Daily Caller | Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and actress Alyssa Milano had their much-anticipated meeting to discuss gun control Tuesday, and Cruz called it “a positive, civil & substantive conversation.”

RT | Moscow and Beijing are working on a new way to cut their reliance on the greenback, as Russia plans to issue its first yuan-denominated bond, which may help the two in skirting US tariffs and sanctions.

OilPrice.com | Russia is considering the notion that oil prices may be as low as $25 per barrel in 2020, the country’s central bank said in its new forecast published on Monday, as cited by Reuters.

Mac Slavo | The federal government’s jobs report has confirmed that truckers are losing their jobs by the thousands.

Campus Reform | Students who interfere with free speech will face “disciplinary sanctions.”

If Trump could actually go through with much of the pro-peace, anti-war agenda he ran on it would be a major victory.

Information Liberation | We’ll learn next week whether or not they sufficiently prostrated themselves enough to be allowed to serve the public as volunteer firefighters despite their thought crimes.

Information Liberation | If Trump could actually go through with much of the pro-peace, anti-war agenda he ran on it would be a major victory.

One can only assume paying this “protection money” to the ADL was an effort to keep his channel from being deleted.

Information Liberation | One can only assume paying this “protection money” to the ADL was an effort to keep his channel from being deleted.

The U.S. “healthcare system” accounts for nearly a fifth of our entire economy, and if it was a country it would have the fifth largest GDP on the entire planet.

Michael Snyder | The U.S. “healthcare system” accounts for nearly a fifth of our entire economy, and if it was a country it would have the fifth largest GDP on the entire planet.

Michael Snyder | In life, all decisions have consequences, and we are going to pay an extraordinarily high price for our exceedingly foolish decisions.

Daily Caller | Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said that rich people must “be forced” to allow lower-income families to live near them as part of his plan to build “smarter” cities.

Zero Hedge | Of all President Trump’s critical constituencies, none have been asked to sacrifice as much as America’s farmers.