Red Sea Redux: Saudis Call For ‘Coalition Of The Willing’ To Protect Shipping From Houthis Here we go again… after months ago President Trump urgently pushed for an international naval alliance to ‘open’ the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war, which was met with at the time with a collective cold shoulder from European allies, the Saudis are newly pitching the same to open up the Bab al Mandab Strait. “Saudi Arabia is seeking to […]

Secret Service Agent Arrested In Hazing Incident Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, Secret Service agent Marquez Pinder was arrested and charged Sunday with five felony counts in a near-fatal fraternity hazing incident that occurred this spring, according to court documents. RealClearPolitics first reported in June that the agent was put on administrative leave while local authorities in Miami investigated him in […]

US Launches New Airstrikes On Iran After Trump Warned “They’re Going To Get A Beating” Summary New US attack wave on Iran begins in overnight hours. Tehran denies seeking talks, insists on Hormuz terms. Oil climbs as attacks on Saudi energy sites continue. Conflict widens with joint US-Saudi strikes in Iraq which killed at least 20. Will the U.S. invade Iran before 2027? Yes 25% · No 76%View full market & trade on […]

California Democrats Attempt To Sabotage Voter ID Initiative In November, California voters will have the opportunity to vote on Proposition 39. The measure, officially the Voter Identification, Citizenship Verification, and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative, would require Californians to show identification when they vote and force state officials to clean up the voter rolls and verify that the people on them are […]

Chinese University Accused Of Sending Students To Factory Jobs Under Mandatory Labor Program Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, A Chinese university has come under scrutiny after an alleged internal safety agreement surfaced online alongside claims from a self-identified graduate that students were required to work on farms and in food-processing factories as part of a mandatory academic program while being denied […]

Jack Reacher Star’s Latest Movie Flops After Unhinged Anti-Trump Rant The Jack Reacher series, launched in 2022, received widespread acclaim for avoiding most of the woke tropes slathered all over the majority of streaming series and movies at the time.  For those with short memories, in 2022, the idea of a project featuring a 6’3″ 240 pound white guy as the main protagonist seemed impossible.  The series felt like a refreshing […]

xAI Sues Minnesota Attorney General Over Anti-Deepfake Law Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence platform is challenging a Minnesota law that says companies can be held liable if users “nudify” real people by altering an existing photograph or video. The screen shows Grok app in this photo illustration. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times Musk’s company xAI, maker of the popular Grok […]

MSFT Spikes After Leaving CapEx Outlook Unchanged Update (1800ET): As this evening’s conference call went on, we finally got to the meat of the matter as Microsoft kept its CapEx forecast unchanged on Wednesday, …becoming one of the first hyperscalers to hold the line on the market’s insatiable AI spending spree. Against expectations to spend $190 billion on capital expenditures this calendar year, Microsoft tonight maintained […]

Guess Who’s Funding Barricades And Porta-Potties At Madison’s Marxist-Antifa Encampment Far-left foot soldiers linked with Black Lives Matter and Antifa have established a two-block autonomous zone along Williamson Street in Madison, Wisconsin, following the death of 38-year-old Corey Durrell Ruiz. Good morning from Madison, where an encampment at Willy and Baldwin Sts is in its 7th day. pic.twitter.com/iR4kVl1hCQ — Laura […]

HHS Unveils Policy To End Funding For ‘Dangerous Gain-Of-Function Research’ Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on July 28 unveiled a new policy that would end federal support for “dangerous gain-of-function research,” an experiment in which scientists genetically modify an organism to enhance its characteristics. Workers next to a cage with mice inside the P4 laboratory […]

China To Arm Iran With Hundreds Of MANPADS Despite Trump Warnings: Report President Trump has repeatedly said that China’s President Xi Jinping has directly assured him that Beijing will not supply Iran with weaponry or military support. But this week these ‘assurances’ have been called into question by an Reuters investigation. “Iran is expected to receive within weeks a first shipment out of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired […]

Anatomy Of The ‘Islamophobic’ Shooting That Wasn’t Authored by Andrew Bostom via RealClearInvestigations, On Nov. 17, 2023, Mustafa Ramos, a Muslim man wearing a turban and a robe, was shot in the buttocks while selling Islamic paraphernalia adjacent to the Islamic Center of Rhode Island mosque in Providence. The 52-year-old man was treated and released from the hospital in two hours. The incident, however, which happened just […]

Energy Department Issues Emergency Order To Secure Power Grid In 17 US States Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Energy (DOE) has issued an order to tackle an energy emergency situation across 17 U.S. states triggered by hot weather conditions. An aircraft takes off from Los Angeles International Airport behind electric power lines in El Segundo, Calif., on Aug. 31, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via […]

Lemonade Crashes As Customer Growth Miss Spooks Wall Street Lemonade shares crashed early in the US cash session after the technology-focused insurer reported fewer second-quarter customers than Wall Street expected and announced a transition of its chief financial officer. The company, which provides renters, homeowners, auto, pet and life insurance in the US and parts of Europe, plunged 18%, marking its steepest intraday decline […]

US State Department Issues Travel Advisory For Caribbean Tourist Destination Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The State Department updated its travel advisory for the Bahamas, highlighting the risk of crime, including sexual assaults, in the Caribbean nation. Violent crimes, such as sexual assaults, armed robberies, and burglaries, can occur anywhere in the country, the department said in a July 28 update. […]

Houthis Signal Red Sea Shipping Tolls In Mirror Image Of Iran’s Hormuz Plan Houthis have entered the chat… Already multiple Saudi vessels have been targeted in the Red Sea region, forcing a number of tankers to U-turn, and now Yemen’s Houthis are seeking to introduce their own ‘toll system’ for the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. “Yemen’s information minister said intelligence confirmed IRGC advisers were directly involved in designing a […]

Garmin Boosts Full-Year Forecast As Wearables Earnings Jump Garmin shares jumped as much as 9.6% in premarket trading after the GPS-device maker delivered a broad beat on second-quarter earnings and raised its full-year outlook. Garmin produces GPS-enabled electronics and wearable technology across five main markets: Fitness: smartwatches, running watches, cycling computers and activity trackers Outdoor: hiking watches, […]

The Mamdani Grocery Grift: NYC Mayor Sells Taxpayers A Bill Of Goods On City-Run Stores Authored by Jonathan Turley, Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s short stint as a faux president ended with an embarrassing acknowledgment that he could not, as promised during his campaign, arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. So, this week, Mamdani the Grocer made a reappearance, with details on the five city-run grocery stores […]

Watch Live: Fed Chair Warsh Explains ‘Hawkish’ Hold Having delivered the biggest “non-cut” surprise to markets in decades – by holding rates unchanged (markets were pricing a 35% chance of a hike) – and given Warsh’s distaste for forward guidance, he is unlikely to offer any clearer signals during the press conference. Bear in mind that since 2015, traders have foreseen the Fed’s ultimate rate decision with an average error of […]

No Rate-Change Sparks 3 Dissents As Warsh Fed Delivers Biggest ‘Non-Cut’ Surprise In Decades Tl;dr: The Fed held rates unchanged, delivering the biggest surprise “non-cut” to the market in decades. Three dissenters wanted a rate-hike, clearly signaling the direction of travel and confirming this decision as a “hawkish hold” though arguably only marginally. *  *  * Since the last FOMC meeting on June 17th (Kevin Warsh’s first as […]

US-Owned LNG Ship Reportedly Struck By Kamikaze Drone At Egyptian Port A potentially major escalation emerged late Wednesday after a US-owned gas-processing vessel moored at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta was reportedly struck by a drone, according to Reuters, citing maritime security firm Ambrey. Details remain scant, and this assessment is preliminary. Explosion disrupts Damietta LNG hub An explosion at Egypt’s Damietta […]

Trump Invites California Teen Lifeguard Who Rescued Boy To White House Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, A teen lifeguard, who heroically dove into pounding waves to save a young boy, will be honored by President Donald Trump at the White House. Lifeguards rescue boy at California beach amid intense waves “We’re going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy he […]

From Momentum To Mayhem: Korean ‘Plunge Protectors’ Meet As Leverage Unwind Sparks Chaos ‘Leverage goes both ways…’ That is a lesson that many are learning in a painful manner as the army that enjoyed the momentum escalator ride up are now decrying the elevator plunge lower… and the poster-child for this pain is Korea. Following anxiety over new Chinese competition, and disappointing earnings from SK Hynix overnight, Korea’s […]

FDA Panel Backs Wider Access To Six Peptide Therapies, Citing Grey Market Concerns Via American Greatness, A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel has voted to recommend expanding legal access to six popular peptide compounds. Supporters say it could pull patients out of the unregulated grey market that has flourished under years of federal inaction. The FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee reviewed seven […]

NANO Nuclear Expands Air Force Footprint With Second AFWERX Award NANO Nuclear Energy has been selected for a new AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award, giving the company another opportunity to advance its KRONOS MMR Energy System with the Department of the Air Force. The new Phase I award is framed as a broad research and development agreement. NANO said the contract is focused on using KRONOS to “address […]