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New York Archdiocese Agrees To Mediation For Settling 1,300 Claims Of Sexual Abuse
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 8:55pm ESTNew York Archdiocese Agrees To Mediation For Settling 1,300 Claims Of Sexual Abuse Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Roman Catholic Church in New York and more than 1,300 people who have accused its priests and lay employees of sexual abuse have agreed to enter mediation to resolve the claims. […]
Washington, DC Has The Highest Share Of Renters In America, Nearly Double National Average
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 7:40pm ESTWashington, DC Has The Highest Share Of Renters In America, Nearly Double National Average About one in three U.S. households rents, a ratio that has stayed surprisingly steady over the past six decades. But with mortgage rates soaring from 2.7% in 2020 to almost 7% today – and home prices continuing to climb – the […]
“Godless Demons”: Teen Commits Suicide After “Sextortion” As International Crime Ring Targets American Children
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 6:50pm EST“Godless Demons”: Teen Commits Suicide After “Sextortion” As International Crime Ring Targets American Children Federal authorities are investigating the death of a 15-year-old West Virginia boy as part of a broader examination into sextortion networks that have increasingly targeted American teenagers, resulting in what experts describe as a national crisis of online predation, the New […]
“This Is Bad”: First Brands Liquidation Looms As DIP Loan Collapses
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 3:40pm EST“This Is Bad”: First Brands Liquidation Looms As DIP Loan Collapses In the annals of leveraged loan lunacy, few spectacles rival the ongoing implosion of First Brands Group – that debt-drenched auto parts Frankenstein stitched together by Malaysian-born serial acquirer Patrick James, who turned a sleepy Ohio outfit into a $50 billion liability leviathan before […]
Trump Threatens Tariff Increase On Mexico Over Rio Grande Water Dispute
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 2:20pm ESTTrump Threatens Tariff Increase On Mexico Over Rio Grande Water Dispute President Donald Trump weighed in on a decades-old border water dispute on Monday, saying he would impose a 5 percent tariff hike on Mexican imports if the country fails to swiftly deliver the water it owes from the Rio Grande. The ultimatum is designed […]
Defense Bill Requires Trump Spy Agencies To Declassify COVID-19 Origins Intel, Chinese Obstruction
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 12:20pm ESTDefense Bill Requires Trump Spy Agencies To Declassify COVID-19 Origins Intel, Chinese Obstruction Slipped into the nearly 3,100-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a provision that requires “declassification” and “transparency” related to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, and would require the Trump administration’s spy agencies to release its intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute […]
Federal Judge Orders Release Of Old Ghislaine Maxwell Files About Jeffrey Epstein
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 12:00pm ESTFederal Judge Orders Release Of Old Ghislaine Maxwell Files About Jeffrey Epstein Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A federal judge in New York on Dec. 9 ruled that the Department of Justice (DOJ) can unseal records in the case against Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, weeks after the passage of a law […]
Exxon Jumps 4% After Company Boosts 2030 Cash-Flow Outlook
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 11:05am ESTExxon Jumps 4% After Company Boosts 2030 Cash-Flow Outlook Exxon is trading sharply higher today, rising nearly 4% after the opening bell as investors reacted to a stronger long-term outlook from the company. The oil giant raised its expectations for future earnings and cash flow through 2030, driven by continued growth in its most profitable […]
White House Draws Up Post-Maduro Plans As Trump Warns His “Days Are Numbered”
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 9:40am ESTWhite House Draws Up Post-Maduro Plans As Trump Warns His “Days Are Numbered” In a new interview with Politico released Tuesday President Trump stated that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s “days are numbered” but still declined to say exactly what he has planned in terms of potential military action against Venezuela. He was asked specifically whether he might […]
Futures Flat With Fed/Oracle Event Bonanza On Deck
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 8:34am ESTFutures Flat With Fed/Oracle Event Bonanza On Deck US futures are unchanged, with traders looking forward to two market-moving events on Wednesday: the Fed meeting (where 22bps of easing is priced in) and Oracle results. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 contracts are little changed. Pre-market, Mag 7 are mostly lower except for […]
Consumer Stock Bosses Reinforce ‘K-Shaped’ Bifurcation Theme
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 6:55am ESTConsumer Stock Bosses Reinforce ‘K-Shaped’ Bifurcation Theme A bifurcated consumer landscape is one of the top themes (besides everything AI) of the third-quarter earnings season. Even though most consumer companies beat expectations and raised FY25 guidance, notably Dollar General, Five Below, and Ulta, management teams highlighted an unsettling financial squeeze on working-class and lower-income consumers. Readers have seen in […]
Why Does The End Of The World Look So Profitable?
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 5:00am ESTWhy Does The End Of The World Look So Profitable? Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, Sovereignty is shifting from public institutions to private tech entities like Palantir and SpaceX, which secure massive government contracts and offer “governance as a service.” The AI boom’s massive resource demands, particularly for energy and water, are being subsidized […]
Machine-Speed Warfare: When Drones Decide Faster Than Humans
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 3:30am ESTMachine-Speed Warfare: When Drones Decide Faster Than Humans Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, On June 1, 2025, 117 quadcopters—total cost under $120,000—flew from hidden launchers inside Russia and crippled 10 strategic bombers across five air bases in a single morning. Operation Spiderweb, as Ukraine called it. It was a public demonstration of […]
What’s The Likelihood Of A NATO-Russian Non-Aggression Pact?
ZeroHedge - Dec 9th 2025 2:00am ESTWhat’s The Likelihood Of A NATO-Russian Non-Aggression Pact? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Putin recently proposed providing Europe, the majority of whose countries are part of NATO, with formal guarantees that it won’t attack. In connection with this, he also assessed that those who fearmonger about Russia are serving the interests of the military-industrial complex and/or […]
Jim Quinn On The West’s Mass Collective Societal Suicide
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 11:25pm ESTJim Quinn On The West’s Mass Collective Societal Suicide Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “Historians will look back at the wreckage of a once-great American civilization and not with wonder that tens of millions of people who were entirely dependent upon government welfare payments were nonetheless allowed to vote. Even to […]
Seattle’s Woke World Cup Agenda Implodes As ‘Pride Match’ Set Between Countries With Anti-Gay Laws
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 10:35pm ESTSeattle’s Woke World Cup Agenda Implodes As ‘Pride Match’ Set Between Countries With Anti-Gay Laws Authored by Sarah Anderson via PJMedia.com, You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried… The 2026 World Cup has been the talk of the sports – and political – world lately. The United States, Mexico, and Canada will host […]
Governor Pritzker’s Sanctuary Policies Freed 1,700 Criminal Aliens Since January
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 10:10pm ESTGovernor Pritzker’s Sanctuary Policies Freed 1,700 Criminal Aliens Since January Illinois sanctuary policies have allowed more than 1,700 criminal illegal aliens to slip back onto the streets since President Trump took office on January 20, and the Department of Homeland Security is now calling out state officials for putting politics ahead of public safety. Among […]
Homan Defends Operations Against Illegal Somalis In Minnesota
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 8:05pm ESTHoman Defends Operations Against Illegal Somalis In Minnesota Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota is targeted at illegal immigrants and felons, White House border czar Tom Homan said in a Dec. 7 interview with CNN, dismissing concerns of unjust targeting. “There’s a large illegal […]
Hypersonics, AI, Space Weapons, & Directed Energy: Lawmakers Release Defense Bill As Expiring Obamacare Subsidies Marinate On Back-Burner
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 6:50pm ESTHypersonics, AI, Space Weapons, & Directed Energy: Lawmakers Release Defense Bill As Expiring Obamacare Subsidies Marinate On Back-Burner With Congress in its second-to-last week in session for this year, lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee released the final bill text of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Sunday night, which allocates a topline […]
Greed, Centralization, Monopoly, Ruin
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 5:40pm ESTGreed, Centralization, Monopoly, Ruin Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Greed is good up to the point that it delivers ruin. The primary characteristic of this era is the purposeful confusion of profit and greed, as if they are the same thing. Greed is good because profit is good, and profit is good because the profit motive is […]
Wendy’s Data Pinpoints When Working-Poor Customers Ditched “Dave’s Single” Burger
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 3:40pm ESTWendy’s Data Pinpoints When Working-Poor Customers Ditched “Dave’s Single” Burger Readers have been well informed about the bifurcated consumer landscape, where financial conditions look relatively stable for upper-middle-class and wealthy households. But for anyone earning less than $100,000 a year, financial misery persists, with many pressures lingering after four years of the disastrous Biden-Harris regime […]
Ukraine Claims It Can Intercept Conversations Of Kremlin Officials
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 1:40pm ESTUkraine Claims It Can Intercept Conversations Of Kremlin Officials The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency has boasted of being capable of intercepting conversations of senior Russian officials. He made the big claim in a fresh local media interview, but didn’t back it up by proof or any specifics. “Yes, we can. We get paid for […]
NY Fed Consumer Survey Shows Steady Inflation, Despite Soaring Expectations For Medical Care Costs
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 1:00pm ESTNY Fed Consumer Survey Shows Steady Inflation, Despite Soaring Expectations For Medical Care Costs US consumer inflation expectations were stable in November while perceptions about households current financial situations deteriorated “notably” and perceptions about job prospects improved, according to the latest Survey of Consumer Expectations from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Median inflation expectations […]
Trump’s Corollary To The Monroe Doctrine Changes Everything
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 11:30am ESTTrump’s Corollary To The Monroe Doctrine Changes Everything By Benjamin Pictor, senior market strategst at Rabobank US equity indices closed in on new highs on Friday as traders look ahead to this week’s FOMC meeting and place bets that monetary conditions are poised to get a little easier. Nevertheless, the US sovereign curve shifted higher […]
‘Disappointed’ Trump Raps Zelensky Who ‘Hasn’t Yet Read’ Peace Proposal
ZeroHedge - Dec 8th 2025 10:20am EST‘Disappointed’ Trump Raps Zelensky Who ‘Hasn’t Yet Read’ Peace Proposal President Trump has continued to speak frankly about Zelensky and the Ukrainian government, at a moment of a sense of stalled frustration on the peace plan with Russia unveiled last month. His frustration with Keiv continues to show, especially after high hopes for his 28-point […]