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US Property Foreclosure Filings Increase 14% Year Over Year Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, There were a total of 40,355 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in May—down 5 percent month-over-month but up by 14 percent compared to the same period in 2025. “The increase marks the continuation of a trend of rising foreclosure activity on an annual basis,” real estate analytics company ATTOM said in a June 11 statement. In April, foreclosure filings were up 18 percent from a year back. And in the first quarter of 2026, filings...

China's New AI Agent Risks Trapping Western Tech In Rights Abuses: Analysts Authored by Jarvis Lim via The Epoch Times, China's new state-backed artificial intelligence (AI) platform threatens to stifle domestic tech innovation through forced ideological compliance, and in the West, it could also be used to cover up the regime's human rights abuses, analysts warn. A screen advertising Xinhua News Agency in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, on March 2, 2020. Andrew Kelly/Reuters Xinhua, the official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), will spend more than...

NATO Warns Russia's Hybrid War Is Targeting Europe's Energy Grid Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, European officials fear Russia’s “grey war” is entering a more dangerous phase, with gas pipelines, electricity interconnectors, offshore networks, and subsea infrastructure increasingly vulnerable to sabotage and cyberattacks. Security sources say Moscow is escalating pressure because the Ukraine war is becoming harder to sustain militarily and economically. Recent incidents involving Russian-linked vessels and surveillance operations in the Baltic and North Seas have heightened concerns that Europe’s energy grid is becoming a frontline target in the broader confrontation...