January 2026

Russia’s Lukoil To Sell Bulk Of International Portfolio To US Carlyle Group Russia’s second-largest oil producer, Lukoil, has agreed to sell the bulk of its international assets – initially valued at $22 billion by analysts – to private equity heavyweight Carlyle, as Western sanctions continue to force a fire sale of Russian energy holdings abroad.

US Judge Grants Asylum To Chinese National Who Filmed China’s Uyghur Prison Camps Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A pro-democracy activist who fled China after documenting what he described as concentration camps in the Xinjiang region was granted asylum on Jan. 28 by a New York state immigration judge, amid

Trump Sues US Treasury For $10 Billion Over Tax-Returns Leak In the latest sign that we’re living in unusual times, the sitting president of the United States is suing the US Treasury and Internal Revenue Service — both housed in his executive branch — and asking to be paid at least $10 billion in compensation

Cold Weather Delays NASA Moon Launch At Least Two Days Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Humanity’s return to the Moon’s orbit will have to wait at least another two days. NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket prepares for launch ahead of Artemis II at Launch Complex 39B at

Americans Have Limited Trust In AI Search Results Using a search engine nowadays will inevitably render AI-generated results towards the top of the page. This means that not only the many people going straight to ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini for their queries, but everybody else as well, is seeing the conclusions of Large Language Model