Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Is Dragging America Back To The Dark Ages Via The Daily Signal, Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. The more you look around us today, I think a good description of 2026, culturally, […]

El Nino Crushes Atlantic Hurricane Activity, Lowest Since 1941 The peak of the Atlantic hurricane season arrives next Thursday, yet by this point the basin would normally have produced multiple systems tracking through the Caribbean, the Gulf of America, and the open Atlantic. This year, however, a strengthening El Niño and record vertical wind shear are tearing apart disturbances before they can rapidly intensify. Bloomberg […]

Asian Oil Buying Spree Sends Dubai Crude Toward $100 Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Stronger appetite for Middle Eastern crude grades from China and India has added upward pressure on prices for these grades, pushing the Dubai futures close to $100 per barrel, Bloomberg reported today, citing unnamed traders. Demand for Middle Eastern oil is especially strong from refining majors such as Indian Oil Corp. and […]

Vance Suggests Iran Conflict Could Drag Through Midterms, But At Least We’re Not Calling It A War The White House has returned to its prior talking point that the war against Iran shouldn’t be called a war. In earlier stages of the conflict President Trump had applied various monikers that stopped far short, from an “excursion” to a “little detour” to a “stopover” to a mere limited “military operation”. A full five months ago he […]

Brazilian Lift: Diplomats Accused Of Helping Fugitive ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ To Flee US Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, There is an intriguing story out of Brazil where Joao Arajuo, 57, a plastic surgeon known as “Dr. Frankenstein,” resurfaced after cutting an ankle monitor and fleeing the United States. The infamous plastic surgeon mocked the police and recounted how easy it was to flee the country. However, in […]

Excavation Work On Trump’s Arch To Begin Over Next 2 Weeks, Burgum Says Excavation work on President Donald Trump’s triumphal arch is scheduled to begin over the next two weeks, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said on Sept. 3. “This will be one of the great pieces of American architecture, honoring the history and significance of Arlington Cemetery and befitting the most powerful capital in the world,” Burgum said in a post on X. […]

States Must Report Illegal Immigrants To Feds Or Risk Losing Federal Welfare Funding: DOJ Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, States must alert the federal government to known illegal immigrants when they opt into receiving certain federal welfare benefits, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. The move withdraws a 1998 DOJ opinion and clarifies that under a 1996 welfare-reform law – the Personal […]

Missouri House Candidate Accused Of Plotting To Plant Cocaine On Primary Rival A Republican candidate for the Missouri state House is facing a federal charge after authorities accused him of orchestrating a plot to secretly place drugs on a political rival, CBS affiliate KOLR-TV reported. Thomas Ross, 37, who sought Missouri’s House District 161 seat representing the Joplin area, was charged Wednesday in connection with the alleged […]

Insurrection For Real Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, “The Democrat agenda is to legalize crime and criminalize the middle class.” – Stephen Miller Not to put too fine a point on it: but whenever a lawfare ninja of the Democratic Party utters the phrase “our democracy,” you must know that they are completely full of shit. For sure, they do not mean anything remotely related to an American commonweal, […]

Mistrial Formally Declared In Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial After State Supremes Refuse Stay Update (1505ET): The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court denied an emergency stay Friday afternoon in the Lindsay Clancy case, after which the judge formally declared a mistrial.  JUST IN – Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt is hearing Lindsay Clancy’s defense appeal to stay the mistrial judgement. […]

IRS, Treasury Propose Cutting Tax-Exempt Status For Schools With Diversity Policies Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private colleges and schools of their tax-exempt status if those institutions engaged in racial discrimination through policies such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue […]

Argentina’s Milei Escalates Falklands Dispute With Oil Sanctions On UK, Israeli Firms Argentina’s President Milei has announced plans to sign a decree sanctioning companies working on oil exploration of the Falkland Islands, coming a mere days after President Trump indicated that the US position on the archipelago was “under review”. The Libertarian-Right firebrand leader proclaimed quite provocatively that “The Falkland Islands […]

Pentagon, HHS Investigating Whether COVID Vaccines Contributed To Military Deaths Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, The Trump administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines contributed to the deaths of U.S. service members following the Biden administration’s military vaccine mandate, according to testimony from an Army doctor assigned to the effort. Army physician Theresa Long said in an Aug. 14 […]

Deutsche Bank: August US Auto Sales Beat Forecasts, But Incentives Remain A Factor U.S. auto sales came in stronger than expected in August, offering another sign that consumer demand for new vehicles remains relatively resilient despite elevated borrowing costs and broader questions about the economy. According to Deutsche Bank’s auto team, led by Edison Yu, August sales ran at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of roughly 16.9 […]

Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court To Unblock New Mail-Ballot Rules Before States Start Mailing Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 3 to allow the government to begin implementing a regulation that tightens rules around mail-in voting. In the emergency application, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to stay U.S. District Judge Indira […]

Enes Kanter Freedom Files Lawsuit After Chicago Sky Ejection, Ban Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom filed a lawsuit on Sept. 3 after he was ejected during a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) game and banned from future games. Kanter Freedom sued the Chicago Women’s Basketball Operations, LLC, which operates the Chicago Sky. The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition […]

“Apathy, Caution, And Chagrin”: UBS Sours On Consumer Stocks The Street’s mood toward US retail has been described by UBS analysts as “apathy, caution, and chagrin.” “Investors are engaged, but not necessarily enthusiastic. They remain interested, but increasingly selective. Most importantly, conviction feels harder earned than it has in years,” Michael Lasser, a managing director and senior equity-research analyst at UBS, wrote […]

Bitcoin-Gold Correlation Hits Six-Year High As Debasement Fears Mount Authored by Mathew Di Salvo via BitcoinMagazine.com, Bitcoin’s correlation with gold is at its highest in six years as investors increasingly look for ways to hedge against currency debasement.  That’s according to a new report from Bitwise, which this week pointed out that the precious metal and leading cryptocurrency are trading in lockstep because […]

Chinese Rare-Earth Suppliers Halt US Shipments As Decoupling Fears Surge The scenario we viewed as inevitable appears to be materializing, validating our decision to intensify coverage of the US-China decoupling theme and the Western-aligned miners positioned to supply the West if Beijing further weaponizes critical material exports, as it has throughout the Trump 2.0 era. A Reuters report on Friday morning revealed that some […]

Russia Tries To Assassinate Ukraine’s SBU Chief With Unprecedented Drone Attack On Kyiv HQ The Kremlin has long previewed that its next escalation step against Ukraine would be to start attacking ‘decision-making centers’, or headquarters and government buildings. That moment has clearly begun and is now in an active phase, also as strikes ramp up on the key southern port of Odesa, as well as on Ukraine-linked cargo and other […]

US Diesel Pump Prices Hit Record As Global Refined-Products Crisis Threatens Industrial Economy Goldman explained this week that Gulf oil exports had recovered to between 15 million and 16 million barrels per day, roughly two-thirds of prewar levels, with the rise of dark tanker transits obscuring some flows from conventional tracking via the Automatic Identification System (AIS). Yet headline crude volumes don’t tell the entire […]

“We Have The Receipts”: Bartiromo Denies Fox Firing Update (1155ET): New details are rolling in about the Bartiromo situation – as the anchor is denying reports that she was fired from the station. According to The Hollywood Reporter:  Bartiromo, who is now repped by Bryan Freedman, who recently repped Justin Baldoni, as well as journalists Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo after their dramatic exits from CNN as well as Tucker […]

Tesla’s Cybercab Debut Falls Flat As NHTSA Opens Probe Tesla’s long awaited Cybercab finally hit the streets of Austin yesterday, and the debut was something of a dud. For a product Elon Musk has positioned as central to Tesla’s future, the rollout was remarkably subdued. There was no major public livestream with appearance by Musk or traditional press presence, relatively little new information and just 45 Cybercabs registered […]

World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Cuts Treasury Holdings… But It’s Not What You Think The headlines are running rampant this morning as the world’s largest (and most transparent) sovereign wealth fund – Norway’s Government Pension Fund – has proposed reducing the amount of government bonds in its $2.3 trillion portfolio to boost holdings of riskier debt, with US Treasuries the most affected. Norges Bank Investment Management […]

Labor Shock: US Adds 162K Jobs In August, 4-Sigma Beat And Above Highest Forecast In our jobs report preview we quoted JPM’s Market Intel desk which said that today’s August payrolls number will be a case of “good news is bad news”, and sure enough futures are sliding  and yields surging after moments ago the BLS reported that in August, the US added a whopping 162K jobs, up from an upward revised 21K (July is no longer negative […]