China’s Q2 GDP Growth Slows to 0.8 Percent as Economic Engines Stall
Read More The Chinese communist regime admitted on July 17 that the GDP growth rate in the second quarter of the year was lower than expected. Observers pointed out that China’s economy is actually in stagnation or even decline, as investment and demand both domestic and foreign continue to weaken, with domestic structural problems predicted […]
Falun Gong Practitioners Recount a Harrowing 24 Years of Withstanding CCP Persecution
Read More For adherents, years of suffering severe persecution merely for holding onto their faith has been like ‘living in hell’ In her 34 years, Doria Liu almost never saw her mother cry—not even when her mother recounted suffering harrowing torture at the hands of Chinese authorities in a bid to break her faith. But […]
Shield Laws Let Doctors Mail Thousands of Abortion Pills
A new method adopted by Europe-based Aid Access is allowing medical professionals in states that have passed telemedicine shield laws to prescribe and mail out the pills to patients in states with anti-abortion laws.
Powerball Has a Winner for Its Jackpot of Over $1 Billion
A winning ticket has been sold in California for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion, the sixth largest in U.S. history and the third largest in the history of the game.
RFK Jr has ‘no business’ testifying in Congress on government censorship, Democrats say
House Democrats this week heaped criticism on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ahead of his testimony before the Republican-led House Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government. “He said some very disturbing things about the COVID virus having a disproportionate impact on Caucasians and African Americans and then also made the claim that it seems to […]
China leans on Kissinger goodwill, but influence ‘diluted,’ expert says
China has bet on positive press from a meeting with former U.S. national security adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, hoping to use the face-to-face to revive positive momentum as relations with the U.S. remain tense. “China reaching out to Kissinger really is a sign of desperation,” Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute senior fellow and […]
New Zealand gunman stormed construction site, killing multiple people, injuring others: police
At least two people were killed and five others – including a police officer – were injured Thursday after a gunman stormed a construction site in downtown Auckland, New Zealand. The shooting came as the nation was preparing to host games in the FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament. New Zealand police the injured officer was […]
A look at US sanctions on Russia, Iran from Obama to the Biden years
Russia and Iran are the two most sanctioned countries in the world. Iran had the most before Russia invaded Ukraine with around 3,600. Russia had 2,695. After the invasion in February 2022, sanctions on Russia skyrocketed to more than 16,000. “The sanctions against Russia began under the Obama administration after the first Russian invasion in […]
Israel grants entry to Palestinian-Americans in bid for visa waiver qualification
Israel announced Wednesday that it would be allowing all American citizens, including dual-nationality Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, to enter the country through its international airport as part of an agreement to qualify for a visa waiver program with the U.S. Israel has pushed for years to secure visa-free entry for its […]
Nigel Farage accuses UK’s Coutts bank of closing his account over political beliefs; PM Sunak responds
Nigel Farage is lobbing fresh allegations against Coutts, alleging that the private bank closed his account because of his politics. The former Brexit Party leader posted a video on Twitter Tuesday saying that he had obtained a 40-page document after filing a “subject access request” with Coutts to learn more about the bank’s rationale for […]