The U.S. has temporarily reduced its tariffs on Chinese imports from 145 percent to 30 percent and China has slashed its import fees on U.S. goods from 125 percent to 10 percent.
Category: HOMEPAGE
AS FORECAST: GENERATION AI BEING RAVAGED BY AI DEPENDENCE
Reliance on AI is destroying the abilities of college students to conduct research, write papers and otherwise perform high level intellectual work.
FORMER ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS ISRAEL COMMITTING WAR CRIMES
Moshe Ya’alon, the former Israeli defense minister who accused the IDF of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, said last week that the plans in motion to expel the 2.1 million Palestinians living in Gaza is a “war crime.”
AS FORECAST: POPULIST PARTIES SURGE
Countries across Europe have seen a seismic shift in support from establishment conservative parties to an upstart populist movement that is focused on fixing economic and societal issues at home while tapping into a festering anger toward the establishment.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
After the U.S. equity markets rebounded from Donald Trump’s April 2 Liberation Day tariff slump, we forecast a pause and then more downward pressure on the market front.
UKRAINE: ANOTHER DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
According to the statement from the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday afternoon, the newly created U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund recognizes the "significant financial and material support."
CHINA’S PRESIDENT URGES PUSH ON AI AND TOUTS “THE GLOBAL SOUTH”
During a 29 April visit to the city of Shanghai, Chinese president Xi Jinping called for continuing work to establish the country as a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and emphasized China’s place as a leader of what he called the “Global South.”
AN AI IMAGINES ‘HUMAN ASPIRATIONS’ IN THE AGE OF AI ASCENDANCE, PART TWO
The following is part two of a conversation with xAI’s Grok3 generative AI chatbot begun with “AN AI IMAGINES ‘HUMAN ASPIRATIONS’ IN THE AGE OF AI ASCENDANCE, PART ONE” (29 Apr 2025).
NO LONGER HIDING IT: ISRAEL SAYS IT WILL ‘CONQUER GAZA,’ NOT LEAVE EVEN IF IT MEANS WRITING OFF HOSTAGES
Israel called up tens of thousands of reservists on Monday after its security cabinet threw its support behind plans to ‘conquer’ Gaza – with one top official stating that IDF troops will not leave even if it means sacrificing the remaining hostages in Hamas captivity.
WHO-BACKED STUDY FINDS ‘HIGH CERTAINTY’ OF LINK BETWEEN CELLPHONE RADIATION AND CANCER IN ANIMALS
A review published last month in Environmental International and backed by the World Health Organization (WHO) found that evidence backs the theory that radiation from cell phones can cause cancers in animals—including gliomas in the brain and tumors in the heart.