By Andrew Moran Is the world challenging the U.S. dollar’s dominance? Over the last decade, several nations worldwide, led primarily by Russia and China, have ramped up efforts to kick their dependence on the chief international reserve currency. From diminishing the prevalence of non-dollar transactions to reducing dollar holdings in foreign exchange reserves, states are […]
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‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley Released Early From Prison After Newly Disclosed Jan. 6 Footage
By Zachary Stieber The man known as the QAnon Shaman, who pleaded guilty to breaching the U.S. Capitol, has been released from prison early after Fox News aired footage of him being escorted by police officers inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Jacob Chansley, 35, was moved to a halfway house in Phoenix […]
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As Climate Experts Warn of Looming Catastrophe, Past Bad Predictions Hurt Their Message
By Petr Svab Humanity only has a few years to act before the world may irreversibly plunge into an environmental catastrophe of global proportions, climate experts warned in a recent report. Their calls are muffled, however, by a ballast of dozens of past dramatic predictions that have failed to pan out. Environmental experts have been […]
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Trump’s Competitors Seek to Set Themselves Apart Without Scorning MAGA
By Nathan Worcester News Analysis As more Republicans challenge Donald Trump in the race for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, the former president’s dramatic impact on the GOP is becoming clearer. Everyone from Nikki Haley to Vivek Ramaswamy has sought to link themselves to “America First,” as they court Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. […]
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Newly Released Surveillance Footage Challenges Official Jan. 6 Narrative
By Joseph M. Hanneman News Analysis The unveiling of some of the 41,000 hours of video from Jan. 6, 2021, that was hidden from public view for more than two years has sparked a new national conversation about just how much still isn’t known about the Capitol incursion. Fox News host Tucker Carlson was given […]
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Illegal Immigrants Are Now Using the Northern Border, Too
By Virginia Allen America’s southern border is not the only one experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of illegal migrants attempting to cross into the country. Customs and Border Protection reports record numbers of encounters with illegal migrants at America’s northern border with Canada. “While the southern border garners most of the attention, both of America’s […]
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NPR Cuts Roughly 10 Percent of Workforce Amid ‘Darkened’ Financial Outlook
By Lorenz Duchamps The National Public Radio (NPR) is cutting roughly 10 percent of its current workforce as the network’s financial outlook recently “darkened considerably” amid declining advertising revenue, NPR’s executive officer announced on Thursday. “At a time when we are doing some of our most ambitious and essential work, the global economy remains uncertain. As a […]
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McCarthy Breaks Silence on Giving Jan. 6 Footage to Tucker Carlson
By Tom Ozimek House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has broken his silence on why he gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to thousands of hours of Jan. 6 Capitol surveillance footage. McCarthy told The New York Times on Wednesday that he was making good on a pledge to disclose the footage, and that the disclosure serves […]
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Tulsi Gabbard, Jimmy Dore, Ron Paul Call for End to Ukraine War
By Liam Cosgrove WASHINGTON—Red flags with the communist symbol hammer and sickle flew side by side with Gadsden “DON’T TREAD ON ME” flags at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday afternoon. Self-proclaimed socialists stood in common cause with anarchists at the “Rage Against the War Machine” rally, a peace protest organized by the People’s Party—a progressive third party […]
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House GOP Puts New Methane Tax, ‘Greenhouse Gas’ Fund on Chopping Block
By John Haughey House Republicans want to eliminate a tax on methane emissions and do away with a “greenhouse gas” reduction grant program as part of their “Unleash America’s Energy” campaign to roll back regulatory restraints on domestic production in the United States. A proposed ‘Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act,’ sponsored by Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), would […]
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‘Coast to Coast’ Winter Storm to Hit Millions With Blizzard Conditions, Icing
By Jack Phillips The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) on Monday warned that a “massive winter storm” is anticipated to impact a large portion of the United States this week and present a range of hazards. The arctic blast is starting to hit the Pacific Northwest and then push across the northern Rocky Mountains and […]
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‘Silent Killer’: Inside China’s Military Balloon Program
By Eva Fu Years before a gigantic white spy balloon from China captured America’s attention, a top Chinese aerospace scientist was keenly tracking the path of an unmanned airship making its way across the globe. On a real-time map, the white blimp appeared as a blinking red dot, although in real life its size was formidable, weighing several tons […]
