US Africa Command Says It Has Launched 68 Airstrikes in Somalia This Year

Thursday’s announcement of the ceasefire in Lebanon brought some relief to the 20% of Lebanon’s population that is currently displaced by the conflict. Whether or not they’ll actually be able to return home is another matter entirely. In the hours leading up to President Trump’s declaring a ceasefire would start at 5 pm EST on […]

Germany's Migrant Crime Crisis Explodes Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Germany's federal government just dropped numbers that should end every soft-border talking point still circulating in European capitals. Of the 1,087 suspects identified in 751 recorded gang rapes last year, 53 percent were foreign nationals. Non-Germans make up less than 17 percent of the population. The 772 victims were overwhelmingly German: 619 of them, or 80 percent, including 565 women. New figures released by the German federal government show that 53% of the 1,087 suspects in 751 recorded gang rapes last year were...

Jobless Claims & JOLTs Confirm 'Higher Hire, No Fire' Economy With JOLTs data showing record hiring (and ADP signaling acceleration in job additions), today we get some signal on firings as the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time was at 200k last week (below the 205k exp) and continuing to languish near multi-decade lows (near 1967 lows!!)... Source: Bloomberg Non-seasonally adjusted across all the states saw a 299k drop in claims led by Rhode Island and Arizona (California and Michigan saw the biggest increases)... Continuing jobless claims also...