Iran Threatens South Korean Assets If Seoul Joins Hormuz Mission Via Middle East Eye Iranian academic Mohammad Marandi has warned that Tehran would consider South Korea an enemy and could strike its economic and military interests across the Persian Gulf if Seoul joins the US-led war on Iran. Speaking on Al Mayadeen’s The Grand Standoff, Marandi said South Korea’s involvement in efforts to secure freedom of navigation […]

Nick Shirley Sues California Over ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Independent investigative journalist Nick Shirley spent the better part of a year investigating alleged fraud at nonprofits accused of diverting taxpayer funds meant for immigrant services. California responded by passing a law that makes it harder to look at those nonprofits at all. Now he is suing to have that law thrown out.  Shirley filed a federal lawsuit against the […]

California Police Seize 2,400 Stolen Catalytic Converters Worth $4.3 Million A three-month investigation into widespread catalytic converter thefts in Southern California culminated Thursday with five arrests and the recovery of an enormous cache of allegedly stolen auto parts, according to KTLA. Law enforcement agencies executed several search warrants across Los Angeles and Orange counties, uncovering roughly 2,400 catalytic […]

“Hurry Up And Die”: Michigan Democrat Joins Other Radicals In Scrubbing Past Social Media Statements Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, A certain pattern is emerging on the far left. Political figures spend years currying the favor of other extremists with outrageous commentary, proudly proclaiming their commitment to eliminating the Senate, opening the border, and other measures. Then, they delete all of the […]

5 Dead As Amazon-Branded Cargo Jet Overshoots Miami Runway, Plows Into Tesla Cybercab Lot An Amazon-branded Boeing 767 cargo jet overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, leaving five people dead and five others injured. Footage of the plane crash from earlier today | #ONLYinDADE pic.twitter.com/iGoOtnd6cD — ONLY in DADE (@ONLYinDADE) September 6, 2026 Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 said the […]

Army To Spend $465 Million On ‘Group 3 Killer’ Anti-Drone Laser Authored by Jeff Schogol via Task & Purpose, The Army has awarded a $464.8 million contract for a laser weapon designed to destroy the type of drones that Iran has launched against U.S. troops and partner nations in the Middle East for more than five months. The Army has awarded a $464.8 million contract to AeroVironment, Inc. for the LOCUST X3 laser system. Image […]

Trump Admin Weighs Child Care Subsidies For Stay-At-Home Parents The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would allow some married couples with a stay-at-home parent to receive federal child care subsidies, an initiative reportedly championed by Vice President JD Vance, according to the New York Times.  The proposal would use the existing Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), which has traditionally helped lower-income […]

Ex-CNN Propagandist Don Lemon Mulls Presidential Run Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, The Democratic Party has long attracted peculiarly strange individuals who have been floated as potential presidential candidates, including convicted felon Michael Avenatti, disgraced former first son Hunter Biden, Jerry Springer and anti-Trump filmmaker Michael Moore. Add former CNN anchor Don Lemon to that list. Lemon, now a […]

Federal Government Backs Supreme Court Challenge To AR-15 Bans Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to side with gun owners challenging state and local bans on AR-15-style rifles. In a brief filed Friday, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to overturn rulings from the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuits, which upheld AR-15 bans in […]

Biggest ‘Go Woke, Get Broke’ Story Of A Generation: S&P Nukes Nike From Elite Blue-Chip Index S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Friday that Nike is being booted from the S&P 100 after nearly two decades, another sign of how America’s most exclusive blue-chip benchmark is being reshaped by the artificial-intelligence spending boom. But that’s not the entire story…  Perhaps what really happened with Nike is that it […]

Trump: Michael Cohen Recanted Testimony Behind NY Cases Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Michael Cohen, a key witness in the New York criminal and civil cases against President Donald Trump, has “fully recanted” his testimony in both cases, the Republican president announced Friday via Truth Social. Previously known as Trump’s longtime fixer, Cohen was used by New York Attorney General Letitia James in her […]

A GoFundMe In Support of Lindsay Clancy Nears $1.2 Million After Mistrial A Massachusetts jury deliberated for roughly 38 hours over seven days and failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the case against Lindsay Clancy, resulting in Judge William Sullivan declaring a mistrial on Friday due to a holdout juror.  Clancy has admitted to strangling her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, with exercise bands […]

From Par To Pennies Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Private credit’s reckoning is not arriving with one grand, spectacular crash. It is arriving slowly and steadily, one loan at a time. For years, one of private credit’s great attractions was the remarkable stability (or perceived stability) of its valuations. Public bonds could fall ten points in a week. Leveraged loans could gap lower after a bad earnings report. But […]

AfD Sweeps Saxony-Anhalt Election In First “Far Right” Victory Since WW2: “Signal To Berlin” Update(1400ET): In a political earthquake, the AfD has taken a massive lead, per exit polls, at the Saxony-Anhalt election in what the party’s state leader hailed as sending a resounding “signal to Berlin.” This moment marks the first time what has been dubbed a German “far-right party” taking power at a state level since World War II. […]

They/Them Communist Activist Declares Ozempic “Fascist” Plot To “Genocide Fat People” America’s socialist leadership increasingly looks less like a political movement and more like a circus where the clowns run the show. Its most radical theorists openly advocate dismantling capitalism and the institutions underpinning the Western order while romanticizing communist regimes defined by nation-killing economic ruin and political […]

Diplomatic Blitz: Witkoff, Kushner Hold “Substantial” Ukraine Talks After Putin Meeting President Trump’s diplomatic sprint shifted from Moscow to Kiev over the weekend, with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner arriving in Ukraine for talks with senior officials. The visit came one day after the pair met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian state media outlet TASS cited […]

Iran Vows ‘Faster, More Painful’ Response To US Attacks After Weekend Sea Battle Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday announced a heightened military posture in the war with the US, saying that new attacks on the country will “meet a faster, heavier and more painful response.” “If they haven’t understood by now, they should understand before it’s too late that the rules of the game have changed and that […]

Waste Of The Day: $79M To Not Work Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Contractors working for the State of Illinois took a 470,000-hour paid lunch break on taxpayers’ dime. A company hired during the Covid-19 pandemic to fill staffing shortages at hospitals and long-term care facilities spent more than a third of its time on “standdown,” a contract provision that paid them to be on-site and available in case […]

Twelve Companies Make DOE’s Latest Nuclear Launch Pad Cut The DOE’s National Reactor Innovation Center announced 12 companies covering 13 projects for its latest Nuclear Energy Launch Pad (NELP) round on August 24th. Similar to the project coverage from the first round, this new group also spans multiple stages of the nuclear industry.  As we covered when the first four companies were selected, the initial group included the […]

September Market Weakness: The Setup Has Teeth Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Setup Has Teeth Earlier this week, in our Daily Market Commentary, I flagged that the market was testing support after three straight down days, starting in September, with the calendar. That was just the warm-up, as the real story lies in a note from Scott Rubner at Citadel Securities, whose read on September market […]

UN Demands African Statues In London As Britain Is Told To Atone For Slavery Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The United Nations has decided that Britain has not grovelled enough. After years of toppled statues, boarded-up war memorials and official lectures about “colonialism,” a UN human-rights committee now wants the country that ended the Atlantic slave trade to fill its public squares with statues of “people of […]

Interpreting The Taliban’s Invitation For American Investments Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This was arguably a preemptive de-escalation move that would also gauge the US’ intentions… The New York Times (NYT) interviewed Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul as part of their coverage of the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power. Muttaqi invited the US to reopen its embassy and invest in […]

Iran: Several Ballistic Missiles Fired At US Aircraft Carrier, Navy Destroyer Summary: Iran says it has attacked 3 ‘US-linked’ along with 3 American ships in the Hormuz Strait State media released footage of foreign vessels under attack in “response” to US aggression CENTCOM Confirms Iranian Tankers Hit Near Kharg Island Iranian Tanker Reportedly Hit By Missiles Near Kharg Island *  *  * Iran Unleashes Large Drone Swarm […]

IAEA ‘Unclear’ On Iran’s Nuclear Program As US, Europe Escalate At UN Security Council Western allies are pressing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ‌board to bring a formal complaint and resolution before the UN Security Council and the General Assembly. Reuters reports Saturday that the US, UK, France, and Germany are behind the new pressure campaign, which hinges on a request that the nuclear watchdog’s director […]

Is This Peak ‘Clown World’? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Transport for London has dropped a dog house-shaped “calm space” onto the concourse at Ealing Broadway station and called it progress. The tiny pod features a bench, noise-dampening acoustics and a “soothing” forest mural. They claim that it is part of an effort to “boost accessibility for neurodivergent travellers under TfL’s Equity in Motion strategy,” […]