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Satya Nadella at Microsoft, Sundar Pichai at Google and others born in India now run major firms. Companies move engineering and support roles overseas to cut costs. H-1B visas bring in foreign workers often at lower wages than US talent. Recent layoffs at Microsoft and Xbox paired with new visa filings fuel replacement claims. Without …
Advisory commission set up by Mayor Zohran Mamdani suggest big salary bump for city elected officials. Mayor salary jump from 258 thousand to 305 thousand dollars. City Council members go from 148 thousand to 175 thousand dollars. Council speaker would get 194 thousand. Other officials like comptroller public advocate borough presidents also get raises. Commission …
A lot happened overnight, but one pattern keeps showing up. Russia launched 68 missiles and 351 drones at Kyiv, killing at least 11 people in the second massive strike on the capital in less than a week. Ukraine says its Patriot missile interceptors are running low, raising a simple question. What happens if the attacks …
President Trump sign hard copy of draft memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran during dinner at Palace of Versailles after G7 meetings. This after digital signing few days before by Trump, Vance and Iranian side. Deal aim to end recent war, open Strait of Hormuz (with some conditions), start 60 days talk on nuclear and …
WASHINGTON — Defense industry leaders have been preparing to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House later this week in what is expected to be a contentious discussion as concerns grow over the U.S. supply of missiles, according to two people familiar with details of the meeting. The leaders of roughly seven defense …
Powerful pedo network runs too deep Media owned by them buries it as tabloid noise Public too broke distracted and scared to burn it down Everyone knows yet nobody storms the streets Babies trafficked and they shrug for Netflix and rent System protects its own Too many elites implicated so files stay messy and forgotten
Wall Street crowd ignores the option data, pushes the nonstop rally story… Past patterns like this trigger sudden market drops, retail accounts take the pain… ⚠️THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE: ~24% of the S&P 500's top 100 stocks now have an inverted 3-month call skew, approaching the 25% peak seen during the 2021 meme stock frenzy. …
Egg sandwiches and spare clothes get handed around the block, city budgets for help vanish into thin air… Local politicians talk up their plans for the homeless, hide the real disaster playing out on camera… How the hell do these clowns in office sleep at night while one guy does their job… Bottom line is …
Treasury Secretary warns Hormuz blockade threatens global food security… US Presidency of G20 pivots to “well-functioning” fertilizer supply chains… Move aims to isolate Iran as “enemy of the global south” over trade disruptions… Diplomatic cables: US seeks to prevent a “starvation winter” in emerging markets… https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0464 Chair’s Statement of the United States G20 Presidency April …
UPDATE: Pope Leo decries world ruled by 'tyrants' after Trump's social media attacks 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/hJ6aRbSlzG pic.twitter.com/6aLfcHGPs8 — Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) April 16, 2026 “The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild,” the pontiff said …
IRANIAN LAUNCHERS READY TO SINK ALL US WARSHIPS: LEADER'S ADVISOR – PRESSTV — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) April 16, 2026 Top US General Caine: US forces are ready to resume at a moment's notice — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 16, 2026 BREAKING: Iran will shift all schools nationwide to virtual learning starting April 21, one day before …
*TRUMP: DON’T WANT A POPE WHO CRITICIZES PRESIDENT OF US pic.twitter.com/XYpJpIsif7 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 13, 2026 This just invites more pushback, not less.
🚨 NEW: Fox’s Mike Tobin reports “over 50 senior Iranian leaders were eliminated” in new U.S. attack on top officials who had been gathered together, which President Trump referenced on Truth Social pic.twitter.com/M8quuGhsuW — TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) April 5, 2026
“The US doesn’t use the Strait that much so we’re willing to bail and let the countries that rely on it sort it out themselves” “We didn’t inform or ask our allies but fuck them for not wanting to help us, now they can clean up our mess” “Barack HUSSEIN Obama” “The strait will naturally …
Brits must brace for energy RATIONING as Middle East chaos causes shortages, ex-No10 expert warns https://t.co/wcNsfx6Ee3 — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) March 16, 2026 Brits were today warned they must brace for energy rationing as the Middle East crisis continues. Former No10 energy expert Nick Butler said the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz by …
Canada and Australia leaders urge war de-escalation, but agree Iran can't get nuclear weapons https://t.co/gsOdmciVHO pic.twitter.com/l9M81l6MVA — New York Post (@nypost) March 5, 2026 The Canadian and Australian prime ministers on Thursday called for a de-escalation of the Iran war but added the Iranians must never gain a nuclear weapon. Canada’s Mark Carney and his …
Several headlines sitting together right now point to a very uncomfortable possibility. Energy markets may be heading toward another shock. Officials are discussing the possibility of releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That reserve currently holds hundreds of millions of barrels and is meant for severe supply disruptions. The last major drawdown happened during …
Trump tells CNN he’s not worried whether Iran becomes a democratic state President Donald Trump told CNN Friday that Iran’s leadership has been “neutered” and that he’s looking for new leadership that will treat the United States and Israel well, even if that’s a religious leader and it’s not a democratic state. “Iran is not …
🚨 JUST IN — PRESIDENT TRUMP ON IRAN: "Their army is gone. Their navy is gone. Their communications are gone. Their leaders are gone. Two sets of their leaders are gone. They're down to their third set. Their Air Force is wiped out entirely. Think of it." "They have 32 ships.… pic.twitter.com/xxhdzYqHu1 — Eric Daugherty …
RedWave Press @RedWavePress Special Reporter anchor Bret Baier just got off the phone with President Trump: “He is very pleased with how things are going. Obviously, he is disheartened by the loss of life, and there may be more, he said, along the way. But as far as the progress, he said, they are ahead …
‘I Have Agreed to Talk’ Trump tells The Atlantic that Iranian leaders want to resume negotiations. One day after launching strikes on Iran that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and embroiled the region in war, President Trump told me this morning that the country’s new leadership wants to talk with him and that he plans to …
🔥🚨BREAKING: The Black community of Chicago are demanding for the government to get involved after these young men started showing off their firearms to let the nation know that they ‘run their city.’ pic.twitter.com/ojQfbjp41X — Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) February 22, 2026 Videos of young men holding firearms and claiming they “run” …
Twenty-five members of the Mexican National Guard died in six separate attacks after special forces killed the notorious leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the country’s security secretary said Monday as much of Mexico feared more violence. https://abc7.com/post/el-mencho-dead-mexico-fears-more-violence-death-nemesio-rubn-oseguera-cervantes-jalisco-new-generation-cartel/18638556/
🚨TRUMP RAISES GLOBAL TARIFF TO 15% Donald Trump announced he will immediately increase the global tariff rate from 10% to 15%, following what he called a flawed and “anti-American” United States Supreme Court decision. He said the move targets countries he accuses of… pic.twitter.com/woHVkzzRMH — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) February 21, 2026 German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, …
WHAT RESPONSIBLE POLITICAL LEADER WOULD POST SUCH A THING? NOT ONE. THAT TELLS YOU WHO TRUMP IS! President Trump has once again trolled world leaders by re-sharing a map that incorporates Canada, Greenland and Venezuela as part of the US. The AI-generated mock-up picture uploaded on Truth Social Monday shows European leaders, including French President …
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff resigned Sunday over the furor surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Morgan McSweeney said he took responsibility for advising Starmer to appoint Mandelson, 72, to Britain’s most important diplomatic post in 2024. “The decision …
People keep acting like stocks only go up because that’s all they’ve ever seen, but the bond market doesn’t care about your vibes. When yields climb, it’s basically gravity, and gravity always wins. Everyone talks AI, memes, whatever, meanwhile valuations are stretched to the moon and the government keeps spending like money is free. Concerning …
They’re in panic mode. Fulton County commissioners and other representatives held a briefing outside the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center on Wednesday afternoon to discuss an FBI raid at the facility. h/t Rev El. Haitian
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “We've been applying a maximum pressure campaign on Iran's oil exports to cut off the sources of the regime's funding, and what we have seen in the past month is a total financial collapse of the regime.” @SchmittNYC @SecScottBessent pic.twitter.com/1oMzdv5fW6 — NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) January 15, 2026 Iran’s nationwide protests began in …
BREAKING: Trump Ordered the Military to Plan an Invasion of a NATO Ally The Generals Said No. The Mail on Sunday reports Donald Trump instructed the Joint Special Operations Command to prepare a detailed plan for invading Greenland. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are resisting.… https://t.co/RcaGJK9GAn pic.twitter.com/XNWczslEsc — Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) January 11, …