Trump Calls For Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Resignation Over Alleged Fake Name Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Oct. 22 urged Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to resign from her congressional role over allegations that she used a fake name to enter Congress. This followed a motion filed by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro on Oct. 21 that referred to Omar as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi […]

Tech Layoffs Surge As Corporate America’s AI Blitz Raises Fears The Worst Is Yet To Come Bloomberg story counts featuring terms such as “job cuts,” “layoffs,” and “firings” jumped Thursday to their highest level since early May. The surge in AI-related layoff announcements shows corporate America is ramping up efforts to reduce its workforce and replace humans with chatbots and other AI-related technologies to drive efficiency. […]

Main St.-Wall St. Divide Reaches Record High As UMich Inflation Angst Re-Accelerates Preliminary October UMich Sentiment held steady this month, registering a tiny 0.1pt decline below September (Current Condiutions dipped but Expectations ticked up)… Increases in sentiment among Republicans and Democrats were balanced by declines among independents. While year-ahead business conditions improved about 14%, they stand 16% less […]

Republicans Face Losing Senate Seat They’ve Held For 107 Years, And It All Comes Down To One Thing Republicans are confronting an increasingly concerning political situation in Kansas, where a Senate seat the party has held for more than a century has become unexpectedly competitive. Republican Sen. Roger Marshall and Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton debated in Kansas City, discussing the Iran war, fuel prices, and campaign attack […]

US Manufacturing Sector Survey Hits 53-Month High, But “Cost Pressures Remain Key Concern” After surging in September (and prompting some exciting moves in Treasuries – and STIRs), preliminary October PMIs from S&P Global were expected to drop modestly (for both Manufacturing and Services). Instead it was more mixed with Manufacturing better than expected (56.0 vs 55.9 prior vs 55.5 exp) but Services down a little (57.9 vs 58.8 […]

New Trump Peace Plan Outline For Ukraine Emerges Ukrainian media is widely reporting that a key aspect of the US peace proposal heading into agreed-to trilateral talks, likely to come sometime in November, is that Ukraine would permanently abandon its bid to join the NATO alliance and in exchange it would be offered European Union membership. Additionally, a demilitarized zone in the Donbass is envisioned, along with a resumption […]

SK Hynix Scraps Solidigm IPO, Single-Handedly Drags Kospi Out Of A 4% Hole And Easing AI Rout Last night we were fairly confident how the Korean session would go. Three hours until Korea is halted seconds after the open — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 22, 2026 Well, we were half right. The Kospi did crater at the open, sliding as much as 4.1% and more than halfway to triggering a market halt as Asia digested the overnight […]

Trump Invokes Defense Production Act To Increase Petroleum Production Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act of 1950 in a memorandum on Oct. 22 to increase oil production in the United States as prices remain elevated amid the Iran conflict. In Thursday’s memorandum, Trump determined that ensuring the United States had a resilient domestic petroleum production, […]

SpaceX Targets 80,000 Cell Sites To Challenge Telecom Giants As Wall Street Weighs In Elon Musk is accelerating plans to build a fourth major nationwide wireless carrier, with SpaceX seeking access to at least 80,000 US cell sites, according to Bloomberg News. The prospect of a new rival to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile lifted tower stocks in premarket trading, while shares of those legacy carriers fell as traders continued to […]

Futures Wobble After AI Bloodbath As Brent Hits $114, France Braces For Moody’s US futures are lower, erasing a modest overnight bounce, as markets scramble after Thursday’s violent AI liquidation while oil rises again: Brent hit the highest level since May after the Houthis fired another missile at Riyadh and an IRGC official declared traffic of “illicit” vessels through Hormuz “completely stopped” (contradicted by a Bloomberg […]

Museum Hides Egyptian Mummies For Ridiculous Reason… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A Glasgow museum has pulled Egyptian mummies and other human remains from public view because the long-dead never provided “informed consent” to be displayed. Yes, really, they’ve been moved to storage because the 5,000 year old people didn’t say it was OK to display their remains. The decision at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and […]

“Those Times Are Gone”: Volvo Crashes As China Sales Collapse, BofA Recommends Default Protection Volvo Cars shares in Stockholm crashed the most since the company’s October 2021 listing. The Swedish automaker announced another 2,500 job cuts and warned that its Chinese sales are under severe pressure. Third-quarter deliveries in China plunged 40% as domestic brands gained ground with cheaper electric vehicles. “Nobody will be […]

“We Should Not Have Done It”: Thiel Breaks With Trump Over Iran War, Warns America May Not “Have The Hard Power” One day after we reported that Donald Trump Jr. has privately broken with his father over the Iran war, Peter Thiel, the PayPal and Palantir (PLTR) co-founder who was the first big tech investor to back Trump in 2016 and the biggest funder of super PACs behind JD Vance’s 2022 Senate run, has also drawn a line in the sand […]

‘Right Down To Toddlers’: Meghan Markle’s Father Reportedly Under Investigation For Child Porn After Son Reported To Cops Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle Sr., is reportedly under investigation in the Philippines over what his son says are “hundreds, if not thousands” of child sexual abuse images found among belongings he left behind in Cebu, according to the Sun’s Nick Parker. Markle Sr., 82, has not responded to requests for […]

Europe Went All In On EVs. Now Its Automakers Are Losing Out Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, Global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in 2025 increased by 20 percent over the previous year, exceeding 20 million units worldwide, with much of the increase driven by Europe, where sales jumped by 30 percent, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). But even in a red-hot market, European carmakers are […]

US Blacklists Sam Altman’s Old Y Combinator China Pick Over Startup Built On Stolen Google AI Secrets Of all the people who could end up on a US sanctions list for bankrolling stolen Google AI technology, a former Microsoft executive hand-picked by Sam Altman to run Y Combinator’s China arm was probably not on many bingo cards. And yet here we are. On Monday, the State Department blacklisted Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, the AI […]

“The State Does Not Create Wealth; It Consumes It”: Europe’s Socialist Model Hits The Wall Authored by Daniel Lacalle via dlacalle.com, Decades of bloated government, entitlements, subsidies, and mass migration have destroyed Europe’s competitiveness and growth, all paid for with ever-rising taxes and more debt. They have also created enormous social discontent. Taxpayers are exhausted, and the recipients of subsidies are looting […]

Barclays To Axe 5,000 Jobs As Britain’s Youth Employment Crisis Deepens Bloomberg cites a Barclays corporate presentation saying the bank is cutting 5,000 jobs as it pushes ahead with cost-cutting measures and adopts artificial intelligence to improve efficiency. The reductions would affect about 5% of the bank’s workforce. The London-based lender employed about 93,000 people globally at the end of 2025, according to Bloomberg […]

Creepy Ad Tells Grandparents To Get Consent Before Hugging Their Own Grandkids Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A publicly funded advert from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s We-Consent campaign shows grandparents arriving at the front door. One grandchild rushes in for a hug. The other winces and recoils as the older couple lean in. The voiceover declares: “Not everyone wants a hug. Even from the people who love them. […]

Italy Makes Parents Pay For Milan Rioters: Meloni Decree Fines Families, Adds Riot Crime Carrying Up To 5 Years Italy’s cabinet approved an emergency decree-law on Oct. 20 in response to the weekend riots in Milan, ANSA reported. The eight-article text creates a new offense of violent participation in demonstrations, extends preventive detention to minors aged 16 and over, and sends 500 more soldiers to Milan through Dec. 31 at a […]

A Warning From France Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, The chaos in the streets of France has a familiar ring to Americans who watched several cities burn in the summer of 2020. What started as “mostly peaceful” protests were quickly hijacked by chaos actors who whipped up excitable populations into a looting and pillaging frenzy, resulting in police crackdowns in the best cases but utter destruction in the worst […]

“High Likelihood Of Error”: Judge Halts DHS Voter-Fraud Door-Knocks In Nine States The Trump administration wanted an AI dragnet for weeding out illegals trying to vote – however a federal judge says it’s catching legal citizens in the process and has put a stop to it.  HSI Kansas City investigating noncitizen voting (HSI Kansas City/X)Late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the Northern District of […]

Netanyahu To IDF: ‘Overthrow The Iranian Regime’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that his directive to the Israeli military is to “overthrow the regime in Iran” as he continues to ramp up his rhetoric in the days before the October 27 Israeli elections. “My directive to the IDF, the Mossad, and the defense establishment… is to overthrow the regime in Iran,” […]

China’s Unitree Unveils “Terminator”-Like Humanoid In Chilling New Demo Video Chinese robotics leader Unitree unveiled its H2-X in a promotional video Wednesday morning, highlighting the terrifying capabilities of humanoid robots and raising questions about their eventual dual-use military applications. The H2-X footage reminds us how close humanity is to the “Terminator” movie’s Skynet robots, with potential testing/deployment […]

“Wicker” Movie A Feminist Anti-Patriarchy Fantasy About Sex With Monsters If you want to know the deepest and darkest dreams of the feminist cult, you don’t have to look very hard.  All you have to do is watch their movies and read their books, which put their mental illness and hypocrisy on full display for the world to see.   A now infamous example of this is a romance novel called “Morning Glory Milking Farm”, a feminist […]