Bank Of Japan Governor Ueda Hospitalized, Will Miss June Meeting

Federal Government Backs Supreme Court Challenge To AR-15 Bans Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to side with gun owners challenging state and local bans on AR-15-style rifles. In a brief filed Friday, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to overturn rulings from the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuits, which upheld AR-15 bans in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois, respectively. "The AR-15 rifle is unquestionably in common use among law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes," the...

Turkish Cargo Ship Sunk By Drone Strike Off Romania, Two Sailors Killed There's no doubt that the tit-for-tat war on Black Sea shipping is getting nastier. For several months now, both Russian and Ukrainian forces have traded drone and missile attacks on ports and ships, disrupting vital Black Sea trade. For Ukraine this national transit lifeline is even more important amid its war time economy. A major incident has unfolded Monday after an alleged direct hit by Russian drone on a Turkish cargo ship carrying grain from a Ukrainian port. Screengrab from...

D.C. Economy "Under Strain," Faces Biggest Spending Cuts Since Great Recession The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its state-level real gross domestic product data on Thursday, revealing a sharply uneven economic landscape in the fourth quarter of 2025, with boom times in North Dakota contrasting with a sharp slowdown spreading across the Mid-Atlantic, especially in Washington, D.C. "From a regional perspective, real GDP increased in 35 states in the fourth quarter of 2025, with the percent change at an annual rate ranging from 3.8 percent in North Dakota to –8.3...