AI Is Quietly Transforming Healthcare And Might Just Save Your Life Amid the broader debate over artificial intelligence’s economic disruptions, the healthcare sector is quietly demonstrating some of the technology’s most concrete applications. Rather than the job losses feared in other industries, hospitals report AI augmenting physicians, streamlining routine tasks and accelerating innovation in ways that could improve outcomes […]

Poo-Demic: As Cases Spread To 41 States, FDA Suddenly Can’t Find Parasite In Recalled Lettuce A stomach parasite spread by feces on fresh produce has now sickened people in 41 states, federal health officials said – five days after the FDA pulled back the only lab test linking the outbreak to the lettuce it recalled. Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts in a stool sample, in an undated file image. CDC via The Epoch Times The Centers for […]

RFK Jr. Says Government Pausing More Than $1 Billion In Medicaid Payments To California, Minnesota Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The federal government is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to two states, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is withholding more than $867 million from California and more than $200 million from Minnesota. […]

House Panel Subpoenas Far-Left Groups Linked To China-Based Marxist Financier Neville Singham The House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed the People’s Forum, a New York-based far-left NGO; BreakThrough News, a far-left propaganda media outlet; and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, which can be described as anchored in “national liberation Marxism.” These organizations are part of a broader investigation into […]

Biden Bucks: Climate Change Funds A Bonanza For State Outfits Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, For much of its five-decade history, the Colorado Energy Office was a small department with a handful of employees who supported practical, cost-saving energy conservation measures. From 2010 to 2022, records show, the office received an average of $7 million per year from the U.S. Department of Energy. All that […]

Secret Service Official Sounds Alarm: “Threat Environment Highest Ever” As Assassination Attempts Explode The threat environment facing individuals under U.S. Secret Service protection, including President Trump, is the highest the agency has ever recorded, a senior official said during a background briefing with reporters, according to CNBC. Getty Images “What we’re seeing now is something I’ve never seen before,” the official […]

DARPA’s ‘ECHO’ Project: A Computer System That Declares You A Bio Threat – With No Physical Evidence Authored by Jon Fleetwood via JonFleetwood.com, In 2018, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) proposed building a portable computer system allegedly capable of determining whether a person had been exposed to biological or chemical threats – including weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their precursors. Even […]

Overeducated Liberals With Worthless Degrees Are DSA’s “Sweet Spot” Voter Nate Silver identifies lower-income, highly educated voters as the core demographic of the Democratic Socialists of America, revealing a striking breakdown in the traditional relationship between education and higher income. “Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What’s the most Democratic voting […]

Google Tumbles After Boosting 2026 Capex Guidance Again Update (5:00pm ET): It took just a few minutes into the call for management to get to the elephant in the room, namely the relentless spending on overpriced commodity chips, and just like last quarter when GOOGL guided to a much higher capex for the current year, it did so again (if to a slightly lesser extent). The stock promptly slumped 3% to new session lows. *ALPHABET SEES […]

We Watched ‘The Odyssey’ So You Don’t Have To! Submitted by blueapples on X via ashesofacacia.substack.com, After watching The Odyssey (don’t worry, I pirated it), all I can say is that the hatred it fomented was ultimately to its benefit. It caused a reactionary response that amplified the hype surrounding the movie, with the hate-posting ultimately serving as free publicity. It needed it because the movie was extraordinarily […]

House Narrowly Passes $1.15 Trillion Defense Bill That Integrates US Military Tech & Supply Chains With Israel The House passed the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday by a 216-212 vote, sending the $1.15 trillion measure to the Senate after one of the most partisan House votes in the must-pass bill’s recent history. Only six Democrats supported it, while seven Republicans voted no. 🚨 JUST IN: […]

Despite Big Bounce In Revenues, TSLA Shares Drop After Disappointing Earnings After a dismal two years of weakening demand, falling sales, and damage to its brand by Elon Musk’s political activities, Tesla’s road to recovery remains mixed on the heels of an impressive delivery report. While earnings fell 18% compared to Q2 2025 to 33c a share (well below expectations of 51c) with higher AI spending and R&D weighing on […]

IRGC To Trump: Strike Iran’s Infrastructure, We’ll Shut Off The Gulf’s Power Summary More Tanker Attacks: Iran-backed Houthi militants said they targeted two Saudi Arabian tankers in the Red Sea Trump ultimatum: Trump vowed the US will strike an Iranian bridge or power plant after every Iranian attack on shipping. Iran responds: The IRGC threatened to hit Gulf energy infrastructure if Iranian […]

Jim Quinn Warns “We’ve Already Entered This Fourth Turning’s Global War…” Authored by Jim Quinn via The Bruning Platform blog, “THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation […]

Shirley You Must Be Joking: Groups Sue For Communication Records Linked To Somali Daycare Fraud Claims Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, A coalition of civil-rights groups sued the Trump administration on Monday, seeking to force the release of internal communications between federal health officials and a YouTube journalist who accused Somali-run Minnesota daycare centers of fraud. Independent Journalist Nick Shirley […]

OpenAI Admits Model Escaped Containment And Hacked Hugging Face To Cheat On A Test Authored by Felix Ng via CoinTelegraph.com, OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that a combination of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model, escaped its testing environment and hacked AI startup Hugging Face last week to cheat on a test meant to measure their capabilities. In a blog post, OpenAI said the evaluation was […]

“He Was Very Close To Being Arrested”: Epstein’s Paris Model Scout Found Dead At Home, Weeks After CNN Appearance Daniel Siad, the 69-year-old Paris modeling scout whose name appears nearly 2,000 times in the DOJ’s Epstein files, was found dead at his home in Colombes, northwest of Paris, on Monday. The deputy public prosecutor at Nanterre, Marie-Celine Lawrysz, confirmed the death Wednesday and said an investigation into the cause […]

Video Game Market Tanks As Studio, Console Stocks Sink ; Can GTA VI Revive Industry? Video game stocks have been battered so far this year, with Electronic Arts the only major name in positive territory and even then only marginally higher. The Roundhill Video Games ETF is down about 14.8% YTD, highlighting industry-wide weakness as investors await a potential revival sparked by Take-Two’s release of Grand Theft Auto VI this […]

A Fed Rate-Hike Would Be A Serious Mistake Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The latest U.S. inflation report and jobs data do not justify another interest rate increase. Additionally, June data show that inflation is slowing down, especially in the core CPI measure that is most closely watched by monetary authorities, while ongoing tightening is stopping the labor market from reaching its full potential. Hiking rates while […]

The Great Six Month Financial Blindfold Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance As many including myself recently have noted, we are already living through an extraordinary age of financial grift, accounting games, promotional fraud, speculative mania and almost total contempt for basic investor skepticism. The SEC’s apparent response is to consider giving public companies less frequently required financial disclosure in the face of […]

Google’s Flagship Still Can’t Ship – So It Launched Token Austerity And A Hacking Model Only Governments Can Use Alphabet reports second-quarter earnings after today’s close – the first hyperscaler print since cheap Chinese tokens knocked the semiconductor index into a bear market. So naturally, Google chose the eve of that report to ship three new AI models, none of which is the one it promised. Getty Images The Tuesday launch […]

Abandoned Navy Base Costs Taxpayers $340,000 A Year For Internet Nobody Uses Authored by Matt White via TaskandPurpose.com, The mostly abandoned neighborhoods on Adak Island, Alaska, were once home to 5,000 Navy sailors and their families. But after 40 years as a supply depot, Naval Air Facility Adak closed in 1997, leaving scores of homes and buildings behind. Today, a small community of government workers and Alaska Native […]

Can SpaceX Fire On All Cylinders? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, SpaceX’s June IPO raised $75 billion, resulting in an initial valuation of $1.77 trillion, making it the largest IPO in history. SpaceX, encompassing its launch business, Starlink, and the recently merged xAI, peaked at a $2.5 trillion market cap in its first week of trading, briefly tying it with Amazon as the fifth-largest publicly […]

Top Israeli Minister: ‘Best For Us’ If US Fights Iran While Israel Sits Out New Round of War As four more American families grieve the deaths of soldiers killed in the war on Iran, one of the top-ranking ministers in Israel’s cabinet told an Israeli audience that having America do all the fighting and dying is “the best for us.” Israel had intensely lobbied President Trump to launch a joint war on Iran on Feb 22, and traded blows […]

ADNOC Approves $6.2 Billion Gas Project In Abu Dhabi Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Abu Dhabi’s national oil company ADNOC just announced a $6.2 billion final investment decision to develop the Umm Shaif Gas Cap project in Abu Dhabi as part of its strategy to grow its global gas portfolio. ADNOC will develop the project alongside its international partners – France’s TotalEnergies, Italy’s Eni, and […]