America Spends More On Defense R&D Than Any Other OECD Country - By A Mile

Los Angeles Ranks Last Among 100 US Metros For Affordability And New Home Construction Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Des Moines, Iowa, ranked first and Los Angeles ranked last in Realtor.com's inaugural report grading the 100 largest U.S. metros on housing affordability and homebuilding activity. A sign is posted in front of a home for sale in Los Angeles on July 9, 2026. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The results highlighted how local zoning and permitting can affect housing affordability in different areas. The real estate platform's first Metro Affordability and Homebuilding Report...

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...

If You Love This Country, When You Vote, Consider The Policies That Islamist Sharia Ideology Demands Authored by Majid Rafizadeh via Gatestone Institute, When you go to vote in ten days, please keep in mind the many doctrines and policies that are not just preferred but required by those who identify with the ideologies of Islam. Every election presents a choice between candidates, some of whom may be more supportive of your individual freedoms than others. There are many candidates whose primary loyalty is to the United States: they put America first,...