Add Australia to the religious freedom watch list

January 13, 2026

Add Australia to the religious freedom watch list

It has now been one month since two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, killing 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl. It was an attack that everyone saw coming, except perhaps Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, whose policies rationalizing and appeasing radicalism encouraged greater […]

Why Micron is surging

Memory semiconductors are essential for everyday consumer products, such as smartphones and personal computers. A specialized category of memory chips is also critical to the artificial intelligence revolution. High bandwidth memory chips sit directly next to Nvidia’s accelerated computing processors on AI servers, forming the backbone of modern data centers. But there’s a problem. There is a global shortage of […]

California’s broke, but Newsom wants to spend even more

California is going broke, the state is losing even more tax revenue, and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) still wants to spend even more taxpayer dollars that the state just does not have. According to KCRA News’s Ashley Zavala, Newsom is proposing increasing California’s budget to $348.9 billion, up from its previous budget of $321 billion. […]

UK faces $38 billion test of its defense budget seriousness

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s U.K. government is facing a test of its commitment to European security and the United Kingdom’s special relationship with the United States. The test is expensive, coming in at $38 billion. Both the Sun and the Times newspapers reported that Gen. Richard Knighton, the U.K.’s equivalent of the chairman of the […]

Let’s wait and see the evidence against Jerome Powell

I’ve lived through enough President Donald Trump-related freakouts over the years to have learned an important lesson: It’s usually wise to wait for the facts before rushing out definitive declarations. For example, when an indictment came down against John Bolton — a former Trump official turned Trump critic — accusations of retaliatory government thuggery came […]

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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have long been regarded as strategic partners in the Middle East. As founding and leading members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the two states share deep economic ties, cultural affinities, and overlapping security interests. This coordination has been evident during pivotal regional moments, from the 1973 oil embargo to […]

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