Via Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden UnitedHealth Group shares dropped as much as 7.5% in premarket trading Wednesday in New York, following a Guardian investigation that revealed the health insurer shelled out “Premium Dividend” and “Shared Savings” bonuses to nursing homes that reduced hospital transfers for sick residents. The Guardian’s investigation is based on thousands of confidential corporate and patient […]
New documents released under a federal lawsuit detail how the Biden White and then-President Joe Biden’s personal lawyers bullied the Justice Department into covering up Biden’s declining mental state. The non-profit public interest law form Judicial Watch announced it “received from the U.S. Department of Justice in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit 49 […]
A leading House conservative and member of the Budget Committee used his time in a committee hearing on the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” spending package to explain that the bill does little to reform spending and the supposed spending cuts are pushed to future years, giving future congresses and the next president time to repeal […]
Via Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden 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 Vatican is not bankrupt. But it is closer than most believe. That is the quiet consensus in Rome, where Pope Leo XIV now presides over a Holy See beset by years of structural deficits, donor fatigue, and a pension liability that has metastasized into a billion-euro tumor. For the first US-born pope, the gravity […]
Via Space War by Danny Kemp and W.G. Dunlop Washington (AFP) US President Donald Trump has announced new details and initial funding for his “Golden Dome” missile shield system, with geopolitical rival China accusing Washington on Wednesday of undermining global stability. Trump on Tuesday announced $25 billion earmarked for the project, which he said could […]
Greenland has inked a major 30-year mining agreement with a Danish-French consortium, locking in plans to extract rare-earth minerals and aluminum — key materials for both tech innovation and defense manufacturing. The deal deals a blow to U.S. ambitions in the Arctic, particularly as President Donald Trump’s floated idea of buying the island continues to […]
Why are so many young people dying of cancer? That is not a rhetorical question. It is not sensationalism either. It is a clinical, empirical, unsettling observation. Earlier today 25-year-old professional boxer Georgia O’Connor died after a bout with cancer. The boxer, whose physical vitality was admired by millions, was diagnosed with cancer just 17 […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – An 18th-century war power has drawn interest to possibly give private firms more leeway to fight state-backed hackers. Trump administration and industry officials have discussed whether modern-day letters of marque—once used to deputize privately owned ships to lawfully attack other vessels during wartime—might enable private-sector retaliatory offensive hacking operations against […]
The Wall Street Journal is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against Harvard University — particularly the attempt by Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem to revoke the university’s authority to enroll international students, who make up roughly one-third of its student body. In a recent editorial, the Journal accused the administration of […]
By Tyler Durden ZeroHedge Despite ongoing US-backed efforts to get Russians and Ukrainians to the negotiating table again, days after last week’s Istanbul talks, both warring sides have on Wednesday ramped up tit-for-tat assaults on each other’s territory. Ukrainian drones have once again threatened the Moscow region, leading to the capital’s four airports temporarily suspending nearly […]
The Chagos Betrayal: How Guilt Politics Endanger US National Security
The decision to hand over the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius is not merely misguided; it is suicidal empathy masquerading as justice. In a geopolitical climate defined by sharpening great-power competition and growing assertiveness from China and Russia, Britain’s move to divest sovereignty from one of its most strategically vital outposts is an act of supreme […]