failures of others. Continue Reading »

The Chinese upstart says it has trained high-performing AI models cheaply, without using the most advanced chips. Continue Reading »

DeepSeek, SoFi and more in the latest Market Talks covering Technology, Media and Telecom. Continue Reading »

DeepSeek is called “amazing and impressive” despite working with less-advanced chips. Continue Reading »

The LinkedIn co-founder is starting Manas AI with “The Emperor of All Maladies” author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Continue Reading »

Apps can add flexibility and freshness to your routine. Just try not to get injured. Continue Reading »

Israel allowed displaced Gazans to begin crossing a military zone that bisects the enclave after a deadlock over hostage releases was broken. Continue Reading »

Troubles at Vanke raise questions about the continued spread of the property crisis and whether the Chinese state will step in. Continue Reading »

Some of the women were held alone for extended periods and spent eight months in tunnels, an Israeli medical official said. Continue Reading »

The alliance mounted its first coordinated response to a suspected sabotage campaign against critical infrastructure after another cable was severed in the Baltic Sea. Continue Reading »

Residents of Goma reported gunfire and shelling after rebels overran Congolese troops. U.N. officials estimated that more than one million displaced people were now inside the city. Continue Reading »

With 18 of 26 players born abroad, the Atlas Lions are showing how expanded eligibility rules and a bigger World Cup are rewriting who gets to play for whom. Continue Reading »

Colombia's new president has his opponents seeing yellow. Continue Reading »

Lithuanian MEP Petras Auštrevičius explained why FIFA’s decision to allow Russia to play in the upcoming U-15 World Cup is bad news. Continue Reading »

Hossam Hassan's brother was in a brief altercation with an officer at the team's hotel. Continue Reading »

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has seen his share of local sports successes. But only World Cup allows his city’s residents to be “central diplomats” for the American Midwest to the world. Continue Reading »

Details of the former Republican majority leader’s condition, and the reason for the hospitalization, were not disclosed. Continue Reading »

The panel, in a statement, said these records should be released by another congressional office. Continue Reading »

Her endorsement could provide El-Sayed with a critical boost just over a month before the state’s Aug. 4 primary. Continue Reading »

Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are confronting the reality that ticking items off their pre-midterm to-do list is looking increasingly unattainable. Continue Reading »

The president is demanding the inclusion of mail-voting restrictions that are highly unpopular among some Republicans. Continue Reading »

The first lady has attempted to evolve the office to pursue her vision. Continue Reading »

Trump's former White House chief strategist argues the U.S. is in a transformational political moment — and leadership in both parties are way behind. Continue Reading »

The 24/7 command center offers a rare window into the machinery and threat assessments that underpin the largest sporting event ever staged in North America. Continue Reading »

In the hours after the Supreme Court defeat, White House aides and allies discussed a number of policy options. Continue Reading »

A group of Trump advisers, Cabinet secretaries and MAHA farmers came to the Oval Office for a signing ceremony on an executive order they championed. A deep-pocketed opponent was waiting to argue them down. Continue Reading »

Tens of thousands of Americans dodged death last year, new data shows. The US death rate has fallen to the lowest point on record ahead of America 250, as fatal overdoses and COVID fatalities continued to plunge. The death rate fell 4.6% last year to 689.2 deaths per 100,000, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Continue Reading »

New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as death rates have continued to fall since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. There were about 689 deaths for every 100,000 people in the US in 2025, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the lowest rate recorded in more than a century of tracking. The age-adjusted rate has fallen 22% since 2021, landing about 4% lower than it was just before the pandemic in 2019. Continue Reading »

The U.S. death rate fell to a record low in 2025, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Thursday. According to the Vital Statistics Rapid Release report, the death rate in 2025 was 689.2 per 100,000 people, representing a 4.6 percent drop from 2024 as well as the lowest recorded death rate in the country's history. Continue Reading »

America has long stood for freedom and prosperity, but under Trump insults, threats and unpredictability have become the new norm. As the US marks its 250th anniversary, Guardian correspondents around the world report on how it is perceived elsewhere Continue Reading »

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at the age of 35 — a fact that has prompted many lachrymose musicologists to wonder at what might have been. Were it not for the hand of Providence, the United States of America may well have suffered the same fate. Today, we tend to look back at the sundry threats and crises that have peppered America's history as inevitable waypoints on a long march toward glory. But this is a luxury that has been accorded to us by the sweat from others' brows. Had a few of the details changed in December of 1776, or in September of 1814, or in the summer of 1862, this country, as envisioned, could have been relegated to a curiosity of the past. Nor, in the last century, was our survival as a free republic guaranteed. The view from Hooverville was bleak indeed. So, until that auspicious glint of sunlight saved the day, was the outlook at Midway. During the Cold War, we avoided the predations of a millenarian cult that had promised to "bury" us — although, as Wellington ha… Continue Reading »

President Trump's second term has delivered numerous measurable wins: an impenetrable border, record-low murder rates, the ending of multiple foreign conflicts, a surging stock market, and a replenished military. However, one of his most profound achievements cannot be measured by numbers alone: the resurrection of the American spirit, which has flowed from his deep, unwavering, and evident belief in American exceptionalism. Continue Reading »

The state of Florida remains a cesspool for some of the conservative movement's most virulent racism and xenophobia. Continue Reading »

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced the designation of several groups as terrorist organizations, using authority under a new law his office drafted. The legislation lets the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, whose leader is appointed by the governor, label groups as domestic or foreign terrorists, a power typically reserved for the federal government. Continue Reading »

The governor said Florida will designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Brotherhood, and antifa under state law, while also flagging more than 90 federally designated foreign terrorist organizations, including the Sinaloa cartel, Tren de Aragua, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Continue Reading »

The US is one of the few places on Earth where citizenship is tied to the ground you're born on, not your heritage. Why does the 'right of the soil' feel so uniquely tied to being 'American,' compared to being from a different nation? What are the other defining characteristics of the American identity? Continue Reading »

Russia's attempt to thaw business relations with the US began with talk of a professional hockey match between the two countries. What has emerged so far is a more modest business-linked event at a Moscow rink. The first US-Russia ice hockey match since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 brought Stanley Cup champions and Olympic gold medallists to the Russian capital this week. But Russia's 10-6 victory on Wednesday fell well short of the top-level spectacle Putin first floated to Donald Trump last year. Continue Reading »

Russia defeated the United States 10-6 in an inaugural ice hockey match that organizers hoped would help thaw bilateral relations frozen since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russian media reported. The match took place on Wednesday at the Kristall ice palace within Moscow's Luzhniki Olympic Complex. Organized by the chambers of commerce of both countries, the invite-only event was held at a small venue capped at 500 spectators, according to Sports.ru. "This game will become part of a wider business dialogue," Russian presidential aide Anton Kobyakov said ahead of the puck drop. Continue Reading »

Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson said he plans to build a new party after leaving the Republican Party last month. Continue Reading »

Tucker Carlson escalated his break with President Donald Trump and the Republican Party on Wednesday, as he announced he's working to launch a new political party aimed at voters who no longer feel represented by either major party. Continue Reading »

The influential conservative commentator's relationship with the president and the G.O.P. fractured over the war with Iran. Now, he says he is charting a new course. Continue Reading »

The U.S. economy added jobs at a steady pace in June despite headwinds caused by elevated inflation and uncertainty over the Iran war's economic impact. Continue Reading »

Stocks were mixed Thursday after June jobs data pointed to slower-than-expected growth in the labor market. Continue Reading »

The U.S. economy added just 57,000 jobs in June, a worrying sign for labor market stability as wage growth tracked below inflation for a third consecutive month. Continue Reading »

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship and ruled Trump’s executive order on it unconstitutional in a 6-3 ruling on Tuesday, saying it conflicted with the 14th amendment. Continue Reading »

The final scene of Uwe Boll's controversial new film Citizen Vigilante, in which a self-appointed avenger played by Armie Hammer executes an entire family of Syrian migrants—father, mother, brother, sister—in their apartment, is going viral on X in all the wrong places. The movie follows Sanders (Hammer), an American veteran visiting an unnamed European city on business, who's become a Death Wish–esque folk hero. He kills this family because the teenage son was part of a gang of migrant kids that raped a local girl and escaped punishment because the judge on their case was overly sympathetic to their situation. (Earlier in the film, Sanders murdered that judge, too.) Continue Reading »

New York City Appropriates $7 Million For 'Trans Equity', Drag Queen Story Hours Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A massive $126 billion spending plan approved by the New York City Council earlier this week includes nearly $7 million for so-called ‘trans equity’ programs and drag queen story hours. The New York Post reports that the budget was approved by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and directs the taxpayer money to programs and services “to help empower the transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) community.” NYC budget funnels $7M to transgender programs, drag story hours For the record, Drag Queen Story Hour now receives more city funding than the Department of Veterans Services. Understand where we are.pic.twitter.com/UtvWOfZPod — The Unredacted (@theunredacted) July 2, 2026 The city council said, “Funding may support education programs, employment services, workforce development, healthcare navigation, legal guidance, community workshops, or academic research, among others.” According to The National Review, the new budget doesn’t include any spending for the additional 580 police officers Mayor Mamdani promised to hire. State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar questioned, “Why isn’t there more money for police?” Kassar added, “There are countless dollars going toward extreme, far-out programs,” Kassar said. “This goes way beyond recognizing transgender individuals into spending millions ... Continue Reading »

Ships Abruptly U-Turn Near Hormuz As Some Shift To Iran-Approved Routes The reopening of the Hormuz chokepoint has proceeded relatively smoothly for weeks, but an overnight development shows that the process remains fragile. At least eight ships attempting to exit the Persian Gulf abruptly reversed course near the critical waterway. Bloomberg cites ship-tracking data showing that the vessels, including oil tankers, product carriers, bulk carriers, and vehicle carriers, were moving toward the strait along the Omani coast before abruptly turning back. Several ships later resumed their transits through the strait by shifting northward onto a route closer to the Iranian coast, in line with Tehran's request that ships use authorized Iranian-designated lanes. via Bloomberg:  It is unclear why the ships abruptly altered course, though Tehran has repeatedly warned vessels by VHF radio to follow designated routes. Earlier on Saturday, Iran warned Western powers that the Hormuz waterway is not a "theater for the military display of extra-regional powers." Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Iran views itself as the responsible power and security guarantor of the strait, adding that Tehran would closely monitor any foreign military movements in the waterway. Gharibabadi's warning came shortly after ... Continue Reading »

10 Charts Show How America Has Changed In 250 Years Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, The United States has transformed from a collection of 13 eastern colonies into a transcontinental nation spanning 50 states, one district, and five major territories—a geographic expansion forged through land purchases and war treaties. America’s two-and-a-half-century evolution includes not only geographic growth, but also transformations in population, family structures, wages, the housing market, and health. Through data and graphics, here is a look at how the country has changed over 250 years. Changing Face of America In 1790, 95 percent of Americans resided in rural areas; by 2020, that figure had dropped to 20 percent. This demographic shift transformed the rural landscape itself. More than 50 percent of rural residents lived on farms prior to 1940, but that share dwindled to a mere 5 percent by 2000. Although the U.S. urban population surged from 5 percent in 1790 to 80 percent in 2020, this growth shifted heavily toward suburban and outlying areas after 1950, leaving central cities with less than half of the total urban population. While domestic migration altered where Americans lived, shifting global immigration patterns simultaneously refined ... Continue Reading »

Heat Dome Threatens America's 250th Birthday As Power Grid Crisis Continues A massive heat dome continues to threaten the eastern half of the US, with the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast at the epicenter of the sweltering conditions. The summer heat is already disrupting July 4 celebrations and World Cup matches, while pushing the nation's largest power grid toward crisis mode later this afternoon for the third consecutive day. The annual Independence Day Parade in Washington, DC, set for later today was canceled "due to extreme heat," organizers said in an overnight memo.  Cooling demand will surge again later today, just as PJM faces a record load. The grid that serves 67 million people across 13 states has held up so far because of the Trump administration's emergency orders requiring fossil-fuel power plants to run at full capacity. This comes as disastrous climate socialist policies have neutered parts of the grid that collided with a data center boom. A soul-crushing "Heat Dome" will build across the Eastern United States 🇺🇸into Independence Day weekend🎆70 million population at least 100°F Maximum heat wave [Thurs or Fri]🌡️ New York City: 102°F Washington DC: 104°F Boston: 101°F Philly: 104°F pic.twitter.com/xG6uSi0j6z — Ryan Maue (@RyanWeather) July 1, ... Continue Reading »

Russia Planning Provocation Against Poland To Test NATO Resolve, US Reportedly Warned The Telegraph along with various Eastern European media outlets, including Polish national sources, are reporting that United States passed Warsaw a warning based on intelligence that Moscow is considering an armed provocation against Poland to "test NATO's resolve". Provocation scenarios are said to potentially include drone attacks on critical infrastructure such as power plants, or else testing airspace by simulating a large-scale air attack to try and force Poland to prematurely activate its air defenses. An official within President Karol Nawrocki's administration said the US "systematically informs Poland about ever-new Russian plans for a conventional attack on NATO's eastern flank, from which Poland is by no means excluded." These reports are rife with wild speculation, however, and thus could be standard wartime propaganda.  Polish armed forces/Anadolu A "hybrid attack" on the border region, possibly involving Belarusian armed forces, is considered to be the most serious possibly scenario, according to the reports. It would be portrayed as an 'accidental' incursion: Moscow could portray such an incursion as accidental, claiming troops crossed the border because of a GPS failure or entered Poland to retrieve a ... Continue Reading »

ISIS Terrorist Reaches Britain Via Small Boat After TikTok Assured Him UK 'Accepts Everyone' Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A convicted ISIS terrorist who attended beheadings and public floggings in Iraq has been jailed for two years after arriving in Britain on a small boat. He told officials he came because he heard on TikTok that the UK "accepts everyone" and respects human rights. Mohammed Yaseen, 35, had lived a desolate existence in Iraq before aligning with ISIS. He watched ceremonies including stonings and was found with a Kalashnikov rifle. He later travelled to Germany in 2014, made multiple asylum claims, and was convicted in Dusseldorf for participating in a terrorist organisation and membership of ISIS. He received a four-year-and-three-month sentence and a 20-year expulsion order. Instead of being returned to Iraq, Yaseen made his way to France and then crossed the Channel. On 13 December 2025 a Border Force vessel intercepted the small boat carrying around 80 people. Yaseen gave a false name, claimed to be from Kuwait, and lied about his age and background. He was placed in a hotel in Basingstoke with clean clothes and asylum support. Convicted ... Continue Reading »

German Clampdown On Sick Leave: No More Phoning It In, Doc Note Needed On Day 1 In a stark departure from its reputation for employee-coddling, the German government is attacking the mass abuse of sick leave with strict new policies that would require a doctor's note obtained on the very first day an employee is sick, with no ability to simply take a sick day with a mere phone call. The reform package also targets retirement ages, tax rates,  regulations, welfare benefits and the ease of hiring and firing. It's expected to pass parliament by year's end.  “The number of sick days is too high,” German chancellor Friedrich Merz told reporters. “We are creating a set of tools that will enable those involved, both employees and companies, to correct this. We know this is a tough decision. But we can no longer afford the competitive disadvantage caused by prolonged absences from work.” Merz said the changes are needed to invigorate Germany's economy, which has faltered after the COVID pandemic and suffered from the West's interventions in the Ukraine war and Iran.  After months of disagreements, Germany’s governing coalition has agreed on ... Continue Reading »

The American System Rejects Europe's Economic Suicide Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, National self-sufficiency beats globalism’s mass dependency. What makes a nation wealthy?  It’s not just arable lands surrounded by other lands filled with water, timber, coal, gas, oil, metals, and minerals.  It’s the farmer who knows best how to cultivate those lands in order to maximize food production.  It’s the woodsman, miner, fisherman, and oilman who can extract nature’s bounty and provide the raw materials for every kind of manufacturer. Producing things requires knowledge and skill.  Competition between producers creates an incentive to innovate.  This motor of discovery — in which human ingenuity uses established knowledge and long-harnessed skills as inputs for creating new forms of knowledge and skill — generates increasing efficiencies in production.  Costs go down; prices go down; producers produce more; consumers consume more.  Economic freedom, therefore, is a wealth-generating feedback loop that benefits all of society. A nation that can do all of these things on its own is a self-sufficient nation.  A nation that is capable of producing more than it consumes is an exporting nation.  A nation that exports more than it imports is a nation whose people become increasingly wealthy.  The rest of the world ... Continue Reading »

Would The Founders Still Recognize Their Republic? Authored by Andrew P. Napolitano Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away? — Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known colonial-era preacher with the famous uncle — Cotton Mather — addresses the age-old question of whether liberty can long survive in a democracy. Byles was a loyalist who, along with about one-third of the American adult white male population in 1776, opposed the American Revolution and favored continued governance by Great Britain. He didn’t fight for the king or agitate against George Washington’s troops; he merely warned of the dangers of too much democracy. Many of us who monitor federal excess are fearful of out-of-control democracy, which is what we have in America today, yet there remain in our federal structure a few safeguards against runaway federal tyranny, such as the equal state representation in the Senate, the Electoral College, the state control ... Continue Reading »

First $1 Billion, Now $50 Million: Khanna Says Wealth Tax "Must Not Stop At Billionaires" Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) - fresh off endorsing California's November ballot measure to seize 5% of billionaire wealth - published a Substack essay Wednesday titled, no really, "Why I Support a Billionaire Wealth Tax." He makes it roughly a dozen paragraphs before explaining that it isn't one. "The tax should not stop at billionaires, it must reach centimillionaires," Khanna writes, before spelling out exactly what that means: every fortune of $50 million and up, hit with a 2% federal levy on wealth above that line - every year, forever, on top of everything else you already pay. The vehicle is Elizabeth Warren's Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act, which Khanna notes he has cosponsored every single year it's been introduced. And before anyone reaches for the estate planner: Khanna wants the levy to pierce irrevocable trusts, with the tax billed to the grantor who set them up - because parking a fortune in a trust, in his telling, shouldn't take it off the government's books. Former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky summed up the reveal in eight words: "Just like that, no ... Continue Reading »

Alibaba Bans Employees From Using Anthropic's Coding Tool Over Distillation Scandal While in the US, the government's periodic bans of the latest model from Anthropic (which has made AI doomerism - in hopes of getting the government to regulate everyone else expect Anthropic, yet repeatedly achieving just the opposite - into an art form) has been all the rage in recent months, in China it is the other way around, with China's tech giant Alibaba banning employees from using Anthropic's Claude ‌Code at work after the tool drew scrutiny for features that can help identify China-linked users, Reuters reported. The ban is part of a deepening spat between the two companies after Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting ​its Claude AI model capabilities - a dispute that highlights the frantic race between the U.S. and ​China to take the lead in artificial intelligence. Claude Code is Anthropic's AI coding assistant for software developers, and has become popular among programmers in China despite Anthropic's restrictions on access by users and entities in China. To avoid further escalation of the distillation scandal, Reuters says that Alibaba employees were being told to use the company's own coding ... Continue Reading »

US At 250: Why America Has Been So Successful And Can It Continue To mark the 250 year anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, Deutsche Bank has published a report looking at how the US emerged as a global superpower, and why it’s likely to remain one despite new challenges. First, DB considers how the US went from being a comparatively small country to the world's pre-eminent global power. These reasons range from the US' natural advantages, like favorable geography, to factors like its institutional stability and risk-tolerant capital markets. DB then considers the challenges that threaten US outperformance: China’s rapid growth means the US faces its biggest rival since its own emergence as the world’s dominant power. China's rise also coincides with several other issues: the rules based international system that the US helped create is under immense strain; the reserve currency status of the US Dollar is under pressure; and the country's public debt-to-GDP ratio is set to hit new records in the coming years. Finally, the bank's analysts Peter Sidorov and Henry Allen look at why the US is likely to sustain its outperformance, thanks to a collection ... Continue Reading »

Mamdani Delivers Anti-America Speech For The Nation's 250th Birthday New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat at a desk to commemorate America's semiquincentennial, and the socialist wasted little time turning the occasion into an anti-America lecture. He told his audience they each hold "the power to determine what America means," then spent the rest of the speech explaining what it means to him, and it was mostly bad. "The powerful have always known their answer," Mamdani said. "America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal." He claimed these unnamed villains believe America "belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin," and dismissed them with a sneer. "How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal," he said. He even dragged Thomas Paine into it, quoting the Common Sense author's description of America as an asylum for the persecuted before taking a thinly veiled shot at President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement policies, accusing the Trump administration of running a nation "that persecutes those seeking asylum." The grievance parade kept on coming. "We see the wealthiest ... Continue Reading »

Tucker Carlson Unveils Major Political Plan Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Popular podcast host Tucker Carlson has long dismissed questions about whether he would ever seek public office. But this week, he hinted at a major political move, though don’t expect to see his name on the ballot. Speaking with the Columbia Journalism Review in an interview published Wednesday, Carlson said he plans to “help build a third party,” just months after publicly breaking with President Donald Trump over the U.S.’s involvement in the Israel-Iran war. “I’m going to help build a third party. There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country,” Carlson said. During the same interview, Carlson insisted that he still has no interest in seeking public office. “I don’t want to be a candidate,” he said. “Before I did the Times interview, someone said to me, ‘They’re going to ask you if you’re running for president.’ I was very tempted to say ‘I am running—on the pro-patriarchy ticket.’ Just to make sure I gain no new fans.” Carlson’s support for a third party stems from what he rebuked as bipartisan support from both Democratic and Republican parties for foreign intervention. He accused Republicans and Democrats of being “in lockstep ... Continue Reading »

Two Thirds Of Americans Still Think It's A Bad Time To Buy A House Americans looking to buy a house are currently facing conditions that make it hard for anyone but the very wealthy to afford buying a home. Elevated home prices combined with mortgage rates that have rebounded from historic mid-pandemic lows to levels last seen in the early 2000s are causing major headaches for would-be home buyers. To make things worse, many Americans had to dip into their savings during the past few years of high inflation, making it very hard to save for a sizeable down payment. Add geopolitical tensions and uncertainty about the impact of AI on the labor market to the mix and renting suddenly seems like a very attractive, or possibly the only feasible option. As Statista's Felix Richter reports, the latest results from Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance poll show that current conditions have really spoiled Americans’ appetite to buy houses. You will find more infographics at Statista This year’s survey, conducted April 1-15, shows that two thirds of U.S. adults think that now is a bad time to buy a house. While that marks a slight improvement from the ... Continue Reading »

America Turns 250. At 125, It Looked Like The End... Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereign.com, On the afternoon of September 6, 1901, President William McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, shaking hands with a crowd of well-wishers. One of the people in the crowd was a young man named Leon Czolgosz… who was patiently waiting with a revolver wrapped in a handkerchief. When he reached the front, he fired twice into the president’s abdomen. McKinley died eight days later, and, Czolgosz, an unemployed factory worker, went to the electric chair without a trace of remorse. He insisted it was his duty to strike down a symbol of oppression. Czolgosz wasn’t a crazed madman, but rather a product of his time. The America of 1901 was 125 years into its history - the exact midpoint between the Declaration of Independence and today. And despite the US economy already being the largest in the world at that point, the year 1901 did not feel like a nation striding confidently into the American Century. The US financial system lurched from panic to panic, and to a great many observers, ... Continue Reading »

China-Linked Socialist NGO Derailed $23.6 Billion In Data Center Buildouts: Report Our note on Thursday titled "World's Largest Data Center Project On Verge Of Collapse After Blackstone Unexpectedly Pulls Out" detailed Blackstone dialing back its presence from Northern Virginia's data-center alley, raising questions about whether the AI infrastructure buildout, colliding with local resistance movements, has begun to hit hard limits. Just days after agreeing to sell stakes in three Virginia data centers to Digital Realty Trust for $3.5 billion, Blackstone's QTS Realty Trust is reportedly abandoning plans for its portion of the massive Prince William Digital Gateway project. The 2,100-acre campus was expected to include as many as 37 data-center buildings and require city-scale power supplies. "For community organizers and residents that spent the last five years opposing the Digital Gateway, QTS's pullout will now validate a playbook that involved pressure campaigns on local politicians and legal attacks. It will also unleash even more powerful blowback nationwide against these unwanted developments," we noted. That brings us to the composition of the local resistance. Multiple reports suggest data center opposition is not entirely organic. In fact, one familiar player appears to be involved, a ... Continue Reading »

Backlash After Columbus, Ohio Announces It Will Raise Flag Of Somalia At City Hall Via American Greatness, The city of Columbus faced criticism from conservatives after a now-deleted social media post stated that City Hall would raise the Somali flag in recognition of Somali Independence Day. The post, published Wednesday by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department on X, read: “Happy Somali Independence Day! As we celebrate the unification of the Trust Territory of Somaliland and the State of Somaliland into the Somali Republic in 1960, City Hall will be raising the flag of Somalia.” The message quickly drew criticism from conservative commentators and elected officials, many of whom questioned why a government building would display the flag of another nation just days before the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence. White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller wrote on X, “Columbus, Ohio raising the flag of Somalia for America 250.” Journalist Mark Hemingway added, “No American government building should ever be raising another country’s flag. Ugh.” Ohio attorney and political commentator Mehek Cooke also criticized the announcement. “City Hall is not a foreign embassy,” Cooke wrote. “As an Ohioan, I am repulsed by the anti-Americanism here. Our leaders ... Continue Reading »

Independence Week By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank It was a reassuring week for those who are concerned about central bank independence. At the ECB’s annual conference in Sintra, moderator Sarah Eisen channeled a bit of her inner Beyoncé, asking a panel of central bank heads “To all you [bankers], who are independent, throw your hands up at me.” All four policymakers, including Fed Chairman Warsh, confirmed the importance of central bank independence: “The Fed acted independently before the Supreme Court ruling, and the Fed will continue to do so after the ruling.” The Supreme Court kept the FOMC’s Cook in her seat for now, pending “due process.” However, that does not bar Trump from continuing to try to fire her. In the same ruling, the court overturned a nine-decades-old precedent to allow the US president more freedom to fire the heads of federal agencies at will. The justices did acknowledge that the Fed is a special case, and that the president’s power to fire a governor “for cause” was deliberately enacted by Congress to prevent that governors only serve at the president’s pleasure. And, the justices concluded, the ... Continue Reading »

Massive Security Presence For Khamenei’s 'Multi-City' Funeral Amid Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban, China, Russia Paying Respects Via The Cradle Intensive preparations and security measures took place on Friday for late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s massive funeral, as foreign officials and delegations began arriving in the country from dozens of nations to pay their respects.  The heightened security measures, including airspace restrictions and mass deployment of security forces, began this week and extended into Friday. via AFP The event is being described as a "multi-city" funeral that will span several parts of Iran, including Tehran, Qom, and Mashhad.  According to authorities, more than 10 million citizens are expected to gather in Tehran alone, with millions more expected to take part in ceremonies in the cities of Mashhad and Qom.  Large-scale commemorations and ceremonies are also set to take place in Iraq, where the late Iranian leader was also revered. Tehran has coordinated these matters with authorities in Baghdad.  The late supreme leader’s coffin arrived at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla in Tehran on Friday.  Iranian authorities are finalizing major security and logistical arrangements ahead of a multi-day state funeral for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, following his assassination in a US-Israeli attack ... Continue Reading »