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Japan recorded a 1.01 trillion yen ($6.2 billion) trade deficit during the first half of 2026, according to preliminary government data. This does not mean that Japan will collapse tomorrow, but it is another crack in the foundation of a debt structure that can no longer withstand rising interest rates, a collapsing currency, and imported inflation. Japan’s exports increased 13.7% during the first six months of the year to 60.66 trillion yen. Imports rose 10.7% to around 61.9 trillion yen. Yet Japan still imported more than it exported despite a yen so weak that Japanese products should be extremely competitive abroad.…

Six years after President Donald Trump launched the Abraham Accords, Jared Kushner marked the anniversary Thursday by declaring that the Middle East is once again at an “inflection point” and arguing that the region has an opportunity to build on the historic normalization agreements and “do it again.” “Six years ago, President Trump launched the Abraham Accords and opened a new chapter of peace, partnership, and prosperity in the Middle East,” Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a key architect of the agreements, wrote on X. “Many said it was impossible,” he continued. “But with courageous leadership, persistence, and a small group…

Florida Republican Rep. Maria Salazar is lobbying the Pope to back her cheap-labor “Dignidad” bill that would create a two-tier society of citizens and low-wage migrant workers. Using Spanish, she touted the public meeting on her X account and provided a translation of her Spanish-language description of the conversation: Today, from the Vatican, I had the immense honor of conversing with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV about one of the great challenges of our country: immigration. And I placed in his hands the DIGNITY Act. More than four out of every ten Catholics in the United States are immigrants or…

Critics of the WNBA calling out its transgender policies – or lack therefore – were slammed Wednesday for their hurtful “bad faith” in criticizing men claiming to be women so they can play in the league. A league spokesperson said in a statement everything is fine at the WNBA and there is nothing for anyone to worry about, going public with a call for calm hours after an anti-hate task force met virtually and canvassed a variety of topics including social media vitriol and transgender athletes. Discussions, meetings, “hard conversations” and committees are working at the WNBA to determine what a woman is…

An elderly Tucson woman draws a handgun and confronts a suspected shoplifter fleeing a Ross store with multiple bags (Screenshot: C.R. via KOLD News 13) An absolutely “BASED elderly woman” in Tucson, Arizona, has gone viral after she allegedly pulled a handgun and chased a brazen shoplifter out of a Ross store as the alarm blared and the thief fled with multiple bags of stolen merchandise. Video circulating on social media shows the suspected thief casually walking away from the Eastside Tucson Ross with bags in hand while the store alarm screams. A bystander, identified across social media as an…

AI Chip Inflation Cooled in July In July, the inflation that has been hounding the artificial-intelligence buildout cooled off in many of the most obvious categories of goods. The extraordinary price pressure seen in June eased across computers, storage equipment, circuit boards, copper, and aluminum, while the remaining heat moved deeper into the physical infrastructure of the buildout. The June figures were alarming. Prices for computer-storage devices jumped 8.3 percent. Bare printed circuit boards surged 22.2 percent. Nonferrous wire and cable rose 1.7 percent, and aluminum mill shapes increased 2.4 percent. It was clear that demand was outstripping supply. Most…

The Chinese owner of a Cartersville-based flooring manufacturer, Wellmade Industries, his nephew, and another migrant are now facing federal charges in a case of forced labor of Chinese migrants. The U.S. Attorney’s office of the Northern District of Georgia have charged Wellmade Industries owner Zhu Chen, along with his nephew, Jiayi Chen and a Chinese national named Jianjun Lu, with forced labor, conspiracy to commit forced labor, and alien harboring arising from alleged illegal operations at the company, the office said in a Thursday press release. “The defendants allegedly threatened foreign workers with physical violence, deportation, and crippling debt; forced…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “All In,” Minnesota U.S. Senate nominee and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D) responded to a question on what role her call to rip apart and replace ICE played in her primary win by saying that the issue “was really an issue of judgment. My opponent was the only Minnesota Democrat to vote for Donald Trump’s immigration bill, the Laken Riley Act, which I think really gave the green light for the, just chaos and cruelty that we saw here in the streets in Minneapolis.” Guest host Jacob Soboroff asked, “You have this platform of ripping…

Prolonging the conflict until Trump leaves office is among Tehran’s options, Mohammad Reza Naqdi has said Iran can stay in the fight in a prolonged armed conflict with the US, even if it lasts the rest of Donald Trump’s term in office, a senior Iranian general has said.Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) voiced confidence in Tehran’s ability to sustain a long-term confrontation during an interview with PBS on Tuesday. His remarks came amid media reports of pressure on US munitions stockpiles and declining morale among American forces deployed in the Middle East.Tehran’s objective…

Obama’s corrupt CIA Director and MS NOW contributor John Brennan attacked the president this week and claimed Trump will “pull out all the stops” to interfere in the midterms. “I think we all should be very worried about what the President might do in order to try to interfere somehow in the integrity of the upcoming midterm elections! He has tremendous authority!” Brennan said. WATCH: This is rich coming from John Brennan after he interfered in the 2016 and 2020 elections. In 2016, John Brennan played a role in overseeing the 2017 ICA report that falsely claimed Russia interfered in…