Feds Seize Over A Ton Of Cocaine At Massive US-Mexico Drug-Smuggling Tunnel

Euro Area Inflation Tops 3.0% For First Time Since 2023, Cementing ECB Rate Hike Euro Area inflation topped 3% for the first time since September 2023, further cementing expectations for a rate hike when the ECB meets next week.  Consumer prices rose 3.2% from a year ago in May, and up from 3% the previous month, in line expectations. But core inflation, which excludes volatile items like food and energy, jumped more than anticipated to 2.5% (technically 2.55%), while the closely watched services gauge jumped to 3.5%, the highest since last November, and non-energy...

The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?” - Thomas Jefferson What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit. Freedom...

Bloom Energy Erupts On Beat, Guidance Upgrade As On-Site Data Center Power Demand Soars Clean-power company Bloom Energy surged early in the U.S. cash session after reporting earnings Tuesday after the close, raising its full-year revenue and margin guidance on rising demand from data centers and other commercial customers.  The maker of solid oxide fuel cell systems, branded as Bloom Energy Servers, that generate electricity on-site for customers, posted a profit of $70.7 million, or 23 cents a share, compared with a loss of $23.8 million, or 10 cents a share,...