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A mysterious low-budget animated film called Niu Lai, or “The Cow Arrives,” became an unexpected hit in Chinese theaters this past week, crossing $1 million in box office sales as word of mouth spread of how truly awful the film is. The film has grossed about $2.5 million cumulatively in theaters as of Monday despite not being released with effectively no advertising and being marketed so poorly that theater workers and fans are drawing their own posters to indicate to viewers that their theater is playing the film. Discussion of the film has taken over China’s major, regime-controlled social media…
Why Tarifflation Never Lived Up the Panic Economists are finally coming to grips with the reality that President Trump’s tariff policies did not have the inflationary effects they predicted. But the reason why may be even more challenging to the widespread assumption that tariffs cause the economy to become less efficient. Research published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on Wednesday finds that productivity growth accelerated in industries most heavily affected by tariffs—and that this largely offset the higher costs firms in those industries faced. “Industries in which tariffs induced higher costs in 2025 also experienced greater labor productivity…
An illegal alien, released into the United States by former President Joe Biden’s administration, is now accused of killing 51-year-old James Bagley III in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Sylva, North Carolina. This month, illegal alien Mauricio Josue Alberto Sarmiento of Honduras was arrested by the Sylva Police Department and charged with felony hit-and-run resulting in death, no liability insurance, driving with a revoked license, speeding, and failure to reduce speed. According to police, on August 2, Sarmiento was speeding when he allegedly struck Bagley, a pedestrian, around 3 a.m. before fleeing the scene. Bagley was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at…
Vucic’s talks with Zelensky, EU pressure and election risks suggest Belgrade is balancing, not changing sides yet By Vitaly Ryumshin, journalist and political analystLeaving aside Belarus, which is geographically European but rarely treated as part of Europe’s political mainstream, most people would probably name Serbia, which, in geopolitical terms is a remarkable exception. Even after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, Belgrade maintained a friendly attitude towards Moscow at both the governmental and public levels.For four years, Serbia has tried to remain neutral despite sustained pressure from Brussels and Washington, and it refused to impose sanctions on Russia, while…
The biological parents who tried to force their surrogate to abort their own son over a treatable heart condition are now suing her for more than $100,000 for refusing to kill the child and giving him a chance at life. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported in our extensive coverage of this heartbreaking case, Alaska nurse and mother of two McKenna West risked everything to protect Baby Gabriel after California couple Nasheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed invoked an abortion clause in their surrogacy contract when the unborn boy was diagnosed at 20 weeks with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. West fled…
The government of Syria, under former wanted al-Qaeda jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa, granted the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to a formerly secret nuclear site in the country on Tuesday, vowing to cooperate with the United Nations agency. IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi’s tour of a Deir ez-Zor facility believed to have been used by former dictator Bashar Assad for illicit nuclear development follows over a year of communication between Sharaa’s new regime and Grossi’s office in the aftermath of the fall of the Assad regime. Over half a century of Assad dynasty rule came to an end in…
President Donald Trump shared that the “most gratifying” election loss on Tuesday night was former Director of European Affairs for the National Security Council (NSC) Alexander Vindman being defeated by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidate Angie Nixon. In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump pointed out that Vindman “was the one who lied” about Trump’s “Perfect Call” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, only for it to be discovered “the conversation was routinely recorded” and proved Trump was not in the wrong. State Rep. Angie Nixon (D-FL) speaks loudly on the House floor as the House votes on…
Gannon Jacox, 29, and his girlfriend Brooklyn Hicks, 28, were arrested Saturday evening at Port Canaveral after the ship docked. Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, Florida (Official)/Facebook Another ugly example of America’s collapsing standards of public behavior reportedly unfolded aboard a cruise ship in Florida, where authorities say an allegedly intoxicated couple responded to a simple request for quiet by forcing their way into a family’s cabin and attacking everyone inside, including a 9-year-old child. Gannon Jacox, 29, and his girlfriend Brooklyn Hicks, 28, were arrested Saturday evening at Port Canaveral after the ship docked. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey laid…
The self-inflicted migrant crisis threatens to destroy the European Union, and illegal migrants, their enablers, and political activists will resist deportation efforts so hard it would plunge Germany into “civil war”, a security researcher has warned. The ongoing migrant crisis is pulling the European political project apart because the Union has no answers to border control problems, this is driving political polarisation, and the crisis has been left to fester so long any attempt to claw the situation back will spiral into violence, a German newspaper has been told. Former German Federal Police Captain Jan Solwyn, who has published books…
President Donald Trump delivers remarks about U.S. tech innovation along with industry leaders on Wednesday, August 19. The event is expected to focus on various crypto markets, with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse reported to be in attendance. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig posted on Tuesday that the CFTC would hold its first meeting of the Innovation Advisory Committee to address the future of American investment in cryptocurrency. Read the full article here