West Africa-Linked Auto Theft Gang Busted In New Jersey A gang of car thieves — attempting to copy the Nicolas Cage film “Gone in 60 Seconds” — burglarized homes and stole luxury vehicles across the New York–New Jersey area, cramming the stolen cars into shipping containers bound for third-world West African countries. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew…

How America Funded China’s Rise Authored by Spencer Morrison via American Greatness, The free trade brigade obsesses over economic minutiae – they cry that tariffs will raise the cost of plastic spatulas by 50 cents!  What a disaster! Who cares? The reality is that trade with China is not in America’s interests because it funds our greatest…

Canadian Election: Poilievre Odds Explode Higher As Conservative Turnout ‘Larger Than Expected’ With Canada’s Atlantic polls now having closed in what will be a deeply consequential election, odds for conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre have begun spiking after conservative turnout was reportedly “larger than expected,” according to betting market Kalshi. Official results won’t start rolling in…

Israel Resumes Pounding Beirut Suburb After Relative Quiet Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, For the third time in the past month, Israel has carried out an airstrike against the Lebanese capital city of Beirut. This latest strike targeted the Hadath neighborhood, a southern suburb of Beirut. They issued a warning telling civilians to evacuate the…

Iran Says Port Blast Was ‘Negligence’ Amid Reports Missile Fuel Stored Improperly  As of Monday an Iranian official in Bandar Abbas has said that the major Iranian port fire is 90% extinguished, which means emergency crews have been battling the blaze for over 40 hours. The death toll has since risen to at least 46 amid the…

Leftism Is Killing Chocolate Authored by Andrew Widburg via AmericanThinker.com, After years of writing about politics, I’m a pretty hardened character. I’m cynical, pessimistic, and, while I’m often disgusted, I’m seldom shocked or panicked. But what I read at the JoNova site was so terrible I’m reeling: “Price fixing kills the cocoa farm.” It turns…