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Cliffwater Private Credit Fund Gates Investors For Second Straight Quarter After Redemption Requests Soar To 17% The market may be in full-blown face-ripping bubble mode, and software stocks are now gripped in by a category 5 gamma squeeze hurricane, but not even that is helping the ongoing debacle that is private credit. The flagship private credit fund of Cliffwater, a fund which has was slammed by redemption requests in the past quarter as the private credit crisis came to a fore, has again gated investors by capping redemptions at 5% in...

Illegal Immigrant Pleads Guilty To Purchasing 91 Firearms Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times, An illegal immigrant from Mexico has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to purchasing 91 firearms and 40,000 rounds of ammunition. A sign displaying "No firearms in Mexico" its outside a border entry point in Naco, Ariz., on March 5, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon announced on Aug. 10 that Samuel Rodrigo Melo Santos pleaded guilty to being an alien in possession of a firearm and...

Anthony Fauci And The Collapse Of Scientific Authority Authored by Jason Locasale via The DisInformation Chronicle, Today's guest essay comes from Jason Locasale who looks at academia's embrace of authority over scientific data and evidence to preserve narratives and protect those in power. Anthony Fauci is now facing intense scrutiny. His diaries, emails, and testimony have raised fundamental questions about what he knew, what he then told the public, and how he exercised authority during the pandemic. Many outside of academia read these documents and view this moment as his fall from...