Economists generally forecast that the average rate on a 30-year mortgage will remain slightly above 6% next year.(AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in November from the previous month, but slowed compared to a year earlier for the first time since May despite average long-term mortgage rates…
Connecticut is the latest Democrat state to send millions of its taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars to the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont is unhappy that Congress and President Donald Trump approved legislation this year to defund the abortion giant, which kills approximately 42,5000 babies in abortions each year.…
A top aide to socialist New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani resigned Thursday with just one day on the job, after past antisemitic and anti-police comments on her social media were exposed. Catherine Almonte Da Costa, who was announced Wednesday as Mamdani’s director of appointments, stepped down after the Anti-Defamation…
PHOENIX (AP) — Camdyn Glover used to be a quiet conservative. She worried what her teachers would think or if she would lose friends over her convictions. But she said something changed when Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September, and she started crying in her classroom at Indiana University while…
Something doesn’t add up…PublishedDecember 19, 2025 12:05 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 19, 2025 11:46 AM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkRemember back in July, all we could talk about was the CEO of Astronomer cozying up with his head of human resources?Yeah, wild times, right?Well, I thought we were past that, but now the woman at…
The Trump administration has suspended the country’s green card lottery program that was used by the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X late Thursday, “The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant…
Contrary to conventional economic wisdom and warnings from critics on the left and many economists that cutting interest rates while imposing broad tariffs would inevitably stoke inflation, the Trump administration is achieving all three simultaneously – with the Federal Reserve lowering rates, significant tariffs in place and inflation cooling to…
Saving Tina Peters is the key to saving America. Guest post by Martel MaximWhether America and our Constitution stand or fall will be reflected in the outcome of the upcoming midterm elections in November 2026, beginning with the all-important primaries, which are scheduled to start in the spring of 2026, just…
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SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. (CN) — More than 100,000 years ago, the massive Medicine Lake Volcano formed a caldera in the Cascade Mountains in Northern California. More than 10 times the size of Mount St. Helens, it features some of the freshest water and darkest skies in the Golden State.One of…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — For half a century, the Netherlands has lived with a contradiction. Any adult could walk into a coffeeshop, order a joint and light up under the tolerant gaze of the law.Just don’t ask where that cannabis came from — that’s where things got illegal. Though…
Maria Shriver took to social media Thursday to convey her disappointment over the Trump administration’s decision to rename The Kennedy Center. Shortly after it was announced that the historic performing arts facility will be named the Trump Kennedy Center, Shriver shared her personal connection with the building and expressed her…
Image: LU Staff Maryland is getting more corrupt under one-party Democratic rule. “Maryland’s new House speaker gives shoutout to convicted Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh in inaugural speech,” reports the liberal Baltimore Sun. “In her inaugural remarks Tuesday as speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, Democrat Joseline Peña-Melnyk singled out”…
Federal authorities are sounding alarms across the academic community after a post-doctoral researcher was charged with allegedly smuggling E. coli into the United States and lying to investigators about it — the latest in a string of cases involving biological materials brought into the country under false pretenses. According to…
That hasn’t been Hochul’s only climate backtrack. In November, she agreed to a Trump-backed gas pipeline, marking the Empire State’s first pipeline in at least a decade — and the first since they passed their hallmark climate law in 2019 requiring the state to cut carbon emissions 40 percent by 2030. Hochul…
As Christmas approaches, The Wall Street Journal celebrates the spirit of the season by gushing over a “throuple” of three gay men. “One Throuple Had Three Separate Design Tastes. How Did They Manage a Renovation?” asks Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar, writing for the once-respected financial publication.Talawadekar writes with seeming obliviousness to…
Parents of California high school students spoke out Thursday against a mandate forcing athletes into new leagues that allow transgender participation and require travel on dangerous winter roads. The California Department of Education notified parents in the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District (TTUSD) on Dec. 9 that their athletic programs…
The big debate online leading up to this year’s College Football Playoff is about whether we should allow the Group of 5 teams into the dance.The arguments have been flimsy, at best, but the main point in all of this is, right now, as the rules are structured, James Madison…
The Center for American Progress (CAP), a left-leaning D.C. think tank, released a report Thursday identifying so-called “climate deniers” in the Trump administration and Capitol Hill. The group defined a “climate denier” as one who does not subscribe to the “scientific consensus of human-caused climate change.” The report tallies a…
Person in proximity to person of interest Brown shooting / Providence police A vigilant citizen has emerged as the hero who helped take down the man who killed two students at Brown University and took out a professor at MIT. As The Gateway Pundit reported, the suspected Brown University shooter…
Richard Grenell has been busy slaying haters after it was announced that the Kennedy Center would be renamed to include President Trump. Grenell, who serves as the Kennedy Center’s president, has been an integral part of the performing arts center’s restoration under the Trump administration. The Kennedy Center had been…
Eleven months later, things look very different. Patricia Cohen and Eshe Nelson reported Tuesday that the E.U. is poised to water down its plans to ban the production of gas- and diesel-powered cars by 2035. Members of Parliament voted on Wednesday to delay the rollout of a groundbreaking deforestation law that would affect far-flung…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio holds an end-of-year press conference at the State Department at 11:30 a.m. ET on Dec. 19. …
A post-doctoral researcher from China has been charged with smuggling Escherichia coli (E. coli) into the U.S., federal authorities said Friday. Youhuang Xiang, who is also a J-1 visa holder, “allegedly chose to take part in a scheme to circumvent U.S. laws and receive biological materials hidden in a package…
The case has drawn comparisons in German media with the high-profile case in France last year of Dominique Pelicot, who for years secretly drugged his wife and invited scores of men to rape her while she was unconscious.AACHEN, Germany (AFP) — A German court on Friday handed a more than…
Climate Change Weekly # 566— Big Banks No Longer Bound by Federal Climate Accounting Rules By Sterling Burnett In another big move against climate alarmism under the Trump administration, quietly on October 16, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency…
Oh, my goodness. I do so love the way the other side plays favorites.Take the now infamous Coldplay cuddles. ]]>Let’s just say some ardently conservative, well-heeled executive had been caught on the kiss-cam at, oh, a John Rich or Kid Rock concert, cuddling to the tunes with his attractive executive assistant,…
Aftermath of an Islamic extremist truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in 2016. Photo by EuroBill, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Every year leading up to Christmas, news reports document Islamic terrorist attacks on Christmas markets and churches in Europe, Australia, and the United States, along with plots disrupted…
The Republican National Committee told the Daily Caller that it isn’t planning on leaning into mail-in voting, despite reports that the party might be breaking with President Donald Trump to do so. The GOP plans to push mail-in voting ahead of the 2026 midterms, Politico reported Wednesday. Since the 2020…
Within a single week, the governors of Illinois and New York both announced their support for physician-assisted suicide legislation. In Illinois, Governor JB Pritzker (D) signed a bill legalizing the practice last Friday. In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul (D) announced yesterday that she has reached an agreement with the…
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Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett lavished praise on former special counsel Jack Smith during an interview on former MS NOW host Katie Phang’s YouTube channel posted on Thursday. Smith gave closed-door testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, addressing both his classified documents case and his 2020 election case…
Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the best ideas, and the simplest solutions are the most effective. And sometimes, if you want to solve a problem, addressing it head-on won’t get you anywhere. You do something else, and that something else leads to an outcome that actually solves your problem. Perhaps…
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen speaks during a ceremony in Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol on June 7, 2023. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesNebraska plans to become the first state in the nation to implement work requirements for certain Medicaid recipients, with Gov. Jim Pillen and federal health officials announcing…
Republican Army veteran Laurie Buckhout is launching a bid to unseat Democratic North Carolina Rep. Don Davis, in a seat the GOP is looking to flip during next year’s midterm elections. Buckhout, who worked in a cyber role for the Trump administration over the past year, lost to Davis in…
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Consumer prices rose by 0.2% in the two month period between September and November.In the past 12 months, overall prices rose by 2.7%, which marks a slowdown from 3% reported in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Due to the federal government shutdown,…
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the Justice Department’s files on Jeffrey Epstein will be released to Congress in batches over the next couple of weeks, starting Friday.The Justice Department is facing a deadline Friday to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex-trafficking offender who was friends…
The U.S. military struck two alleged drug-smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific, killing five “narco-terrorists,” according to the U.S. Southern Command.The strikes occurred on Thursday, bringing the total number of strikes in the Pacific and Caribbean to at least 26, killing at least 104 alleged narco-terrorists since early September, The…
“We weren’t trying to make an example out of anyone. This was necessary to hold Judge Dugan accountable because of the actions she took” The post Judge Hannah Dugan Found Guilty of Obstructing Immigration Agents, Faces Prison Time first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Racist Zohran Mamdani wants white people, who are the majority in this country, to “feel defeated.” It’s important to him. Why else would he hire a Director of Appointments who said exactly that? Additionally, he is tied to Jew haters, yet 30% of New York City Jews voted for him,…
Australia’s response to the Bondi Beach terrorist attack targeting Jews at a Hanukkah celebration continues to boggle the mind. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese railed about the “rise of right-wing extremist groups” after the shooting, which left 15 people dead and dozens injured. The gunmen were a father-son duo who were reportedly…
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has taken a lot of heat for obliterating foreign invaders who seek to smuggle deadly drugs into the U.S., but one mom wanted to let him know he’s on the right track. In a fiery post, a young Southern mother who goes by “Puddin” on…
A source said the strike was a “new, unprecedented special operation” — Kyiv’s first military action in the Mediterranean, carried out around 1,240 miles from the country’s borders.KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukraine said Friday it had hit a Russian “shadow fleet” tanker with aerial drones in neutral waters of the…
Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee pardoned Jelly Roll for his criminal past in the state Thursday. He acknowledged the star’s dedication to righting his wrongs after serving jail time for drug-related charges, noting that Jelly Roll has stepped up to educate others, inspires change through music, and worked hard to…
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on Nov. 19, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesDeputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not release the full files related to Jeffrey Epstein by the Dec. 19…
The Chicago Bears, traditionally based in Illinois, announced on Wednesday that the team is considering building a new stadium in Indiana because of a lack of cooperation from Illinois’ leftist legislators. In a letter to fans, team president Kevin Warren insisted that while the original plan was to build the…
Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece. But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism, liberty, freedom of expression, self-critique, and free markets — what…
First, Donald Trump hints at the 2028 ticket in a Cabinet meeting. Next, Marco Rubio endorses J.D. Vance, “If [he] runs for president,” all but clearing the field for the next primary cycle. And now, the key activist group for younger Republicans and the woman who has taken the reins…
Around 1.6 million people are still forecast to face “crisis” levels of food insecurity in the period running to April 15.ROME (AFP) — A famine declared in Gaza in August is now over thanks to improved access for humanitarian aid, the United Nations said on Friday, but warned the food…
Ben Shapiro speaks at Turning Point USA’s America Fest in Phoenix, AZ., on Dec. 18, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesPHOENIX—By the end of day one, it was clear that AmericaFest 2025 was a big and very crowded tent.The first AmFest that Turning Point USA has held since its founder, Charlie…