Which Nationalities Overstay Their US Visas The Most? The Department of Homeland Security annually releases figures on people who overstay their visas and other legal forms of admissions in the United States.  Total overstays for the fiscal year of 2023 stood at 510,400 people.  As Statista’s Katharina Buchholkz reports, African nations led in terms of overstayers in comparison to total visitors, with some rates hinting at […]

‘Strategic Earthquake’ In Europe Signals Age Of Uncertainty Authored by Alastair Paynter via OilPrice.com, A convergence of crises – geopolitical shifts, energy instability, and economic stagnation – marks the end of a historical era and the beginning of a more volatile multipolar world order. Challenges include mass immigration, a potential Ukraine settlement favoring Russia, reduced U.S. security guarantees, and […]

Norway Bets Big On Offshore Wind Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, Norway announced on Monday a tender for three project areas for floating offshore wind in a highly-anticipated first competition for this type of renewable energy in the Nordic country.  The Norwegian Energy Ministry, which said earlier this year that it would bet on floating wind instead of fixed-bottom offshore wind, is now opening competition for […]

Spain’s Socialist Govt Pours Taxpayers’ Millions Into Equality Plan To Combat Nationalist Surge Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, As nationalist parties surge across Europe, the Spanish Socialist-led government is doubling down on its ideological agenda — plowing over €140 million of taxpayer money into a nationwide equality plan aimed, in part, at combating what it labels “far-right” narratives among young men. […]

End Of An Era: Kurdish PKK Disbands After 4-Decade Fight Against Turkey Authored by Christian Orr via The Epoch Times, Some rather surprising (perhaps even “shocking” would be an appropriate adjective?) news emerged from Turkey on May 12: the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) declared its decision to disband and disarm, thus ending an insurgency campaign against the Turkish government that had begun on Aug. 15, 1984, and claimed […]

Two Israeli Embassy Staff Members Gunned Down Outside Jewish Museum In D.C. Late Wednesday evening there is currently a massive ongoing police response in northwest Washington DC outside the Capital Jewish Museum, after gunfire erupted just outside which killed two staff members of the Israeli Embassy. “Two Israeli Embassy staff were senselessly killed tonight near the Jewish Museum in Washington DC,” Secretary of Homeland […]

House Advances ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ To Floor After 20-Hour Marathon Negotiation Update (2358ET): After a long day of back-and-forth, the House Rules Committee late Wednesday night advanced President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ to the House floor after nearly 22 hours of negotiations. ouse Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., at the US Capitol on May 6. Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg via Getty Images file The panel voted 8-4 to advance the […]

CCP, Russia, Iran Collaborating With Cartels To Smuggle Fentanyl Into US Through Canada: FBI Director Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times, FBI Director Kash Patel says the flow of fentanyl into the United States is coming from his country’s northern neighbour. He says China, Russia, and Iran are partnering with cartels to smuggle the drug into the United States via Vancouver. Patel told Fox News that the Chinese […]

What Are The Most Popular Baby Names In The US? Olivia, Emma and Amelia have been announced as the three most popular baby names for girls in the U.S., while for boys, Liam, Noah and Oliver were parents’ favorites.  This is according to the U.S. Social Security Administration’s annual list of the most popular baby names in the United States. According to the institution, Statista’s Anna Fleck reports that the list, released […]

The KGB Spy Who Predicted Our Future Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, My dear friends, I think you are in very big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, YOU ARE AT WAR. And you may lose this war very soon together with all your affluence and freedoms unless you start defending yourselves. –Yuri Bezmenov, 1984 In 1970, a Soviet KGB agent named Yuri Bezmenov defected to the West. His story is fascinating. Yuri […]

Few Americans Enjoy Using AI Tools using artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, are only liked by 22 percent of Americans in their everyday lives. This places the country towards the bottom of the ranking when compared to other nations, reports Statista’s Katharina Buchholz according to a survey by Statista Consumer Insights shows.    You will find more infographics at Statista In India, almost every second respondent said […]

Frugality Rules As Americans Start Making The Most In A Hand-Me-Down Market Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), PHOENIX—While many retailers have struggled, business has thrived since Estefania Gasca and her husband, Cristobal Zepeda, established Thrift It Forward consignment store in Phoenix nearly two years ago. Deborah Locker, an employee at Christian Family Care Thrift Store in Phoenix, Ariz., stands […]

Bibi Defiant, Unfazed: ‘All Of Gaza Will Be Under Israel’s Control’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has remained defiant and came out swinging in a Wednesday press conference amid growing international isolation and pressure, even from allies. He declared at a press conference in Jerusalem that Israel will control all of Gaza when the military offensive ends, and this remains the ultimate goal – to fully and finally crush […]

John Stewart Is Right… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Every now and then John Stewart says something that undeniably hits the nail on the head, and he’s done it again while commenting on the renewed Biden cognitive decline and cancer saga. In a Daily Show segment Stewart said of the cancer diagnosis “Maybe it is another cover-up. I don’t f***ing know. If they came out and said, yeah, Biden knew about it […]

Boys Targeted With Investigation After Complaining About Trans Student In School Locker Room In 2021 Loudon County Schools in Virginia were implementing DEI policies that allowed for trans students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their preferred gender.  The institutional decision to let trans students essentially do whatever they please regardless of safety concerns led to an incident in May of that year in which a trans […]

A Three Step Solution To Rebuild The Marine Corps Authored by Gary Anderson via RealClearDefense, I recently received a call from an old Marine Corps acquaintance who now works for the Corps as a contractor. He has been heavily involved in the controversial Force Design (FD) project begun by former commandant, General David Berger, and continued by his successor General Eric Smith. FD has caused an intellectual civil war within the […]

Putin Has ‘Mission Accomplished’ Moment In Touring Liberated Kursk Region On Tuesday into Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin had a ‘mission accomplished’ moment by visiting Kursk region for the first time since its full liberation from Ukrainian forces. It was in late April which Putin first announced that all Ukrainian troops have been booted out and retreated, after their risky cross-border raid which started in early […]

China’s Numerous Aging Dams Pose A Serious Threat To Safety Authored by Wang Weiluo via The Epoch Times, Before 1949, China had only 22 of the 5,000 large dams worldwide. Today, China’s top water resources official boasts that the country has since built 94,877 dams of various sizes. What’s surprising, however, is that the number of dams cited by Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying has actually dropped by 3,689 since […]

USDA Approves Nebraska’s Banning Soda And Energy Drinks From Food Stamps Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a waiver on May 19 restricting the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds to buy soda or energy drinks in Nebraska, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a May 19 statement. This is the first-ever state waiver banning soda and energy drinks from SNAP, popularly known as food […]

MAGA Think Tank Staffing Trump 2.0: America First Policy Institute Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, Dubbed a White House-in-waiting during his exile, the America First Policy Institute now seems nearly like another White House campus – almost half of President Trump’s Cabinet is expected to address the AFPI policy summit this week in Washington, D.C. The roster of speakers reflects not just the rising […]

Watch: Tourists Scramble As Ancient Chinese Tower Partially Collapses  China’s largest remaining drum tower partially collapsed on Monday, and the entire incident was captured on camera.  NEW: The roof of a 650-year-old drum tower in Anhui, China, collapses. The incident happened at the Fengyang Drum Tower in eastern China. Officials have since launched an investigation. The structure was first built in 1375 during the Ming […]

Students Wearing Masks Need Not Apply Authored by Kenneth Tashjy via The Epoch Times, Enough already. It is time for colleges and universities to get tough on student protesters who hide behind masks while engaging in violent or unlawful campus demonstrations. Let’s be clear: The First Amendment protects the right of students at public colleges to engage in peaceful protest.  If a student wants to wear a mask or face […]

Major Papers Publish AI-Hallucinated Summer Reading List Of Nonexistent Books In an embarrassing episode that will help aggravate society’s uneasy relationship with artificial intelligence, the Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers around the country published a summer-reading list where most of the books were entirely made up by ChatGPT.  The article was licensed content provided by King Features […]

Energy Should Never Be In Question Authored by Gary Abernathy via RealClearEnergy, When our nation’s founders collaborated on a constitution to outline the country’s guiding principles and establish the structure of a new government, there were concerns that the original document allowed for federal government overreach and did not go far enough to guarantee individual liberties. To address those concerns, James Madison […]

Watch: Israeli Troops Fire Shots On International Diplomats Visiting West Bank International pressure on Israel and the Netanyahu government is already at a historic high, even from Western allies which have been sanctioning hardline Israeli settler groups and individuals, and a new international incident has unfolded Wednesday in the West Bank. “Israeli soldiers mistakenly fired warning shots at diplomats representing the European […]