The 'Modern-Day Lynching' Hoax... And The Elephant In The Room

'Deeply Shocked': Merz Speaks Of 'Consequences' After Historic CDU Defeat via Remix News, Germany's political establishment is still absorbing the shock of Sunday's state election in Saxony-Anhalt, where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to 43.8 percent and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Friedrich Merz crashed to 17.2 percent. Merz called the result the CDU's "heaviest defeat" in decades and said it could not simply be treated as business as usual. "And I have to admit, this is the heaviest electoral defeat that the CDU has suffered in years, in decades,"...

Appeals Court Upholds Hawaii's Rules For Gun Buyers Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times, Hawaii's rules for gun buyers were upheld by a federal appeals court Tuesday in a ruling that reversed a lower court's injunction. Palm trees frame the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu on April 23, 2025. Mengshin LinAP PhotoThe U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii by a vote of 6 to 5. In Todd Yukutake and David Kikukawa v. Anne Lopez and the City and County of Honolulu,...

An Uncomfortable Reality: China's Rare Earth Chokehold May Outlast This Decade An inconvenient reality for the Trump administration's race to rebuild Western conflict-free critical materials supply chains outside China, whether domestically or through friendshoring, is that it won't break China's chokehold this decade. The main problem for the US lies well beyond the mine, ING analysts Ewa Manthey and Coco Zhang wrote in a note on Monday titled "The US rare earth push: what comes next?" Extracting more ore does very little for US companies that depend on Chinese processing plants to...