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Something strange is happening in the bond market. The Fed spent years shrinking its balance sheet through quantitative tightening. Then QT ended in late 2025. Now the Fed’s balance sheet is around $6.7 trillion and has started growing again through …
The City Council on Wednesday voted down the latest bid by Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) to hold parents responsible for teen takeovers and youth violence in Chicago. Lopez first introduced the Parental Accountability Ordinance in 2023, but it stalled for years. This …
Senator Bernie Sanders joins the NYC mayor to promote progressive candidates in final day of the campaign JTA — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday night described the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as “monsters,” accusing the organization …
This story is getting attention because it touches the biggest question about social media during conflicts. Who decides what the public gets to see? According to reporting from The Intercept and internal Meta documents they reviewed, Israel’s government sent requests …
More than 200 of the world’s elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking. A trove of internal records from a secret society …
Source: Yahoo finance A 25.2 percent Social Security cut sounds like a disaster. And that number is exactly why this story exploded. The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report does include that figure. It says that if Congress makes no changes, …
Something about this story is going to make people stop and ask questions. Sen. Ron Johnson released internal FDA emails showing agency staff were reviewing reports involving children who died after receiving COVID vaccines. According to the documents, FDA staff …
From luxury getaway to chaos in minutes. What went wrong here? — Charles (@Charles47674402) June 20, 2026
Business secretary says Starmer is reflecting on ‘political realities’ amid overwhelming pressure from MPs Keir Starmer is expected to announce on Monday that he will step down as prime minister, after overwhelming pressure from Labour MPs to make way for …
The technology is real. That is what makes this so interesting. The biggest risk to the AI boom is not that AI fails. It is that the economics fail. Look at what is happening. Microsoft invested roughly $13 billion into …
Foundation for Defense of Democracies executive director Jonathan Schanzer details his concerns for a U.S.-Iran deal on ‘The Will Cain Show.’
Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA), which oversees traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, announced Friday that all vessels must now submit transit requests at least 48 hours in advance. In a post on social media platform X, the PGSA …
Amazon is dropping an $11 BILLION AI data center right in Indiana. This monster will guzzle electricity for 1 MILLION homes and 300 MILLION gallons of water EVERY SINGLE YEAR — just ONE facility. Drone footage shows the insane scale: …
This is one of those changes that sounds almost impossible until you look into it. The US government is no longer only handing out grants, loans, and tax credits to support key industries. In some cases, it is taking ownership. …
This chart explains why so many people are packing up and leaving. New York collects about $12,506 per person in state and local taxes, one of the highest levels in America. Only Washington DC collects more. And if you live …
A SATELLITE JUST REVEALED SOMETHING SHOCKING: GPS JAMMING IS FAR MORE WIDESPREAD THAN ANYONE REALIZED. An experimental navigation satellite called Pulsar-0, flying just 500 km above Earth, has mapped GPS signal tampering from space for the first time and the …
One number jumped out at me today. Nearly 2 million Americans have now been unemployed for more than six months. That is up by more than 500,000 from a year ago. Even more interesting, long term unemployed workers now make …
By Peter Reagan For many Americans, retirement represents a long-awaited reward for decades of work and saving. It’s the season of life when the mortgage is hopefully paid down, the schedule becomes more flexible, and there is finally time to enjoy family, …
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has announced that the Strait of Hormuz is closed to all vessels and warned ships not to approach because their security could be at risk. BREAKING: Iran's IRGC has officially declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to …
Surveillance video shows a father and a smoke shop owner stop a would-be carjacker from driving away with two children on Long Island. CBS News New York’s Carolyn Gusoff reports.
He was called “The Einstein of Brain Science.” A neuroscientist whose ideas quietly reshaped how we understand the mind, perception, and reality itself. In this talk, he doesn’t speculate. He demonstrates. What he shows challenges one of our deepest assumptions: …
I keep seeing this type of meme spread online, and the interesting part is that it starts with real things. Is this really Happening? World Control? byu/xaintaken inconspiracy The image shows Christine Lagarde with United Nations and World Economic Forum …
Thank you, Tulsi, for documenting Dr. Fauci's central role in causing the COVID-19 pandemic — among the most consequential crimes in human history. https://t.co/Mni91nFi3Y — Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) June 19, 2026
A new kind of flu vaccine moved a step closer to the U.S. market Thursday as federal health advisers recommended approval of the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The Food …
Some stories make people stop and say: wait, what? The controversy around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation was already getting attention after reports that parts of the project were showing problems shortly after completion, including algae returning and paint …
This is the part of the franchise world that many people do not think about. You can spend years building a successful business, invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into improvements, inventory, and upgrades, and still discover that the most …
This is one of those stories where you hear the details and think, wait… how did this become normal? In Sterling, Virginia, residents near Vantage’s VA2 data center say natural gas turbines powering the facility have been running constantly since …
On May 14th, 2026, a Beech King Air C90 operated by Generation Jets crashed into the Capitan Mountains near Ruidoso, New Mexico, killing all four on board — two pilots and two flight nurses on a Part 135 air ambulance …
https://t.co/FT7qvuoJ0XI think Nick is right. All performative bullshit. — nunya (@nunya88788772) June 19, 2026
