Apple Slashes iPhone Air Output, Boosts Production Of Base, Pro iPhone 17 Models, Nikkei Reports Building on the “Are We In An iPhone Supercycle?” note we published on Tuesday, a new report from Nikkei Asia says Apple has sharply cut production of the iPhone Air due to soft demand while boosting orders for other iPhone 17 models, particularly the base and Pro versions. Nikkei cited multiple sources with access to Apple’s supply […]

VW Halts Golf Production In Wolfsburg As Chip Shortage Worsens  In 2022, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union address bragged about “toughest sanctions the world has ever seen” against Russia which she claimed at the time, “Russia’s financial sector is on life-support. We have cut off three quarters of Russia’s banking sector from international markets” and “The Russian military is taking […]

Slovak PM Claims EU Tried To Sabotage Canceled Trump–Putin Peace Summit In Budapest Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused some within the European Union of attempting to sabotage peace by disrupting the now-canceled meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in Budapest. “The foreign minister of a European Union member state says that […]

Futures Flat As Gold Selloff Extends US equity futures are flat again, with tech and small caps lagging as traders parsed the latest earnings reports and corporate news amid worries over trade, the US government shutdown and geopolitical risks. Gold and silver extended declines after Tuesday’s slump. As of 8:00am, S&P futures were unchanged while Nasdaq futures dropped 0.2% after a rally on Wall Street lost […]

Pivotal Research On Creatine Finds Foundational Applications Way Beyond The Gym – Including Brain, Bone, And Healthy Aging There’s new science out on creatine monohydrate that reveals it’s way more than just a performance enhancer for athletes. In fact, it’s pretty amazing for a wide variety of applications throughout all stages of life. If you already take creatine, you know it’s great for increasing muscle strength, size and […]

India-US Trade Deal “Likely Soon,” Could Be Announced At ASEAN Summit: Mint The U.S. and India are close to a possible trade deal that would reduce tariffs on Indian exports to about 15% to 16% from the current 50%, according to the Mint. In return, India may reduce imports of Russian oil and open its market to non-genetically modified American corn and soymeal products. The bilateral trade agreement could be announced when […]

Riot Erupts At Irish Migrant Hotel After 10-Year-Old Allegedly Sexually-Assaulted Outraged by accusations that an asylum-seeker had sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl, thousands of flag-waving, bottle-throwing, firework-wielding Irish citizens surrounded a migrant hotel in southwest Dublin, Ireland on Tuesday night, setting fire to a police vehicle.  This is what happens when the citizens who are fed up with illegal invaders […]

Oxford Union President-Elect Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk Shooting Ousted Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The president-elect of the Oxford Union has been voted out of the role following comments he made celebrating the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. The Oxford union library, Oxford, UK, on June 2, 2021. IR Stone, Shutterstock In a leaked message in a WhatsApp chat, […]

“Going Nuclear”: Reddit Army Squeezes Beyond Meat Again, Up Another 100% Update (Wednesday): Heavily shorted fake food company Beyond Meat jumped again in premarket trading as the Reddit army of day traders squeezed hedge funds. The only problem is, and we’ve seen how this party ends, the struggling company’s debt-for-equity swap will, at some point, substantially dilute shareholders. In premarket trading, shares touched as high […]

The Bering Strait Tunnel Will Likely Remain A Pipe Dream Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Russia might still fund some less ambitious infrastructure projects in its Far East-Arctic region to keep the economy hot after the war ends, help veterans find work, and encourage settlement there… Trump reacted positively to the proposal by Kirill Dmitriev, chief of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and envoy in ongoing […]

Trump Winning Shutdown Fight As Public Opinion Shifts In His Favor During the 2018-2019 government shutdown (the longest federal shutdown in US history lasting 35 days), Donald Trump’s first term administration was ill prepared for the tactics used by the establishment media, Democrats and even saboteurs within his own cabinet.  The narrative spin was highly effective in painting Trump as the villain, subverting his efforts to […]

These Are The US Cities Where Young Americans Can Still Afford A Home Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao ranks the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas by the share of adults under 30 who have a mortgage, painting a clear picture of where today’s twentysomethings can realistically afford a home. Data for this visualization comes from LendingTree. They analyzed 32,000 anonymized fourth-quarter 2024 credit reports of adults under […]

How The Louvre ‘Heist Of The Century’ Unfolded Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The audacious theft of priceless jewels from the Louvre in Paris on Oct. 19 was called “the heist of the century” by several local newspapers, and commentators quickly drew parallels to similar headline-grabbing crimes over the years. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Google Earth Questions about security arrangements […]

Simple Hair-Test Identifies Children At Highest Risk For Depression And Anxiety Measuring stress levels through hair samples could provide important clues about mental health risks in children living with chronic physical illnesses, research suggests. Anusorn Nakdee/Shutterstock “Hair cortisol offers a non-invasive, easy-to-collect biomarker that could one day be used to screen children and track whether treatments or support […]

“If You Don’t Like It, Catch A Flight Home”; Chega Leader Tells Muslims As Portugal Moves To Ban The Burqa Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Portugal’s parliament has approved a proposal to ban the wearing of burqas and niqabs in public spaces, with right-wing party Chega leading the initiative and its leader, André Ventura, telling those who disagree to “catch a flight back” to their countries of origin. The […]

Global Corporate Tax Levels Continue To Slide, But France Remains Highest Since the turn of this century, OECD countries have experienced a marked trend of declining corporate tax rates. The average corporate income tax rate applied by OECD members fell from about 33 percent in 2000 to between 24 and 25 percent in recent years (24.2 in 2025). As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiant details below, using the organization’s data, France […]

Hungary ‘Safest Country In Europe’ Thanks To Viktor Orbán, Says Foreign Minister Ahead Of Peace Talks Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Hungary is now the safest country in Europe because of Viktor Orbán’s leadership and its commitment to diplomacy over war, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó declared on Sunday, announcing that Budapest is preparing to host a peace summit agreed by the American and Russian presidents. […]

1997–2025: When The West Is Distracted, China Advances Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, For nearly three decades, the Western world has hardly had a calm time—terrorist attacks, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, financial meltdowns, pandemics, and deepening political fractures. Each has seized the headlines, drained treasuries, and monopolized the attention of policymakers from Washington to Brussels. The result? […]

From Tokyo To Tennessee: Japan’s Love Of Country Music Authored by Rebecca Day via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As country music grew in popularity in America throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the roots of the genre also took hold in an unlikely place: Japan. A detail from the 1971 album of The Bluegrass 45, a legendary bluegrass band from Kobe, Japan. Rebel Records During World War II, the Armed Forces Radio Service provided […]

Stop ‘Rooting For Failure’ In Gaza: Vance In Israel Lambasts Western Media Vice President JD Vance was in Israel Tuesday, where expressed confidence that the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip would hold, despite a brief flare-up in fighting on Sunday which saw Israeli forces launch dozens of new airstrikes. During visit to the newly established US-Israel ceasefire coordination center in Kiryat Gat, southern Israel, Vance emphasized he’s […]

If It’s Worse Than Watergate, Why The Silence? Authored by Franke Miele via RealClearPolitics, In a sense, it’s old news. In December 2021, CNN reported that the House’s select January 6 Committee had subpoenaed phone records of more than 100 people. But that was mostly Trump officials, including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. No surprise there. After all, the January 6 Committee was empaneled for the specific […]

FBI Has Arrested 28,000 Violent Criminals Since Jan. 20: Trump President Donald Trump commended the FBI in an Oct. 20 Truth Social post, saying that the agency is doing an “incredible job,” having arrested thousands of criminals and disrupting criminal activity across the nation. “Since January 20th, more than 28,000 Violent Criminals have been arrested (RECORD BREAKING!), with over 6,000 illegal weapons seized, more than […]

Trump Says China Doesn’t Want To Invade Taiwan Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Trump said on Monday that he doesn’t think China wants to invade Taiwan and expressed optimism about reaching a trade deal with Beijing despite his recent threat to increase tariffs in response to China’s rare earth export restrictions. “I think we’ll be just fine with China. China doesn’t want to do that,” Trump told […]

UN Condemns Trump’s ‘Extrajudicial Executions, Covert Action’ Against Venezuela A United Nations panel on Tuesday condemned the Trump-ordered military build-up in the south Caribbean as well as what it called covert action which threatens the South American country’s sovereignty. It did this while invoking past 20th century history of CIA interventions in the region. “These actions also violate the fundamental international […]

China’s Battery Giants Flood Overseas Markets As Exports Surge 220% By Alex Kimani of Oilprice.com Last year, China’s battery industry average utilization rate cratered to just a third of maximum capacity amid severe overcapacity following years of massive investment and expansion. This put smaller manufacturers under severe pressure and fueled further industry consolidation, while also forcing producers to increasingly seek […]