Trump Endorses MyPillow’s Mike Lindell For Minnesota Governor Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he is endorsing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell as the Republican candidate for Minnesota governor, saying he is one of “America’s greatest and most hard working Patriots.” “Mike will be SPECTACULAR!!! He truly loves Minnesota, as do I, and wants to bring it back from […]

Trump: Iran Has Freed Detained American Woman In ‘Goodwill’ Gesture, After Days Of Bombing Summary Detained American woman freed by Iran; Trump: “appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran!” Pentagon announces second wave of strikes later Wednesday, the after initial 90-minute attack to start the day. Trump threatens wider strikes unless Iran returns to talks – says attacks to ‘expand’ next week. Wednesday saw 5th strait day […]

University Of California Suspends Move To Restore Standardized Testing Authored by Jonathan Turley, A University of California advisory board suspended the much-celebrated planned review of the system’s admissions policies to bring back standardized testing requirements for undergraduate applicants. The decision of the academic senate’s Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools is not surprising to many of us who have been […]

Indian Companies Increasingly Turn To Chinese LLMs Due To “Unsustainable” US Token Bills Several weeks ago we laid out the increasingly attractive proposition for global enterprises that are Chinese LLM: 95% of the latest US frontier model capabilities and 10% of the cost. Why pay the premium, when one way or another someone will steal your IP, be it Dario Amodei or Beijing? India, it appears, agrees.  According to the NIkkei, […]

Japan Trade Chief Says Hormuz Off-Limits As Hostilities Reignite By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com Commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is once again off-limits in the near term as the renewed hostilities and threats to vessels led to another spike in risks of transiting the key tanker and container shipping lane, according to Masahiro Okafuji, chair of the Japan Foreign Trade Council. “No one would go there, because […]

Amy Coney Barrett Warns Of Escalating Death Threats Against Supreme Court It’s sad to say, but the truth must be acknowledged – Mob violence and threats of political assassination can often be effective in influencing the policy decisions of courts and governments.  It’s the reason why the militant left has consistently used these methods over the course of generations.  It works, and they know it. It’s not that political […]

What Does Socialism Actually Deliver? Authored by Christian Milord via The Epoch Times, If we examine the history of alleged “democratic” socialism around the globe, it’s not difficult to flesh out the contradictions within its entire framework. However, for someone who hasn’t studied history or been grounded in the timeless principles of hard work and individual responsibility, socialism might tug at their heartstrings […]

Widow Of Butler Rally Victim: Trump Assassination Attempt Was “An Inside Job” Two years after a gunman opened fire at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one attendee and wounding President Donald Trump, the widow of the man who was slain has expressed deep skepticism about the circumstances of the attack. Helen Comperatore, whose husband Corey, a 50-year-old volunteer firefighter and father of two, was fatally shot […]

Increasing Number Of US Families Took On Debt, Tapped Savings To Meet Food Needs: Report Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Many American families are struggling to make ends meet on their incomes alone and have resorted to credit cards, payday loans, and Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) options for groceries, according to nonprofit research center Urban Institute. The findings are based on a survey of 18-to 64-year-old […]

Senior Defense Officials Review Potential 101st Airborne Helicopter Assault On Cuba Cuba’s national power grid has collapsed for the third time in less than 10 days, plunging the communist-run Caribbean island into darkness and leaving roughly 10 million people without electricity. The cascading failures show the regime’s accelerating loss of control over critical infrastructure, just as senior U.S. defense officials evaluate […]

Inside The Race To Fix America’s Gas Pipelines Amid AI Center Boom Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times, Beneath the hills of Appalachia lies the nation’s largest natural gas-producing basin, yet many of the pipelines needed to move this vital resource are operating near capacity. A worker on the production floor at Pioneer Pipe in Marietta, Ohio, on Oct. 25, 2016. Replacing aging gas pipelines is critical to […]

Toxic Wildfire Smoke Plume From Canada Will Blanket DC To NYC Temperatures across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are set to rise on Wednesday, with highs approaching the upper 90s and the PJM power grid likely to see a sharp increase in electricity demand as air-conditioning use is set to climb through the afternoon. Cooler temperatures are expected to follow in the days ahead, but relief may be short-lived as wildfire smoke […]

Of Marxists And Morons Authored by Eric Utter via American Thinker, Most of us have heard the horrific figures: Communism/Marxism was responsible for more than 100 million deaths in the 20th century alone. There are two preconditions necessary for people to accept or even welcome Communism: one, frustration with current economic and/or political conditions, and two, a moral decay that generates a disdain for work and an […]

Obama-Appointed Judge Halts US Visa Restrictions On Disinformation Gurus Accused Of Censorship Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a policy that denied visas and ordered deportations of “disinformation” expert foreign nationals whom it accused of being leading figures in the global “censorship-industrial complex.” Last year, the United […]

Permanent Switch To Daylight Saving Time Easily Passes US House The movement to liberate Americans from changing their clocks twice a year cleared a key hurdle on Tuesday, as the US House of Representatives advanced the Sunshine Protection Act by a lopsided 318-117 margin. While many Americans would like to stop the spring and fall time changes, not all of them are on board with the Sunshine Protection Act’s specific approach, would […]

US Utilities Requested $9.2BN In Rate Hikes In Q2, Up 26% From Previous Year By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive Electric and gas utilities in the second quarter asked state regulators to approve $9.2 billion in rate hikes, up 26% from the $7.3 billion in rate increase proposals filed in the same period last year, according to an updated report released Tuesday by the advocacy group PowerLines. In the first half this year, utilities […]

Ukraine Shake-Up: Zelensky Sacks Popular Defense Chief, & IDs CEO Of Naftogaz As Likely Next Prime Minister Update(1410ET): FT is reporting late in the day Wednesday that Ukraine’s 35-year old defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, who has grown in popularity for his ‘reformer’ reputation and for orchestrating the ramped-up drone war on Russia, has been sacked by Zelensky. The shock move comes days after Yulia Svyrydenko, […]

Trump Wants ICE To Resume Traffic Stops After Deadly Encounter In Maine President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should keep relying on traffic stops as a major enforcement tool, defending the practice after a string of deadly encounters involving immigration officers, including a recent fatal shooting of a Colombian illegal immigrant in Maine.  In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, […]

Beige Book: Economic Activity Picked Up In 11 Of 12 Districts; Only San Fran Flat As “Employers Invested In AI” In a modest support of the Fed’s recent hawkish pivot, the latest Beige Book released today notes that economic activity across the US improved moderately, increasing at a slight to moderate pace in eleven of twelve Federal Reserve Districts in late May and June, while one District (San Francisco) reported no change. The […]

Fort Knox Standoff: Bessent Says All The Gold Is There, Says America ‘Used To Be Backed’ By It U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has once again assured the public that America’s gold reserves remain fully intact, pushing back against years of speculation surrounding the legendary vaults at Fort Knox. In a Fox News interview with Jesse Watters that aired Monday night, Bessent reiterated his standing assurance that every ounce of […]

US Gasoline Prices Could Top $4 Per Gallon Within Days After several weeks of reprieve for drivers, the US national average price of gasoline could top $4 per gallon within a week, as crude oil prices rallied by about 12% in the three days since Friday amid the all-but-collapsed U.S.-Iran ceasefire. The renewed hostilities in the Middle East have fueled a new crude oil price rally this week, while tight fuel markets globally are […]

UN Maritime Boss Warns Ships To Avoid Hormuz As Transits Continue The International Maritime Organization warned Wednesday that the Strait of Hormuz remains too dangerous for commercial shipping, even as vessels continue to transit the narrow waterway. US Central Command said its latest round of strikes against Iranian coastal military targets concluded early Wednesday. Tehran retaliated with missile and drone attacks against […]

Iraqi Militia Vows To Disrupt Any Future Iraq-Syria Oil Pipeline: US ‘Stealing Our Oil’ Via The Cradle US and Iraqi officials are set to conclude a major energy deal as part of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s visit to Washington this week, according to Iraqi officials cited by AP Wednesday. “An agreement is slated to be signed Friday between Iraq, US companies Chevron and TI Capital, and Qatar’s UCC for construction of an oil […]

Pennsylvania Data Centers Face Increased Oversight Under New Law By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro, signed a budget Sunday which will require data centers to report their exact water and power usage annually to the state. It also requires the PJM Interconnection to give Pennsylvania state regulators additional insight into its demand forecasting. “The current process by which […]

SpaceX Shares Fall Below $135 IPO Price, But The Real Story Is Its Bonds SpaceX has slipped below its much-hyped $135 IPO price, and down 40% from the all time high hit during the June 15th gamma squeeze when the stock surged above $220 if ovenright trading, an “inevitable outcome” according to Bloomberg, which lends some validation to the skepticism surrounding “a valuation that always relied more on imagination than observable […]