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Beijing Boosts BeiDou Satellite System To Try And Compete With GPS
18.04.2026, 04:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beijing Boosts BeiDou Satellite System To Try And Compete With GPS China is upgrading its BeiDou satellite navigation system, a domestic alternative to GPS, to expand its global reach and industry use, according to South China Morning Post. The plan involves replacing older satellites with newer third-generation models and adjusting their orbits to...
The Latest On The Redistricting Battles
18.04.2026, 00:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Latest On The Redistricting Battles Authored by Jackson Richman & Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Despite the midterm season underway, the lines of congressional maps have not been finalized as redistricting battles continue nationwide. Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in the Hillsboro Old Stone School in Hillsboro...
Persian Gulf Tanker Armada Races For Hormuz After Iran Says Strait Is Open
17.04.2026, 20:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Persian Gulf Tanker Armada Races For Hormuz After Iran Says Strait Is Open An armada of at least eight oil tankers set off toward the Strait of Hormuz immediately after Iran’s foreign minister said the vital waterway was fully open to shipping. Five of the carriers, which had been anchored north of Dubai, were moving into the waterway on Friday afternoon...
Cybertruck Sales "Propped Up" By SpaceX Buying Spree
17.04.2026, 18:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cybertruck Sales "Propped Up" By SpaceX Buying Spree Bloomberg is out with a new report saying Tesla's Cybertruck sales were "propped up" in the fourth quarter by purchases from companies inside Elon Musk's business empire. SpaceX accounted for 1,279 Cybertruck registrations, or about 18% of all U.S. Cybertruck registrations during the last quarter...
Hochul Joins Mamdani In New York's "Eat The Rich" Movement
17.04.2026, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hochul Joins Mamdani In New York's "Eat The Rich" Movement Authored by Jonathan Turley, The hunt is on... New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used Tax Day to announce a new fee targeting wealthy people who still linger in the city after moving their primary residences to other states. The tax, called pied-à-terre (or “foot on the ground”) is designed...
'Three-Page Plan To End The War': Oil Tumbles As US Reportedly 'Mulls' $20BN Cash-For-Nukes Deal
17.04.2026, 14:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Three-Page Plan To End The War': Oil Tumbles As US Reportedly 'Mulls' $20BN Cash-For-Nukes Deal According to two U.S. officials and two additional sources briefed on the talks, Axios' Barak Ravid reports that the US and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war. The three-page memorandum of understanding (MOU) the two sides are negotiating...
California Offering Taxpayer-Funded Gender Surgeries To Homeless, Illegal Immigrants: Report
17.04.2026, 00:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California Offering Taxpayer-Funded Gender Surgeries To Homeless, Illegal Immigrants: Report Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, The California government may struggle to provide basic housing for the homeless, but it appears willing to fund gender-transition procedures with taxpayer dollars, including illegal aliens, according to a new...
Continuing Slump In Global Media Climate Agitprop Bodes Ill For Future Net Zero Support
16.04.2026, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Continuing Slump In Global Media Climate Agitprop Bodes Ill For Future Net Zero Support Authored by Chris Morrison via THE DAILY SCEPTIC, Decades of careful grooming of incurious journalists designed to whip up a non-existent climate emergency have failed to halt a dramatic continuing collapse in mainstream media stories backing the Net Zero fantasy...
Trump's Blockade Is Breaking Iran... And European Elites Are Angry
16.04.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump's Blockade Is Breaking Iran... And European Elites Are Angry Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us In March I published an article titled “Global Energy Crisis Or Iranian Surrender In Five Weeks?” in which I outlined the “worst case” and “best case” scenarios for the war in Iran. In my best case scenario I argued in favor of...
Human Smuggler Extradited From Brazil To US: DOJ
16.04.2026, 03:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Human Smuggler Extradited From Brazil To US: DOJ Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Bangladeshi national, alleged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to be a “prolific” alien smuggler, made his first appearance Monday in a Laredo, Texas, federal courtroom following his extradition from Brazil, according to a DOJ statement...
Bessent Keeps Running Tally Of China As "Unreliable Global Partner" - Count Now Stands At Three
16.04.2026, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bessent Keeps Running Tally Of China As "Unreliable Global Partner" - Count Now Stands At Three Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters Tuesday that Beijing’s panic hoarding of crude and refined products, while refusing to join the rest of the world in releasing supplies to offset the Gulf energy shock, has now demonstrated for the third time...
Waymo Partners With Waze To Use Self-Driving Cars To Track Potholes
16.04.2026, 01:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Waymo Partners With Waze To Use Self-Driving Cars To Track Potholes Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two Alphabet-owned companies, Waymo and Waze, announced on April 9 that they will team up to detect potholes and share that information with local government agencies to help get them filled more efficiently. A self-driving...
Iran War Leads To Fluoride Shortages For Some US Water Utilities
15.04.2026, 20:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran War Leads To Fluoride Shortages For Some US Water Utilities Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Multiple water providers have lowered the amount of fluoride they add to water for millions of Americans, amid shortages stemming from the U.S.–Iran war. The Baltimore City Department of Public Works said on April 13 that it is reducing...
Iran Used Chinese Spy Satellite To Target US Bases During War, Outraged Beijing Denies
15.04.2026, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Used Chinese Spy Satellite To Target US Bases During War, Outraged Beijing Denies Iran quietly secured a Chinese spy satellite in late 2024 and used it to track US military bases across the Middle East during the current war, the Financial Times has newly - an allegation Beijing has flatly and angrily denied. The TEE-01B satellite, built and launched...
Good Riddance, Pattern Day Trade Rule
15.04.2026, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Good Riddance, Pattern Day Trade Rule Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance The Pattern Day Trader rule was one of those regulations that managed to sound official, responsible, and protective while being, in practice, deeply confusing and almost comically out of touch with how people actually learn to trade. And now, it looks like it’s finally on its...
Futures Unchanged Just Shy Of All Time High On Peace Hopes, Solid Earnings
15.04.2026, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Unchanged Just Shy Of All Time High On Peace Hopes, Solid Earnings US equity futures are flat following yesterday’s rally as market awaits news on the Iran war resolution and as we traverse earnings season. As of 8:15am ET, S&P 500 futures are little changed after the benchmark closed within a whisker of a record. Risk sentiment took a small...
Kering And Hermès Sink As War Batters Earnings; Goldman Warns Luxury Dip-Buying Is "Premature"
15.04.2026, 13:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kering And Hermès Sink As War Batters Earnings; Goldman Warns Luxury Dip-Buying Is "Premature" Goldman's Natasha de la Grense summed it up well this morning: "Money was waiting on the sidelines to buy luxury for a de-escalation play – that feels premature with three misses in three days." Disappointments from Kering and Hermès, both of which fell...
Roblox Rolls Out Restricted Accounts For Under-16 Users Amid Lawsuit, Social Media Ban
15.04.2026, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Roblox Rolls Out Restricted Accounts For Under-16 Users Amid Lawsuit, Social Media Ban Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), While managing to avoid Australia’s under-16 social media ban, the global game creation platform Roblox has moved to introduce restricted accounts for children and teenagers. A 7-year-old teenage boy...
Italy's Anti-Israel Opposition Declares 'Victory' After Meloni Suspends Defense Pact
15.04.2026, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Italy's Anti-Israel Opposition Declares 'Victory' After Meloni Suspends Defense Pact Italy has suspended the automatic renewal of its defense agreement with Israel amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran, now 'paused' as a two-week ceasefire holds in order to give a chance for talks. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced the significant status change...
Swalwell Resigns From Congress - Effective TODAY, After Fresh Rape Allegation And Corroborating Campaign Records
15.04.2026, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swalwell Resigns From Congress - Effective TODAY, After Fresh Rape Allegation And Corroborating Campaign Records Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) resigned from Congress on Tuesday, effective today, capping a stunning collapse of his political career just one day after he suspended his bid for California governor. The move came hours after a new accuser, Lonna...
Meta Builds Photorealistic AI Version Of Mark Zuckerberg To Interact With Employees
14.04.2026, 23:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meta Builds Photorealistic AI Version Of Mark Zuckerberg To Interact With Employees Meta is developing an artificial intelligence-powered replica of CEO Mark Zuckerberg capable of engaging directly with employees, as the $1.6 trillion company intensifies its efforts to reshape itself around AI. According to FT, the social media giant has been working...
La Marxista: Mamdani Pledges To Open First City-Run Store With Projected $30 Million Initial Cost
14.04.2026, 18:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - La Marxista: Mamdani Pledges To Open First City-Run Store With Projected $30 Million Initial Cost Authored by Jonathan Turley, Mayor Zohran Mamdani used his “First 100 Days” speech this week to announce that he has kept his promise to create a chain of city-run stores . . . by pledging to open one store sometime “next year.” According to the New...
Treasury Rushes To Access Anthropic 'Mythos' AI After Warning It Can Hack "Every Major Operating System"
14.04.2026, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Treasury Rushes To Access Anthropic 'Mythos' AI After Warning It Can Hack "Every Major Operating System" The US Treasury Department’s technology team is actively seeking access to Anthropic PBC’s highly restricted Mythos AI model so it can begin hunting for software vulnerabilities, according to a person familiar with the situation cited by Bloomberg...
Fill 'er Up: Record Armada Of Tankers Bound For US Gulf To Load Oil
14.04.2026, 16:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fill 'er Up: Record Armada Of Tankers Bound For US Gulf To Load Oil An unusually large number of crude oil tankers on the open seas has the American Gulf coast as a destination as the ships are redirected to load cargoes bound for markets around the world already experiencing shortages. As Alton Wallace writes at The Center Square, second-term...
US Producer Prices Cooler Than Expected In March Despite Surge In Energy Costs
14.04.2026, 14:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Producer Prices Cooler Than Expected In March Despite Surge In Energy Costs The month-over-month change in producer prices had accelerated for five straight months ahead of today's March data, which is expected to surge thanks to Iran-war impacts on energy costs. Against expectations of a 1.1% MoM rise, March's Headline PPI shocked everyone by rising...
Iran Mulls Hormuz Shipping Pause To Preserve Talks, Avoid Trump Blockade Showdown, As US Pushes 20-Year Nuclear Freeze
14.04.2026, 14:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Mulls Hormuz Shipping Pause To Preserve Talks, Avoid Trump Blockade Showdown, As US Pushes 20-Year Nuclear Freeze Summary Diplomacy is not yet dead, as Bloomberg reports Iran is mulling a short-term pause to shipments through Hormuz Strait, in order to avoid a fresh clash with US forces & avoid testing Trump's blockade. Mediators are scrambling...
ECB Backs Tokenized EU Capital Markets (With Strict Guardrails)
14.04.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ECB Backs Tokenized EU Capital Markets (With Strict Guardrails) Authored by Christina Comben via CoinTelegraph.com, The European Central Bank (ECB) set out a cautious path toward tokenizing Europe’s capital markets, saying the technology can deliver efficiency gains only if it remains anchored to central bank money, infrastructures remain interoperable...
Bernstein Says Bitcoin Market Already Priced In Quantum Risk
13.04.2026, 19:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bernstein Says Bitcoin Market Already Priced In Quantum Risk Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, Bernstein said Monday that Bitcoin’s selloff has already priced in much of the market’s fear around quantum computing, arguing that the threat is real but still manageable rather than an immediate existential risk. Bitcoin’s (BTC) near...
US Property Taxes Rose 3 Percent On Average In 2025, Outpacing Inflation
13.04.2026, 19:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Property Taxes Rose 3 Percent On Average In 2025, Outpacing Inflation Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Property taxes are rising across the United States and, on average, have outpaced inflation. Homeowners in 2025 paid a total of $396.8 billion in property taxes on more than 89.6 million single-family homes, a 3.7 percent...
Federal Court Strikes Down 158-Year-Old Home Distilling Ban
13.04.2026, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Court Strikes Down 158-Year-Old Home Distilling Ban Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal appeals court on April 10 declared a nearly 158-year-old ban on home distilling to be unconstitutional, ruling that the ban was an unnecessary and improper means for Congress to exercise its power to tax. A judge's gavel...
Goldman Stock Slides After FICC Unexpectedly Misses Despite Highest Overall Profit In 5 Years
13.04.2026, 15:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Stock Slides After FICC Unexpectedly Misses Despite Highest Overall Profit In 5 Years Goldman Sachs reported its highest quarterly profit in five years, as the bank's equities traders beat their own previous all-time quarterly high revenue by more than $1 billion thanks to a surge in market volatility due to the war in Iran; this outperformance...
Netanyahu Says Iran Ceasefire Could End At Any Moment, Backs Trump's Blockade - Tehran Blasts 'Piracy'
13.04.2026, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Says Iran Ceasefire Could End At Any Moment, Backs Trump's Blockade - Tehran Blasts 'Piracy' Summary Iran's military says the planned US blockade on Gulf ports will be an "illegal" act tantamount to "piracy" as Trump is also weighing limited strikes on Iran. US military is to enforce the blockade in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, Reuters...
France's Gig-Economy Built On Migrant Labor As 99% Of Surveyed Delivery-Riders Are Foreign-Born, Two-Thirds Are Illegal
13.04.2026, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France's Gig-Economy Built On Migrant Labor As 99% Of Surveyed Delivery-Riders Are Foreign-Born, Two-Thirds Are Illegal Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A major new study has found that France’s food delivery sector is almost exclusively staffed by migrant workers, a majority of whom are living in France illegally. The Enquête report,...
Pakistani Warplanes Land In Saudi Arabia For Start Of Mutual Defense Pact
12.04.2026, 04:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pakistani Warplanes Land In Saudi Arabia For Start Of Mutual Defense Pact Via The Cradle A Pakistani military force arrived at Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz Air Base on Saturday, as part of a strategic defense pact between the two countries, the kingdom's defense ministry has announced. The Pakistani force includes air force fighter jets and support...
Three Contrarian Signals That Aren't Easy To Ignore As Earnings Season Begins
11.04.2026, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Three Contrarian Signals That Aren't Easy To Ignore As Earnings Season Begins Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, 💰 Q1 Earnings Season Begins As a fragile ceasefire with Iran hangs in the balance and oil trades near multi-year highs, the Q1 earnings season is arriving in one of the most negatively positioned markets in years....
Zelensky's Interceptor Drones Deployed Across Eurasia, Now Shooting Down Iranian Shaheds
11.04.2026, 04:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky's Interceptor Drones Deployed Across Eurasia, Now Shooting Down Iranian Shaheds Three weeks after President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian drone specialists were helping five Gulf states counter Iranian Shahed drones and build low-cost interceptor-based air defenses, he revealed Friday that Ukrainian military personnel had just...
Hunter Biden Challenges Trump Brothers To Cage Match
10.04.2026, 21:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hunter Biden Challenges Trump Brothers To Cage Match As everyone knows by now, the first rule of fight club is... you don't talk about fight club... But it appears Hunter Biden could not help himself as the son of former President Joe Biden, on April 9 publicly challenged Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump - the eldest sons of President Donald Trump -...
Only Iran "Friendly" Ships Allowed Transit Through Strait, As Tankers Pile Up Near Hormuz, Waiting To Cross
10.04.2026, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Only Iran "Friendly" Ships Allowed Transit Through Strait, As Tankers Pile Up Near Hormuz, Waiting To Cross Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains largely limited, with transits over the past 24 hours consisting almost exclusively of ships "friendly" to Iran, including Chinese and Russian vessels. Meanwhile, those expecting the ceasefire to...
Mexico's "Energy Sovereignty" Dos Bocas Oil Refinery Hit By Major Fire
10.04.2026, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mexico's "Energy Sovereignty" Dos Bocas Oil Refinery Hit By Major Fire One of Mexico's largest refineries, with a processing capacity of 340,000 barrels per day, appears to have suffered a fire in its coke storage area, marking the second incident in less than a month. The Dos Bocas refinery, built by Pemex in the southeastern state of Tabasco, is the...
Revealed: All Members Of UK Government's 'Anti-Muslim Hostility' Group Have Islamist Links
10.04.2026, 11:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Revealed: All Members Of UK Government's 'Anti-Muslim Hostility' Group Have Islamist Links Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The UK Labour government’s new definition of “anti-Muslim hostility” – rebranded from “Islamophobia” – is being shaped by a working group where every single member has links to Islamist organisations....
USPS Pauses Pension Contributions Amid Looming Cash Shortfall
10.04.2026, 01:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - USPS Pauses Pension Contributions Amid Looming Cash Shortfall Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has temporarily suspended its employer contributions to a government-wide pension plan after warning Congress that, without changes, it could run out of cash within the next year. On Thursday, USPS told the Office of...
Minnesota Whistleblower Alleges Years Of 'Reckless Disregard' At Fraud-Plagued Agency
10.04.2026, 00:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Minnesota Whistleblower Alleges Years Of 'Reckless Disregard' At Fraud-Plagued Agency Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Seven years after Faye Bernstein first blew the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse concerns, “nothing is changing” at the Minnesota Department of Human Services, she told lawmakers during an April 7...
Massachusetts Governor Uses Donut Holes To Explain The State Energy Crisis She Caused
09.04.2026, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Massachusetts Governor Uses Donut Holes To Explain The State Energy Crisis She Caused The Democrat tendency to talk down to their constituencies as if they are children has become a mainstay of American political discourse in the past several years. This behavior is rooted in a simmering arrogance among the political class, but it also tends to expose...
New Jersey Governor Sherrill Lifts 40-Year Nuclear Moratorium
09.04.2026, 18:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Jersey Governor Sherrill Lifts 40-Year Nuclear Moratorium Governor Mikie Sherrill signed legislation that scraps New Jersey’s 40-year de facto moratorium on new nuclear power plants, clearing the way for expanded baseload generation in a state long plagued by some of the nation’s highest utility bills. The bill, S3870/A4528, amends the Coastal...
Raising A Child Now Costs About $303,000: Study
09.04.2026, 03:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Raising A Child Now Costs About $303,000: Study Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Parents who start raising a child in 2026 will spend around $303,418 from birth to 18 years old, according to a study published April 6 by Lending Tree. The cost increased 1.9 percent from last year. The average annual cost works out to about $16,857 over...
"Shocking Levels Of Distress": CMBS Delinquencies Unexpectedly Soar To Covid Highs
09.04.2026, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Shocking Levels Of Distress": CMBS Delinquencies Unexpectedly Soar To Covid Highs With market focused on private credit as the next credit market crisis vortex, many have forgotten that CMBS, the asset class that was smashed in the aftermath of covid as hundreds of office buildings were suddenly left vacant, has been teetering on the edge for years...
No Real People Were Polled: AI Is Now Fabricating What "The Public Thinks"
08.04.2026, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No Real People Were Polled: AI Is Now Fabricating What "The Public Thinks" The other day Axios ran a piece that cited "findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. Turns out, those "findings" were completely fabricated by a company called Aaru - using AI (causing Axios to issue an editor's note and 'clarification')Aaru...
Eric Swalwell About To Be Hit With 'Shocking' Number Of Sexual Harassment Allegations; Report
08.04.2026, 18:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Eric Swalwell About To Be Hit With 'Shocking' Number Of Sexual Harassment Allegations; Report Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, A “shocking” number of former female employees and interns are preparing to come forward to accuse Rep. Eric Swalwell (|D-Calif.) of sexual misconduct, according to a Democrat activist. Cheyenne Hunt, a lawyer...
US Futures, Global Stocks And Bonds Soar On Ceasefire Relief, Oil Plummets
08.04.2026, 14:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures, Global Stocks And Bonds Soar On Ceasefire Relief, Oil Plummets US futures, global stocks and bonds are sharply higher while oil prices plunge the most in years as a wave of optimism swept through global markets after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in exchange for Tehran reopening the Strait of Hormuz: JPMorgan's Market...
Shares Of Infrastructure Developer Erupt On Gulf Energy Reconstruction Prospects
08.04.2026, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shares Of Infrastructure Developer Erupt On Gulf Energy Reconstruction Prospects The two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire looks more like a pause in the six-week conflict than a long-lasting agreement, with language so broad and vague that it remains unclear who conceded what. The one clear point is that Iran's reported willingness to allow vessel transits...