US Corn Conditions Suffer Sharpest Deterioration In Three Years, Fueling Food Inflation Fear Less than a week after we reported that an options whale placed a $20 million bet on corn futures, a new U.S. crop report revealed the sharpest weekly deterioration in conditions in three years. Bloomberg cites a new USDA report that rated 63% of the U.S. crop as good or excellent, down 4 percentage points from the previous week and below […]

Britain Backs Ukraine With New Electronic Warfare Cooperation Via RFE/RL, Zelensky met newly appointed British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who reaffirmed the U.K.’s military support and announced technology sharing for the Stone Cloak electronic warfare system. Ukraine and Russia carried out long-range attacks that caused civilian casualties and damage to energy infrastructure on both sides. Zelensky is continuing a […]

Fragile Iran ‘Pause’ Shattered As US Base In Jordan Comes Under Attack, Oil Soars Summary Oil soars on reports of Iran targeting US Jordan base; Iraqi militants attack KSA for 2nd day. Hormuz indirect talks continue amid reports of a possible resurrected MoU deal. Shipping remains stalled with virtually no tanker traffic through Hormuz. Iran insists Hormuz stays closed unless its terms are accepted. Houthis escalate attacks, […]

Why, Oh Why Do They Do This? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Viral footage circulating online shows a British man methodically working his way along the streets of his own city with a wheeled bin and litter picker, clearing the rubbish left by others. He is not being paid and not making a political point. He is simply trying to prevent the area from descending into a tip. Remarkably, as he works, foreign […]

Which Countries Are Best (& Worst) For Women? Where is the best place in the world to be a woman? As Visual Capitalist’s Srijaa Chatterjee highlights in the following graphic, according to the latest Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Index, the answer remains Northern Europe, where Nordic countries occupy all five of the top positions. Published by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, the 2025/26 WPS Index […]

‘Free Stuff’ In Norway Still Costs Half Of Average Pay Authored by Joakim Book via TheDailyEconomy.org, Every few years, Americans rediscover Scandinavia.  Someone visits Norway or Denmark, returns dazzled and envious of parental leave and universal childcare, and asks why America refuses to copy what obviously works. On the day dedicated to celebrating America, Nicholas Kristof, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, wrote […]

Russia Answers Drone Attacks With War On Ukrainian Ports, Maritime Shipping The Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) has an ‘answer’ to Ukraine’s recent long-range drone attacks, which have wreaked havoc on oil production and most recently online retailers and manufacturing. Ukraine has also been attacking Russian ships elsewhere in the Black Sea as well as Sea of Azov. The MoD has announced a fresh wave of strikes targeting multiple […]

How Does A Political Party Leader Survive This? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Far left UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has caused uproar by sharing an Instagram post featuring a man in a T-shirt depicting a guillotine next to the words “We’re only making plans for Nigel.” The clear target was Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. This lands just two weeks after Reform’s Ann Widdecombe was beaten to death with a […]

The War’s Back Is Broken Authored by Alastair Crooke Trump ordered the US military not to carry out new strikes on Iran Friday night, despite approving earlier a “Gates of Hell massive attack” on Iran. The US has now requested a new temporary ceasefire with Iran and is seeking a return to the collapsed and suspended MoU, with discussions to include Yemen, and with Trump seeking to make AnsarAllah a party to the negotiations. […]

Los Angeles Is Painting Its Streets To Fight Heat Waves Researchers found that coating more than 700,000 square feet of asphalt in a Los Angeles neighborhood with a solar-reflective material helped reduce urban heat, though the benefits came with limitations, according to the Times of India. The project, conducted in Pacoima in the San Fernando Valley and published in Environmental Research Communications, covered roads, parking […]

Chinese University Reviewing Gene Editing Research As Family Discloses Daughter’s Death Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, A top-tier Chinese university said on July 26 that it is investigating gene editing research by one of its researchers following reports that scientists treated a 6-year-old girl as part of their research, who died during the unprecedented human trial. Molecular model of messenger ribonucleic acid […]

DSA Platform Includes Abolishing Prisons, Supreme Court, And Presidency The Democratic Socialists of America wants you to know exactly what it wants, and Megan Romer, the group’s national co-chair, laid it out on national television without once reaching for a hedge word over the most radical ideas on the party platform. The platform itself reads like a fever dream a committee wrote line by line. A 32-hour workweek with no […]

ICE Dismantles SIM Farms In Nationwide Operation Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) Homeland Security Investigations carried out a nationwide operation between June 22 and July 10 that dismantled “SIM farms” run by transnational criminal organizations. File photograph of a cell phone sim card at a press conference in Paris, France, on Feb. 25, 2015. Kenzo […]

Watch: US Navy’s New Suicide Drone Boats Help Sink Decommissioned Amphibious Assault Ship The US military has effectively taken a page from Ukraine’s drone-boat playbook, using a swarm attack against high-value Iranian maritime assets earlier this month. Separately, a Texas shipyard is preparing to mass-produce these unmanned vessels by the thousands. The latest evidence that the Navy is rapidly adopting one-way attack vessels […]

OpenAI’s Rogue Agent Hit A Second Company, Executive Reveals – And The Blast Radius Just Got Bigger The rogue OpenAI agent behind this month’s unprecedented AI-driven cyber intrusion claimed a second corporate victim, an executive at New York-based Modal Labs has revealed – a detail absent from the original account and one that widens the known blast radius of the episode. According to the Modal executive and sources cited by […]

Federal Court Rules For Woman Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Kaiser Permanente wrongly fired an employee who declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine because she gave proper notice to the company of her religious objection to COVID-19 vaccination, a federal appeals court has ruled. A COVID-19 vaccination in Illinois on Sept. 9, 2022. Scott Olson/Getty Images Mimi Weiss, who […]

GenderSpeak: Weaponizing Gender Against Sex Authored by Wendy McElroy via Brownstone Institute, When and why did the word “gender” displace the word “sex?” “Gender” refers to a person’s socially constructed identity of being male, female, or some other category, while “sex” refers to physical characteristics of male or female, such as chromosomes. Gender is a matter of a person’s self-perception; sex is a circumstance of birth. […]

SK Hynix Stock Dumps On Actual Earnings Miss; Pumps On Promise Of “Explosive” Demand Update: The post-earnings conference call Q&A has prompted a rapid reversal in SK Hynix’s fortunes… shocker!! SK Hynix claims it continues to see “explosive” demand from customers and remains confident that AI-related demand will stay strong over the medium to long term. While the timing of individual AI infrastructure projects may vary, […]

Detroit Gets Drafted: Ford And GM Head Back To The Battlefield One of the defining themes of the Trump administration’s second term has been rebuilding America’s industrial base—not just by bringing manufacturing back to U.S. soil, but by restoring domestic capacity in industries considered critical to national security. Defense production sits squarely at the center of that effort, with Washington increasingly looking to private […]

The State Of American Elections: For The Left, ‘The Worse, The Better’ Authored by Bradley Thayer via American Greatness, Americans long knew that their elections were in embarrassingly poor shape, but President Donald Trump’s address this month revealed just how extensive the problems had become. The Trump administration’s investigation revealed foreign interference and deep-state, treasonous subterfuge. The documents he […]

Republican Mayor Celebrates African Refugees As The “New Pioneers” A Republican mayor in Utah is catching heat for turning the state’s traditional Pioneer Day into a celebration of African refugees, dubbing them the modern-day equivalents of the Mormon settlers who founded the Beehive State. Provo Mayor Marsha Judkins posted an Instagram message this week praising African migrants who have resettled in Utah’s fourth-largest […]

RFK Jr. Says HHS Found Fauci Diaries Across 11 Different Servers Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health officials located the diaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci across nearly a dozen different servers, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on July 27. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 22, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times “It took us about eight months to dig […]

NYC Councilwoman Sounds Alarm: Mamdani’s Property Database Puts Wealthy Homeowners In Crosshairs Of “Luigi-Worshipping Leftist Thugs” NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has been staffed with far-left activists who seek nothing less than the destruction of capitalism and America in its current form. They govern like socialist thugs and are only in the early stages of mounting a war against NYC’s wealthy.  This is […]

Comey Attorneys Seek Dismissal Of Indictment Over ’86 47′ Instagram Post Via American Greatness, Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey are asking a federal court to toss out the indictment accusing him of threatening President Donald Trump’s life, arguing his Instagram post of seashells spelling “86 47” was nothing more than protected political speech. Comey was indicted in April over the post, published in May […]

New Biden Tapes Reveal Hur’s “Well-Meaning Elderly Man” Had An $8 Million Motive To Keep Classified Docs Joe Biden kept classified material after leaving the vice presidency, knew what it was, and read it aloud to a civilian with no security clearance who was helping him write a book he was paid $8 million for. He said as much on tape, repeatedly, in 2016 and 2017. The Justice Department had those recordings and kept them from the […]