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Mid-30s Unemployment?! “I think it’s very natural to be concerned about jobs. “I think young people coming out of university today, it’s like 9% unemployment. “I think it could easily go into the mid-30s in the next couple of years.” – Bill McDermott $NOW CEO CNBC: “The mid-30s?!” Bill McDermitt: “I do, because what’s happening …
NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade. A new strain that dominated the early winter was not well matched to the vaccine, leading to an intense early onslaught of …
BREAKING: Trump advisers urge him to find Iran exit ramp, fearing political backlash, per WSJ — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) March 10, 2026 Trump Advisers Urge Him to Find Iran Exit Ramp, Fearing Political Backlash – WSJ — FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) March 10, 2026 Factcheck: Yes, per today’s WSJ report: some Trump advisers are privately pushing for an …
JUST IN: Closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered the worst global energy crisis since the 1970s, WSJ reports. — BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) March 9, 2026 Factcheck: Yes, per WSJ and shipping trackers like MarineTraffic/Reuters: tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has virtually halted amid the Iran conflict (down ~90% since early March), …
The Chinese stock market about to open on Monday when they find out their oil supply from Iran was just cutoff. pic.twitter.com/ja7Quc1Rqh — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 28, 2026 Paging the Petrodollar: Apparently China buys "over 90%" of Iran's oil exports. China was buying nearly 70% of Venezuela's. Neither were being paid in dollars …
Breadth collapses beneath the surface. AI boom or market top? Here is where it gets interesting. Nvidia is the ONLY Mag7 stock that has gained year to date. Analysts on average expect 63% revenue growth year over year. But as we know, over the past year AI has turned into a zero sum game for …
BREAKING: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is threatening to sue Elon Musk for saying her administration is controlled by cartels: “We are considering whether to take some legal action. Lawyers are looking into it” pic.twitter.com/D2o0lSpmUV — ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) February 24, 2026 She tries to find a reason to sue Elon every few months 🤣https://t.co/Uu38IhSwb2 — …
On their 27-hour flight to a sanctuary, they kept checking in on each other the entire time 🥰 Watching animals experience freedom for the first time will always hit us right in the heart 💘
Jonathan Gerlach arrest: Cops find more than 100 skeletal remains in man's Ephrata, Pennsylvania home | https://t.co/HYdSapFZhA https://t.co/DcUaCLEnET — DonnaDee (@PeonyDeee) January 9, 2026
by Michael After months of submitting resumes and filling out applications, many unemployed Americans have given in to despair. Dozens of large companies all over the nation have been conducting mass layoffs, and the competition for any good jobs that do happen to be available has become extremely intense. But if you have not lost your …
Drilling beneath the Topaz Project site near Babbitt, scientists confirmed the presence of helium-3. A concentration of 14.5 parts per billion was found in the lab tests, which was similar to what was measured in Apollo samples. The discovery could be a game-changer for the future of clean energy and was led by exploration company …
US authorities have discovered more than a million more documents potentially related to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein that they plan to release in the coming days and weeks, officials say. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI have informed the Department of Justice (DoJ) about the discovery and …
DOJ scrambles to find VOLUNTEERS to help redact new Epstein files after sleuths used simple method to crack censored documents https://t.co/rEQIONvHTZ — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) December 24, 2025 The Justice Department is seeking volunteers to help redact more Epstein files over the ‘next several days,’ it has emerged. A supervising prosecutor announced an ’emergency request’ …
It’s true – we just turned over documents to Capitol Hill to be made public showing the FBI told DOJ they did not have probable cause for raiding President Trump’s home in Mar A Lago but DOJ “didn’t give a damn” and did it anyway. https://t.co/qIlShYTd5V — FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 16, 2025 …
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday urged the United States to pursue dialogue and even exert economic pressure on Venezuela’s leaders to achieve its goals, rather than threats of military action.
It’s 2025. Men don’t care what women find attractive or not. — Dylan Bradley (@ImDyelon) November 22, 2025
We need to end immigration and all Visa programs. We graduate more people every year than we have jobs for, but import hundreds of thousands every year. Then we wonder why so many people get stuck on welfare. Check out this guy, a lot of good information. pic.twitter.com/IJn9w3zbMO — American as Trump (@JoshuaBradner) November 9, …
In the near future, your Tesla will drop you off at the store entrance and then go find a parking spot. When you’re ready to exit the store, just tap Summon on your phone and the car will come to you. https://t.co/7oUEk9Bb0H — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 10, 2025
Something is breaking in Washington. James Comey could be facing an indictment any day, accused of lying to Congress about leaks from 2020. John Bolton had agents storm his office and take stacks of secret documents, some marked classified. These are not distant headlines. These are the men who ran the country’s intelligence being pulled …
by Michael Are we defined by what we do? For so many of us, our identities are tied to our occupations. For example, when I worked in the legal field many years ago so many of my colleagues took great pride in being able to say “I’m a lawyer” when they were asked about their …
This is a warning that citizens can no longer rely on authorities to keep them safe. Advising locals to leave car keys at the front door to avoid thieves…. Florida Sheriff: “If someone is breaking into your house, you’re more than welcome to shoot. We prefer that you do that, actually. We have a gun …
Funny how once you actually start digging, you find all the bodies https://t.co/AHDusUTGTn pic.twitter.com/ZXoxiXF3Zn — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 18, 2025
Marriage collapses despite no complaints. Woman says she wanted to get a divorce with her perfect husband because she can’t be herself then immediately says she doesn’t know who she is. “I told my husband I wanted a divorce… There is not a single thing about my husband, in and of himself, that I do …
The House Agriculture Committee’s reconciliation proposal would save up to $300 billion over the next decade largely through cuts to the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, according to long-awaited Congressional Budget Office estimates viewed by POLITICO. The savings from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would be well over the committee’s instructed target of $230 billion in spending cuts, …
A Chinese student who was airlifted from Japan’s Mount Fuji last week had to be saved a second time just four days later, local authorities have said. The 27-year-old climber made an emergency call on 22 April after getting altitude sickness on the mountain’s Fujinomiya trail, about 3,000 metres (nearly 10,000 feet) above sea level. …
FreeTaxUSA lures you in with a promise: free federal and state tax filing if your adjusted gross income is under $48,000. But there’s a quiet trick built into the system. That free state filing? It’s only available through a special corner of the website called the “Free File” portal—a hidden path that requires a separate …
💢 At least three US federal agencies, including the Pentagon, FBI and State Department, told employees to ignore Elon Musk's request to document their weekly accomplishments or risk losing their jobs, reports say 📌 The Pentagon recently instructed staff to 'pause' any… pic.twitter.com/wEVCNGi73l — Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) February 23, 2025 Update (1647ET): Following Elon Musk’s …
pic.twitter.com/1FJbGPt8pN — axcilla (@axcilla) February 21, 2025 https://twitter.com/Jedi_ant/status/1892919743205507091 Fort Knox is Empty! Seeing a headline like this is a non-zero probability event that could happen within the next few weeks. "Gold Reaches $10, 000 Overnight" could follow the next day. Are you appropriately hedged? pic.twitter.com/Zyn8rDUPu8 — In Gold We Trust (@IGWTreport) February 21, 2025
