Investigators Unveil Charges Against Dismissed Ukrainian Ambassador To The US Another top level Ukrainian official has been booted from office over significant corruption allegations, which comes at a moment of a broad shake-up of military and cabinet leadership initiated by President Zelensky. Olha Stefanishyna was dismissed as Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States earlier this week, both local media as as Reuters have […]

US Immigration Agency Asks Public To Report Fraud, Anti-Government Activities Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The federal agency that processes green cards, U.S. citizenship requests, and work permits this week called on people to report potential cases of immigration fraud through a newly created portal. In an Aug. 4 post on X, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) wrote that anyone who suspects […]

DeepSeek Resumes $74BN Mega-Raise – Then Warns It’s Jacking-Up Prices Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is looking to raise roughly 50 billion yuan at a valuation of 500 billion yuan (US$74 billion) – while the company warned developers a day later that it’s raising prices. The resumed funding round, first reported by Chinese business outlet Caijing (via The Standard), is expected to be signed by the end of the month, with the process […]

DoorDash Wins Federal Approval To Fly Its Own Delivery Drones Via American Greatness, DoorDash has cleared a major federal hurdle in its push to put drones, not just drivers, in charge of getting dinner to your door. The San Francisco-based delivery company announced July 29 that it received Federal Aviation Administration Part 135 air carrier certification, the same category of authorization commercial airlines must hold to […]

Japan Marks Hiroshima Anniversary Without Naming US, While Shaming Russia Russia is not happy with Japan’s statements regarding the anniversary of the US military’s dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima at the end of WWII. Thursday marks the 81st anniversary of the bombing which obliterated the densely-populated industrial city. The Kremlin is accusing Japanese officials of intentionally dropping any mention of just who dropped […]

The COVID Lockdowns Gave America A Glimpse Of Socialism Authored by Mark Gianniny via RealClearMarkets, The next time a candidate promises that greater government control will make life safer, fairer and more secure, Americans should remember 2020. They should remember the closed schools, shuttered businesses, restricted churches, isolated families, arbitrary mandates and government checks intended to compensate people for […]

IRGC Strikes ‘Hostile Targets’ In Hormuz As Iran Declares Oman Deal Bans US Vessels From Strait Summary Explosions heard near Qeshm island – Iran says it struck ‘hostile targets’. Iran parliament reviews draft Hormuz plan banning US- and Israel-linked vessels, oil rises Houthis intensify attacks on Saudi oil shipping in the Red Sea. Yemen fighting escalates amid reports of major casualties. Iran-Oman talks continue as US backs […]

Senate Panel Holds Fauci In Contempt For Refusing To Answer Questions Anthony Fauci has been held in contempt of Congress by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, after he repeatedly refused to answer lawmakers’ questions about funding risky research to genetically manipulate bat coronavirus in Wuhan China, and his role in the ensuing lockdown quagmire that cratered the economy after he was put in charge of […]

Judge Rules Trump Admin Can End Temporary Protected Status For Haitians Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Aug. 5 allowed the Trump administration to end temporary protected status (TPS) for an estimated 350,000 Haitian nationals following a Supreme Court ruling. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes ruled that a previous court order that “had stayed the effective date of Department of Homeland Security […]

Bus-Bomb Plot By Marxist ‘Mad Max’ Foiled Ahead Of Trump-Backed Colombian President’s Inauguration Less than a week after Colombian authorities blamed a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group for detonating a truck bomb outside police headquarters in the border city of Cúcuta, injuring 11 officers, security forces intercepted a bus carrying a massive bomb. The local outlet Blu Radio reported that an intelligence operation by the […]

Global Diesel Crunch Deepens As Record US Distillate Exports Race To Supply-Starved Europe US distillate exports surged to a record last week as global supplies tightened. Disruptions across the Gulf area and various surrounding maritime chokepoints, as well as Ukrainian one-way attack drone strikes that have paralyzed portions of Russia’s energy infrastructure, have been a major boon for US refiners and export terminals along the […]

New Mexico Sues DOJ For Unredacted Epstein Files Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, New Mexico is suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) over unredacted Epstein files, accusing the federal agency of stonewalling the state’s own investigation into alleged crimes at deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The legal action, filed Aug. 5, intensifies a politically charged fight over the DOJ’s Epstein […]

Change Of Plans? By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Brent prices held steady just below the $80-level, as Iran said it reached an agreement with Oman on a proposed shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. That’s not the Iran-US deal that Trump had been eyeing, but this agreement raises the prospect of more energy flows resuming through the critical waterway. However, Iran has also said that the deal […]

“Threat Against American Interests”: US Halts Michoacán Avocado Inspections, Putting Critical Supplies At Risk The US suspended avocado inspections in Mexico’s Michoacán state after the US Embassy cited a “threat against American interests.” Because Michoacán is Mexico’s largest avocado-producing region and a top supplier to the US market, any prolonged suspension risks disrupting imports and driving supermarket prices sharply […]

Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine Approved By FDA Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Moderna’s flu shot for over-50s, marking the first time the agency has licensed a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for seasonal influenza. Moderna bivalent COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic, in Richmond, Va., on November 17, 2022. AP Photo/Steve Helber, File The shot, known as mFlusiva, […]

Camp David Clash: Trump Hammered Hegseth For Misleading Him On Arms Supply, WaPo Reports Following reports that US forces have “used up virtually all” of their precision, long-range missiles in futile attempts to first trigger an Iranian regime change and then to compel Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, now comes reporting that an angry President Trump confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in recent days, accusing the Pentagon […]

Anti-Trump GOP Governors Plot To Undermine President’s Immigration Crackdown With Work-Visa Scheme Two Republican governors with a long history of clashing with Donald Trump are working with Democrats on a plan to hand migrant workers state-issued work permits instead of deportation notices, a direct challenge to the president’s immigration crackdown that the four laid out on camera. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin […]

Musk Responds To French Green Leader’s Demand That X Be Shut Down Update (1100ET): Upon seeing this exclamation from the dismally-polling Green leader. Elon Musk took to X (the platform she demands be shutdown for too much free-speechifying) to make some demands of his own… I demand that she be shut down for treason against France! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2026 As Remix News detailed earlier, French Green leader […]

Hyperscaler Bond Spreads Blow Out After Google Shocks With Another $25 Billion Bond Offering After tightening sharply following last week’s (pre-Situational Awareness) rout which sent hyperscaler CDS to the widest on record, AI bond spreads are blowing out again this morning – with SpaceX bonds – which have quickly emerged as the fulcrum bond security of the AI world – plunging this morning on news that for the third time in a […]

Federal Review Finds 90% Of Maine’s Autism Support Services Lacks Justification Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz revealed Tuesday that federal investigators have found widespread irregularities in Maine’s support services for adults with autism. Speaking Tuesday during a Department of Justice anti-fraud press conference in Philadelphia, […]

Situational Awareness Returns With $400M Investment After Nearly Collapsing Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, reportedly invested $400 million in a privately held company days after it nearly collapsed under margin calls. The fund invested $100 million in the same unnamed company in July, Bloomberg reported Thursday, […]

Initial Jobless Claims Remain Near 57-Year Lows The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time held below 200k again last week… …basically hovering at its lowest since 1969… Pennsylvania and New Jersey saw claims rise the most last week while North Carolina and Ohio saw the biggest decline… Continuing jobless claims ticked up, just above 1.8 million Americans… After ADP’s […]

Celsius Shares Crash As Revenue Misses Estimates Celsius Holdings, the Florida-based beverage company with a portfolio of some of America’s top-performing energy drinks, reported weaker-than-expected second-quarter results, as revenue, adjusted earnings, and profitability missed Wall Street estimates. Second-quarter adjusted earnings fell to 36 cents per share from 47 cents a year earlier, below the 41-cent Bloomberg Consensus […]

The BoJ And The Fed Just Made Gold Obvious Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Between the market’s reaction to Warsh’s recent no-rate-hike announcement and the current disaster unfolding with the Japanese yen, the set-up for near-term “Uh-Oh” in stocks and bonds in general–and the longer-term wisdom in precious metals in particular– couldn’t be more obvious. Stick to the Essential Antoine de St. […]

Futures Flat As Tech Slides After Memory Stocks, Korea Tumble US futures are mixed with S&P futures modestly higher offset by a slide in tech: as of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.1% while Nasdaq futures drop 0.5%, hit by a plunge in Sandisk (down 9% in pre-market), and rival Western Digital which tumbled 15%, after both companies reported earnings. AppLovin also slumped 16% after missing revenue estimates while DataDog […]