Interpreting Russia’s Position Towards The Islamic NATO Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, While Russia officially has no problem with the Islamic NATO and even hopes that it’ll one day include Iran to fulfill Russia’s regional collective security vision, it would be inaccurate to claim that Russia is naïve about the latent threat that this bloc could pose as a result of Turkiye’s rivalry with Russia. Russian Foreign […]

Customs & Border Protection Has Scanned More Than 1 Billion Travelers With Facial Biometrics Customs and Border Protection says it has now verified the identity of more than 1 billion travelers with facial biometrics, announcing the milestone in an Oct. 5 statement. The agency says the system runs at entry in every U.S. airport with international arrivals, at exit in 66 airports, at 42 seaports, and in all pedestrian lanes at […]

Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait Authored by Ryan McEntush via Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), At the end of 2024, Texas’ grid operator had 63 GW of large new customers in its queue. By this June, that figure reached 474 GW, more than five times record peak demand, about 90% of it data centers. Then Texas hit pause. What began as directions for data centers to pay for their own grid upgrades has since escalated to a freeze on […]

Nvidia-Backed Australian Data Center Pulls IPO As Investors Balk At Valuation Update (10pm ET): Earlier we reported that Australian data center operator Firmus, perhaps the biggest pillar of Nvidia’s circular financing scheme Down Under, closed the books on its struggling IPO “without clear indication of the price or the deal structure,” as investors grew “increasingly concerned that the deal could be pulled.” Specifically, the […]

US Taxpayers Currently Lose Up To $500B Annually To Fraud; Report Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A new report published by the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) shows federal taxpayers are losing up to $521 billion annually to fraud and improper payments. According to Just the News, the report estimates that improper payments by the federal government have totaled about $3 trillion since 2003. […]

Emotional Reunion: USS Abraham Lincoln Finally Pulls Into San Diego After Record Deployment The US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has finally returned to port in San Diego after spending over ten months at sea – most of that time being engaged in war with Iran as part of Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. It made a badly needed port call in Thailand last month before traversing the Pacific Ocean to get back to its home port. The […]

China Accelerates Ultra-Deep Drilling To Boost Domestic Oil Supply Submitted By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com, China is accelerating efforts to produce more oil from ultra-deep formations to boost domestic supply amid continued global market turmoil. State-owned giant PetroChina has produced more than 26 million tons of oil equivalents from reservoirs dug 6,000 meters (19,685 ft) below the surface in the Hade-Fuman oilfield […]

“We Can’t Be Part Of A Lost Generation”: Bolsonaro Wins Four Key Party Endorsements Ahead Of Brazil Runoff In a postmortem published Wednesday on Sunday’s first-round Brazilian presidential election, Alberto Ramos, Goldman Sachs’ chief Latin American economist, described a “conservative wave” that swept the country, culminating in right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s win over unhinged socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da […]

“Last Critical Piece”: SpaceX Secures Spectrum Deal To Challenge Big Telecom Major telecom stocks puked after hours after Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced it would acquire a portfolio of up to 14 MHz of paired low-band spectrum in the 800 MHz band, positioning Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US. We announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio that will pave the way for @Starlink […]

Canada Slams Brakes On Euthanasia For Mental Illness Indefinitely, Then Votes Down Tory Bill To Ban It Outright Canada will not extend medically assisted death to people whose only condition is mental illness, Justice Minister Sean Fraser announced Wednesday, as CP24 reports. The Liberals will table legislation this fall to make the exclusion indefinite, although the bill is still being drafted and has no date. Minister of Justice […]

A Leaner Federal Workforce Is A Win For Taxpayers Authored by David Harsanyi via The Epoch Times, One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump’s second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs. The U.S Capitol building in Washington on May 5, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesThe federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a […]

When Did Obesity Become A Drug Deficiency? Authored by Joseph Varon via The Brownstone Institute, Look at almost any photograph of an American crowd taken 60 years ago. It can be a baseball game, a high school graduation, a beach, an airport terminal, a factory floor, or simply people walking down a city street. Something is immediately noticeable to modern eyes, although almost nobody in the photograph would have considered it […]

Gun Jams, Knife Comes Out: One Dead After Bizarre Courthouse Shooting In Nashville A man armed with a pistol was shot and killed by a security officer at the Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and Courthouse in Nashville on Thursday morning, WSMV reported, citing Metro Nashville police. Police said the man tried to fire his gun at the courthouse security checkpoint but failed, then pulled out a knife and was shot by the security […]

Pharmaceutical Lobby Sues Over Trump Admin Program To Reduce Drug Prices Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A lobbying group that represents pharmaceutical manufacturers filed suit against the federal government on Oct. 7 over a program aimed at reducing the prices of drugs. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) stated in a legal complaint in federal court in Washington that the […]

Grocery Bill Squeeze? Goldman Reveals Where Shoppers Get The Best Deals As consumer sentiment slides into fall and elevated gasoline and diesel prices squeeze lower-income households, Goldman’s latest grocery survey identifies one top theme for budget-conscious shoppers: Walmart remains the lowest-priced retailer among the six chains surveyed, with prices averaging 15.7% below the group average. Goldman analysts led by Leah […]

Are El-Sayed’s Wheels Coming Off? Authored by J.R. Dunn via American Thinker, The past week has been a rough one for Abdul Muhammed El-Sayed… El-Sayed, as we all know, is the Great Muslim Hope for the Democrats. He debuted as just about the perfect candidate for the Senate – photogenic, a professional, just radical enough for the youth vote, and with no obvious baggage to excuse. But his campaign wrongfooted itself at the […]

“I Know The Truth”: Mother Breaks Silence On Daughter’s Mysterious Death At Russian Plague Lab The mother of a Russian scientist who died under mysterious circumstances at a high-security plague laboratory is speaking out, accusing medical authorities of allowing her daughter to die as questions mount over what happened inside the facility. Darya Shipilova, who worked at a plague research institute in Siberia, died on the night of […]

Iran Says More Tankers Struck By Mines, After Trump Declared He Won’t Bomb Before Midterms Summary Late night ‘heavy explosions’ reported in southern Strait of Hormuz, Fars says result of vessels hitting mines. Oil plunged after Trump said on Truth Social the US will not attack Iran before the November midterms. Late Wednesday reports said Pentagon was ordered to prepare Iran attack options for before midterms. Iran expanded […]

Your Stake In The Biggest Economic Bet In US History Authored by Peter Reagan via Birch Gold Group, Americans love a good story about somebody betting on himself. One of my favorites involves FedEx founder Fred Smith. Back when Federal Express was still struggling to get off the ground, the company reportedly found itself with just $5,000 in the bank – not enough to cover a roughly $24,000 fuel bill. Smith had already been […]

Airlines Suspend Flights To Saudi Capital After Devastating Houthi Strikes On Airport Update(1604ET): There are reports that possibly several parked aircraft were damaged or destroyed after the earlier Thursday Houthi ballistic missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. And now international reports are saying a slew of airliners are suspending flights to the city, some tentatively for up to a week: In […]

Wells Fargo Faces Federal Probe Over $60 Billion Commitment To Black Homeownership Wells Fargo is facing a federal investigation over mortgage programs designed to increase homeownership among Black Americans, as the Trump administration expands its campaign against corporate policies that make distinctions based on race, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Department of Housing and Urban […]

Nasdaq Tumbles After FT Reports OpenAI Revenues Disappointing …and just like that, the massive AI CapEx boom “excess demand” narrative is in doubt… The Financial Times reports that OpenAI’s annualised revenue is about $20bn less than has been previously signalled, according to financial documents shared with investors, a massive gap likely to damp optimism about the growth of AI demand. The company has recently told […]

Microreactors Rack Up Wins With Grid-Scale Plants Stuck At Planning Meetings At the smaller end of the nuclear industry, tangible progress is becoming easier to find every week. Equipment is getting manufactured and delivered, safety reviews are being completed, and uranium is being split apart. This is painfully contrasted against what the grid-scale reactor side of the house has to show for the past couple years of the […]

Hurricane Shuts 63% Of US Gulf Oil Output, Threatens Refineries; Jefferies Warns Of “Fuel Supply Event” Summary: Hurricane Isaias Landfall Forecasted For Late Friday/early Saturday  Major US Refineries In Hurricane’s Projected Path  63% Of US Offshore Gulf Oil Output Shut  25% Of US Offshore Gulf Oil Output Shut As Hurricane Isaias Nears, Threatens Refineries Hurricane Isaias Shutters 63% of US Gulf Oil Production Bloomberg […]

Trump Treasury Blocks $175 Million In Federal Payments To Dead Recipients Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, The Treasury Department blocked $175 million in federal payments from going to deceased recipients in fiscal year 2026 as the Trump administration expanded efforts to prevent fraud and improper government spending. Treasury screened more than 1.1 billion federal payments totaling approximately $3.7 trillion […]