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  • Judge Restricts Immigration Arrests In DC

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 6:25pm EST

    Judge Restricts Immigration Arrests In DC Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge on Dec. 2 ordered the Trump administration to stop making warrantless immigration arrests in the District of Columbia without probable cause. Federal officers arrest a man in the District of Columbia on Aug. 30, 2025. Tasos […]

  • Prediction Platform Polymarket Rolls Out US App Today After CFTC Approval

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 5:20pm EST

    Prediction Platform Polymarket Rolls Out US App Today After CFTC Approval Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market platform, has officially launched a U.S.-focused app following approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).  Against all odds. Polymarket’s U.S app is now being rolled out to those on the waitlist. We’re launching with sports — followed by markets on […]

  • The AI Economy And The Public Risk Few Are Willing To Admit

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 4:20pm EST

    The AI Economy And The Public Risk Few Are Willing To Admit Authored by Mark Keenan via GlobalResearch.ca, Artificial intelligence is being sold as the technology that will “change everything.” Yet while a handful of firms are profiting enormously from the AI boom, the financial risk may already be shifting to the public. The louder […]

  • Jan. 6 Defendant Sues Federal Government Over Alleged Abuses In Custody

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 3:45pm EST

    Jan. 6 Defendant Sues Federal Government Over Alleged Abuses In Custody Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A former Jan. 6 defendant who alleges he was repeatedly abused in custody is suing the federal government for almost $18 million. Ryan Samsel of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was convicted in September 2024 of civil disorder-related offenses […]

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  • “Deckchairs” On The Titanic?

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 1:25pm EST

    “Deckchairs” On The Titanic? By Michael Every of Rabobank The conclusion to yesterday’s Global Daily was that we are still in a systemic metacrisis. True, many market metrics don’t show it – but how many deckchairs told the Titanic’s passengers they were heading for the iceberg? Markets have a vital role, as do chairs, but […]

  • James Boasberg Snubs Senate Hearing On ‘Rogue Judges’

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 11:25am EST

    James Boasberg Snubs Senate Hearing On ‘Rogue Judges’ Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Two of the federal judges facing impeachment threats refused to attend a Wednesday Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on “rogue judges.”  James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman, district judges in Washington and Maryland, respectively, told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts that they would not appear over concerns […]

  • ‘Sustained Resilience’: US Services Surveys Mixed In November

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 10:07am EST

    ‘Sustained Resilience’: US Services Surveys Mixed In November Following the disappointment on the Manufacturing PMI side (both S&P Global and ISM seeing their surveys decline in November), US Services surveys were more mixed in the face of ‘strong’ hard data (that has been largely absent due to the shutdown). S&P Global US Services PMI dropped from […]

  • US Industrial Production Sees Biggest Annual Gain In 3 Years Despite Slowing Capacity Utilization

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 9:27am EST

    US Industrial Production Sees Biggest Annual Gain In 3 Years Despite Slowing Capacity Utilization First things first, this is data for September. But we would given this morning’s Industrial Production and Manufacturing Output data a ‘meh’ ranking. Industrial Production rose just 0.1% MoM (as expected) up from the downwardly revised 0.3% MoM decline in August. […]

  • As K-Shaped Consumer Breakdown Widens, Bessent Points To Brighter 2026

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 7:45am EST

    As K-Shaped Consumer Breakdown Widens, Bessent Points To Brighter 2026 At the start of the week, commenting on Black Friday sales figures, Goldman analyst Natasha de la Grense said there has been increased focus on the “K-shaped” economy. As outlined in our previous notes (here and here), this widening behavioral gap is becoming more pronounced […]

  • A Third Of Glasgow Schoolchildren Don’t Speak English

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 6:30am EST

    A Third Of Glasgow Schoolchildren Don’t Speak English Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Nearly one in three children in Glasgow’s primary schools do not speak English as their first language, according to new council data, highlighting a dramatic shift driven by record migration levels that are overwhelming local resources and raising urgent questions about […]

  • Serbia Faces ‘Lights Out’ As US Denies Sanctions Waiver To Russian-Owned Oil Refinery

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 5:45am EST

    Serbia Faces ‘Lights Out’ As US Denies Sanctions Waiver To Russian-Owned Oil Refinery In the wake of the recent US sanctions on Russia’s two biggest energy giants, Serbia is in desperate need of a sanctions-waiver if the country hopes to keep the lights on. Serbia’s government is this week warning it could slide into a […]

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  • China-Japan Spat Looks To Be Boon For Russian Tourism & Industry

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 4:15am EST

    China-Japan Spat Looks To Be Boon For Russian Tourism & Industry In yet another sign of deepening Russia-China ties on all levels, which has also included cooperation on the military front in the context of the Ukraine war, President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on Monday temporarily lifting visa requirements for visitors from China. […]

  • Trump Tells Netanyahu Don’t Hinder Syria’s Stability In Rare Rebuke

    ZeroHedge - Dec 3rd 2025 2:45am EST

    Trump Tells Netanyahu Don’t Hinder Syria’s Stability In Rare Rebuke President Trump has issued a rare criticism and brush back of Israel’s expansionist policy in Syria, where in the south of the country Israel’s military has launched recent deadly ground and aerial raids which go way beyond just the Golan Heights. Trump has warned that […]

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  • This Chemist May Have Cracked America’s Rare Earth Problem

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 11:25pm EST

    This Chemist May Have Cracked America’s Rare Earth Problem Authored by Eva Fu & Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), One flash is all it takes. That’s how James Tour said the United States can tackle China’s rare earth dominance. James Tour, chemist and nanotechnologist at Houston’s Rice University, in Scottsdale, Ariz All […]

  • Republican Matt Van Epps Wins Tennessee Special Election

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 10:31pm EST

    Republican Matt Van Epps Wins Tennessee Special Election Republicans will hold onto Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District despite a push by Democrats to flip the deep-red seat, the Associated Press projected Tuesday, as Republican candidate Matt Van Epps was set to defeat Democrat Aftyn Behn. The former state commissioner and Army helicopter pilot defeated the Democratic […]

  • “Power Up America” Needs 500,000 Highly Skilled Workers

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 9:20pm EST

    “Power Up America” Needs 500,000 Highly Skilled Workers We’ve already pointed out that money isn’t the problem in America’s unprecedented data center construction buildout. Big Tech’s AI capex splurge is effectively endless thanks to “circle-jerk” vendor-financing schemes, and land is plentiful. The real bottleneck? First, it was power – or rather, the lack of it – as […]

  • U.S. Navy’s “Doomsday” Aircraft Vanishes Over Atlantic On Mysterious Mission

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 8:30pm EST

    U.S. Navy’s “Doomsday” Aircraft Vanishes Over Atlantic On Mysterious Mission A Boeing E-6B Mercury operated by the U.S. Navy, one of the service’s airborne nuclear command posts commonly known as the “Doomsday plane,” disappeared from civilian flight-tracking platforms Friday morning while operating over the Atlantic Ocean, according to tracking data, the Daily Mail reports. One […]

  • Alabama Zoning Commission Rejects Proposal For Muslim School After Town Erupts In Fury

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 7:40pm EST

    Alabama Zoning Commission Rejects Proposal For Muslim School After Town Erupts In Fury A Hoover, Alabama zoning commission unanimously rejected a rezoning request Monday that would have allowed a Muslim K-12 academy to relocate to an office building in the Birmingham suburb, capping a contentious public hearing that packed roughly 170 residents into the room […]

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  • Chinese Magnet-Makers Find Loopholes To Dodge Beijing’s Rare-Earth Export Controls

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 6:50pm EST

    Chinese Magnet-Makers Find Loopholes To Dodge Beijing’s Rare-Earth Export Controls Chinese rare-earth magnet makers are quietly developing legal workarounds to Beijing’s tightened export rules, aiming to keep sales to Western customers moving even as China’s new licensing regime slows or blocks shipments of restricted materials, according to the Wall Street Journal. After Beijing imposed export […]

  • ‘Got Gold’ For The Coming Reckoning?

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 5:00pm EST

    ‘Got Gold’ For The Coming Reckoning? Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “China has been understating its gold reserves by possibly a factor of 10. I believe this is the biggest story in world finance. The West is either asleep at the wheel or ignoring it.” – Dominic Frisby The Financial Times reported […]

  • Pfizer mRNA Influenza Vaccine ‘Failed’ In Clinical Trial Among Seniors: FDA Commissioner

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 1:40pm EST

    Pfizer mRNA Influenza Vaccine ‘Failed’ In Clinical Trial Among Seniors: FDA Commissioner Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pfizer’s experimental influenza vaccine will not receive approval absent new data proving that it protects seniors against the flu, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration suggested in a new interview. A […]

  • House Republicans Officially Confirm “Operation Choke Point 2.0” Targeted Bitcoin And Crypto Firms

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 12:45pm EST

    House Republicans Officially Confirm “Operation Choke Point 2.0” Targeted Bitcoin And Crypto Firms Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have released a 50-page report detailing what they describe as a systematic debanking effort by Biden-era regulators, dubbed “Operation Chokepoint 2.0.”  While many of the findings — such as the Fed, […]

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  • Putin Says ‘Ready For War’ Against Europe If Attacks On Russian Tankers, Energy Continue

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 10:45am EST

    Putin Says ‘Ready For War’ Against Europe If Attacks On Russian Tankers, Energy Continue US envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law and unofficial diplomat Jared Kushner have been at the Kremlin on Tuesday for high-level talks with President Vladimir Putin. The Americans are presenting Trump’s Ukraine peace plan in its current form after the high […]

  • Michael Burry Is (Once Again) Going To Try And Short Tesla

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 10:00am EST

    Michael Burry Is (Once Again) Going To Try And Short Tesla Michael Burry is once again taking aim at Tesla — a reminder of his high-profile 2021 short, when he bet against the stock just before it nearly doubled before dropping from its peak.  In a new Substack post, the “Big Short” investor called Tesla […]

  • Tether CEO Slams S&P Ratings Agency And Influencers Spreading USDt FUD

    ZeroHedge - Dec 2nd 2025 7:20am EST

    Tether CEO Slams S&P Ratings Agency And Influencers Spreading USDt FUD Authored by Vince Quill via CoinTelegraph.com, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino and market analysts pushed back against S&P Global’s downgraded rating of USDt’s ability to maintain its US dollar peg, saying that the ratings agency did not account for all of Tether’s assets and revenues. […]