Final Defendants Plead Guilty In $65 Million Elder Fraud Ring Exposed By YouTube Scambaiters The final two arrested members of a sprawling $65 million fraud syndicate that preyed on thousands of elderly Americans have pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California announced Monday. With Friday’s guilty pleas from Zetian Zhang and Chinese national Haotian Zhang – whom […]

Is This The Real Reason There Won’t Be A Blue Wave In November? Authored by Matt Margolis via PJ Media,Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has spent months warning his own party about socialism, and the left has refused to take him seriously.”Our party has a socialism problem,” Fetterman said. “I’ll be the one Democrat that calls it for what it is and not use the euphemism that it’s a big-tent situation.”Conservatives have mocked the […]

‘Shadow Government’ FBI Official Got Advance Word Of NBC’s Hunter Laptop ‘Foreign Op’ Story, Complaint Shows Nikki Floris, then-head of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, tipped off bureau leadership that NBC News was about to report the FBI was probing whether Hunter Biden’s laptop was tied to a foreign intelligence operation, according to a criminal complaint unsealed against her. At the time, the bureau had already held the […]

A Surveilled Country Is Not A Free Country Authored by Daniel Nuccio via Brownstone Institute,If you currently live in the United States, I regret to inform you that you no longer live in a free country. You are no longer a free person. Actually, you haven’t been for quite some time.This may sound harsh with this being the year America celebrated her big Two-Five-Oh. But think about it. Think back to the last time you drove from […]

Arrested Assistant Principal Resigns After 12-Year-Olds’ Softball Brawl That Left A Dad Unconscious A youth softball game in Sugar Land, Texas, turned violent Saturday, and a father is still in the hospital with a broken jaw, a fractured skull and three brain bleeds, according to his attorney. Police arrested Kiarious Marshun Hall and his wife, Jazmine Hall, after the fight at Imperial Park during a game between two 12-year-old […]

More Americans Are Falling For Romance Scams. Here’s How They Entice You… Authored by Chris Summers and Eva Fu via The Epoch Times,Romance scams make up a large share of fraud perpetrated against Americans, with scammers often contacting victims through online dating apps, social media, or professional networking sites such as LinkedIn.They commonly use an image of a beautiful young woman or a handsome man and slowly seduce the […]

Democratic Socialist Of America Puts Crosshairs On United Airlines, Elbit System: “We Will Sever Supply Chains” The Democratic Socialists of America’s list of targeted US companies, coupled with its aim to “sever the supply chain,” raises national security concerns about the movement’s actual agenda.DSA’s public messaging emphasizes affordability and government-run grocery stores, but targeting critical corporate supply chains only […]

Watch: Chaos Erupts At UN As Mike Waltz Gets Into Screaming Match With Cuban Diplomat, U.S. Staffer Allegedly Assaulted Cuba’s communist regime brought its confrontational tactics into the halls of the United Nations last week, triggering a heated showdown with U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz. Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Eduardo Rodriguez Parrilla shouts toward US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Michael Waltz […]

Inside The Little-Known Drug Program Making Big Hospitals Billions Authored by Sylvia Xu, Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times,Hospitals that benefit from a government program intended to help safety-net institutions end up spending less on charity care than other hospitals, a new study has found, as federal policymakers move to reform the $244 billion initiative.The 340B Drug Pricing Program allows certain healthcare providers to […]

NBA Legend Who Earned Nearly $200 Million Admits He’s Broke As Wild Spending Habits Revealed NBA legend Paul Pierce claims he is “drowning financially” as mounting expenses and a bitter legal battle threaten to drain what’s left of his once-massive fortune, according to court documents obtained by TMZ. (Photo by Brian Fluharty/Getty Images) The 49-year-old Boston Celtics icon alleges he is now “tapped out” after losing his […]

US Military’s Drug-Boat Strikes Have Now Killed At Least 240 People Authored by Austin Campbell via Task & Purpose,The U.S. military killed five people Tuesday aboard what Southern Command described as a “go-fast vessel” associated with “narco-terrorists” in the eastern Pacific Ocean, bringing the death toll from its campaign against suspected drug traffickers to at least 240 since September 2025.U.S. Southern Command said Joint […]

Democrat Operatives Spent Months Hunting For Alaskans Named Dan Sullivan – Campaign Denies Involvement: Report The New York Times reported Wednesday that operatives around Democrat Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign spent months looking for a second Dan Sullivan to put in Alaska’s race against Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, a plan the paper says worked. Peltola’s campaign denies recruiting anyone.JUST IN: Democrat operatives spent months […]

Roswell Attracts ETs (Extra Tourists) After Government Releases New UFO Files Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times,ROSWELL, N.M. – The 1947 crash of an alleged flying saucer on a ranch outside this high-desert town started a neon-lit alien tourism economy of museums, gift shops, and festivals spanning decades.Nearly 80 years later, new U.S. government disclosures about Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, are […]

Putin Calls Musk A “Real Genius,” Says Russia Coordinating With Him In On Satellites Russian President Vladimir Putin called Elon Musk “a real genius” on Wednesday and said Moscow is in touch with him about satellites, days after Ukraine said speed limits that hobbled its drones had been lifted. Putin said Russia is in “close contact” with its “American partners, including Mr. Musk,” because in orbit it is important “not to […]

Google Plunges After Ugly Top And Bottom Line Miss, As AI Cannibalizes Search And Ads Today, ahead of the doubleheader of Mag 7 reports when both Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet report, we wrote in our preview that Microsoft has become the consensus long, while Alphabet “still feels like the consensus funding short across megacaps.” And both have to convince a market that, as Goldman’s Rich Privorotsky put it this morning, now […]

Vance Sends Letter To Iranian “Hardliner” Mohsen Rezaei In Bid To Reset Talks Update(1633ET): We return to the Western MSM Iranian “hardliners” schtick and its usage in headlines, with oil prices declining on the following Wednesday afternoon story from The Wall Street Journal:Vice President JD Vance is engaging one of Iran’s most powerful hard-liners to revive peace negotiations even as President Trump threatens to restart the […]

First Images Show Flavio Bolsonaro Stepping Off Private Jet In Miami After Lula’s Totalitarian Crackdown Summary:First Images Of Bolsonaro Exiting Private Jet In MiamiBrazil In Political Crisis? Bolsonaro Lands In Miami After Lula’s Totalitarian Crackdown Threatens Political Crisis In BrazilBolsonaro Footage Exiting Private Jet In Miami First footage of Flávio Bolsonaro and possibly his family exiting a private jet in Miami […]

175 House Democrats Call For Halt To Ilhan Omar Investigation Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times,Scores of House Democrats have called for an end to the federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), claiming it could affect her reelection bid in next month’s midterm elections.A letter, signed by 175 Democratic congresspersons, accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of […]

MSFT Soars On Big Azure Beat… But Bookings Shrink & Backlog Stalls The consensus long delivered.Microsoft (MSFT) reported Azure revenue growth of 48% in constant currency for the September quarter, crushing its own 44-45% guide, the Street’s ~45% and even the ~47% buyside whisper that, as we laid out this morning in “These Really Matter”, was the real hurdle. In its first-ever standalone disclosure, Azure brought in $33.2 […]

War Secretary Swears In General Forced To Retire After Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,War Secretary Pete Hegseth has welcomed back an Air Force general who was forced to retire because she did not want to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was mandated during the pandemic, the Department of War said on Oct. 27.Hegseth, during a ceremony at the Pentagon on Oct. 23, swore Air Force Brig. Gen. […]

Fed Pauses Rate-Hikes As Expected; 2 Dissents Signal Less Hawkish ‘Family Fight’ Since the last FOMC meeting (9/16), where Fed Chair Warsh hiked rates somewhat surprisingly, markets have been wild (even if stocks at the index level may look ‘meh’). The biggest standout is the divergence between bitcoin (up 6%) and gold (down 6%) with a rollercoaster in crude (from down 15% to down just 3%)…While that chart shows bonds ‘meh’ like […]

Minnesota Charges James O’Keefe And Cam Higby With Felonies Over Polling-Place Vouching Stunt Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Wednesday charged conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and influencer Cam Higby with felony unlawful voting and identity theft, over undercover videos they shot at Minneapolis polling places during the Aug. 11 primary, according to MPR News.The complaints allege the pair visited four Hennepin […]

Has Apple Peaked? Submitted by QTR’s Fringe FinanceThere’s no disputing that Apple remains one of the greatest companies in the history of capitalism. Its products are still insanely popular, its ecosystem remains one of the most powerful competitive advantages in modern business, and its stock continues to enjoy the kind of institutional affection that most publicly traded companies could only dream of.Shares are up roughly 28% […]

California’s Billionaire Tax May Cost More Than It Raises, Reports Find Authored by Thomas Savidge via The Daily Economy,California voters will decide on Proposition 40, a proposal for “a one-time 5-percent tax on the worldwide net worth of individuals exceeding $1 billion,” this November.The measure’s obligation reaches backward to January 1, 2026, so any billionaire who was a California resident this year could owe a tax on the […]

Watch Live: Fed Chair Warsh Desperately Tries To Explain Why His ‘Pause’ Is Not Political Warsh will be walking a very fine tightrope in today’s press conference that looks especially delicate.The Fed Chair’s problem today is that he’s spent the last few months telling everyone the Fed needs a “timelier return to 2%”, and then September’s CPI came in hot, and he’s about to skip anyway.While the pause decision was entirely expected […]