USA - Donald Trump has already sued multiple outlets, including CBS and ABC, winning a $16 million (£12 million) settlement from the latter. The President has also excluded Associated Press journalists from White House events and launched probes into outlets like NBC, PBS, and NPR. Donald Trump has launched a news aggregator platform designed to rival Drudge, bypass the mainstream media and flood the internet with pro-Trump headlines. The site, which debuted this week, aggregates content from right-wing outlets like Fox News and The Daily Caller, alongside White House-published material, creating an unfiltered echo chamber for his supporters. The move is part of Mr Trump’s long-running feud with what he calls the "fake news" media. “The media is the enemy of the people,” he declared in 2019, and now he’s built his own outlet to deliver the narrative he wants — free from critical voices.

USA - Courts Hold Grooming Kids in School is Fine But Don’t You Dare Mention God. In a recent case, Lee v Poudre School District R-1, Colorado parents Jonathan and Erin Lee, along with Nicolas and Linnaea Jurich, sued their school district, alleging it groomed their daughters into the LGBTQ cult through secretive Gender and Sexualities Alliance (GSA) meetings. They claimed teachers misled their children about gender identity, encouraged them to hide it from parents, and caused severe emotional harm, including suicidal ideation. Yet, on April 22, 2025, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of their lawsuit because, according to the Court, the parents failed to prove the district’s policies directly caused their injuries. Yet, when parents, like those in Lee v Poudre, fight back, courts toss their cases. Courts will intervene to banish even the mention of God from the schools. But when it comes to protecting kids from relentless LGBTQ indoctrination, the Courts humbly decide not to get involved and to deprive the parents of their day in court.

USA - President Donald Trump held a very special ceremony at the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, where he signed an order establishing a new commission aimed at protecting religious liberty in America, proving once again that he is a president for Americans of all faiths and beliefs. The president’s order was signed at the conclusion of an event commemorating the National Day of Prayer. Faith leaders from across the country joined the president onstage while worship songs were sung, including a moving rendition of “Amazing Grace.” “We’re bringing back religion in our country, and we’re bringing it back quickly and strongly because for America to be a great nation, we must always be one nation under GOD,” the president said during his remarks.

USA - President Donald Trump held a National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House on Thursday, where he signed an executive order establishing the “Religious Liberty Commission.” Religious leaders, government officials, and others joined Trump at the ceremony in the Rose Garden. In his remarks, Trump, who has credited God for saving him from being assassinated last July, said, “We have to trust God.” “So as we bow our heads on this beautiful day, once again, we have to trust our God because our God knows exactly where we’re going, what we’re doing, knows every inch of our life,” Trump said. “And may He continue to hear our prayers to guide our steps and build up our beloved nation to even greater heights,” he added. Dr Phil McGraw, known for his hit TV show Dr Phil, spoke during the ceremony, sharing he was glad to “see religion coming back to the White House.” He also attested to Trump’s faith based on their private interactions when cameras are off.

CHINA - Hundreds of angry Chinese workers are marching in the streets of China’s industrial cities to protest layoffs and unpaid wages after President Donald Trump’s tariffs forced their factories to shut down. Unemployment was already a big problem for China’s faltering post-pandemic economy, particularly youth unemployment, and now analysts are predicting Trump’s tariffs could wipe out more than 16 million jobs. Ji Feng, a survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, told RFA that Chinese businesses were in much worse shape than the regime in Beijing was willing to admit, so the blow of Trump’s tariffs struck much harder than predicted. Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his top officials remain defiant, but on Wednesday Xi hinted that major policy changes could be coming to handle tariff damage. He did not say exactly what his government planned to do, besides creating more propaganda to accuse the United States of being a bully.

USA - The Oversight Project gathered every document they could find with Biden’s signature – ALL used autopen signatures except for the announcement that he was dropping out of the 2024 election. New analysis of Executive Order signatures showed an “increased use of the autopen as President Biden’s mental and physical decline accelerated,” the Oversight Project revealed on Thursday. Joe Biden used a wet signature on every Executive Order during the first year and a half of his presidency. However, in late spring and early summer 2022, everything changed, and Biden’s autopen appeared on every clemency warrant and executive order. President Trump on Sunday called for the person or persons who operated Joe Biden’s autopen to be jailed.

RUSSIA - The Pravda network has published hundreds of thousands of articles since November, including falsehoods about King Charles and Keir Starmer. A Russian disinformation site is targeting Britons with thousands of articles attempting to undermine support for Ukraine and bogus stories about the royal family and senior politicians. European agencies have flagged the Pravda network as a Kremlin operation that has more than doubled in size since late last year. Researchers have also warned that it is distorting the output of AI chatbots by flooding the large language models that power them with pro-Kremlin falsehoods. The network publishes in countries across Europe, Africa and the Middle East in almost 50 languages, and in February alone it carried more than 350,000 articles. “It is the continuous hammering of disinformation that in the end erodes consensus, weakens democracies, and pushes Kremlin talking points. The Pravda network is consistent with this effort.”

RUSSIA - More and more people are using AI-driven chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Le Chat or Copilot instead of search engines to find information online. The advantage in this is that these large-language models (LLMs) not only provide links to the information they reproduce but also summarize content in a concise way that lets users access more information faster. However, this approach is also prone to errors. After all, it is not uncommon for chatbots to make mistakes. This phenomenon, known as hallucination, has been known for a long time. According to the internet watchdog NewsGuard, some Pravda pages only have around 1,000 visitors per month, while the website of RT, the Russian state-controlled international news channel, has more than 14.4 million visits per month. Analysts are convinced that the sheer volume of articles affects chatbots' outputs.

USA - Texas taxpayers paid nearly $122 million to provide Healthcare to illegal migrants in November alone, says the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). The Texas HHSC is reporting that the costs to the state for health care for illegal migrants has topped $121.8 million in unpaid care in just the month of November alone. And that estimate is probably low. In its report, the HHSC reported that non-citizens utilized hospitals in the Lone Star State more than 31,000 times during November of last year. Still, this is the first report of its kind in Texas and if every month is similar going forward, the yearly total would approach $1.46 billion per year.

USA - Pamela Geller is reporting that Washington state has become the first state to recognize Islamic Holidays as official State holidays. Geller quoting The Daily Wire notes, “The state of Washington, which does not officially recognize Easter or Yom Kippur as state holidays, became the first state in the nation to recognize the two Islamic holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as unpaid state-recognized holidays when Democrat Governor Bob Ferguson signed the legislation into law this month.” No other state currently accepts these as official holidays. This is an example of diversity upending the traditions of the founders, who believed in Biblical values and worshipped accordingly.

USA - US banks are currently sitting on $482 billion in unrealized losses on their investment securities, primarily long-dated Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities bought during the 0% interest rate era. This figure has jumped 33% in just the last quarter, making it the worst paper loss environment banks have faced in modern history, even worse than during the 2008 financial crisis. On the surface, these losses are “unrealized,” meaning banks don’t have to formally recognize them on their balance sheets unless they are forced to sell. The problem is: what can stay “unrealized” for years can suddenly flip into catastrophic reality under certain conditions. The entire post-2020 economic structure rests on the assumption that these unrealized losses stay hidden indefinitely. History shows that assumption is fragile.

UK - Amongst great fanfare and waving of flags the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales (HMSPoW) sailed from Portsmouth this week, bound for an epic eight-month deployment which will take her to the Indo-Pacific and back. It appears that HMSPoW and its accompanying escorts will then transit the Suez Canal into the Red Sea, where the Houthi rebels in Yemen have been lobbing missiles and seaborne armed drones at international shipping since November 2023, and have sunk two ships and injured many crew members. What if the Houthis have a pop at HMSPoW and her escorts as they sail by? I suspect that the temptation will be too much for them and that they will indeed have a go. Would they be able to hit Prince of Wales or any of its escorts? It is quite possible but unlikely given the vast array of defensive weaponry the task force will deploy. We just have to remember, though, that the defence has to be successful all of the time whereas the Houthis only have to be successful once to achieve their aim.

UK - The lift shudders to a halt, in total darkness. You reach for your mobile phone. No signal. You find the alarm button. No answer. As the seconds, minutes and hours go by, you can contemplate the vulnerability of our highly sophisticated society to breakdowns, and recall stories of corpses found in abandoned lifts. The power cuts that plunged Spain and Portugal into darkness this week caused few fatalities. But they are a timely reminder of how vulnerable our physical and social infrastructure is to breakdown. Trains stopped in tunnels. Payment systems froze. Communications packed up. Millions of people suffered stress, cost and inconvenience. And it is still unclear why. At least with the cyberattack that crippled Marks & Spencer we probably know the culprit: a greedy, wily gang of pseudonymous teenage cybercriminals. Not that it helps in trying to catch them. The fragility of our systems will not escape our enemies’ notice.

UK - Pembrolizumab is one of the first immunotherapy drugs for cancer. It harnesses the body’s own immune system and teaches it to attack tumours. It’s fair to say drugs such as Keytruda have transformed the landscape of cancer treatment. But there is a price to pay – and it’s a ‘grotesque’ one, according to Dr Andrew Hill, a visiting research fellow in the department of pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Liverpool. ‘These cancer drugs are sold routinely for between 100 and 1,000 times what they cost to make,’ says Dr Hill. Global Justice Now estimates that pembrolizumab costs the NHS around £775 per 50mg, but its actual cost to manufacture, according to its calculations, is estimated to be no more than £18 per 50mg. The typical dosage for a single treatment varies depending on the cancer, but can be 200mg every three weeks. The UK is far from alone in its growing reliance on pembrolizumab, with Keytruda generating a staggering £19 billion in revenue globally for pharmaceutical giant MSD in 2023 alone.

USA - The cost of living squeeze is real and it’s making Americans completely stuck. Buying and renting are both out of reach for most Americans. $1 million 30 year mortgage at 6.85% (current national average) = $6,553/monthly payment. Annualized that is a $31,224 difference. If you took out a mortgage or refiled with a mortgage that begins with 2 percent, why would you ever move now? The cost of rent is out of control in America. These 2 bedroom apartments in California are $2,779 per month. They look like a dump. This is not abnormal, the average cost for a 2 bedroom in many areas of Southern California is over $2,700 per month. A 1 bedroom averages $2,200.