American Consumers Have Never Been Less Confident Despite Inflation Fears Easing; UMich

Since starting his second term in January 2025, President Trump has continued a drone war in Yemen that has gone unnoticed in the US, according to a report from the Yemen Data Project (YDP). From January 2025 to March 2026, the YDP found 21 reports of US drone strikes in Yemen through an investigation of […]

'Could Resonate Globally': Korea Sparks Market Chaos With 'AI Tax' Threat Korean markets were under pressure overnight after politicians floated the idea of tapping AI profits.  Bloomberg reports that a top South Korean policymaker said the nation should pay citizens a 'dividend' using taxes on AI profits, with the obvious read through to Samsung and SK Hynix.  The comments in a Facebook post by presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom fueled sharp swings in Korean stocks on Tuesday as investors struggled to parse the scope of the proposals. “Excess profits in the AI era...

40,000 Evacuated In Southern California As Chemical Tank Threatens Leak Or Explosion Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Roughly 40,000 people in Garden Grove, a Los Angeles suburb, were evacuated on Friday after a chemical storage tank was determined to be at risk of failing and spilling thousands of gallons of toxic material or exploding. The malfunctioning tank holds methyl methacrylate, a flammable and volatile chemical used in plastics manufacturing for aerospace applications, igniting widespread worries over potential toxic vapor release. The situation broke out Thursday, when the tank at a...