Bannon Urges Trump To Cut Ties With Brazil As Trump Calls Lula’s Win “Another Rigged Election” Steve Bannon is calling on the Trump administration to cut diplomatic and trade ties with Brazil, Gazeta do Povo reports. In a Monday episode of his show War Room, Bannon described Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election as a “theft” and called his government illegitimate. He said Secretary of State Marco Rubio should speak out first, […]

Appeals Court Rejects DOJ’s Challenge To Suspected Noncitizen Ballots In California Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times,A federal appeals court declined to intervene in the Trump administration’s lawsuit against California to sequester 20,000 mail-in ballots from individuals it suspects are noncitizens. An “I Voted” sign is displayed during a press conference at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center during […]

Pentagon’s Latest UFO Release: Observers Describe Silent Black Triangle Moving At 1,800 MPH Over Redacted Western US Site Two senior military observers say they watched a black triangular object fly at extraordinary speed over a sensitive site in the western US earlier this year, according to the newest batch of UFO files released Friday by the Trump administration, the Guardian reports. The unidentified object showed none of the […]

Alaska Officials Urge Court To Toss Trump Administration’s Vote-Counting Lawsuit Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,Officials in Alaska urged a federal court to throw out a legal complaint lodged by the Trump administration that pre-challenges the results of an election for a U.S. Senate seat representing the state. People walk into a polling station to cast votes in Anchorage, Alaska, in a Nov. 5, 2022, file image. […]

Trump Offers $1 Million For Voter-Fraud Tips A Week Before The Midterms President Donald Trump said Monday that the government will pay $1 million to anyone who reports voter fraud that leads to an arrest and conviction, just over a week before the Nov. 3 midterm elections. “Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that […]

Netanyahu Already Alleging Fraud Before Vote Closes, As Arab-Israeli Districts Flood Polls Update(14505ET): There are several hours remaining before polls close, amid already record-turnout, which is likely a bad sign for Netanyahu and his Likud party.”By 6 p.m. local time (12 p.m. Eastern), four hours before polls were scheduled to close, 66.7 percent of voters had cast ballots,” NYT observes. “It was the highest figure at that […]

Bolsonaro Reportedly Heading To US As Lula’s Socialist Regime Stokes Fears Of Political Crackdown Summary: Bolsonaro Reportedly Entered Argentina To Fly To US Bolsonaro Says His Political Prosecution By Socialists Is “Sign Democracy Has Failed”  Bolsonaro Drops Annulment Bid As Party Concedes To Lula, Vows Congressional “Fortress” Against Socialist RuleBrazil On Brink Of Political Turmoil?The lack of scrutiny from Western news […]

NGOs Warn That Haiti Can’t Handle Any More US Deportations In the past 20 years, the “transitional republic” of Haiti has received approximately $10.5 billion in US aid, but when one examines the state of the country today, it’s hard to tell if they received a dime.  One problem is that for most of that time US funding has been handled through intermediaries such as UN agencies and NGOs, and accusations of embezzlement abound. […]

FBI Raids Beverly Hills Mansion Tied To Eric Swalwell Probe FBI agents searched a Beverly Hills mansion on Tuesday morning as part of the criminal investigation of former Rep. Eric Swalwell, Fox News reports. FBI spokesperson Lourdes Arocho told the Los Angeles Times: “We are executing a search warrant. Court documents are sealed. No arrests are planned.”Fox identified the home as belonging to billionaire Stephen Cloobeck, a […]

Mexican Illegal Faces Charges After Beheading Iwo Jima Statue Miguel Alonso Maldonado Sorianom, illegal migrant from Mexico residing in the US, has been officially charged after battering a replica of the Iwo Jima flag-raising statue near the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia. One of the figures on the statue was beheaded before police apprehended the man.  Prince William County Circuit Court Chief Judge Petula Metzler […]

Boeing Shares Crater Most In 18 Months After Delivery Outlook Cut Boeing shares cratered in the US cash session by late morning in New York after it slashed its commercial aircraft delivery outlook because it needs more time to ramp up to sustainable production rates. The struggling planemaker expects to miss its full-year production target of 500 737 aircraft – its cash cow aircraft – and deliver about 90 787 Dreamliners, the […]

House Republicans Subpoena New Jersey Over 6,600 Noncitizen Voter Registrations Authored by José Niño via Headline USA,House Republicans have subpoenaed New Jersey’s top election official, demanding to know how roughly 6,600 noncitizens ended up registered to vote. According to a House Judiciary Committee press release published last Wednesday, four Republican committee leaders subpoenaed Acting Secretary of State Shirley Emehelu […]

Trump Answers Obama’s “Cheesecake Factory” White House Jab: “That Just Shows Why You Were A Lousy President” President Trump on Monday answered Barack Obama’s weekend jab that the renovated White House looks like a Cheesecake Factory, telling reporters at Joint Base Andrews before a campaign trip to Mississippi: “For you to say it’s a Cheesecake Factory – that just shows why you were a lousy president.”At a campaign stop for […]

Iran War Pushes Trump’s Average Gasoline Prices Above Biden’s Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice,The average price Americans have paid for gasoline during President Donald Trump’s second term has now surpassed the average recorded during Joe Biden’s presidency, marking a politically significant milestone just days before the November 3 midterm elections.According to AAA data cited by Reuters, regular gasoline has averaged […]

Comey Charged A Third Time, Over An Alleged 2016 Leak Of Defense Information To A Reporter Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged by federal prosecutors with unlawfully passing national defense information to a reporter in 2016, the Justice Department’s third attempt to bring a case against him in a little over a year.BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey charged with leaking national defense information to a reporter […]

NANO Nuclear Taps The Korean Builder That Already Bet $30 Million On Its Reactor A day after LIS Technologies, the laser enrichment partner of NANO Nuclear (NNE), filed for a Nasdaq IPO, NANO signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering on its first KRONOS microreactor at the University of Illinois.$NNE NANO Nuclear Energy and Hyundai Engineering Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Advance KRONOS […]

Houthis Claim ‘Direct Hit’ On Saudi Defense Ministry HQ & Ras Tanura Refinery The Houthis are claiming some further significant attacks on Saudi military and energy sites, announcing Tuesday a direct hit on the kingdom’s defense ministry HQ in Riyadh.The Iran-aligned group said the “hit was direct” – also amid new launches against Saudi Arabia’s biggest oil refinery, Ras Tanura, located to the west of the Strait of Hormuz. via […]

Could A Democratic Midterm Win Crash Markets? Submitted by QTR’s Fringe FinanceThe Brazilian selloff over the last 36 hours is a reminder that political outcomes can become catalysts for violent market repricing.With the midterm elections just days away, I think investors should consider what a Democratic victory could mean for a stock market already showing signs of exhaustion.I’ve spent months arguing that extraordinary […]

Mercedes Slashes Outlook As China Demand Hits Wall; Europe’s Auto Profit Warnings Pile Up Mercedes-Benz Group AG became the latest European automaker to slash its profit outlook as deteriorating demand in China and rising input costs squeeze margins.Shares tumbled in European trading this morning as the auto industry as a whole confronts intensifying Chinese competition, softening demand, and ongoing cost pressures.”Mercedes-Benz […]

Americans’ Consumer Confidence Rebounded Dramatically Off COVID Lows In October After crashing below COVID lows in September, The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index surged back to the highest level since June in October’s data released today. The headline index rose by 7.5 points to 91.7 (1985=100) in October, up from 84.2 in September (a slight upward revision) and dramatically better than the 81.0 expected.The Present […]

Iran Says Tanker On Fire After Mine Strike, Following US Commander’s Rare Hormuz Flyover Iran has continued hunting tankers in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, and on Monday its state media has cited the IRGC to say an ‘offending’ oil tanker caught fire after hitting mines east of the Strait of Hormuz.Ironically this happened just after an unusual public relations flyover conducted by the Pentagon. The head of US Central […]

“Affordability Remains Challenging”: US Home Prices Rise Even As Mortgage Rates Rip Home prices in America’s top 20 cities rose for the 5th straight month in August (the latest data just released by S&P Cotality Case-Shiller), up 0.27% MoM (vs +0.30% exp) lifting pries 2.65% YoY (the strongest since May)..However, prices declined in real terms for the 15th consecutive month in August 2026, though Rebecca Kaufman, Associate […]

Jordan Bombs ‘Militant Camp’ In Southern Syria After Church Attack, High Death Toll Jordan’s response to the last Friday terror attack on an Orthodox Church in Hammoud, Karak – south of the capital Amman – has been somewhat unexpected. On Monday the country’s air force carried out a major bombing raid on southern Syria.There were three gunmen that had targeted St. George church during a funeral. The attackers killed at least eight […]

Core Durable Goods Orders Rise For 18th Straight Month, AI Spend Proxy Dips After an unexpected dip in headline durable goods orders last month, preliminary September data was expected to show a significant rebound, and it did, rising 1.8% MoM. However, this was a small miss relative to the +1.9% MoM expected but the August decline was revised up to a +0.1% MoM change (from -0.1%)…This left headline durable goods orders up a solid […]

Futures Rise, Oil Slides As Iran’s Supreme Leader Talks Peace And Shrugs Off Ras Tanura Attack US futures are higher as hopes for a diplomatic end to the Iran war got a fresh boost after Monday’s Mecca Pact talks in Tehran, with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei calling for pursuing the conditions set out by Iranian officials to end the war and an Iranian ambassador floating a seven-day plan to reopen Hormuz, which more than offset a […]